Cyma

There is one very curious passage in which he is talking about a very pretty girl, and wants to make it plain that she had a very beautiful mouth, and he says, "Her mouth was of that exquisite curve which is termed the cyma recta, or the 'Ogee arch.'" ❋ Unknown (1924)

The ornament about this window, especially that in the long panel below it and upon the cyma of the soffit above, is Byzantine in character, while the columns, with the exception of the capital of the one at the left, are much more Romanesque. ❋ Various (N/A)

Furthermore just such cyma pieces have been discovered belonging to other structures in Olympia and amid the pre-Persian ruins on the Acropolis of Athens. ❋ Various (N/A)

The corresponding cyma was of the same material and similarly decorated. ❋ Various (N/A)

The parapet above, including its cyma and corona, is one half the height of the parapet below. ❋ Vitruvius Pollio (N/A)

(Laughter) I do not know whether I have any architects amongst my hearers, but I am quite sure that nobody else in this room knows what a cyma recta is; and I am sure that if most young men told their adored ones that they had cyma recta mouths it might lead to trouble. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Next she flung herself on the couch in the cyma-recta curve which so became her, and with her arm over her brow looked towards the door. ❋ Unknown (1887)

[Footnote: The egg-and-dart is found only on the ovolo, the leaf-and-dart only on the cyma reversa or the cyma recta (concave above and convex below) Both ornaments are in origin leaf-patterns one row of leaves showing their points behind another row.] ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

The sima or gutter-facing, whose profile is here a cyma recta (concave above and convex below), is enriched with sculptured floral ornament. ❋ Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1886)

[1] The English use of the word Ogee is thus defined: "An arch or moulding which displays sectionally contrasted curves similar to that of the _cyma reversa_." ❋ Unknown (1877)

Its general section is that of a cyma reversa surmounted by ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)

The general outline of the moulding is a gracefully flowing cyma, or wave, concave at one end, and convex at the other, like an Italic ❋ John Lord (1852)

His face was rather soft than stern, charming than grand, pale than flushed; his nose — if a sketch of his features be de rigueur for a person of his pretensions — was artistically beautiful enough to have been worth doing in marble by any sculptor not over-busy, and was hence devoid of those knotty irregularities which often mean power; while the double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness in its close. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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His face was rather soft than stern, charming than grand, pale than flushed; his nose -- if a sketch of his features be de rigueur for a person of his pretensions -- was artistically beautiful enough to have been worth doing in marble by any sculptor not over-busy, and was hence devoid of those knotty irregularities which often mean power; while the double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness in its close. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

_cyma_ by Pliny for a form of the cabbage tribe, which he thinks may have been the broccoli. ❋ Unknown (1877)

[CYMA] = [Crapping] Your Money Away or CYMA = [Crap You] Must Avoid ❋ Abhorsen88 (2006)

I bought a [CYMA] [airsoft gun] and it was a piece of shit. I have taken shits that would be better to use in an [airsoft] battle. ❋ FOREVER MAN (2007)

Guy: I bought a [CYMA] [AK] and accidentally ran over it with my truck in some mud. Other guy: Did you get a [new one]? Guy: Why would I do that? It was fine. ❋ Anonymous_416 (2021)

[Crapping] Your [Money] [Away]. ❋ Kenny! (2005)

1st guy:I bought a [CYMA] Shotgun and it broke while shooting it. Other guy:Man,those [cyma] shotguns are nothing but [cheap shit]!,i told you to buy the Gold AK-47 combat rifle. 1st guy:How the hell was i supposed to know?. [Crapping] Your Money Away ❋ Latino14 (2010)

Cymas is a [good boy] ❋ (2021)