The floors and walls and also the ceiling were studded with precious stones.
Surrounded by seven walls and strongly guarded, it was a place to which no living person could go and from which no mortal could ever depart after once entering it.
The destroyer of the mountain wallsam I, their great foundation am I,--such is my supremacy.
The brilliancy was heightened by the use of precious stones and gold and silver for the walls and floors and ceilings.
The Assyrians used this material for statues, altars, and for the slabs with which they decorated the exterior and interiorwalls of their great edifices.
He then lived at Haerlem, where he was employed to design the suite of tapestry representing the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, which hung for many years upon the walls of the House of Lords, at Westminster.
Wilson loved, when a child, to trace figures of men and animals, with a burnt stick, upon the walls of the house, a predilection which his father encouraged.
Thus, within the wallsof the Foundling, the curious may see the state of British art previously to the epoch when King George the Third first countenanced the historical talent of West.
Queen Elizabeth was the bitterest persecutor: she ordered all walls to be whitewashed, and all candlesticks and pictures to be utterly destroyed, so that no memorial remain of the same.
The Eastern Zoological Gallery of the British Museum has its walls decorated with an assemblage of portraits, in number upwards of one hundred, forming, probably, the largest collection of portraits in the kingdom.
A crimson forest of the heat-rays flashed up behind us, and flamed upon the black walls and roof of the cavern until glistening lava became incandescent, cracked and fused.
Far above, the splash of orange lit the walls of the tunnel.
Then, without warning, they suddenly found among the rough walls on the far side of the cavern, the birthplace of the draft.
The walls of the pit began to glow faintly with reflected light.
The crystal of the walls seemed luminous, the lofty cylinders were filled with a liquid, azure radiance.
The walls glistened with the sparkling smoothness of volcanic glass.
Then as the brilliant light and force from the chamber's walls smote them, Randall felt himself hurled into blackness inconceivable, that smashed like a descending curtain across his brain.
Its walls were as smooth and straight as though turned from milky rock crystal in a gigantic lathe.
Its dull-gleaming metal walls slanted up for a thousand feet over their heads, and through a round aperture at the tip far above and through great doors in the walls came a thin sunlight.
I could vaguely see the crossed bars of the ceiling overhead, and the latticed walls around me.
Upon the dull metal of its looming walls were running friezes of lighter metal, grotesque representations of reptilian shapes that they could but vaguely glimpse.
Long metal tables and racks filled the big room's farther end, while along the wallswere ranged shining mechanisms of unfamiliar and grotesque appearance.
Randall saw that it was lit by squares inset in the walls that glowed with crimson light.
Tunnels opened from its end as from all its walls and floor, and into one Randall was dragged by the creatures, one before and one behind, grasping him, and Lanier being brought behind him in the same way.
I have never heard any sound even remotely like the babel of angry, sibilant whispering that beat against the walls and roof of that cavern.
On the rock-walls of both chamber are carved the famous bas-reliefs.
Deep gorges, one of them filled for miles with tombs, surround it on all sides, rendering fortification walls superfluous.
Preceded by the nobles walking barefoot, it moved slowly, to the loud music of pipes and tambourines, out by the Porta Capena, and so down to the banks of the Almo, which flows into the Tiber just below the walls of Rome.
One such rock-hewn dwelling winds inward for a considerable distance; rude niches are hollowed in its sides, and on its roof and walls may be seen the marks of tools.
The walls of the city, built of great limestone blocks, are standing to a height of several courses, and an inscription which mentions the priests of Magarsian Athena has been found on the spot.
In antiquity the husbandmen used purposely to lead the water in rills round their lands, and thus in a few years their fields and vineyards were enclosed with walls of solid stone.
In the inner sanctuary, to which this monster-guarded passage leads, the walls are also carved in relief.
The houses rocked, the walls cracked and gaped; the few inhabitants were kept busy repairing the breaches or buttressing and propping the edifices which threatened to tumble about their ears.
With their walls of massive masonry, their towers and battlements, overhanging dizzy depths, they are admirably adapted to bid defiance to the pursuit of justice.
One spring, when the hyacinths were in bloom, it happened that the red-coated Spartan regiments lay encamped under the walls of Corinth.
During an earthquake the Burmese make a great uproar, beating the walls of their houses and shouting, to frighten away the evil genius who is shaking the earth.
The Hittite copy was found some years ago inscribed in cuneiform characters on a clay tablet at Boghaz-Keui; two copies of the treaty in the Egyptian language are engraved on the walls of temples at Thebes.
It came to him of a sudden that he too must leave upon these walls the memorial of his passage.
Its wallsare occupied by early Christian and pagan inscriptions.
In one of the walls is an opening with a double grille, beyond which is a metal plate, pierced with holes like the rose of a watering-pot.
It was seated on thesewalls that Shelley wrote his "Prometheus Unbound.
Within these walls has been confined for many years a very extraordinary person--the archbishop of Memphis.
