The cables pass over the tops of lofty stone towers arising from these cliffs, and each cable consists of no less than 4,000 distinct wires.
As he stood there shivering and irresolute, the band struck up the tune that signified much to his present venture,--the tune heralding the approach of the entire company of male performers in the "ground and lofty tumbling act.
In time he recognized pine trees, very lofty pine trees that slowly but surely shrank in size as he gazed wonderingly at them.
The telegraph-poles beyond the burning warehouse lining the railroad spur that ventured down from the main line some miles away and terminated at Smock's, loomed up like lofty gibbets in the ghastly light.
Stooping, he lifted Paul in his lithe young arms, and with a strength born of despair began to carry him up the long and devious way that led to the very top of the lofty building.
One end rested on the opposite side of their own valley, above the old workings of the mine, while the other was uplifted on a lofty mountain-top.
That the emperor's daughter, who is in such a lofty position, has been courted by his captain whom he loved deeply and trusted.
That's what he told me, and his heart is so lofty and noble that he will do it.
Because you know very well that you're not worthy of having anything at all from such a lofty and virtuous lady as she is.
Tirant's heart was filled with happiness when he saw that this lofty lady had shown her great love for him, and that he was on the path of possessing the crown of the Empire of Greece.
In that meeting his lofty and invaluable career finds its legitimate date.
Giving his horses to one of the innumerable grooms belonging to the establishment, Rufus and his friend disappeared under the lofty arched entrance of the stately Baths of Caracalla.
Spare not young or old, the lofty or the low; purge even this palace, and look to it that thy own head be not the forfeit if you fail.
They soon reached the comparatively lofty vaults of a deserted arenarium, or sand pit, which communicated with the open air.
Certain it is that neither of the Empresses, Prisca or Valeria, ever take part in the public worship of the gods, as from their lofty station it is their duty to do.
The good old man then sought to impart the great truths of our holy religion to his new catechumen, and to implant in his soul the same germs of lofty faith that flourished in his own.
The oriads walked no more in light on Ida's lofty top.
Nine votive boats of pure gold were deposited in his grave, and a lofty tumulus was raised above it, on the slope of the red sandstone hill which rises gradually from the Roman road between York and Tadcaster.
At Barwick-in-Elmet the King sometimes resided in a fortified house, near the lofty tumulus erected to the memory of Hereric, the good Atheling.
A handsome woman of low extraction, she had waded through murders and other evil deeds to her lofty position, in which she maintained herself by her strong will.
A space was encircled by a quickset hedge, and within there were three lofty elms, under which the idols were set up.
These memorials of the heroic past give you little time or inclination for an examination of the chapel itself, which has a lofty dome, and is flanked at the entrance by twelve good statues by Peter Kempener--whom Spaniards call Campana.
Note *: Instances of this lofty spirit are frequent in the history of the Spanish peoples.
Then came the real sting of the certainty that he had lapsed from his own lofty rule; and love itself forsook him for a space beneath Cosdon's huge shadow at sunset time.
He looked out into the dayspring; noted where one little flame-coloured forerunner of dawn already shone upon lofty granite afar off; and saw the Mist Mother rise from the ruddy seeding rushes of her sleeping-place.
Their grief was too deep to be emotional, their newly-awakened spirit too lofty for complaint.
The Modern Gothic porch of a loftybuilding of smoke-darkened freestone rose up before them.
The main perennial streams were booming high above their banks, and hundreds of new ones, roaring like the sea, almost covered the lofty gray walls of the inlet with white cascades and falls.
A number of men under the direction of the sheriff were scouring the lofty timberland for the deadly marksmen.
A quiet haze lay over the valley; the lofty hills were enjoying a peaceful smoke, and the sky was as blue as the turquoise.
Ten hours before Barnes found this illuminating message on his library table, he stood at the window of a lofty Park Avenue apartment building, his arm about the slender, yielding figure of the only other occupant of the room.
