But here on the gargoyle shelves, the high, shadowed shelves of the old book store--truth stands in all its terrible reality, wrapped in its authentic habiliments.
These are the basement students of the gargoyle philosophies, the gargoyle sciences, the gargoyle religions.
From a leaden sky the rain was descending in sheets, and the gargoyle at the end of the eaves overhead was discharging a steady column of water into the yard.
From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
A Gothic gargoyle at another angle of the balustrade hiding the base of the saddleback roof of the tower.
It is carved as a gargoyle in the stone-work of a church, and the head of the Grand Old Man has been turned into a match-box.
No notice was taken by the gentleman compared to the architectural adornment of past days; it was evident that, like the gargoyle in ancient architecture, the remark of the humorous Colonel was some elaboration too lofty to be noticed.
Then it rained a great rain, every gargoyle spouting, every gap and pipe gurgling full.
Make me even sport for swallows, Like the soaring gargoyle there!
Like my friend the gargoyle there; It may be the heart within him Swells that doltish hands should pin him Fixed forever in mid-air.
They could distinguish neither shape nor feature, but before the match went out they saw a second head projecting, like a gargoyle from a Gothic wall, close beside the first.
The disciples, now all frenzied, surrounded closer the priest, the gargoyle and the serpent.
The great gargoyle shone with an infernal light of its own!
He tied the wrist laces for them, and followed them out into the moonlit night, his face a copper-coloured gargoyle illuminated by that fixed and joyous grin.
He thought Hauck looked like an exultant gargoyle as he stood there with a horrible grin on his face, and Brokaw.
In the information Baldry was good enough to supply to the Gargoyle Record, affectionate inquiries were made, you remember, after the Missing Link, last seen in all his native beauty in the Forum.
Answer, Gargoyle with the wiry thatch," came a voice in Plunger's ear, accompanied by a sharp kick on the shins.
The next number of the Gargoyle Record made various indirect references to the "Crusoe incident" in the editor's usual vein.
Know this, Gargoyle with the wiry thatch, no engagement should keep him from answering the call of the Mystic Brethren.
You see, you are half a Gargoyle yourself, Mellor, or you would have known that.
Gargoyle was the nickname given by the St. Bede boys to the boys of Garside School.
What's good enough for a Gargoyle isn't good enough for a Bede--is it, Bedes?
The Fifth Form Gargoyle is quite ready to meet the Fifth Form Beetle at the sand-pit, Cranstead Common, to-morrow afternoon, three sharp.
He was about to call out to Harry when a voice he had not yet heard called out sharply: "Gargoyle with the eyebrows, what is thy name?
Plunger was one of the earliest to obtain a copy of the Gargoyle Record.
It's a Gargoyle--the wretched Gargoyle who showed such a clean pair of heels at the sand-pit.
You know that twaddle in the Gargoyle Record about the poet being stuck for a rhyme to 'hunger'?
The gargoyle near the door had drawn Penny's attention.
The two fell back on the discussion of various schools where Gargoyle might be put under observation.
The two doctors started to help her with the fragrant burden, but not before Gargoyle sprang out of his chair.
But people who "run about in the sun" are seldom inclined to make themselves useful, and no one could make Gargoyle so.
But, after the consent of the mother at the gardener's cottage had been gained, Doctor Milton left Heartholm, taking Gargoyle with him.
John dear, it was that scalloped fire which Gargoyle was staring at.
Milton stood there, hesitating; he looked abstractedly at the apathetic little figure of Gargoyle sitting in the chair.
In his earnestness Strang sat up, adding, "Then Gargoyle got up and stretched out his hands, not to the sky, but to the air all around him.
Tearing the colored mass from the surprised nurse's arms, Gargoylesank to the floor.
I only saw and smelled the flowers; Gargoyle looked as if he felt them!
I saw Gargoyle run, quick as a flash, and pick it up.
Unconsciously all formal strangeness wore away, unconsciously the old bond between Gargoyle and his mistress was renewed.
Hearken, Wat, I will not spoil my bosses by such an ill-favoured countenance, but the very first gargoyle the master sets me to make, thou shalt be my model.
Well, then the gargoyle died, or ran down, or something.
I got so that, to keep myself from turning into a stone gargoyle on the organ seat, I must have my little jest too.
But he'll be a gargoyle soon, and then he won't notice, and it will boom and squaek to its heart's content.
The gargoyles are of course Decorated, and so is the string-course itself, eastwards at any rate of the second gargoyle on the north wall, for here one of the mouldings has a fillet upon it.
The last bay of the latter displays a window like those on the north side, but having foliage on the capitals of the shafts; and below the parapet runs the cornice continued from the transept, with a curious gargoyle upon it.
It is hard to say whether the moulded string or cornice below the parapet is original, but the gargoyle which juts from it and the parapet itself, with its cruciform piercings, are not earlier than the fourteenth century.
His whole existence is bound up in the Gargoyle Club, and he is deeply alive to the responsibilities of his position.
Mr. Gargoyle being present either at an eviction or a prohibited meeting, I didn't note which, with two or three Irish members, all of them were politely requested to step on one side and let the police march past.
It is seven hundred and fifteen years since that gargoyle was lifted into its place.
The General carried the gargoyle wrapped in a newspaper.
I picked up a bit of fallen gargoyle from under the fallen tower and brought it away.
I got into the car and they bundled in after me the damaged pictures, the horseshoe, the piece ofgargoyle from the Cloth Hall and the nose of the shell.
Illustration] The Gargoyle The Gargoyle often makes its perch On a cathedral or a church, Where, mid ecclesiastic style, It smiles an early-Gothic smile.
There was a Gargoyle who said--I believe it was the Proposer of this motion--didn't you?
I am in a position this week to redeem my promise, and raise the hitherto impenetrable veil that has long shrouded the proceedings of the Gargoyle Club from the Public Eye.
The full significance of the skill displayed by the old masons in the rare opportunity the gargoyle afforded them of representing the dragons, serpents, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gargoyle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
