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Updated: June 17, 2025
And the rustling had been caused by a horseman in gorgeous attire, who now came forward toward the hut from beneath the trees. He wore a scarlet mantle over his purple, gold-embroidered jerkin; a plume of red and purple feathers waved over his gold-coloured barret-cap; and from his golden belt hung a glittering jewelled sword.
Peter and St. Stephen; on the other St. Paul and St. Agatha, to whom the church is dedicated. The Greek monogram of the Virgin is inscribed below the throne. The Virgin, of colossal size, is seated on a throne; her robe and veil are blue; the infant Christ, in a gold-coloured vest, is seated in her lap, and raises his hand to bless the worshippers.
The front of the house, composed of rough blocks of grey stone, was overgrown by the twisted branches of a venerable vine, the age of which did not prevent it from becoming covered each spring with leaves and tendrils, nor from yielding in the autumn an abundant supply of delicious gold-coloured grapes.
Another second, and the cabin was filled with a pearly lustre like the vapour which sweeps across the hills in an early summer dawn and in the center of this as in an aureole stood a nobly proportioned figure, clad in gold-coloured garments fashioned after the early Greek models. Presumably this personage was human, but never was a semblance of humanity so transfigured.
The Indians made incisions with their large knives in the trunks of the trees, and fixed our attention on those beautiful red and gold-coloured woods, which will one day be sought for by our turners and cabinet-makers. Father Caulin Descrip. The Indians recognize the species by the smell, and more particularly by chewing the woody fibres.
Ibrahim looked amazed and hurt. "Never mind, Ibrahim!" she touched her forehead "I've got a bad head to-day, and it makes me cross about nothing." He thrust one hand into his gold-coloured skirt, and produced a glass bottle full of some very cheap perfume from Europe. "This will cure you, my la mees. Rub it on your head. It is a bootiful stink. It stinks lovely indeed!"
The seats had crimson cushions with gold-coloured fringe, warming up the cold light and shade of a February day, while the white and gay-coloured dresses of the ladies and the number of wedding favours contributed to the gaiety of the scene.
Wouldn't he get tired to put it only at that of seeing her always on the rampart, erect and elegant, with her lace-flounced parasol now folded and now shouldered, march to and fro against a gold-coloured east or west?
Mirabel now consulted a merchant in Marseilles, one Auguier, who advised him to keep his old coins a mystery, as to put them into circulation would lead to inquiry and inconvenience. He lent Mirabel some ready money, and, finally, induced Mirabel to entrust the Portuguese hoard to his care. The money was in two bags, one fastened with gold-coloured ribbon, the other with linen thread.
On the moon-shaped platform were laid out antiquities, tripods, libation-vases, and other similar articles. In front of the antechamber was hung a gold-coloured flat tablet, with nine dragons, and the device: Like a dazzling star is the statesman, who assists the Emperor. This was the autograph of a former Emperor.
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