Old bachelor Gridley lets them come up into his room, and builds forts and castles for them with his big books!
To play hide-and-seek among the castles of the coral towns with their pearl and jasper windows spangling the floor of the Spanish Main!
It was active with plans for the future, with speculation concerning Sprudell, with the rebuilding of the air castles which had fallen with his failure to find mail.
Her letters had shown how much she was counting on what he had led her to expect, for she had written him of her plans; so the collapse of her air-castles could not be other than a blow.
Once castles and forts were the finest buildings; now exchanges, shops, custom-houses, and banks.
The old castles crowned every height, as you know, and as we had the carriage filled with maps and books, we enjoyed every foot of this remarkable road.
Now, he will go on building all sorts of castles in the air on your praise, and sooner or later they will come tumbling about his ears--just to gratify your passion for saying pleasant things to people.
For many years his descendants, as well as the lords of the many castles strewn along the lonely hills north of the Sierra de Guadarrama, owed allegiance to Leon and the kingdom of the Asturias.
The lions and castles of his kingdom surround the old king.
The endless plain, once the fertile bosom of fourteen cities, innumerable strong castles and high watch-towers, is shut in from the outside world like a very Garden of Eden, by the mountain walls of the Alpujarras and Sierra Alhama.
The square, mediaeval castles with their angular towers still command the approach of the main thoroughfares.
Warring families dared walk only certain streets after nightfall, and battles were carried on between the differentcastles and in the streets as between cities and on battlefields.
That determination spedily was accomplished, one posting towardes Rome, and the rest galloping to the countrey Castles of the duke.
Now in these Fennish and marrysh groundes, the Kyng had already builded diuers Castles and lodges for the pleasure and solace of hunting.
But not much came of the fighting; only some castles of Armenian nobles opposed to Rome were destroyed.
Girolamo had besieged and driven out the Colonnas from one of their castles in the neighbourhood of Rome.
How unlike the old castlesand cottages of Germany, and the cities of the Rhine!
Heaven to him was bright with the smile of God, and he longed no more for the rose-gardens of Marienthal or the castles of the Rhine.
The men of Liege marched towards Dinant, burning castles and villages on their way.
He must not abandon any of the national strongholds, and the commanders at such places as the castles of Bouillon, Huy, and Dinant must be natives of the country.
Eva and Leonore built all their castles in the air together.
With the wind abeam and blowing hard, her tall sides and toweringcastles were like sails that could not be reefed, a resisting surface that complicated all manoeuvres.
The floating castles of Antony's van division worked out of the straits, and after them in long procession came the rest of the Roman, Phoenician, and Egyptian galleys.
From the mastheads fluttered pennons thirty or forty feet long, and flagstaffs displayed not only the broad standard of the Lions and Castles of Spain, but also the banners of nobles and knights who were serving on board.
But locked up in the bottle-necked Ambracian Gulf the great fleet, with its tower-crowned array of floating giants, had as little effect on the opening phase of the campaign as if its units had been so many castles on the shore.
The bay lies eastward of the point where the gulf contracts into a narrow strait between the "Castles of Roumelia" and "the Morea," then held by the Turks.
But I can see as many castlesin the clouds as any man, as many genii in the curling smoke of a steam engine, as perfect a Persepolis in the embers of a sea-coal fire.
I am intending a little jaunt to his country, and we mean to visit sundry old castles in Aberdeenshire, and wish you were of the party.
The love of solitude was with me a passion of early youth; when in my teens, I used to fly from company to indulge in visions and airy castles of my own, the disposal of ideal wealth, and the exercise of imaginary power.
The ascent from Bryansford, through Tullymore Park, taking Slieve Commedagh and the Castles en route, is perhaps the finest walk, so far as scenery is concerned, to be had in this picturesque cluster of mountains.
But I may assure myself of one thing, when I met him he was building castles in the future, for he was looking straight before him; and if he had been thinking of the past, he would have been looking down.
The night mists still filled the hollows, and villages and hamlets hung like cloud-wreaths on the mountain-sides and the summits of the hills; the most inaccessible of which were crowned with ruins of castles and towers.
Nor will the modern visitor to the castles and halls of the Principality, not to mention its principal hotels, often miss the dulcet strains of the national lyre.
Castles and towers, amphitheatres and fortifications, battlements and obelisks mock the wanderer, who fancies himself transported into the ruins of a city of some extinct race.
The lands they subdued became their own; they were created lords-barons over them; and castles speedily bristled up all over the territory to maintain the authority so acquired.
There were houses and castles and shops for the merchants, and all were prettily designed and had many slender spires and imposing turrets that rose far into the blue air.
Some were like huge ships, some like forest trees, and others piled themselves into semblances of turreted castles and wonderful palaces.
Among uninhabitable plains, the traveller is struck by the ruins of innumerable castles and villages, monuments of a time when pestilence was either unfelt, or had at least not forbad the residence of mankind.
The windows in this class of castles were still little better than loop-holes on the basement story, but in the upper rooms often large and beautifully ornamented, though always looking inwards to the court.
It is amusing to see the common law of distress introduced upon this gigantic scale; and the capture of the king's castles treated as analogous to impounding a neighbour's horse for breaking fences.
He who was faithful and true to his mistress was held sure of salvation in the theology of castles though not of cloisters.
About the middle of the fourteenth century the use of chimneys is distinctly mentioned in England and in Italy; but they are found in several of our castles which bear a much older date.
That the constables of the king's castles take cognizance of common pleas; 11.
Both these castles are enclosed by a court or ballium, with a fortified entrance, like those erected by the Normans.
Whitaker's History of Whalley; and by the second Mr. King's Essays on Ancient Castles in the Archaeologia.
We saw many villages, but for the last two days have observed none of those castles so frequent in the lower country.
Observed that several of the castles we had passed yesterday and to-day appeared newer and better constructed for defense than those we had seen along the Cataract.
Castles within the fire grow grand and tall, and then crumble into dust; castles in Mona's brain fare likewise.
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