Thores

These notable and faire collumnes aforesaide did rise vp in length vpon their vnderset bases of brasse with their _Thores_ and _Cymbies_ [A] wrought with a foliature of oke leaues and acornes winding about their chapters standing vpon their subiect _Plynths_.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

[Sidenote A: Thores and Cymbies be the outward parts of a chapter or head of a pillar sticking out further than the pillar wrything and turning in, wrought with leaues, the worke is called of caruers & painters draperie and celerie.]

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

But, as I was saying, in the elder Erlingsen's time we thought we did well when we set up nine couples at Yule: and since then, the Holbergs and Thores have each made out a new farm within ten miles, and we are accustomed to be rather proud of our eleven couples.

Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" Harriet Martineau 1839

A good place to start would be his recent article in Harper's, which Samira al Thores noted for us in a recent comment on this blog.

David Michael Bruno 2008

A good place to start would be his recent article in Harper's, which Samira al Thores noted for us in a recent comment on this blog.

David Michael Bruno 2008