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Updated: May 27, 2025
At each corner of the polygon was a bastion, in which were stationed the big guns. The wall connecting the bastions is called a curtain. The bastions protected the curtains, and were themselves protected by sixteen detached forts, built on all the eminences around Paris.
About half-way down the gorge was a ruinous Romanesque chapel upon a rock, the polygonal apse being on the very edge of a precipice. At each exterior angle of the imperfect polygon was a column with a cubiform capital. The interior was all dilapidated; the floor of the sanctuary had fallen in, but the altar-stone a block of granite remained in its place. This chapel belonged to a priory.
We began our search. First we examined the playbills at the various places of entertainment. Ras Fendihook was not playing in Southampton. We went round the hotels, the South-Western, the Royal, the Star, the Dolphin, the Polygon and found no trace of the runaways.
Dom Gualdim's church, since then enlarged by the addition of a nave to the west, was originally a polygon of sixteen sides with a circular barrel-vaulted aisle surrounding a small octagon, which with its two stories of slightly pointed arches contains the high altar.
Mono means one, poly means many. We say monotone, meaning one tone; also polygon, meaning many sides. In the musical reference monophonic music means music of one voice, rather than of one tone, and polyphonic music is that for many voices.
Similar statues stand on the vaulting shafts of the outer polygon and between them, filling in the spaces below the round-headed windows, are large paintings in the Flemish style common to all Portuguese pictures of that time of the Nativity, of the Visit of the Magi, of the Annunciation, and of the Virgin and Child.
On the French right, to the northeast of Zonnebeke, was the Canadian division, under the command of General Alderson, consisting of the Third Brigade, under General Turner, on the left, and the Second Brigade, under General Currie, on the right. The Twenty-eighth Division extended from the Canadian right to the southeast corner of the Polygon Wood.
On the other hand the son of a five-hundred-sided Polygon has been known to possess five hundred and fifty, or even six hundred sides. Art also steps in to help the process of higher Evolution.
He concentrated it, he focused it, and one of the polygons rose slowly from the ground and drifted into the air above the Martians' heads. Dark could feel the strength that went out and raised the polygon, like an invisible extension of himself. Then he felt another force seize the polygon, and it was drawn back firmly and without hesitation to its former place.
Godwin who the devil is that? will be glad to see you at No. 29 Polygon, Somer's Town, whenever you are inclined to favor her with a call." About ten days later he wrote to Mr. Wedgwood, and his letter confirms Mrs. Shelley's statement.
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