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It soared some forty feet in air, up past the black silken curtain, then unaccountably stopped, level with the Ka'aba roof. "Up! Up!" yelled Bohannan, frantically. The spud of bullets against the steel basket tingled the bodies of the men crouching against the metal-work. All at once Dr. Lombardo stood up, pick-axe in hand, fully exposed to rifle-fire.
The carved coffers, the solid tables, the spacious window-seats, the well-fitting cabinets let into the walls, the carefully wrought metal-work we see there are not luxurious; their merit is quite other than that. In workmanship as in design, how utterly do they put to shame the contents of the ordinary "luxuriously furnished apartments" of the present day!
By the Eternal I swear you shall go back to the pit!" Instantly a pistol flashed in the speaker's hand, and five shots rang in quick succession. One after another they whistled by Cosmo's head and flattened themselves upon the metal-work behind. Cosmo Versal, untouched, folded his arms and looked straight at his foe.
The party from the big German mail-boat had nearly completed their inspection of Mozambique, they had walked up and down the main street, admired the palms, lunched at the costly table of Lazarus, and purchased "curios" Indian silks, Javanese; knives, Birmingham metal-work, and what not as mementoes of their explorations.
I was very happy about the new one as soon as I saw it, but Braiding never gave me your instructions in regard to it." She glanced at the cabinet in which the new toast-dish reposed with other antique metal-work. "Braiding's been rather upset this last few days, sir." "What about?" "This recruiting, sir. Of course, you are aware he's decided on it."
Thus Cato is most particular in urging that a farm should be so placed as to have easy communication with market towns, where the wine and oil could be sold, which were the chief products, and where various necessaries could be bought cheap, such as pottery and metal-work of all kinds.
Greek triremes laden with oil, wine and mastic-wood; metal-work and woollen wares from Chalcis, Phoenician and Syrian craft with gaily-colored sails, and freighted with cargoes of purple stuffs, gems, spices, glass-work, carpets and cedar-trees, used in Egypt, where wood was very scarce, for building purposes, and taking back gold, ivory, ebony, brightly-plumaged tropical birds, precious stones and black slaves, the treasures of Ethiopia; but more especially the far-famed Egyptian corn, Memphian chariots, lace from Sais, and the finer sorts of papyrus.
Hanging silver lamps, which blazed blue and smoky, lit it in patches, sufficient to show the cleanness of the rush-strewn floor, the glory of the hangings of cloth-of-gold and damask, and the burnished sheen of the metal-work. There was no costlier chamber in that rich city. It was a strange staging for death, for the woman on the high bed was dying.
First visit to England Sir Thomas More; his home and portraits The Windsor drawings Bishop Fisher Archbishop Warham Bishop Stokesley Sir Henry Guildford and his portrait Nicholas Kratzer Sir Bryan Tuke Holbein's return to Basel Portrait-group of his wife and two eldest children; two versions Holbein's children, and families claiming descent from him Iconoclastic fury Ruined arts Death of Meyer zum Hasen Another Meyer commissions the last paintings for Basel Return to England Description of the Steelyard Portraits of its members George Gysze Basel Council summons Holbein home "The Ambassadors" at the National Gallery; accepted identification Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn Lost paintings for the Guildhall of the Steelyard; the Triumphs of Riches and Poverty The great Morett portrait; identifications Holbein's industry and fertility Designs for metal-work and other drawings Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
I could understand his regarding it as of small importance when I looked at it, for the metal was almost black, and the stones lustreless and dull. I rubbed one of them on my sleeve, however, and it glowed afterwards like a spark, in the dark hollow of my hand. The metal-work was in the form of a double ring, but it had been bent and twisted out of its original shape.
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