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Updated: May 1, 2025
What a history of geological changes does the simply-constructed coast of Patagonia reveal! At Port St. Julian, in some red mud capping the gravel on the 90-feet plain, I found half the skeleton of the Macrauchenia Patachonica, a remarkable quadruped, full as large as a camel.
Inside the well-moulded vaulting ribs do not rise higher than the windows, leaving therefore a large space between the vault and the outer stone capping. Lanterns, especially octagonal lanterns, are particularly common in Spain, and at Salamanca and its neighbourhood were very early developed and attained to a remarkable degree of perfection before the end of the twelfth century.
Joseph's eyes went back to the candles, splendid, tall columns they were, with beacon lamps capping each. "Who?" Dim faces looked at him through the flickering light; but there was only one he saw, and it brought the merriest smile to his lips. "Why 'course it's mother sure's shootin'!"
At the other end Jed Burns commanded. One after another he tried all the devices he had known to succeed in capping or checking other gushers. The flow was so continuous and powerful that none of these were effective. Some wells flow in jets. They hurl out oil, die down like a geyser, and presently have another hemorrhage. Jackpot Number Three did not pulse as a cut artery does.
While this was going on, we did our best to keep the rebels down behind their works, and render their fire ineffectual. We soon succeeded in this, but not until they had inflicted some loss. Sullivan was standing a little below me, when a bullet clipped by his left hip, cutting his pants about three inches, but doing no harm. A ball touched my hand as I was capping my gun.
We are cocks of the walk!" Lorry was smiling faintly over his enthusiasm. "You are the real hero, Harry, You saved my life and probably hers. I'll not allow you or anybody to give me the glory," he said. pressing the other's hand. "Oh, that's nonsense! Anybody could have rushed in as I did. I was only capping the climax you had prepared merely a timely arrival, as the novels say.
I think it is the capping of the back of one of the semi-circular stone seats, called by the later Romans a stibadium.
I am aware, of course, that Norman architecture had sometimes its pinnacle, a mere conical or polygonal capping.
Some of these layers of shells rested on a thick bed of bright-red, dry, friable earth, capping the surface of the tertiary sandstone, and extending, as I observed whilst sailing along the coast, for 150 miles southward: at Valparaiso, we shall presently see that a similar red earthy mass, though quite like terrestrial mould, is really in chief part of recent marine origin.
The sun was capping the Rockies with molten gold when the rancher and his daughter swung down the foothill slopes to the camp on the South Y.D. Strings of men and horses returning from the upland meadows could be seen from the hillside as they descended. Y.D.'s sharp eyes measured the scale of operations. "They're hittin' the high spots," he said, approvingly. "That boy Transley is a hum-dinger."
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