sundials

Updated: May 29, 2025

And over all rises the ancient turret of San Siro, like a Spanish giralda, a minaret of pinnacles and pyramids and dome bubbles, with windows showing heavy bells, old clocks, and sundials painted on the walls, and a cupola of green and yellow tiles like serpent-scales, to crown the whole. The sea lies beyond, and the house-roofs break it with grey horizontal lines.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

Pierre, watching, was only aware of vague impressions not any distinct outline of the tale. At last he guessed it as a perfect pastoral-birds, reaping, deer, winds, sundials, cattle, shepherds, hunting. To Hilton it was a new revelation. She was telling him things she had thought, she was recalling her life. Towards the last, she said in gesture: "You can forget the winter, but not the spring.

Gilbert Parker - Pierre and His People, [Tales of the Far North], Volume 5.