In one corner--just where the big marble stair-case springs upwards to the gilded gallery--two men in evening dress were sitting together.
She led them to a little round-topped marble table where two cheap cane chairs were waiting, upon which Lord Ellerdine and Colonel Adams seated themselves.
This marble fell into the hands of the Athenians, and a sculptor, said by some to have been Phidias, afterwards carved from it a beautiful statue of Nem'esis, which was placed in the temple of Rhamnus.
The Persians had brought with them a great block of Parian marble for the trophy which they intended to erect in honor of their expected victory.
In their walk they turned aside, and, to the astonishment of those of the public who observed their movements, were seen directing their steps towards Tyburn, the place of public execution, which was near the present site of the Marble Arch.
He brought the bottle down so hard on the table that it broke and the purple wine flowed over the dirty marble and dripped gleaming on the floor.
He thought of the white marble building and the officers with shiny puttees going in and out, and the typewriters clicking in every room, and the understanding of his helplessness before all that complication made him shiver.
On the marble table before him were a small glass of beer, a notebook full of ruled sheets of paper and a couple of yellow pencils.
They sat down at an unwashed marble table where the soot from the trains made a pattern sticking to the rings left by wine and liqueur glasses.
After losing his way a couple of times, he walked listlessly up some marble steps where a great many men in khaki were talking.
He could picture him, a little man with a broad face and putty- colored cheeks, a small rusty mustache and bow-legs lying like a calf on a marble slab in a butcher's shop on top of his blankets.
On the marble table beside Andrews were some pieces of crisp bread with butter on them, a saucer of damson jam and a bowl with coffee and hot milk from which the steam rose in a faint spiral.
It seemed to Andrews that the shiny white marble building would have to burst with all the paper stored up within it, and would flood the broad avenue with avalanches of index cards.
Mrs. Gray, smoothing the marble brow on the pillow, as she would have touched her Maggie.
Great marble columns, many erect, but the majority overthrown, indicated the quadrangle of what was meant to be a gigantic mosque.
The roulette whirred round, the marble danced madly across diamonds and slots.
William Emerson, whose marble tomb stands near the very spot, and also marks the place where Pitcairn and Smith controlled the operations of the British during the forenoon.
So the two watchmen supped in the crossways, spreading the contents of their baskets on the marble steps.
Mariano heard a metallic clatter, and saw the shoemaker raise his hand armed with the bunch of keys which had fallen on the marble steps of the railing, then he heard a strangely sonorous sound, as if something hollow was being struck.
The gloom of Catholicism penetrated into their very bones, and while the fountains of Versailles were playing among their marble nymphs, and the courtiers of Louis XIV.
At Pedestal Point, Bartholomew Diaz in 1486 erected a marble pedestal, which has long since disappeared.
There is some very fine building stone, particularly the marble found near Alfreda.
The priests in their yellow robes moved silently through the green trees, and on a pavement of black marble stood the rose-red house in which the god had his dwelling.
Those who live in marble or on painted panel, know of life but a single exquisite instant, eternal indeed in its beauty, but limited to one note of passion or one mood of calm.
She clothed her children in strange raiment and gave them masks, and at her bidding the antique world rose from its marble tomb.
On opening the coffer they found within its marble womb the body of a beautiful girl of about fifteen years of age, preserved by the embalmer's skill from corruption and the decay of time.
And He beheld a house that was of marble and had fair pillars of marble before it.
She jumped out of the taxi and ran up some marble steps towards a glass door covered with a lattice metal-work, beyond which a hall, a marble staircase and a lift shewed dimly.
Lunch will be ready directly, Ma'am,' she said to Nelly, who followed her in bewilderment across a hall panelled in marble and carpeted with something red and soft.
Here, the wooden cross at the head of the grass-grown mound of earth, serves the same purpose, and serves it as well as the majestic marble monument.
Mounting several steps, we first passed through sundry minor chambers, until we came to a large open hall, in the centre of which rose a marble sarcophagus, bearing masterly inscriptions in Arabic.
It is built of huge marble blocks, and stands upon a marble base formed by six marble slabs of enormous thickness placed one upon the other; each slab terrace-like diminishing the higher it is placed, and the whole forming six steps.