The walls rocked beneath the strokes of the maddened populace, and Cencius, falling at his prisoner's feet, became himself a suppliant for pardon and for life.
The walls on both sides are pierced with horizontal niches, like shelves in a bookcase or berths in a steamer, and every niche once contained one or more dead bodies.
Ranged along the walls are a series of sarcophagi, cippi, and funeral altars, some of them very fine.
We have record of a period when these walls were supposed insufficient for the great weight, and had to be strengthened, in interesting confirmation of which we can still see how the second wall was added and united to the first.
No criticism or scepticism of modern times has ever questioned the perfect authenticity of that last chapter of the Acts, which gives the account of his journey, stage by stage, till he set foot within the walls of the city.
He found himself in his old room of taste; but instead of the walls were crystal windows, and his table of fruits and food looked small in the midst of the vast space.
At last he saw that there were several doors--five--in the walls of his room.
The walls were high, but the garden was very broad and long.
At last, the bars were undone, the key was turned in the lock, the door was opened, the walls of his cell fell down, and he stood young and strong on the outside!
The other curtains were caught up or tweaked across, or furled like flags against thewalls above chromos and engravings, over which it was quite unnecessary that they should ever be lowered.
The walls were draped as only young ladies, defiant of all laws of taste or common sense, but determined on originality, can drape them.
High on a rocky crag, looking out over its hanging woods and gardens, the old grey castle stood, its long walls and solemn towers outlined against the sky.
The ladies,” said he, “sit in two rows along the wallsof the room.
The holy kiss soon spread beyond the walls of the church, and came into usage even in secular festivities.
The country-dance occupied the whole length of the room; and round the walls were disposed tables for whist or loo, where the elders amused themselves with as much pleasure, and not less noise.
It's he that's good to the poor, and takes his walls flying.
More brilliant than noonday itself, the room was a blaze of wax-lights; the ceilings of fretted gold and blue enamel glittered like a gorgeous firmament; the walls were covered with pictures in costly frames of Venetian taste.
Night was now beginning to fail, as we wended our way slowly along towards the walls of Vittoria--it being the corporal's intention to deliver his prisoner into the hands of the etat major of Marshal Jourdan.
Scarcely had we issued from the walls of the city when the whole scene of flight and ruin was presented to our eyes.
Let the bloody villain see the black walls and the cold hearth he has made, before he dies!
The object to which my attention was now directed was a park of artillery that covered the whole line of road from the Miranda pass to the very walls of Vittoria.
Not since the days when that sacred apartment had been desecrated by the irreverent city boarders, during the Howes regime, had its walls echoed to such whoops and shouts of laughter.
By way of reply Carl stepped into the arch between the two walls and turned to the right into a passage barely more than a foot in width.
Jimmie threw his light along the walls of the chamber and over the floor.
From the spot where they stood, the walls of the temple glittered as if at sometime in the distant past they had been ornamented with designs in silver and gold.
First he walked along the walls of the corridor then darted to the other room, then out on the steps in front.
The moonlight, filtering in through a break in what had once been a granite roof, showed bare white walls with little heaps of debris in the corners.
So you see,” he added, turning to Carl, “the ghosts in this neck of the woods build walls as well as make baking powder biscuits.
The walls were torn down and rifled, and the sacred sun was seized and gambled for by the covetous invaders.
Outside and inside the walls were lined with gold and precious stones.
The walls were of white marble, as was the floor, and great slashes in the slabs showed that at one time they had been profusely ornamented with designs in metal, probably in gold and silver.
It is said to be impossible to drive the finest needle between the seams of the walls composed of granite rocks.
They are built up back of the entrance, and my idea is that there must be a passage-way between them and the interior walls of the room.
He saw the illumination thrown on the interior walls by their searchlights and lost no time in following on after them.
And thus when they appear’d at last, 375 And all my bonds aside were cast, These heavy walls to me had grown A hermitage—and all my own!
And now the Voice rolled from the black cavern mouth in a very thunder roar that reverberated among the mighty granite walls in a shock of echo that struck the entranced auditors speechless.
Strips of white calico constituted the ceiling, and thus both thatch and plasteredwalls being completely hidden, the interior, hung around with framed photographs and prints, wore a comfortable and homelike aspect.
The tunnel did not last long, and soon they were able to proceed upright, but still between high walls of the same impenetrable thorn.
If the King of England had not set forth to the Crusade till he was sovereign of Scotland, the Crescent might, for me, and all true-hearted Scots, glimmer for ever on the walls of Zion.
We did not stop at any hotel, but left our machine outside the castle gate, enjoyed the conventional stroll about inside the walls and in an hour were on the way to Chichester.
Its château walls have crumbled, but its subterranean galleries, cut three stories down into the rock itself, are much as they always were.
All this would furnish studies innumerable to those who are able to fabricate mouldy walls and tumble-down picturesqueness out of little tubes of colour and gray canvas.
