Crossword-Solution: LACELIKE 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The mountains, in particular, with the forests on their flanks, their mazy lacelike cañons, the wombs of the ancient glaciers, and their marvelous profusion of ornate sculpture, were most impressively manifest.

And over the forest surged a sea of green life, the climbers of a thousand varieties, some that floated airily, in lacelike filaments, from the tallest branches others that coiled and wound about the trees like huge serpents; and one, the ei-ei, that was for all the world like a climbing palm, swinging on a thick stem from branch to branch and tree to tree and throttling the supports whereby it climbed.

Rome rode, heedless of it all, under primeval oak and poplar, and along rain-clear brooks and happy waterfalls, shut in by laurel and rhododendron, and singing past mossy stones and lacelike ferns that brushed his stirrup.

The expiring throes of Belgian Gothic were a thousand degrees less chaste than the classicism of the early Renaissance: few, perhaps, will prefer the lacelike over-richness of this midfifteenth century town hall at Louvain to the restraint of the charming sixteenth-century facade of the Hotel de Ville at Leiden.

Carved horses' heads, rude but recognizable, tuft the peak, and lacelike wood carving droops from the eaves.