quincunxes

The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him.

Les Miserables 2008

The quincunxes and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight.

Les Miserables 2008

Incidentally, Dr. Johnson had little patience for this sort of thing and, despite his admiration for Browne, thought the latter was so resolved on discovering quincunxes that sure enough he "seldom searches long in vain, he finds his favorite figure in almost everything."

Out of Novemberland Andr&233; Aciman 1998

We have stated above that the maximum daily hand production of tulle dotted in quincunxes of 0.04 of an inch is about one yard.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

It is a region of dead walls, over which bend the acacias and elms, over which shoot up the cypresses and cedars of innumerable convent and palace-gardens, on whose flower-beds and fountains and quincunxes the first-floor windows look down.

The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895

She fused everything, and filled him with it and it with him: the mounting tones of violins and trumpets, the sparkling quincunxes of the girdling balcony-front, the wide band of fresco which ran in unison with the arches of glittering bulbs above their heads, the circling and swaying throng -- all the sheen and splendor of a vast and successful city.

With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893

The boat passed in front of Lord Arundel's sumptuous mansion, with its spacious garden, where marble statues showed white in the midst of quincunxes, and prim hedges of cypress and yew; past the Palace of the

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

The mansions on the square seemed to be drawn up proudly in line for the afternoon receptions; and, at the end of Rue Castiglione with its white arcades, the Tuileries, in the glorious sunlight of winter, marshalled its shivering statues, pink with cold, among the leafless quincunxes.

The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

From the garden of Cyrus, where the trees were arranged in this order, he rambles through the universe, stumbling over quincunxes at every step.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

Whilst Milton, whose genius was in some way most nearly akin to his own, was raising his voice in favour of the liberty of the press, good Sir Thomas was meditating profoundly on quincunxes.

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868