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Then a solemn hymn was chanted as the curtain was raised; and while the assembled multitude watched it rise in reverent silence, the temple- servants lighted the lamps that illuminated the sanctuary from every cornice and pillar.
We hauled the head of the pillar came above the coamings, went high up, then lowered down till one end rested on the bulwarks; the rope was cast off; and then, with a cheer, in spite of the rolling of the ship, it was sent over the side to disappear in the boiling sea.
If Adelle could find no very cogent reason why she should make herself toilsomely a pillar of this society, shall we blame her?
We spent an impressive hour in the noble cathedral, where long shafts of tinted light were cleaving through the solemn dimness from the lofty windows and falling on a pillar here, a picture there, and a kneeling worshiper yonder.
Half-way up the avenue was a stone pillar commanding a gentle descent, one way to the Hall, and the other way to the lodge. It set forth the anguish of a former lord of the time of Queen Anne, who had lost his wife when she was twenty-six years old.
The incident made a great noise in the country. The cardinalists felt naturally very much enraged, but they were in a minority. No censure came from the government at Brussels, and Mansfeld was then and for a long time afterwards the main pillar of royal authority in the Netherlands. It was sufficiently obvious that Granvelle, for the time at least, was supported by no party of any influence.
The doorway of this porch also has on the centre pillar of it a statue of the Virgin standing, holding the Divine Child in her arms.
She would have laughed at the idea that any blind person could have moved as confidently as Inez, or could afterwards have run the length of the next corridor in what had seemed but an instant, for she did not know of the niche behind the pillar, and there were pilasters all along, built into the wall.
Lo! like a torrent he doth bound, Breasting the shock From rock to rock: A pillar of storm, he shakes the ground, His turban on his temples wound. Match me for worth to be adored A youth like him In heart and limb! Swift as his anger is his sword; Softer than woman his true word.
"I have not even seen her. Her father sent me a message to-night, bidding me go to church on Sunday and stand beside a certain pillar." "To see and be seen," laughed Arisa. "It is not a fair exchange! She will look at the handsomest man in the world hush! That is the truth.
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