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Updated: May 25, 2025
For months ships of all nations searched for the missing steamer. Not so much as the smallest piece of wreckage rewarded the ceaseless quest. The great vessel, with all its precious cargo, had slipped into its niche among the profoundest mysteries of the sea. Came the day, therefore, when the Secretary of the Navy wrote down against her name the ugly sentence: "Lost with all on board."
Think of her sitting down for sixteen years to pick up senseless words one by one, and stow each one away in its own niche, with a ticket hanging to it to guide the search of any one who can bring the smallest sample of the cloth of gold he wants. Rain ends, as even Noah and the Arkites discovered.
Every thing about the church is marble, and all from the same quarry; it was bequeathed to the Archbishopric for this purpose centuries ago. It looks complete, but is far from being so. We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years, they said.
The ornamental fountain alcoves placed at intervals are important decorative features of the south walls. The shrubbery has been so grouped about the niches that the details of the fountains are partially screened. Upon closer investigation, one finds an elephant's head as the central object in one niche, alternating with a lion throughout the series.
"Ah, Monseigneur, for you it is different," said Madame Patoux shaking her head and sighing "You are like the blessed saints safe in a niche of Holy Church, with Our Lady for ever looking after you.
Art is neither democratic nor aristocratic. It knows no class it is concerned with life at large elemental life. Art is praise and all things in life are its subjects. The group "Harvest" surmounting the great niche in the Court of the Seasons is a fine placid thing and the bull groups on the pylons are time-honored, virile conceptions strikingly placed.
Of course the place was empty. Ombos, Albertus Magnus and all the wonderful contents of the spacious old rooms had disappeared. I made a search of the house, and it was not without a curious sensation in my heart that I entered the room where the Master of Masters had towered in his niche. Silence only the faint boom of a gun far away in the French trenches awful, ghastly silence.
She was a thin, voluble lady, as old as the Squire, to whom she looked up as a god amongst mankind; her educational methods were of an older generation and included the use of the globes and the blackboard, but she was most conscientious in her duties, her religious principles were unexceptionable, and she filled a niche at Kencote which would have seemed empty without her. "O Mrs.
The eighth niche was still empty, but was already bespoken. For later comers there was room only in the ditch of the graveyard. And there were still ten years left to think thereon! But ten years is a long time.
"What a lovely place," she cried joyfully, trying to remind him of the existence of happiness, "to play in in the summer! Could one sleep up there, do you think?" He switched off the light. "I daresay," he said gruffly in the darkness. "And look!" She pointed to a moonlit niche in the middle of the wall high and deep enough to hold a life-sized statue.
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