The uprights and cross bars of the rails were in many cases covered with elaborate carvings of scenes of the most varied kinds, and are illustrative of manners and customs as well as of the art of sculpture.
The caravans at that time used to cross Arabia in all directions, and the men who drove these camel-trains grew wealthy, as railroad magnates do to-day.
Through the promise on God's pages, Through His work in history's stages, Through the cross that crowns the ages, Show His love to them.
They do not know that the "way of those whom Thou dost compassionate" is the new and living way through Christ's cross and death.
To set the cross and the mystic and repulsive symbolism of a bleeding heart above it was simply so much falsehood.
Pierre was the first to cross the threshold, and as he did so, he saw so extraordinary a sight that for an instant he felt stupefied.
Work Thou it in me, by the Holy Spirit dwelling in me, and as I am dead to self in Him, and His cross makes me nothing, let Thy holy indwelling revive and quicken me.
Son dying on thecross to make us one with Himself!
It was in the surrender to the death of the cross that Christ sanctified Himself, and sanctified us, that we also might be sanctified in truth.
He says with Paul, 'I glory in the cross through which I have been crucified.
It now reached High Wood, but of course did not cross the ridge, which would have been in view of the enemy.
The ground between and around the opposing trenches had been ploughed up with innumerable shells, some of huge calibre, and it was now a spongy morass, difficult to cross at a walk and impossible at a run.
And he knew the right way of getting a thing done without being cross or overbearing.
Dodds was awarded the Military Cross for the capture.
These blasphemous words the young woman repeated after the unwashed saint, who, standing upon a sort of dais in the big upstairs salon, still held up the jewelled cross suspended from his neck in front of him.
In the room Rasputin sat in his black robe and his big jewelled cross suspended by its chain, while I stood beside him.
I will do thy bidding," Rasputin responded, standing with his hands behind his back, his great cross suspended from his neck scintillating beneath the light.
Bishop Teofan one day as, with his heavy bejewelledcross upon his breast and wearing clothes of the richest texture, he sat with the rascal in his den.
Rasputin, holding over the kneeling countess the big bejewelled cross which the Empress had given him, and in which were set some of the finest jewels of the Romanoffs.
And I want to say now, that though I was rather cross with you when you tried to get me to change my mind about that matter, some time ago, I want to say that I'm sorry for it.
I'd been in town buying some supplies, and near the cross roads I met Bert and another boy.
He did not live in a large city when at home, and he described how nearly he had come to being run over in trying to cross our biggest street--while thinking of me.
The straightforward one had presented me with an expensively repellent gift in the form of a brown earthenware jug, a cross between a Mexican idol and a pitcher.
The very irregular shape of Belleau Woods, no less than the character of the ground, favored the defenders in forming cross zones of fire.
The order to cross the river came at mid-afternoon, two days after the German offensive at Ypres had been definitely checked.
Looking a trifle to the left, Hal saw four Germans wearing Red Cross uniforms, carrying something on a litter.
Then, suddenly, without further words, Hal turned his gun on the four men, in spite of their Red Cross uniforms, and fired.
Another council was held, and the resolve unanimously adopted, to cross the border in full force, on the next Saturday afternoon.
The Black Forest of Germany, the Thuringian Forest of Saxony, the Cross Timbers of Texas, the dense and inaccessible woods cloaking the headwaters of the Amazon and the La Plata, are mere parks in comparison.
We had a hard time all winter, and when spring opened, it was agreed that I and a comrade named Liehard should cross the summit and spend a week fishing at the lake.
As the lava slowly meandered along, he attempted to cross the stream by stepping from one mass of surface cinders to another.
Down the steep hills they wend their toilsome way, Cross the vast plain that on their journey lay; Gain the dark city, through its suburbs roam, And pause at length within the dreamer's home.
To complete its line it was necessary that it should cross the lines of the then New York Central & Hudson River--not once, but several times.
In this course it needed to cross the steam railroad tracks four times at grade--all of these within the city limits.
Up to that time the New York Central had generally pursued a pretty broad-gauge policy in permitting other railroads to cross its lines.
Our planetary system lies in an eccentric direction, nearer to the region of the Cross than to the diametrically opposite point, Cassiopeia.
The boat, the beetle, and the prehistoric cross are to be found in it.
The cross with twelve | | | leaves, "for the healing of the nations.
The branch or blossom to be copied, is laid on the ground and pegged down with care, to eliminate every variety of surface, and every branch and twig so arranged that they may not cross or touch each other.
Mitre of Thomas à Becket at Sens, showing the Scandinavian Fylfot Cross (thirteenth century).
These are inlaid into the unbaked clay or earth, of which the walls are constructed, and while binding it together, give the effect of the surface being hung with a material which has a pattern worked all over in cross stitch.
In Egypt there has been found some unfinished mural painting where the plaster has been previously prepared by dividing it into small rectangular spaces, apparently on the principle of the canvas ground for cross stitches.
In the Palazzo Giustini at Florence there is a suite of hangings worked also in cross stitches of the same period, of which the design is very clever and graceful, and the effect beautiful and artistic.
A remarkable example of the use of cross stitches exists in the borders of the Syon cope, in which the coats-of-arms are so executed.
It is singular that we find the starry crossand the swastika filling alternate square spaces on the mantle of Achilles--playing at dice with Ajax--on a celebrated Greek vase in the Etruscan Museum at the Vatican.
