motives

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Gothic architecture, with its encrusted spires and ogives, was the accepted way of making scholarship look more scholarly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Virgins had faces almond-shaped, elongated like those ogives which the Gothic style contrived in order to distribute an ascetic light, a virginal dawn in the mysterious shrine of its naves.

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

The polar plumes due at minimum were combined in it with the quadrilateral ogives belonging to spot-maxima.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

The casements of this hall, in the form of ogives, are ornamented with stained glass of the first epoch of the invention of that art.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

Remains of the 12th century chapter-house ogives, colonnettes and capitals, as well as an old chimney-piece, have been rebuilt into the kitchens.

From Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Illustrated Michelin Guides to the Battle-Fields (1914-1918) by Various