You walked into a courtyard lined with Saracenic arches rising from polyhedral capitals. |
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The Crusaders destroyed the splendid library of Tripoli and reduced to ashes many of the glorious centres of Saracenic art and culture. |
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Fretted Saracenic arches, bead curtains, potted palms, and heavily sprung ottomans were other characteristic features. |
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In Saracenic armies, bands composed of reeds and pipes of various sorts played during combat to encourage their own troops and to show that the line remained unbroken. |
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Val Pellice produces a speciality cheese, the origins of which stem from the early Middle Ages when occasional Saracenic groups ventured into the Alps. |
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The architect, R. Thomas Short, worked in what might be called the Saracenic, with great turbanlike onion domes, patterned brickwork and lacy Moorish arabesques in terra cotta. |
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Things to see are the Saracenic Villa Rufolo where, staring into the gloomy pozzo, Wagner found his inspiration and, a little further out, the magnificent Villa Cimbrone. |
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