The cross "bearing twelve fruits for the saving of the nations"[543] is so like some of the representations of the Persian or Indian Tree of Life, that the transmission and adoption of the symbolic form is evident.
The precious metals may be confined to small spaces in the parts we desire to accentuate, such as the cross in the centre, or the edges of the orphreys, or they may be entirely replaced with fine silk work.
The longitudinal threads or warp, cotton; the cross threads, silk.
The stitching on the armorial bearings is the same as that now followed in many trifling things worked in wool (cross stitch).
It was a long ride—sixty miles, and half of it over the desert—but the river was at its lowest water, just previous to the winter rains, and once there Boone Morgan felt certain they could make out to cross the cattle.
No more ICU2's for John Upton—he had been there once—and Circle Double-cross it went on every animal they marked.
I wonder why mamma thinks it is right when she is so cross and tempered," said Maggie, with a long sigh.
Oh, Midget," said Harry, "you would have been frightened out of your wits at her first cross word.
She don't mean to be so cross as she is; but she is old, and had a great deal of trouble, and not very wise people to teach her better when she was little.
In going to Cazembe from Nyassa," said they, "you willcross our own Zambezi.
Only an ignorant African would have been satisfied with its small utility as a means to cross a deep and rapid body of water.
I had anticipated we should be able at once to cross the river, but difficulties arose.
Kirk, and for that purpose he would cross over to Zanzibar the next day with the `Herald' Expedition.
And we shall cross the water tomorrow to Zanzibar, and shall enter the golden gate; we shall see nothing, smell nothing, taste nothing that is offensive to the stomach any more!
Four men, with their loads, were permitted to cross in the small, unshapely, and cranky canoes.
Soon we turned our faces northwest, and prepared to cross the marsh; and the guides informed us, as we halted on its eastern bank, of a terrible catastrophe which occurred a few yards above where we were preparing to cross.
The mouth of the Liuche forms the Bay of Ukaranga, so named because on the other side, whither we were about tocross our party, was situated the village of Ukaranga, a few hundred yards from the lake.
A similar representation is seen on the tablet of the Temple of the Foliated Cross from the same ruined city.
Uinal glyph from the Temple of the Foliated Cross at Palenque and the lizard form is clearly seen in the eyebrow and the upper jaw.
It is found on the sculptured tablet of the Temple of the Crossat Palenque.
Temple of the Cross at Palenque shows a crested heron standing on one foot and holding in its bill a fish.
Head of lizard or possibly crocodile used as a Uinal glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Foliated Cross (Maudslay, IV, Pl.
Since things are so, can you not, my dear sir, finish your new work and cross the great water in September or October, and try the experiment of a winter in America?
So if the French Revolution does not convert the "dull public" of your native Nineveh, I see not but you must shake their dust from your shoes and cross the Atlantic to a New England.
We will hope that a Bill of Exchange will yet cross from us to you, before our booksellers fail.
And solemn were the strains they pour'd Through the stillness of the night, With the cross above, and the crown and sword, And the silent king in sight.
It suffices to make the Way of the Cross once a week and pay for a Mass once a month.
Thou, who for me didst feel such pain, Whose precious blood the cross did stain, Let not those agonies be vain.
The skies may lower, wild storms may rave Above our comrade's mountain grave, That cross is mighty still to save-- Miserere Domine!
He was strangely vestured; silver and gold gleamed in his raiment, and a large cross was outlined upon his back.
It is also related in the life of the venerable Mary of Antigua, that a deceased sister of her convent appeared to her and said: "Why do you not make the Stations of the Way of the Cross for me?
Let it be far from me to glory in anything, but in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Is the mint mark of the cross to be found on any of the coins of Richard III.
We are not aware that the cross occurs as a mint mark on the coins of Richard III.
Four stout posts, with forked ends, are first set firmly in the ground, and then in the forks are laid cross and side poles, on which is made a flooring of small poles.
As the cross is not a pagan but a Christian (which Long Horse was not either by profession or practice) emblem, it was probably placed there by the influence of some of his white friends.
If you would be so kind, and not mind my speaking cross just now.
I desire nothing of you; I shall never cross your path or your lover's.
The young composer sat there, her eyes earnestly riveted upon the notes, so calm and quiet that one could see the jetcross upon her breast rise and fall with each breath.
They are all so cross to-day; Moritz has had a dispatch which has made him absent-minded, and grandmamma is dreadfully out of sorts because her rooms are so empty.
Flora, too, had been cross and out of sorts all that evening, for her lover had excused himself from appearing, on the plea of professional duties.
Such gorgeous stones are not befitting your eighteen years; a plain crossor locket is more becoming so youthful a neck.
A good Christian ought to cross herself three times at sight of you.
The stamp of the cross probably marks the effort of the church to give a Christian significance to a practice that was found to be practically ineradicable.
It was universally adopted in Roman Catholic times to denote the cross on which Christ suffered death, and thus instead of the Holy Cross we invariably read of the Holy Rood.
Instead of pushing on to crossthe river and open the attack, they stood at gaze.
The loft is between three and four feet in width, and thecross beam on which it rests is seven inches wide.
The stocks were sometimes placed in the churchyard, though more frequently near the village cross or in the market place.
As if the hand of disease had been stretched out over them only to make the sign of the cross upon their souls!
Her heart was a passion-flower, bearing within it the crown of thorns and the cross of Christ.
