This, too, was Corniced, and in a remarkable way.
"Among the Canadian Alps"
Lawrence J. Burpee
From the centre of this glory stand out in bold relief old bastions built upon the solid tufa, vast gaping gateways black in shadow, towers of churches shooting up above a medley of deep-Corniced tall Italian houses, and, amid them all, the marble front of the Cathedral, calm and solemn in its unfamiliar Gothic state.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
In a few seconds, however, I perceived that the scene was an antique oak-panelled chamber, Corniced with large and curiously-carven figures, upon which played the warm light from a silver lamp suspended from the middle of the ceiling by a twofold silver chain fastened to the feet of an angel, quaintly carved in the dark wood of the ceiling.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton