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But a reaction arose against this tendency, and in behalf of the Gothic style, which is exemplified in the new Houses of Parliament in London. Many Gothic churches have been erected in Great Britain. Many-storied office buildings are characteristic of America. French sculptors at the present day are fully on a level with the recent sculptors of Italy.
Would we not rather skip over many-storied houses for a change, or on encountering the monument take a flying jump, rather than trouble to walk round it? That was why, with the weight of worldly life no longer clogging my feet, I could not stick to the usual course of convention.
A pleasing land it was of hills and dales and fertile meadows, but in place of El Turco’s many-storied stone houses, only rude wigwams were to be seen, and the civilized people proved to be naked savages. The only yellow metal seen was a copper plate worn by one of the chiefs and some bells of the same substance.
A large number of ancient many-storied, many chambered communal houses are scattered over New Mexico, three of the most important of which are Isletta, Laguna and Acoma. Isletta and Laguna are within a stone's throw of the railroad, ten miles and sixty-six miles, respectively, beyond Albuquerque, and Acoma is reached from either Laguna or Bubero by a drive of a dozen miles.
Many-storied buildings residences and factories indiscriminately intermingled. All built in sober, solid rectangles of the forbidding black stone. A long steep slope from an excavated quarry deep in the ground, ran straight up to a commanding hilltop the slope set with an orderly array of buildings clinging to it in terraces.
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