The site of his grave is marked by a monument of white marble erected by Kerim Khan, and the inscription carved upon it is a verse from his own book, the Divan.
The names of numerous celebrated European travellers could be seen carved into the marble steps, whilst the walls were covered with a great many Arabic and Persian inscriptions.
The pilgrims remove their shoes at the first of these steps; their arms or sticks are taken away from them, and not until they have kissed the marble threshold are they permitted to enter.
The head and throat had the massive look of a marblefragment stained to one even tone and dug up from Attic earth.
Then he heard Betty's step across themarble pavement of the hall.
Harry, and suddenly seating him on the highmarble chimney-piece.
I have charge of decorating a very beautiful house in the suburbs and I am going over to Florence to order some marble stairways and fireplaces.
So it was in St. Sofia, my father told me; the slabs of marble near the ground and the decoration above.
Three centuries did our people spend in building into St. Mark's the marble carvings brought from the East; erecting the altars; and adorning the walls.
Above the slabs ofmarble are the mosaics, señorita.
Then at last the chance came, and thinking to make himself famous the artisan contrived, as he passed the flagon to his sovereign, to drop it on the marble floor.
This vase," Mr. Cabot said, "was found about the middle of the sixteenth century enclosed in a marble sarcophagus in an underground chamber which was located two and a half miles out of Rome.
The common way of making such windows was to cut a design in a slab of marble or plaster, and then insert small pieces of colored glass.
Then suddenly her foot slipped on the slime left by the tide on the marble step, and she would have fallen into the water had not a young boy, with rare presence of mind, leaped forward and caught her.
This is of Great Importance particularly in Plastering and Works of Stuck, which is a Composition of Marble finely beaten with Lime.
In the Seventh he treats of the manner of making use of Mortar for Plaster and Floors; how Lime and the Powder of Marble ought to be prepared to make Stuck.
That, according to Piot, "numerous Persian faience plaques and pieces of vases, resembling those of our own time, are found encrusted in the white marble of a church in Naples.
About 1438 his marble bas-relief of "The Singing Boys" was placed in the Duomo of Florence, and was so great a success that orders quickly multiplied.
Antonio finally died in Florence at the age of forty-six, leaving a brother called Bernardo, an architect and sculptor, who made a marble tomb in S.
Pietro some marble tombs for Popes and Cardinals, which were thrown to the ground in the building of the new church.
For the Chapel of the Brancacci in the Carmine he made an angel of wood; and he finished with marble the Chapel of the Sacrament in S.
The latter, having acquired enough to live upon, would do no more works in marble after those described above, save that he finished in S.
The while that he stayed in Rome, Vellano made many small things in marble and in bronze for the said Pope and for others, but I have not been able to find them.
This Bernardo wrought a tomb of marble for Gismondo Malatesti in S.
He had come into view of the diminutive marble cavalier of the infantile cerebellum; recollecting a couplet from the pen of the disrespectful Satirist Peter, he thought of a fall: his head and his elbow responded simultaneously to the thought.
Nor did he dream that he would become as familiar a Paris landmark as Paul Deroulède in marble and Jeanne d'Arc in gilt near by.
Khan whom I laughed at from the temple when it rained yellow snakes on the marble steps when all the gongs in Yian sounded in your frightened ears!
On the rose-marble steps of the Yezidee Temple she flung a stemless rose upon Djamouk's shroud, where he had spread it like a patch of snow in the sun.
Then each fragment began to shimmer with a rosy internal light of its own, until the pile of broken marble glowed like living coals under thickening and reddening vapours.
And all the marble was flooded with scarlet blood.
When I was a girl he came once to the Temple of Yian, all alone, and spread his shroud on the pink marble steps.
Southern Spain, in Andalusia, near the mouth of the Adra, on the Mediterranean; with marble quarries and lead works.
There are here a cathedral, a college with library and museum, marble statue of Napoleon, monument of the Bonaparte family, &c.
She is alone in the room with the marble men; and they are quiet; even the Gladiator bites back his last groan once more.
Mae heard indistinctly the sweep of trailing skirts, the sound of footsteps on the marble floor, the noise of voices as the people went away, but still she did not move.
