They pushed themselves into a mass of debris, where logs and boughs, swept by the current, formed a little arch over the stream.
He looked up at the heavens and studied the great, red globe of the sun, now going slowly down the western arch in circles of crimson and orange light, and then he looked hack at the earth.
At everyarch repetition of the question, "Who could have set the May-pole!
A hedge of backs hid from him the ball-room, choking the wide, high arch of its entrance.
The aurora borealis announces itself first by pale, whitish jets of flame which slowly lick the surface of the sky; but soon the scene grows more animated, the colors deepen, and the light grows larger, forming an arch around an opaque cloud.
In the arch of the central crypt, the adoration of the magi is painted.
An arch of white lilies had already been put up against a larger arch of green that was to be set with candles and a crown of light.
The Arch of Titus in the Forum, or what is now vulgarly called the Campo Vaccino (oxen’s field or market), is a magnificent trophy commemorating the last victory of Rome over Jerusalem.
Brethren, our labors in a small sphere are only discontinued that we may resume the work on a grander scale; for the trowel of the Freemasons shall yet build the arch that covers the grave of the greater as well as of the smaller!
The Indian, with a terrible death-cry, described an arch in the air with his body, and fell dead to the ground.
This pillar was destined by the first Napoleon for the decoration of the triumphal archat Milan, the intended monument of his Italian victories.
They were now engaged in putting under the lilies a third and smaller arch of Mayflowers, that the whole might be like the Lady it was meant to honor—radiant with glory, mantled in purity, and full of tender sweetness.
Before them lay a colorless and lifeless sea, under the arch of a threatening sky.
As he approached the region of the Arch of the Seven Candles, as the Arch of Titus with its carving of the Jewish Candelabrum borne in triumph was then called, Tristan walked more warily.
Then, from an arch in the apse of the infernal chapel, came four chanting figures, hideously masked and draped in crimson.
Thus she strode towards the dais, draped in carnation-colored silks and surmounted by an arch of ebony.
After the litter-bearers and their retinue had trooped off, Tristan remained for a time in the shadow of the Arch of the Seven Candles.
In the heat of the conflict with its attendant turmoil none of those immediately concerned had remarked a procession approaching from the distance which now emerged from the shadow of the great arch into the moonlit thoroughfare.
I, too, was an unseen witness of your meeting at the Arch of the Seven Candles," Basil replied suavely.
A woman who at that moment crept in the shadows of the Arch of Titus saw Tristan, sword in hand, defending himself against a man apparently much more powerful than himself.
He was pressed back along the Arch towards the spot where she stood.
Right there, before him, dominating the narrow thoroughfare, rose the great fortress pile of the Frangipani, behind the Arch of the Seven Candles.
By-and-by I heard Fred's voice, and then he came hurrying through the great archto find me.
The evergreen arch wouldn't stay firm after she got it up, but wiggled and threatened to tumble down on her head when the hanging baskets were filled.
I can see Raffles now, as he looked at me once more with a high arch over each clear eye.
No one had observed until then that the rain was no longer falling, but now everybody was made aware of this at once by sight of a rainbow which spanned the sky to the north-west immediately over the arch of the gate.
And as on that day so on this, in the alcove under the horseshoearch sat Ben Aboo and his Spanish wife.
The gate was closed, and the night police that kept it were snoring in their rags under the arch of the wall within.
Over a triumphant arch in the west, through which the sun had gone, a mighty cloud curtain of purple was draped, fold on fold, all laced and looped with silver and edged with scarlet flame.
As the arch could not remain suspended, the result was an enormous breach and a fall of wreckage to the ground.
Bouvard planted a peony in the middle of the grass plot, and tomatoes so that they would hang down like chandeliers under the arch of the arbour.
Architecture may lie: instance, the arch of the Forum, in which Titus is called the first conqueror of Jerusalem, which had been conquered before him by Pompey.
The semicircular archof the thirteenth century still holds sway in Provence.
From horizon to horizon stretched that one huge arch of speckless blue, and up its monstrous concavity crept the inexorable sun, like some splendid but barbarous deity, who claimed a tribute of human suffering as his immemorial right.
The strange, wild frieze moved slowly and silently onwards amid a setting of black stone and yellow sand, with the one arch of vivid blue spanning the rugged edges of the ravine.
The rounded arch of the door-way and its pointed gable are repeated, on either side, in a half-arch and half-gable.
Instead of Temples, Forum, and Arena, there are the Palais de Longchamps, the Palais de Justice, and the Christian Arch of Triumph.
The heavy arch which supports the clock tower forms an arcade across a narrow street and makes it picturesque without adding dignity to the church itself.
And The Arch of Victory in Madison Square has melted away into roar.
Then I stood in the middle of The Avenue, all New York boiling and swirling round me and looked up at The Arch of Victory--massive, majestic white and heavenly and soaring against the sky, and my heart ached!
We want four and a half billion dollars this week to make it honest--to take down our lath and plaster Arch and put it up in marble instead.
The ascent into the tower is by an exceeding deep flight of steep steps, four feet and a half wide, on the south side leading to a low doorway, over which is a circular archcrossed by a great transom stone.
The interior, nevertheless, is quite remarkable in possessing a massive Romanesque arch opening into the tower, with roughly carved capitals to its tall responds.
About 1740 Burrough filled the chancel-arch and chancel with a permanent gallery, which commanded a thorough view of this object.
Thirteen years later, when Washington visited Boston, he passed through a triumphal arch to the State House.
Arch on arch unbuilt in building, reared and ruined ray by ray, Breaks and brightens, laughs and lessens, even till eyes may hardly bear Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray.
In the south aisle of the church at Tuxford, beneath a flowery arch is a very rude relief of St. Lawrence placed on the gridiron.
One of the rarities of architecture is the beautiful arch in the choir of Cannistown Church, not far from Bective, near Trim, in Ireland.
In the ornamental bridges that adorn gardens and pleasure-grounds, the arch is often of height sufficient to admit a boat under sail, and the bridge is ascended by steps.
Illustration [++] Archin the Choir of Cannistown Church.
The arch of the Sergii at Pola in Istria seems also to have been erected for a like purpose.
There are numerous examples of churches of this style scattered over Ireland, but they are usually plain, and the choir arch is generally the plainest feature in the building.
The procession traversed the Seine by one of the bridges, greeted by salvos of artillery drawn up on the quays, and entered the Champ de Mars under a triumphal arch almost hidden by flags and patriotic inscriptions.
All the stones of a Chinese arch are commonly wedge-shaped, their sides forming radii which converge towards the centre of the curve.
Now and then, in the midst of a figure, she would shoot me an arch glance, as much as to say that her pinions were strong now.
Camden Street is there, on a shelf of the hills, and through the arch of its elms you can look off over the forests of the lowlands until they end in the blue reaches of the ocean,--if you could see far enough.
Her heart was throbbing with the looms, and yet she stood motionless, until he turned and came rapidly down the slope of the arch and stopped in front of her.
As they passed, Honora had a glimpse of a blue driveway under the arch of the forest.
And so they found themselves on that bright afternoon in mid-April under the great trees that arch the unpaved streets of old Annapolis.
And the picture of the hall, loaded with holly and mistletoe even to the great arch that spanned it, with the generous bowls of egg-nog and punch on the mahogany by the wall!
