We moved farther west over the plateau, recording numerous remains of buildings erected on fieldstone socles (no mortar, no tiles, burnt mud-brick fragments), which supports our initial impression that we are dealing here not with a village but with an extensive, densely built settlement. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The stylobate carries two reused columns standing on square socles. ❋ Unknown (2003)
On the lower plateau, some 22 ha of a densely occupied area was surveyed, full of fieldstones, which once formed the socles of walls in mud brick or pise (mud mixed with straw), and sherds (most of "coarse" pottery), tentatively dated last year between 800 and 400 B.C. with some isolated Hellenistic and even Imperial pieces. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Moreover, for reasons of stability pivot holes are usually carved in door socles and not in isolated stones. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The walls were hung with azure tapestry almost from ceiling to floor, so that nothing but the friezes and socles, above and below, were visible. ❋ Unknown (1917)
I corrected the proportions of the doorway, and placed above it an exact half circle; at the sides I introduced projections, with socles and cornices properly corresponding: then, instead of the columns demanded by this disposition of parts, I fashioned two satyrs, one upon each side. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)
The socles, upon which captive Arts and Sciences were meant to stand, remain; but instead of statues, inverted consoles take their places, and lead lamely up to the heads and busts of terminal old men. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
The guy they pick must have some experience and not be a total newcomer to drama or action, which should be equally represented in the movie by Cap. I do realize that a lot of you, my dear members, have discussed this to the point of turning blue in the face and popping your bloodshot eyes out of their socles. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Visitation, in which are many figures that are very beautiful, but above all some who have climbed on certain socles and are standing in very spirited and natural attitudes, the better to see the ceremonious meeting of those women; besides which, there is something of the good and of the beautiful in the buildings and in every gesture of the other figures. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)
Besides this, through a beautiful fancy of Raffaello's, one sees many who have climbed on to the socles of the column-bases, and, clasping the shafts, stand looking in most uncomfortable attitudes; with a throng of people showing their amazement in many various ways, and awaiting the result of this event. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)
He adhered to one and the same order in the transepts and in the aisles of the church, making superb mouldings on the architraves, friezes, and cornices above the arches, and he rendered beautiful and well constructed in no common way the socles of the four great piers around the eight sides of the tribune which support the four arches -- namely, three in the transepts, where the chapels are, and the larger one in the central nave. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)
