Can we exhibit any marvelsof architecture that excel the glory of Philæ, Athens, Pæstum, and Agra?
How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur.
So by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under that stone to let her wit of the marvels there; but she wrought so there for him that he came never out for all the craft he could do.
Mrs Monnerie yawned her way on--though my comments on these marvels of human enterprise occasionally amused her.
The smallest of the marvels of flowers and flies and beetles and pebbles, and the radiance that washed over them, would fill me with a mute, pent-up rapture almost unendurable.
Its marvels are its own; the patents cannot be infringed; imitations are not possible.
Then they settled to listening; and as the story deepened and its marvels grew, the amazement of it made them dumb, and the interest of it took their breath.
Sculptor, upholsterer and couturiere formed the trinity of genius that wrought marvels of form and color.
He marvels at the gates, the roar and rattle of the ways.
They generally go further, and allow that any Theist finds in these endless marvels a full confirmation of his faith--there is, as Coleridge says, a whole universe at hand to ratify the decision.
Cieza de Leon, whose testimony I consider to be worth more than that of all the other chroniclers put together, says that Manco Ccapac was believed to have been the first Ynca, and that the Indians relate great marvels respecting him.
The Indians relate great marvels and very pleasant fables respecting these men, which may be read by any one who pleases, when the book written by me on the subject sees the light.
Look not for marvels of the scholar's pen In my rude measure; I can only show A slender-margined, unillumined page, And trust its meaning to the flattering eye That reads it in the gracious light of love.
Nature taught to them The simple lessons of the star and flower, Showed them strange sights; how on a single stem,-- Admire the marvels of Creative Power!
Every day she must have something new, and sometimes not all the marvels of the Arabian Nights would have cheered her melancholy.
Ours is a monstrous synthesis of all the ages, and who can foresee how far it will go before it has ceased shuffling and mingling its own inventions and marvels with the relics and curiosities of the distant past?
Novalis sawmarvels in everything, and charming marvels they were.
Herr Schubart's studies of Goethe are among the marvels of fine criticism.
The trucks which carry this tremendous burden of steel are marvels of strength and efficiency.
Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.
What other marvels might have been rummaged out of this monstrous cabinet there is no telling.
In life, the visible surface of the Sperm Whale is not the least among the many marvels he presents.
The amount of time he occupied in tapping the lid and the invisibility of the pinches he had ever been seen to take were alike marvels in the district.
As for us we watched with dazzled eyes the marvels that had so suddenly altered the ideas of all men as to the Haunted House of Marnhoul.
References to the scientific marvels around them will be casual and sketchy.
Of all the Hindu temples of Java the largest and most magnificent is Boro-Budur, which ranks among the architectural marvels of the world.
Be not so wroth, little lord, or I shall be asking thee tales of marvels also.
We've seen marvels ourselves in the last few days," encouraged Captain Parkinson.
I hear of the wonders of the New World, the marvels and the go-ahead speed of American manners and civilization,--I would rather be a Norseman than a Yankee.
What are they compared to the marvels of striped awning?
The marvels of the story told in the first of Genesis find a parallel in the marvels told in the second of Acts.
Prayer and the gift of the Spirit and the works and marvels of Christ were closely connected together, even before the open descent of the Spirit and the wonders of Pentecost.
Such mighty marvels to the sight of men, All adoration, quite compact of love.
Humanity, shaken to its depths, has given birth to things portentous, even as the storm-tossed ocean casts up to the surface of its seething surges the terrible marvels of its abysses.
And ere he was well aware, still amazed by themarvels which he was hearing, not yet able to arrange them all in his mind, behold!
Their nests aremarvels of architecture being compactly and intricately made of plant fibres and downy feathers ornamented in some cases with lichens.
These diminutive little birds build nests that are marvels of architecture, making long purse-like structures, suspended from twigs usually at low elevations from the ground.
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