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Updated: May 5, 2025
Then Tad, rising, slipped to the opening of the tent and looked out wonderingly upon the impressive scene. Each flash appeared to light up the mountains for miles around, their crests lying dark and forbidding, piled tier upon tier, the blue, menacing flashes hovering about them momentarily, then fading away in the impenetrable darkness.
Mrs. Rooth moaned as the curtain rose again. When the second act was over our friends passed out of their baignoire into those corridors of tribulation where the bristling ouvreuse, like a pawnbroker driving a roaring trade, mounts guard upon piles of heterogeneous clothing, and, gaining the top of the fine staircase which forms the state entrance and connects the statued vestibule of the basement with the grand tier of boxes, opened an ambiguous door composed of little mirrors and found themselves in the society of the initiated.
"Did you get out the nephridium?" he said as graciously as he could. She shook her head. "Are you going downstairs?" she asked. "Rather," said Lewisham, with a vague intimation in his manner of the offence Smithers gave him. He opened the glass door from the passage to the staircase. They went down one tier of that square spiral in silence.
That it was under a high state of cultivation was evident. Mercer saw tier upon tier of rice terraces on the hillsides. But what astonished him most was the city itself. It covered almost the entire surface of the lake a huge collection of little palm-thatched shacks built upon platforms raised above the water on stilts.
Tier offence, she knew, was that, being by all the logic of facts an unhappy wife, she should persist so stubbornly in denying the visible evidence of her unhappiness.
And when you found that each of those pillars was a pile of ingeniously made vessels of coarse clay called Saggers looking, when separate, like raised-pies for the table of the mighty Giant Blunderbore, and now all full of various articles of pottery ranged in them in baking order, the bottom of each vessel serving for the cover of the one below, and the whole Kiln rapidly filling with these, tier upon tier, until the last workman should have barely room to crawl out, before the closing of the jagged aperture in the wall and the kindling of the gradual fire; did you not stand amazed to think that all the year round these dread chambers are heating, white hot and cooling and filling and emptying and being bricked up and broken open humanly speaking, for ever and ever?
Jermyn, the other a shorter fellow, to whom Mr. Jermyn seemed extremely respectful. I wished not to be seen, so I ducked down nimbly into my boat, drawing her forward by a guess-warp, till I could row without being heard by them. I heard Mr. Jermyn calling to a waterman; so very swiftly I paddled behind other ships in the tier, without being observed.
There was just this one step that must be taken first; the machine must be put back together again. When it came time for Jimmy to start school he was absolutely delighted; nothing, nothing could be worse than this. At first it was a novel experience. He sat at a desk along with forty-seven other children of his size, neatly stacked in six aisles with eight desks to the tier.
"To be sure there is, and ammunition enough in it to keep eight carronades in lively conversation for a couple of hours." "A carronade is what you call a gun, is it not?" "A piece of a one being somewhat short, like your friend, Jack Tier, who is shaped a good deal like a carronade."
There, you know, was the rock, still beautiful for all its scars, with its countless windows and arches and ways, tier upon tier, for a thousand feet, a vast carving of gray, broken by vine-clad terraces, and lemon and orange groves, and masses of agave and prickly pear, and puffs of almond blossom.
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