The loftyhills seemed to be closing in as if to smother the breath out of this insolent adventurer who walked alone among them.
Undoubtedly we may frequently come upon weighty and noble lines, of fine music and lofty sense.
He was very catholic in taste, being able to love Racine without ignoring the lofty stature of Shakespeare.
Our lofty new idea of rational freedom as freedom from conviction, and of emancipation of understanding as emancipation from the duty of settling whether important propositions are true or false, had not dawned on Voltaire.
It is mainly a name for a particular mood of fine spiritual exaltation; the expression of a state of indefinite aspiration and supreme feeling for lofty things.
The true Roman was no doubt very much more like one of our narrow, hard, and able Scotchmen in India, than the lofty talkers who delighted the parterre of Paris or Versailles.
A lofty and pure religious sentiment pervades the volume, and deepens the effect of the thrilling narrative.
The palace of the Sultan is always surrounded by a high wall, and not unfrequently defended by lofty towers and bastions.
But far more lofty is that ambition of which Christ is the great exemplar, which can bury self entirely in oblivion.
Turning their startled glances inland, our adventurers saw that the lofty hill- top, dominating the head of the ravine, near which was situated the gold cavern, had burst open and was vomiting forth vast volumes of flame and smoke.
Rex as he opened the door and noticed how lofty and roomy and how beautifully fitted up was the place, "what jolly cabins!
Its long lofty arched passages were well built and give promise of remaining intact through centuries yet to come.
The lofty salon fronting the Plaza de Armas served as the Senate Chamber.
By the new main entrance from the high road beyond the town, through lofty Greekish gates, came the lords and lairds, in yellow coaches, gigs, and post chaises.
Then the lady and the adventurer sat side by side upon a velvet couch, in the shadow of a lofty fireplace, and the curious Regent, with a tender voice, asked of Jacques "Are you bruised?
But in spite of this version, people of lofty understanding will find, in the warm way of the said Succubus, the real origin of the said name.
In this guise he appears as a man of lofty intellect, vast moral force, supremely successful and fortunate, and wholly apart from and above all his fellow-men.
Farther south is a second group of lofty summits--the snow-capped Sunnin, visible from Beirut; its height is 8482 ft.
They have the lofty monotony of a single conception of life and of the universe.
The more important city of Tusculum occupied one of the northern summits of the same group; while opposite to it, in a commanding situation on a lofty offshoot of the Apennines, rose Praeneste, now Palestrina.
La Union is situated at the foot of a lofty volcano, variously known as Conchagua, Pinos and Meanguera, and on a broad indentation in the western shore of Fonseca Bay.
The city lies amid surroundings of great natural beauty in a valley enclosed by lofty hills.
Situated at the foot of lofty hills in a district rich in coal and iron, it has the most extensive iron works in France.
This learning, guided by an unerring sense of fitness and harmony, enabled him to give to his diction a music which recalls at once the fullest tones of the Greek lyre and the lofty strains of the most genuinely national song.
The coast is for the most part abrupt and rocky, often leaving room for only a narrow path along the shore, and when viewed from the sea it does not suggest the extent of country lying between its cliffs and the lofty summits behind.
The lofty wooded bank is a mile and a half in extent, with other ridges in its neighborhood, in general running nearly parallel with it, one of them still longer.
Its facade is imposing, with a row of stately columns, high above which a broad sign impends, like a crag over the brow of a lofty precipice.
To me who have known all that is fine and grand in the lofty aspirations of love, if I ever fall in love, it will assuredly be in love of that nature.
When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there, And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air.
In strong contrast with the puerility of these proceedings, is the grave and lofty Letter to Lord Ellenborough, composed at Lynmouth, and printed at Barnstaple.
As illustrating the ingratitude of the world, it may be mentioned that the humble instrument by whose aid France reached its lofty eminence in the manufacture of porcelain was, for about sixty years, left unrewarded.
