The passage opened into a wide room and here the violet light was stronger, bright enough to make plain the fact that alcoves opened off it, each and every one with a barred grille for a door.
He had gone only two floors when he was faced with a grille opening which was much larger.
Still keeping its soft underparts covered, it edged about in the sand until its back, with the impenetrable armor plates, was facing the grille behind which the hunters stood.
He worked for long moments until the grille splashed out into the sluggish current a foot or so below, and then he made ready to lower himself into the same flood.
A high stone grille walled this portion away from the seats as if to protect the spectators from what might enter through those portals.
It was covered with a grille and it was above his reach but.
The grille at the head of the shaft had been removed, and the invaders arose one by one into a dim and dusty place of motionless machinery, which, by all tangible evidence, had not been entered for some time.
At last his determination triumphed, and thegrille swung out, to fall with an appalling clatter to the floor.
For a moment Dalgard pictured the monster returning at the head of a regiment of its kind, able to tear out this grille and get at their soft-fleshed enemies behind it.
He was able to climb that arch and, standing on it, work loose the grille which had been fashioned to open.
He climbed the grille and was on his way to the sand when Dalgard caught up with him.
The houses were large in that vicinity, and built, for the most part, round a patio, the outer door of which not infrequently consisted of a heavy iron grille which could scarcely be closed noiselessly.
The big iron grille grated on its hinges as it swung open, and Appleby fancied that one dim figure detached itself from the rest as they disappeared into the patio.
There is no other door here save that which goes into the stable where the grille is.
From the blackness of the wall sides where the grille was there came the sound of a terroring lock and a creaking door.
One of the porters who had been peering through the grille came to them with a white face.
There was an iron grille in the door, and the little shutter that closed it was shot back.
I stooped and peered through the grille into the lighted interior; and then I uttered an exclamation.
It was a somewhat massive wooden box, fitted with a lock of good quality and furnished with a wire grille through which one could inspect the interior.
Rooted to the floor, both Americans watched the distant grille vanish into the upper stone-work and heard the ghastly hissing as the allosauri herd commenced to move forward.
Through the grille I could see across the floor of the ten-foot cage to the front lattice bars.
I miss the beautiful old grille that had been there for so many years--where our friends and ancestors had come and gone so often.
We had our faces close to the grille trying to see a little more of the garden while the above conversation was going on.
The finest examples of the grille are those known as the rejas, which in Spanish churches form the enclosures of the chapels, such as the reja in the Capilla Real at Granada in wrought iron partly gilt (1522).
The rule is that none but father, mother, sister, or brother, can have the curtain of the grille drawn back, behind which the sister speaks to her visitors.
The Grille Royale, now a simple wooden gate between two pillars with vases, opens on the road from St. Germain to Versailles, at the extremity of the Aqueduct of Marly.
The height of that wretched grille hath deprived me of the sight of many charms.
M--M--then held her close to the grille and bade me assure myself on the point.
To erect, slip the end bars on the supports, hold the grille in place and fasten the bars to the sides of the arch with screws.
The boy behind the grille filled in the interval by copying an address into the stamp book.
The instant the immature Jew behind the grille set eyes on Philip, he bounded back from the window and gazed at him with a frightened look.
He entered the office and was instantly confronted by a big-nosed youth, who surveyed him through a grille with an arched opening in it to admit letters and small parcels.
An interesting specimen of iron work is thegrille that surrounds the tomb of the Scaligers in Verolla.
The earliest Christian grille is a pierced bronze screen in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
The result, however, is most happy, and a new feature was thus introduced into grille work.
Inside this grille in the early days was an altar, containing a unique relic,--a leg of St. George.
The iron work of the tomb of the Duke of Burgundy, in Windsor, is supposed to be the work of Quentin Matsys, and is considered the finest grille in England.
It struck the guard, and his figure fell forward in the grille doorway.
The figure of the guard stood now at the grille doorway.
A steel grille about half a foot deep, and so tightly meshed that nothing bigger than a mouse could pass through, runs all round the enclosure close to the top of the walls, and this supplies ventilation.
The doors were all locked; no grille is missing from any window; no one is in the loft; no one in any of the stalls; no one in any crook or corner of the place.
Just now at thegrille you looked as if the roses hadn't agreed with you.
When they closed the grille behind them and stepped into the lane, Cecily shot a quick glance at her cousin.
He shut the garden gate, crossed the road, and found the grille just closing behind a slim white figure.
One great discomfort of the grille was that the interstices of the heavy brass work were not large enough to allow the victims who sat behind it to focus it so that both eyes looked through the same hole.
Part of the grille has been preserved for the London Museum, and part will be kept in the House itself.
Derry, peering through thegrille of the closed door.
And with a wave of her hand across the grille she sank with the lift into the ground.
Entrance from the precincts of the palace is by the great ornamental iron gateway known as the Grille Royale, from which an alleyed row of lindens leads to the heart of the forest.
To-day the Palais Royal proper may be said to face on Place du Palais Royal, with its principal entrance at the end of a shallow courtyard separated from the street by an iron grille and flanked by two unimposing pavilions.
A long straight walk conducted from the door of the house to the ancient grille that I have described, and I stood here for some time, looking through the iron bars at the silent empty street.
There was a high wall, with a double gate in the middle, flanked by a couple of ancient massive posts; the big rusty grille contained some old-fashioned iron-work.
Here I am a trespasser through the grille and not a soul to greet me.
I rose on the other side of the grille and dusted my knees.
I eyed the broken grille regretfully and then suddenly rose and started hurriedly toward the Manor, the new thought drumming in my mind.
