Tracery

Those scars had long ago become a part of her, a thin tracery of lines that spoke of a history, a past. ❋ Nalini Singh (2009)

In the tracery are the evangelistic symbols and the four fathers of the Latin church -- St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine and St. Gregory; and in the window which divides the chantry from the Ante-chapel is to be seen the Annunciation, with, on the one side, St. Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins, and St. Christopher with the infant Jesus; on the other, St. Anne with the ❋ Walter Poole Littlechild (N/A)

Between this rib and the tracery is another rib springing on the north side from a bunch of foliage and on the south from a grotesque corbel. ❋ Cecil Walter Charles Hallett (N/A)

Above these windows is a large rose window of "plate tracery" -- tracery, that is to say, in its earlier form, in which the openings for the glass appear to have been cut out of the stone rather than the stone to have been added as a frame for the glass. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Those same lips that had been so insistent a few moments earlier were now like gossamer wings, making a kind of tracery over her smooth skin. ❋ Peale, Constance F. (1982)

The tracery of this window is in good preservation, and is one of the most favourable examples of a kind of tracery developed in Scotland during the fifteenth century. ❋ Herbert Story (N/A)

Across a corner of the mount, in delicate feminine tracery, was written: "Semper idem; semper fdelis." ❋ Unknown (2010)

And should the roll of the “faithful” increase or diminish; should her fortunes ebb or flow; should the warm tracery of sunlight caress her face, or the cold darkness of night press her sore, He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the second, the poet muses on what the influence is of this huge tracery of stone, overwhelming rather than elevating. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At each elevation a rose window with stone Gothic tracery was planned, but none were executed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As evening thinned, the lanes cooled with clear sky seen through dark, pointed tracery of ash-tree leaves. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From the bridge of the Tryapsic, the high place he had gained in the competition of men, he stared at Dublin harbour opening out, at the town obscured by the dark sky of the dreary wind-driven day, and at the tangled tracery of spars and rigging of the harbour shipping. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There, a sense of openness and light prevails, as towering French doors pierce the pale stone walls so that the intervening pilasters appear like delicate tracery between the broad expanses of glass. ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2011)

Once, like another Crusoe, by the edge of the river he came upon a track, -- the faint tracery of a snowshoe rabbit on the delicate snow-crust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or is it like lacy fretwork - tracery bracket & buzz saw ❋ Penny Goring (2011)

Doran looked into his friend's eyes, those boiled jellies that had always looked with deep and equal fascination at the pattern of brick in a wall, the tracery of veins on the back of an oak leaf, or the back of his own immense and now arthritic hands. ❋ Carol Reid (2011)

Her very short skirts, which are made of numberless layers of white tulle, and the top layer, which stands out almost like a wheel, is adorned with a bold lattice work of silver ruching and diamante and interlaced with a delicate tracery of pale blue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He slashed ankle and foot as he received the second kick in mid-air; and, although he slid clear down the slope of deck into the scuppers, he left on the black skin the red tracery of his puppy-needle teeth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Architect] 1: there is just something lacking in [the fa]ç[ade]…? Architect 2: how about some tracery over in this area? ❋ Asbuilts (2016)