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He had not got far, however, before a shrill whistle pierced the air, and the next instant arose a chaos of horrible, appalling, and harrowing noises, 'such a roaring, in the words of their own report of the matter to the reverend master Flowerdew, 'as if the mouth of hell had been wide open, and all the devils conjured up' doubtless they meant by the arts of the wizard whose dwelling was that same tower of fearful fame before which they now stood.
Have you ever really seen Romney's portrait of Lady Hamilton as Joan of Arc?" Those fine eyes of hers pierced him with a glance of such candid inquiry that he cast pretence to the winds. "No," he said. "Then you just invented the comparison as an excuse for colliding with the chair?" "Yes. At the same time I throw myself on the mercy of the court." "It was rather clever of you."
Pushing their way through the trees for several hundred yards, a faint glimmer of light pierced the darkness straight ahead. "Thank God!" murmured Keith, as he waded wearily up to the small log building, and rapped on the rude door. "This must be the place; the first on the trail, so I was told."
A king naked above the middle, except for his kingly crown, is tied to a tree and pierced by arrows; archers with drawn bows are behind; at one end the king has his head, still crowned, in his hands, with a figure bearing a sword over him; at the other side is either the wolf of the legend or an evil spirit in animal shape.
The lady pictured to herself Don Antonio and Don Juan as perhaps already dead; she fancied her brother even then coming in at the door, and felt herself already pierced by the blows of his poniard. She therefore replied, "What advice do you then give me, good friend, that may prevent the catastrophe which threatens us?"
At the further end of the court, the old warden opened a little gate; through this, and by a narrow arched passage which the dragoons could only pass by stooping, they reached at length a kind of guard-room which through two holes pierced in the wall received some light at this time but feebly dispensed by the moon.
With these words she disappeared, and hardly had she done so than a huge wild boar started out of the thicket near and made straight for the Prince. But the youth did not lose his presence of mind, and drawing his bow he pierced the beast with his arrow right through the skull.
We visited the Alcazaba after the Generalife, and were very critical, but I must own the supremacy of this prospect. I should not mind owning its supremacy among all the prospects in the world. Meanwhile our shining hotel had begun to thrill with something besides the cold which nightly pierced it from the snowy Sierra.
His dark eyes pierced like a sword-thrust; his lips moved; and though no sound came, Jacques knew the words they framed. "Tenez foi! Keep the faith that I brought across the sea, leaving for it fair fields and vineyards, castle and tower and town.
The timber walls were most probably thatched, and the windows would be of small lattice or boards pierced with small holes. Gradually the improvements brought about would have led to the use of stone for the walls, and the buildings destroyed by the Danes may have resembled such examples of Anglo-Saxon work as may still be seen in the churches of Bradford-on-Avon and Monkwearmouth.
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