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Guy darted out to meet him, and was warmly shaken by the hand, though the meeting was gruff. 'So, Sir Guy! how d'ye do? I wonder what brings you here on such short notice? Good morning, Mrs. Lavers. Bad roads this winter. 'Good morning, Mr. Markham. It is a treat, indeed, to have Sir Guy here once more; so grown, too. 'Grown hum! said Markham, surveying him; 'I don't see it.
He also made ten brazen bases for so many quadrangular lavers; the length of every one of these bases was five cubits, and the breadth four cubits, and the height six cubits. The small pillars had the same animals engraven that were engraven on the sides.
But Poseidon stirred the winds and waves against me, and I was thrown upon the shores of this island, near the lavers, where thy daughter and her maids went to wash the household linen. There the princess found me, and supplied me with food and the garments I have on." "One duty my daughter left undone," Alkinoös said. "She should have brought thee home with her."
Recent discoveries of Phoenician artistic remains Phoenician sculpture Statues and busts Animal forms Bas- reliefs Hercules and Geryon Scenes on sarcophagi Phoenicians metal castings Jachin and Boaz Solomon's "Molten Sea" Solomon's lavers Statuettes in bronze Embossed work upon cups and paterae Cup of Praeneste Intaglios on cylinders and gems Phoenician painting Tinted statues Paintings on terra-cotta and clay.
He'll never be as tall as his father. Have you got your things, Sir Guy? Ay, that's the way, care for nothing but the dog. Gone on by the coach, most likely. They might have been, for aught Guy knew to the contrary, but Boots had been more attentive, and they were right. Mrs. Lavers begged he would walk in, and warm himself; but Markham answered, 'What do you say, Sir Guy?
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south. And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons.
To him also is specially ascribed the "molten sea," standing on twelve oxen, which was perhaps the most artistic of all the objects placed within the Temple circuit, as are also the lavers upon wheels, which, if less striking as works of art, were even more curious.
Lavers tell him all she remembered. She was nothing loath, and related how she had been surprised by Mr. Morville arriving with his fair, shrinking young wife, and how she had rejoiced in his coming home again. She described Mrs. Morville with beautiful blue eyes and flaxen hair, looking pale and delicate, and with clinging caressing ways like a little child afraid to be left.
Some low priced red cloth, and kersies. Dutch kettles with brass handles. Some large engraved brass basins, like those usually set upon. their cupboards in Flanders. Some large pewter basins and ewers, graven. Some lavers for holding water. Large low priced knives. Slight Flemish caskets. Low priced Rouen chests, or any other chests. Large pins. Coarse French coverlets.
I must state, in truth, though with deep mortification, that I cannot find in inventories even of Revolutionary times the slightest sign of the presence of balneary appurtenances in bed-rooms; not even of ewers, lavers, and basins, nor of pails and tubs.
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