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Does she know that Lazarre has become Eleazar Williams?" The pastor's house was fronted with huge white fluted pillars of wood, upholding a porch roof which shaded the second floor windows. The doors in that house had a short-waisted effect with little panels above and long panels below.

The columns are more slender than the early Doric, are placed close together, and have bases of circular plinths; the shaft diminishes, and is ornamented with perpendicular or oblique furrows, but not fluted like Grecian columns.

I looked down and saw the daintily domed instep; I looked up and saw the plump shoulders basing the spring of the round full neck which withered at half-height to the fluted shaft of a gibbose cranium.

He has the bands and broad hat and general appearance of a priest, but his coat isn't very long." "Then he has laid aside the cassock while traveling through this country." The prelate from Ghent, no doubt a common priest, that the lieutenant undertook to dignify, slipped directly out of my mind. Madame Ursule was waiting for me, on the gallery with fluted pillars at the front of the house.

It was cut biased, that being the latest style of black eye, and was fluted with purple and orange shade, and trimmed with the same. Probably we never should have known about the black eye had not the lady asked, as she held her hand over one eye, if there was any truth in the story that a raw oyster would cure a black eye. She came to us as an expert.

They were all newly swept and scented with lavender, and the high tester beds, with their slender fluted posts, looked as if they had stood spotless and untouched for generations. In Dan's room, which had been his mother's also, the girl walked slowly up and down, meeting, as she passed, her own eyes in the darkened mirror.

This is a blue, calcareous clay often found with limestone, which it somewhat resembles. The Maori word "papa" is applied to any broad, smooth, flattish surface, as a door, or to a slab of rock. The smooth, slab-like, papa cliffs are often curiously marked tongued and grooved, as with a gouge, channelled and fluted. Sometimes horizontal lines seem to divide them into strata.

He was especially attracted by the picture he hoped to paint in the first play of John and Jesus; and from time to time his mind filled with a picture of Herod's daughter. Closing his eyes slightly he saw her breasts, scarce hidden beneath jewels, and precious scarves floated from her waist as she advanced in a vaulted hall of pale blue architecture, slender fluted columns, and pointed arches.

He lifted his white fluted china tea-cup, which had queer little chintz-like bunches of flowers over it and a worn gilt handle, and took a pinch of tea from the caddy; then, pouring some boiling water over it, he set it on the hob to steep. "Denner," he said slowly, "which advice do you want? Whether to do it at all, or which lady to choose?" "Which lady, of course," answered Mr. Denner promptly.

She leaned towards him, but was arrested by the change in his expression. His face, which had been a white mask of grief, became vulpine. "Yes, she will most probably be up there ... at his tomb...." Roger, behind him at the window, fluted miserably: "Mummie! Mummie!" He turned on him with a gesture of irritation and opened the door. "Here, Roger, let's go now."