Word: gothically
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...Rouault was apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, and his prints, like his paintings, look rather like sketches for stained glass. Joyless though most of them are, they have a little of the power and glory of the first and greatest Gothic cathedral windows...
Soon this sort of writing spread all over Western Europe, and it was not until the 12th Century that the arched and spired letters of Gothic script began to replace it. Minuscule never vanished entirely. In time, Gothic became so intricate that papal bulls were almost illegible, and each was usually sent out from the Vatican chancery accompanied by a duplicate written in another hand. The writing used for the translation was merely a variation on the Carolingian theme-the slanting chancery calligraphy of men like Ludovico degli Arrighi...
From the quiet, hardly obtrusive pile of Gothic buildings known as Princeton that squat on the New Jersey plains, have issued since its founding in 1746, men who have made the World shake, applaud, and learn. The university has produced men that made the country in which it is situated free, and shaped its growth...
Inside the Gothic doorways to Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, the great procession formed, bright with the hoods of scholars and notables from all over the world. As the bells of Harkness Tower pealed Onward,, Christian Soldiers, the column moved slowly across the campus to Woolsey Hall. There, the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and fellow of the Yale Corporation, called the assembly to prayer. Yale's 250th anniversary celebration had begun...
Home to Innocence. Greene took his instruction from a priest named Father Trollope. For three months, he argued his uncertainties almost daily. "Riding on trams in winter past the Gothic hotel, the super-cinema, the sooty newspaper office where one worked at night, passing the single professional prostitute trying to keep the circulation going under the blue and powdered skin, one began slowly, painfully, reluctantly to populate heaven." A few weeks after Greene completed his instruction, he and Vivien were married by Father Trollope...