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Those of Syracuse are vast indeed; spacious arcaded streets intersect each other in all directions, and your walk throughout lies between lengthening files of niches, cut into the walls for coffins, tier above tier, like berths in a steamboat, conducting here and there into a circular apartment, with a cupola and a central aperture, looking out upon the wild moor above. SHARKS, FIREFLIES, &c.
Fifthly, Three spiral, shafts with niches. SECTION XXXIV. I shall describe the bearing capitals hereafter, in their order, with the others of the arcade; for the first point to which the reader's attention ought to be directed is the choice of subject in the great figure sculptures above them.
Miss Bell showed to her one of the bronze statues which, in their chiselled niches, ornament the facade of the church. "See, darling, how young and proud is Saint George. Saint George was formerly the cavalier about whom young girls dreamed." But "darling" said that he looked precise, tiresome, and stubborn. At this moment she recalled suddenly the letter that was still in her pocket.
The roof was graced with groined arches, and the wall with niches, from which the images had been pulled down. In his youth it may be near eighty years since, as he was born in 1729 he had occasion to visit an old lady who resided in a Border castle of considerable renown.
Beyond the niches are the window jambs, on which, next the opening, are shafts carved with naturalistic tree-stems, and between these and the niches two bands of ornament separated by thin plain shafts. In each opening these bands are different. In some is Gothic foliage, in others semi-classic carving like the string below or realistic like the cresting.
This done, Tribolo began to build the above-mentioned grotto, proposing to make it with three niches, in a beautiful architectural design, and likewise the two fountains that were one on either side of it.
In the same place he made two doors of bronze in basso-relievo of most exquisite workmanship: on these doors he represented the apostles, martyrs, and confessors, and above these are two shallow niches, in one of which are S. Lorenzo and S. Stefano; in the other, S. Cosimo and S. Damiano." The sacristy, according to Vasari, was the first work proceeded with in the church.
It seemed to her blurred fancy more than a deadening sky: a something solemn and unknown, hinting of evil to come. The dwarf-pines on the road-side scowled weakly at her through the gray; the very silver minnows in the pools she passed flashed frightened away, and darkened into the muddy niches. There was a vague dread in the sudden silence.
"Please, sir, the day the surplice was inked, I saw Gerald Yorke come out of the college just before afternoon service, and chuck a broken ink-bottle over into the burial-ground." "You saw it!" exclaimed the master, while Gerald turned his livid face, his flashing eye on the young tell-tale. "Yes, sir. I was in the cloisters, inside one of the niches, and saw it.
Then nothing ... Running Fox had vanished in a way which could make a man believe they had been escorted not by a living Pima, but by a ghost from that long-forgotten race which had left their houses scattered in canyon niches up and down this country. It was cold, even though the half cave shielded most of the wind.
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