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But nearly all those divinities who appear in the legend of the Master of the Great Land are still believed to dwell here with him, and here their shrines are: the beautiful one, magically born from the jewel worn in the tresses of the Goddess of the Sun, and called by men the Torrent-Mist Princess and the daughter of the Lord of the World of Shadows, she who loved the Master of the Great Land, and followed him out of the place of ghosts to become his wife and the deity called 'Wondrous-Eight-Spirits, grandson of the 'Deity of Water-Gates, who first made a fire-drill and platters of red clay for the august banquet of the god at Kitzuki and many of the heavenly kindred of these.
Mark also the mighty ramparts which are pierced by the three water-gates, and sixteen others to the landward side." "And how is it, good Aylward, that there comes so much music from the town? I seem to hear a hundred trumpets, all calling in chorus."
On the north and the west entire districts had reverted to barbarism, and on the coasts the pirates anchored by the water-gates of walled cities and tossed jests to the watchmen on the towers. Throughout this period Ten-teh had surrounded Hoang with an added care, never permitting him to wander beyond his sight, and distrusting all men in spite of his confiding nature.
"Well, old man, I'm sore, and you're about the only guy I can let out on," explained Maynard, heavily. "One thing I'm glad of we'll face it together. Daren, we were kids together do you remember? playing on the commons straddling the old water-gates over the brooks stealing cider from the country presses barefoot boys going to school together.
But there is a sullen look about its current, that tells how wicked it can be, this Serchio, lashed into madness by winter storms, and the overflowing of the water-gates above, among the high Apennines at the Abbetone at San Marcello, or at windy, ice-bound Pracchia. How fair are thy banks, O mountain-bordered Serchio! How verdant with near wood and neighboring forest!
At the same time I remember that the poor girl seemed to be yet telling her story audibly and plainly in my hearing, that I could feel her resting on my arm, that the stained house-fronts put on human shapes and looked at me, that great water-gates seemed to be opening and closing in my head or in the air, and that the unreal things were more substantial than the real.
The screen of Carleton House, a long row of double columns, with a heavy entablature supporting the arms of Great Britain, "that and nothing more"; the doings of Inigo Jones in his water-gates and arches, with two or three orders intermixed; and the late achievements of Mr.
When they got low enough down to come upon levees and see that the river was actually higher than the land, the questions of inundation, protection, blue-clay banks, dikes, sluices, crevasses, water-gates, sediment, currents, swept in upon Sir Robert, and he was still working at them when they reached New Orleans.
And just as the sun comes up will you put your hand to this lever and press it down?" She looked up at him quickly. "Oh," she cried, her hand clutching at his arm, her voice quivering, "you mean " He laughed happily. "I mean that when you press that lever it will throw open the water-gates. I mean that it will be your hand which turns the first mad current down into the flume.
There are a large number of interesting details connected with both the military functions of the castle and its domestic economy. The water-gates are worth studying, especially the methods of protecting the eastern water-gate two grates with a shoot above and between them.
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