stone-floors

Updated: May 20, 2025

At night they were on the stone-floors of their chapels, holding up their withered hands to heaven, interceding for the poor souls who were suffering in purgatory. The world, as it always will, paid honour to exceptional excellence. The system spread to the furthest limits of Christendom.

James Anthony Froude - Short Studies on Great Subjects

Here and there, in this little Italian town, there were to be seen in the walls letters of the old inscription which were once upon the trophy; and the age of the houses shewed that the monument had served as a quarry for centuries. As we rode home, we noticed by the sides of the road, and where ditches had been cut, numbers of old Mexican stone-floors covered with stucco.

Edward Burnett Tylor - Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern