Surrounded by a wide and deep moat, there is a walled enclosure of more than a mile square, whose gateways are picturesque in the extreme, and which to all but modern cannon would be an impregnable fortress.
And let us make these grains of truth our gateways of access to the heathen heart, while we show the heathen the larger and fuller truth as it is in Jesus.
There are two fortified gateways in the town still above ground, and two thirteenth-century church towers which take rank as admirable mediaeval monuments.
Half a dozen roads fit for carriage traffic, and two gateways by which pass the railways of the east and west coasts, are the sole practicable means of communication between France and Spain.
Charles Martel it was, as much as any other, who made all this possible, and indeed he began it when he broke the Saracen power which had over-run all Spain and penetrated via the Pyrenean gateways into Gaul.
By reason of being one of the gateways through the Pyrenees into Spain (by the valley of the Arreau and the portes, so called, of Plan and Vielsa) Arreau enjoys a Franco-Espagnol manner of living which is quaint beyond words.
This was a great gain, for the barricading of these two gateways against philosophy has produced untold mischief in the past.
The young student entered the temple of philosophy through the gateways of philology and history.
The rudely contrived gateways are supported in natural forks at the top and sides of posts.
It seems probable that other gatewaysonce existed, especially in the south half.
One may see that angular dogtooth ornament that makes the round Norman gateways look like the gaping mouths of sharks.
It is supported more than many would suppose even by the figures that appear in the gateways or pass in procession under the walls.
Immediately at the side of one of these humble and humangateways there is a great gap in the wall, with a wide road running through it.
Something had redrawn in silver all things from the rude ornament on the old gateways to the wrinkles on the ancient hills of Moab.
Such are the visions of remote places that appear in the low gateways of a Gothic town; as if each gateway led into a separate world; and almost as if each dome of sky were a different chamber.
My earliest recollections were of the clusters of columns, the long colonnades, and lofty gateways of its magnificent mansions.
From where he crouched on a strong branch high above the ground, he saw two wide gateways not more than fifty yards apart, both of them guarded by parties of armed men.
Soon they reached one of the huge gateways in the wall about Sephar.
After covering possibly half a mile, and testing two other gateways without success, his sharp gray eyes spied a broken timber near the top of the wall directly above one of the gates.
Most of them are making for Kairouan or Gabès, coming from Algeria through the gateways of El Oued and Ourgala.
The eastern and western gateways of this vast military camp are still more than fragmentary in silhouette and outline.
Of the Castle there are parts of the Norman hall, modernized, two gateways and other remains, together with the artificial Mount on which the keep stood.
Of Leiden's oldgateways only two--both dating from the end of the 17th century--are standing.
The gateways are somewhat insignificant, being mere holes in the walls flanked by a tower on either side: and this is characteristic of most Roman fortifications, the gateways of Lugo (for instance) being very similar in design.
The National Museum, rich in Pompeii relics, the University, the National Library, the Cathedral and the four mediæval gateways are the chief architectural features.
Since the Civil War, Louisville has rapidly grown in importance as one of the chief gateways to the southwest.
One of these gateways was pulled down by Place in order to make a close examination of its construction.
The best examples of an Assyrian arch of ordinary dimensions are those found at Khorsabad, the gateways of which town were roofed with semicircular vaults.
He was not permitted to enter into it; but he observed that one of the gateways was adorned with bassi-relievi, or oblong tablets of white marble.
Nothing remains of its ancient grandeur besides some stupendous causeways and massy gateways of hewn stone.
V-104] The tops of the few gateways discovered are constructed by means of the same arch as that employed in the ceilings.
Within the structure there are five similar gateways shown in the preceding cut and in the following ground plan.
Gateways on the east, and the east and west direction of embankments and skeletons may connect worship with the sun; but all is conjecture.
A gateway leads through the centre of both eastern and western buildings, and one of these gateways is represented by Landa as having a round arch, the other being of the ordinary form.
There are twelve arched gateways with heavy teakwood doors studded with long brass spikes as a defense against elephants, which in olden times were taught to batter down such obstructions with their heads.
Gateways like those of the temples on a smaller scale, the cavetto cornice on the walls, and here and there a porch with carved columns of wood or stone, were the only details pretending to elegance.
The gateways recall somewhat those of the Sanchi Tope in India (p.
It is surrounded by a richly carved stone rail or fence, with gateways of elaborate workmanship, having three sculptured lintels crossing the carved uprights.
The royal effigy, many times repeated in painting and sculpture throughout this temple-like edifice, and flanking its gateways with colossal seated figures, made buried Ka-statues unnecessary.
It consists in a guardianship of the gateways through which impressions enter, or pass by; it consists in protecting one's inner self from wasteful associations.
Talmage thought so well of them that they will serve to show the trail of his footsteps through the gateways of ancestral England.
San Francisco and Puget Sound are the two westerngateways of the continent.
Reckoning the distance across the Pacific between Yokohama and the western gateways of the continent, we have this comparison:-- San Francisco to Yokohama 4,856 miles.
Over its gateways may still be traced the pipes for molten lead, and on its walls the eyeloops for arrows, with brackets for the feet of archers.
Sidenote: Gateways of Experience] Single nerve fibers are fine, thread-like cells.
This is how many mailing list gateways work (for example, the Risks Digest).
Mail Gateways A natural progression is for Usenet news and electronic mailing lists to somehow become merged---which they have, in the form of news gateways.
The gateways are pointed: outside the walls, towards Castel Parentino, is the pedestal for the municipal standard; on the other side is an illegible inscription in which the date 1475 may be deciphered.
The palace of the Ferreri family, with its rich and cumbrous gateways sculptured with the family arms, contains fine tapestries, family portraits, and rich furniture.
Sometimes gaily-painted towers and ancient palazzi, with carved armorial gateways and arched porticoes, break in upon the solitude of the valley.
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