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Updated: June 3, 2025
Then a deafening, thundering roar from thousands of throats went up to heaven, while, round the obelisk so close to it that not a horse, not a wheel could have found room between the plinth and the driver-the blue cap came forward out of the cloud, and, behind it now no longer in front, though not more than a length behind came the red cap of Hippias.
The bevel is a depression round the entire side of the stone, which faces outwards, and may be effected either by a sloping cut which removes the right-angle from the edge, or by two cuts, one perpendicular and the other horizontal, which take out from the edge a rectangular bar or plinth.
With the exception of a plinth, also in ivory, admirably inlaid with mother-of-pearl, the bed was entirely covered with white satin, wadded and quilted like an immense scent-bag.
But we may fairly conclude from this evidence that in some of the Assyrian town-walls the proportion between the plinth and the superstructure was very different from what it is in the only example that has come down to us.
That's it! they roared with passion. 'Wantin' our money. 'That's all this agitation's about. 'Listen to me! She came close to the edge of the plinth. 'If it wus only to use fur our comfort, d'ye think many o' you workin' men would be found turnin' over their wyges to their wives? No! Wot's the reason thousands do and the best and the soberest?
On the plinth under a round arched recess stands a sarcophagus with a tablet in front bearing the date A.D. 1525, while behind in an elegant shell-topped niche is a figure kneeling on a beautiful corbel. The front of this arch is adorned with cherubs' heads, the jambs with arabesques, and heads look out of circles in the spandrils.
Kim cleared his throat and looked around at the village greybeards. 'The meaning of my Star is War, he replied pompously. Somebody laughed at the little tattered figure strutting on the brickwork plinth under the great tree. Where a native would have lain down, Kim's white blood set him upon his feet. 'Ay, War, he answered. 'That is a sure prophecy, rumbled a deep voice.
When the door was lifted away, giving for the first time in thirty-five centuries entrance to the light of day, a puff of hot air escaped from the sombre opening as from the mouth of a furnace. The light, striking the entrance of the funeral passage, brought out brilliantly the colouring of the hieroglyphs engraved upon the walls in perpendicular lines upon a blue plinth.
It's very long." "I can't imagine," said Miss Van Vluyck, "grudging the time given to such a subject." "And deep in places," Mrs. "I never skip," said Mrs. Plinth dogmatically. "Ah, it's dangerous to, in Xingu. Even at the start there are places where one can't. One must just wade through." "I should hardly call it wading," said Mrs. Ballinger sarcastically. Mrs. Roby sent her a look of interest.
Chaldæan doorways may, however, have been sometimes flanked with lions and bulls, we are indeed tempted to assign to such a position one monument which has been described by travellers, namely, the lion both Rich and Layard saw half buried in the huge ruin at Babylon called the Kasr. It is larger than life. It stands upon a plinth, with its paws upon the figure of a struggling man.
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