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"You get more for your money in the financial district," she said, standing under the lobby's cream-and-gilt coffering.

On Wall Street, Tourists and Condos Supplant Titans of Yore 2008

Wolf, you remember from coffering the Camp David Accords, this is far removed from those days when he was revered in Israel.

CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008 2008

In my opinion, based on the circumstances today, December 4th, neither George W. Bush nor Al Gore would assume the presidency with full credibility, and it is very much both of their interests that this matter be resolved by a rule of law that the American public sees as fair and as coffering the authority of the president of the United States to the next occupant.

CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Election 2000: Sen. Graham Discusses Supreme Court Decision - December 4, 2000 2000

I was staring up at the panels of the vaulting, relishing the beauty of the color scheme, the gold rosettes brilliant against the deep blue of the soffits, set off by the red of the coffering.

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

A sudden impression of the magnificence of this church, its vastness filled with dusk, a few wax tapers scattered along the nave; in the far distance a lit-up altar throwing its light up into the vault of an aisle, showing the shimmer of golden coffering; the crowd circling unseen.

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

This wall was originally incrusted with rich marbles, and the great dome, adorned with deep coffering in rectangular panels, was decorated with rosettes and mouldings in gilt stucco.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Johore, and also in the coffering of the ceilings in the drawing-room and some plastering in the rear block.

Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 W. D. Bayliss 1869

But, according to what I once heard from certain old friends of Andrea, he used to defend himself by saying that he had adhered in his vault to the method of the coffering in the Ritonda at Rome, wherein the ribs that radiate from the round window in the centre above, from which that temple gets its light, serve to enclose the square sunk panels containing the rosettes, which diminish little by little, as likewise do the ribs; and for that reason they do not fall in a straight line with the columns.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542

Nevertheless many craftsmen, and Michelagnolo in particular, have been of the opinion that the Ritonda was built by three architects, of whom the first carried it as far as the cornice that is above the columns, and the second from the cornice upwards, the part, namely, that contains those windows of more graceful workmanship, for in truth this second part is very different in manner from the part below, since the vaulting was carried out without any relation between the coffering and the straight lines of what is below.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542