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The first entrance is under an arched gateway on the east side of the south court. The arch of this gateway being a semicircle, was probably erected subsequently to the rest of the building: hence the communication with the inner court is under an arched gateway in the middle of the north side of the south court.
She had altered as though under the deft hand of a master-sculptor, her nostrils growing thin and arched, her lips tight pressed and pitiless, her head poised proudly. The rain drove in through the shattered window, over and past her, while the cheap red curtain lashed and whipped her as though in gleeful applause.
To Xanthe, gazing downward, her father's pine-wood seemed like a camp full of arched, round tents, and, if she allowed her eyes to wander farther, she beheld the motionless sea, whose broad surface, on this pleasant morning, sparkled like polished sapphire, and everywhere seemed striving to surpass with its own blue the color of the clear sky.
One glance, a lift of his arched brows, the merest ghost of a smile, and, dragging the younger man with him, he plunged into politics.
His remains are placed like those of his father, in an arched corner, above which, is the following inscription, which we translate thus. Here lies Guillaume-Longue-Epée, son of Rollo, duke de Normandy, killed by treason in the year 944. His remains had formerly been deposited in the ancient sanctuary, where is at present the upper end of the nave.
Mrs Fanshawe paused with her hand on the coffee-pot, to ask a pointed question "Have you also known this man under his false name, may I ask?" Claire flushed uncomfortably. "I met him twice. Only twice. For a very short time." Mrs Fanshawe did not speak, but she arched her eyebrows in a fashion which was more scorching than words.
In colour all were reddish-brown, and the chine of each arched itself like a bent bow. Five or six carried formidable tusks. These tusks, I think, must have struck terror in the breast of Mr.
The greatest part of it had been built in the year Queen Mary married Darnley , but part of the building was very much older; a subterranean passage especially, of considerable length, well arched, too narrow for a sally-port, unaccountable therefore by any other theory, Dr Burton always believed as old as the Romans.
In every Eastern city there is a "bazaar" corresponding with what in England we should call the market-place. The guide leads us to the "bazaar," and at the first glance we can hardly believe he is right, for we plunge into a long narrow passage arched overhead so that it is simply neither more nor less than a tunnel.
We shall see whether they expended their time and treasure for strangers, or their own seed." So saying, he spurred his horse, and with panting hearts and smiling faces, Iskander and his company had soon arrived in the vicinity of the city. The city was surrounded by a beautiful region of corn-fields and fruit-trees. The road was arched with the over-hanging boughs.
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