"Quarter round" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... general form, but also the proportion and the ornamentation, go to make up the various orders. To illustrate: The Ionic has, as one feature, two scroll-like ornaments, called volutes, and it has more moldings and is much more slender than the Doric. To make the Composite there is borrowed the quarter round molding (A) from the Tuscan; the leaves (B) from the Corinthian, and the volutes (C) from ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages • Roger Thompson Finlay |