Doubtless there is little resemblance, but all the same there is a certain gory tradition hanging about the oldwalls and arches of those great arenas which is utterly lacking in the cricket-field, tawdry plazas of some of the Spanish towns.
At the foot of the crenelated, battlemented walls of the church are the white, pink, and blue walled houses of the huddling population, and the dory-like boats of the fishers.
The greatest monument of all is the magnificent Palais des Papes, its crenelated walls and battlements vying with the city walls and ramparts as a splendid example of mediæval architecture.
Our siren gave a hoot which startled the rooks circling about the donjon walls of Château Gaillard over our heads, and we passed under the brick arches of the bridge for a twelve-mile run to the first lock at Courcelles.
The sleeping-rooms were of that distinction known in France as hygiénique, and the stairways and walls were fire-proof, or looked it.
Throwing the beam on the walls and flooring, he managed to retrace his steps to the cabin where he had left her.
Down the long shaft they fell, while all around its invisible walls dark red cyclones stirred and beat in vain.
He set the carpenter to work at his wheel, the smith at his axle, and the mason at his stones, but for the walls and roof of the mill itself he had no help but old Davy's.
Near the middle of the plain stood the Mount of Laws, a lava island of oval shape, surrounded by a narrow stream, and bounded by overhangingwalls cut deep with fissures.
The prisoners on their part said it came of the pestilential hovels they were compelled to live in, where the ground was a bog, the walls and roof were a rotten coffin, and the air was heavy and lifeless.
And as he worked at raising the walls of his hut, he remembered with a pang the mill he built in Port-y-Vullin, and what a whirlwind of outraged passion brought every stone of it to the ground again.
The ceilings were low, the walls plain, the furniture was very common, and yet a little odd, as became the place.
And the bridge is a piece of public property; anonymously famous; beaming on the incurious dilettante from the walls of a hundred exhibitions.
Many nights have I lain with pleasure in the churchyard of Old Daily, and made a grave my pillow; frequently have I resorted to the old walls about the glen, near to Camragen, and there sweetly rested.
This ceremony concluded with three cheers, the sound of which had a very loud and strange effect within the walls of the lighthouse.
They have made so many studies that it has become a habit; they make more, the walls of exhibitions blush with them; and death finds these aged students still busy with their horn-book.
The walls of their huts were built to a great thickness of rounded stones from the sea-beach; the roof flagged, loaded with earth, and perforated by a single hole for the escape of smoke.
To windward, the sprays fell from the height above noticed in the most wonderful cascades, and streamed down the walls of the building in froth as white as snow.
After having shifted himself, he again sat down in his cabin, the sea continuing to run so high that the builders did not resume their operations on the walls this afternoon.
If Mr. Hyndman were a man of keen humour, which is far from my conception of his character, he might rest from his troubling and look on: the walls of Jericho begin already to crumble and dissolve.
And we, the poor earth's dying race, and yet No phantoms, watching from a phantom shore Await the last and largest sense to make The phantom walls of this illusion fade, And show us that the world is wholly fair.
For when I made to go he took me all about the house, showing me the pictures and drawings with which his walls were lined, peering into them so closely with a lighted candle that I thought he would set them or himself on fire.
She had been previously known to him as the beautiful Miss Walls of Boothby.
In St. Ouen’s Bay, as in Loughneagh, in Ireland, it is believed that ruins of houses and walls are visible at low ebb.
Martello towers crown several of the brows, and there is within very old walls to the left a little remnant now styled Ivy Castle.
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb.
To see the spider sit and spin, Shut with her walls of silver in, You would never, never, never guess The way she gets her dinner.
This demand, so injurious to his honour, provoked Achilles so much, that he forthwith slew Hector, and dragged his body round the walls of the city.
All are now in alarm, with no less intensity than a city is wont to be alarmed, while some are undermining thewalls without, and others within have possession of the walls.
For decidedly it was strong enough, both when at first I overthrew the walls of Lyrnessus, or when I filled both Tenedos and Eëtionian[12] Thebes with their own blood.
Next, the soldiery of the wicked Amulius held sway over the realms of Ausonia; and by the aid of his grandsons, the aged Numitor gained the kingdom that he had lost; and on the festival of Pales, the walls of the City were founded.
Statius represents them as the builders of the walls of Argos and Virgil as the founders of the gates of the Elysian fields.
Thence, he sees Laomedon {now} first building the walls of rising Troy, and that this great undertaking is growing up with difficult labour, and requires no small resources.
If this fate awaits this city, why should his own arms, and not my love, open thewalls to him?
It has been suggested that the story of Laomedon obtaining the aid of Neptune in building the walls of Troy, only meant that he built it of bricks made of clay mixed with water, and dried in the sun.
It was raining when he awoke, and it rained for most of three days as hard as it often does on that coast, until the crystal depths of the Inlet grew turbid, and it flowed seaward between its dripping walls of mountains like a river.
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