Adjectives for Capitals | Words to describe Capitals
Corinthian
Petty
Provincial
Queer-Looking
Foliated
Rich
New
European
Available
Christian
Commercial
Printed
Such
Rubricated
Vast
Great
Actual
Marvellous
Foreign
Small
Heavy
Carved
Native
Principal
How do you describe Capitals?
- 1. The sights of Constantinople are so far interesting as they are different from those of all other European capitals. 🔊
- 2. I take this service merely as an instance of what happens in all the so-called Christian capitals in moments of national stress. 🔊
- 3. Like the notice given her by Flechter in his office, it was partly written in printed capitals and partly in script. 🔊
- 4. It is reached by a dimly-lit, impressive passage, which is entered from the north choir aisle through a doorway with deeply-sunk mouldings and carved capitals. 🔊
- 5. It is this privilege which enables them, in fact, to coin money, to substitute their evidences of debt for a metallic currency and to loan more than their actual capitals. 🔊
- 6. Immediately above the carving, at the intersection of the main arches, is a corbelled head, from which rises a triple vaulting-shaft with foliated capitals, on a line with the base of the clerestory. 🔊
- 7. To say that interest will be annihilated, is to say that there will never be any motive for saving, for denying ourselves, in order to form new capitals, nor even to preserve the old ones. 🔊
- 8. In the printed source the first word of each section and poem is in "small capitals," which I have removed as per Project Gutenberg standards. 🔊
- 9. The argument always maintains that, thanks to the intervention of the State, more will be borrowed than there are things to be lent; for the plough represents here the bulk of available capitals. 🔊
- 10. In his career as a diplomat in the foreign capitals he had met thousands of pretty women of all grades, but none so sweet or so dainty as herself; none with a voice so musical, not one whose charm was so ineffable. 🔊
- 11. Elsewhere instances of small capitals are rendered as ALL CAPITALS. 🔊
- 12. If space permitted, nothing could be more delightful than to examine in detail these marvellous capitals and archivolts which Ruskin has so lovingly immortalized for English readers. 🔊
- 13. But it would be more correct to say, "Near a Pictish Capital," for, as is well known, of such capitals there were more than one. 🔊
- 14. The building was of brick, overcast to represent granite, and along three sides ran a wide gallery, supported by lofty circular pillars, crowned with unusually heavy capitals. 🔊
- 15. I have visited most of the principal capitals of the world, but upon the whole none has ever so interested me as this city of Madrid, in which I now found myself. 🔊
- 16. The monks of Canterbury claimed to possess the books on pink vellum, with rubricated capitals, which Pope Gregory had sent to Augustine. 🔊
- 17. As Wren employed so few arches they rise to a great height, and of the different members of the entablature which rests upon the Corinthian capitals of the greater pilasters, part had to be cut away. 🔊
- 18. Her finance is in German hands, her commercial capitals, New York and Chicago, are in reality German cities. 🔊
- 19. It was my father's intention, however, that when I had finished my studies I should go to one of the great capitals, there to mix with the world. 🔊
- 20. Other repairs were necessary, for the pier-arches of the same bays in nave and transepts were completely shattered, and had to be replaced by the present ones, the queer-looking capitals of which contrast so oddly with the earlier work. 🔊
- 21. He secured new and advantageous treaties with old and historic foes, putting Graustark's financial credit upon a high footing in the European capitals. 🔊
