Byron considered the Palace to include the prototype of the squinch.

However, the latter has a pendentive below each squinch.

She took pity on a lustful young squinch with two left feet and 'nitiated me.

The squinch was probably invented in Iran.

The Persians solved the problem of constructing a circular dome on a square building by the squinch.

Let's have another squinch at those assets."

Muqarnas carvings were also used to highlight the springing of the squinch arches.

Squinch became startled realization, and her eyes widened as she said, "You're my Martie."

The invention of pendentives superseded the squinch technique.

"Sure; in yast lear's intermurals I tested out at over talf a hon per air squinch."

Prior to the pendentive's development, the device of corbelling or the use of the squinch in the corners of a room had been employed.

Eli Squinch is an evil miser who sometimes teams up with Black Pete in the Mickey Mouse comics.

The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia, Turkestan, Armenia and Asia Minor.

The dome is created by employing a squinch, or corner bracketing, that allows for the transition from a square, octagonal or 16-sided base to a dome top.

In his view, buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica and the Taj Mahal would not have existed without the squinch and the pendentive.

A squinch in architecture is a construction filling in the upper angles of a square room so as to form a base to receive an octagonal or spherical dome.

Squinch, squinch, squinch went to the winch as Dr. Tungsten turned it.

Pete often teams up with Mickey Mouse enemies Sylvester Shyster, Eli Squinch, The Phantom Blot.

The dome chamber in the palace of Firouzabad is the earliest surviving example of the use of the squinch, suggesting that this architectural technique was probably invented in Persia.

Although heavily influenced by architecture from Mesopotamia and Byzantium, the Fatimids introduced or developed unique features such as the four-centred keel arch and the squinch, connecting square interior volumes to the dome.

The dome chamber in the palace of Firouzabad is the earliest surviving example of the use of the squinch and so there is good reason for regarding Persia as its place of invention.

These introduced characters such as Eli Squinch; Mickey's nephews, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse; Detective Casey, Chief O'Hara and the Phantom Blot.

Other adversaries have included Emil Eagle, Eli Squinch, Sylvester Shyster, the team of Dangerous Dan McBoo and Idjit the Midget, and the Phantom Blot.

Built entirely of red brick and timber, the structure is not only beautiful but is skilfully executed, with a brilliant mastery of the squinch (a small arch across the corner of a tower masking the transition from square to dome).

Squinch has gone on to appear in additional Disney stories up to the present day, though generally only one story every couple of years-while a recognized character, Squinch seems never to have been one of the most popular villains.