United States or Nicaragua ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The interior consists of earth and sun-dried clay, built about and rendered substantial with burned bricks and tiles, the whole being coated on the exterior with a stone-like mortar or chunam. The burned bricks which are found in the débris of the "buried cities" have their form quite perfect, and were so well fired when made that they still retain their sharpness and consistency.
His friends said to him, 'If you go to the Council, Duke George will have you burnt. He answered, 'If it snowed Duke Georges nine days together, I must go. They said, 'If you go into that town, you will never leave it alive. He said, 'If there were as many devils in the town as there are tiles on the houses, I must go. And he went, Bible in hand, and said, 'Here I stand; I can do no otherwise.
The columns, the architrave below the dome, the arches of the apses and their vaults, are all of white marble covered with exquisite carved ornament partly gilt, while all the walls and the other vaults are lined with tiles, blue and yellow patterns on a white ground.
We, ourselves, fell to our knees, our arms outstretched, weeping, stammering supplications. On the other roof Aimee, still standing, her children clasped to her bosom, howled mournfully into the night. I know not how long we remained in a stupor after that tragedy. When I came to, the water had risen. It was now on a level with the tiles.
The bright blue tiles of its curved and serrated double roof, rising above the foliage, seemed to blend their color with the luminous azure of the day; the green-and-gold designs of its carven porticos were exquisite artistic mockeries of leaves and flowers bathed in sunshine.
We're bettin' on yer." "Yes, sit down and have a drink, Chris," said Andy. "I've got to have somethin' more to drink. I haven't had a thing to drink all the evening." He pulled him back into his chair. Chrisfield tried to get up again. Andrews hung on him so that the chair upset. Then both sprawled on the red tiles of the floor. "The house is pinched!" said a voice.
It was well adapted to its purpose as a refuge from the heat of the summer day, for the walls were lined with cool, colored earthenware tiles, the floor was a brightly-tinted mosaic of patterns on a ground of gold glass, and in the circular central ornament of this artistic pavement stood the real source of freshness: a basin, two man's length across, of brown porphyry flecked with white, from which a fountain leaped, filling the surrounding air with misty spray.
Our breakfast was nearly spoilt by the Manchesters, who, after they had lost a few men, rushed through the farm into the wood, where, naturally enough, they lost a few more. They besought the Cyclists to cover their retreat, but as it was from shrapnel we mildly suggested it was impossible. The courtyard was by this time covered with tiles and pitted with bullets.
Hayward I paid a visit to the Court House, a large whitewashed room, with a clean floor of red tiles, a tiled dais, with a desk for the judge, a table with a charge sheet and some books upon it, and three long benches at the end for witnesses and their friends. A punkah is kept constantly going.
The Dioxys would have time to strike her blow during the mother's absences; but everything seems to suggest that she behaves on the pebbles as she does on the tiles. She steals a march by hiding the egg in the mass of pollen and honey. What becomes of the Mason's egg confined in the same cell with the egg of the Dioxys?
Word Of The Day