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Updated: June 17, 2025
The ferret was in the burrow, a Bow- Street officer in the court! The two men paused, looked round, and stopping before the dingy towerlike house, selected the bell which appealed to the inmates of the ground-floor, to the left.
We visited the principal church, also a curious old structure, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of grotesque images.
We visited the principal church, also a curious old structure, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of grotesque images.
The place struck her as very ugly and forlorn, utterly lacking in what she had always taken to be the amenities of flat life an obsequious porter, a lift, electric light. How strange of Ferrier to have told her that he lived in a building that was beautiful! Springing in bold and simple curves, rose a wrought-iron staircase, filling up the centre of the narrow, towerlike building.
But Hadrian did not persecute, and listened kindly to an explanation of the faith which was shown him at Athens by Quadratus, a Christian philosopher. Hadrian built himself a grand towerlike monument, surrounded by stages of columns and arches, which was to be called the Mole of Hadrian, and still stands, though stripped of its ornaments.
As he stood in his dressing-gown, with a cigarette between his fingers, at one of the upper windows of his tall, towerlike hotel, he would have said that his life at the moment resembled the blue dome above him, from which, after a cloudy dawn and dull early morning, the last fleecy drifts were being blown away.
The ferret was in the burrow, a Bow-Street officer in the court! The two men paused, looked round, and stopping before the dingy towerlike house, selected the bell which appealed to the inmates of the ground-floor, to the left.
Leaf's translation; but the poet only describes his shield: his "towerlike shield of bronze, with sevenfold ox-hide, that Tychius wrought him cunningly; Tychius, the best of curriers, that had his home in Hyle, who made for him his glancing shield of sevenfold hides of stalwart bulls, and overlaid the seven with bronze."
The big box, so high and towerlike, so commodious, so suggestive, had ceased to fulfil its legitimate function; though, providentially, it had been at least half full of sawdust when the horse died. Meanwhile, the gifted and generous sawdust-box had served brilliantly in war and peace: it was Penrod's stronghold.
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