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Updated: June 28, 2025
Above the Grecian altar screen of Bishop Bisse they were struck by the traces of Norman mouldings, whilst on traversing the clerestory gallery the remains of Norman ornaments were everywhere to be found, the gallery itself being still existent at each side, returned behind the wooden coverings, up to the splays of the eastern windows.
These endless cannon, thrust into pits which search into the fiery entrails of the earth, and stand there upright, hardly leaning so much as Pisa's tower; and these slanting tubes, long as factory chimneys, so long that perspective distorts their lines and sometimes splays them like the trumpets of Apocalypse these are not cannon; they are machine-guns, fed by continuous ribbons of trains which scoop out in entire regions and upon a country, if need be mountains of profundity.
None but the light horsemen showed near at hand, and their tactics were to sting like wasps, and fly never to join battle. At last, in the swamp of Arsûf, where the Dead River splays over broad marshes, and goes in a swamp to the sea-edge, he saw his chance, and took it. Here a feint, carried out by Gaston of Béarn with great spirit, brought Saladin into the open.
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