Quotes with cloister

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  ― Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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• Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

  ― Abbe Pierre
  French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• architecture
• sculptured
• remarkably
• surprising
• lightness
• execution

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