A crown of elaborate tabernacle work--a perfect medley of battlements and pinnacles--forms the cresting.
The glass in the windows is ancient, but is merely a medleyof fragments.
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This medley was inevitable; to do better would have been to excel the Italians, and Dante himself, who places the Erinnyes within the circles of his Christian hell, or Giotto, who made Apelles paint a triptych.
It was a medley of clashing interests, always in unstable equilibrium.
An immense crowd, forming a medley of the brightest colours, invaded the reserved space and broke through the military barriers, here and there, like an overflowing torrent.
In the other two corners a medley of faded scutcheons and banners, which had seen their last Toussaint procession, mouldered slowly into dust--into much dust.
This second palace was the Hotel des Tournelles, a fantastic medley of turrets, spires, and gables, that equally with its neighbour recalled the days of the English domination; it had been the abode of the Regent Bedford.
When thrushes taken from the nest are reared in towns, where they never hear the thrush or any other bird sing, they are often exceedingly vocal, and utter a medley of sounds which are sometimes distressing to the ear.
Some, that were partially dressed, took to their heels, hugging a medleyof clothing.
The roof of the old mill crouched between a medley of wavy fields and woods, to our right, and just at our feet a tiny rill divided Gaines's Mill from our own.
It passed to the next camp and the next; for all were now earnestly watching; and finally a medley of cheers shook the air and the ear.
But in placing on the stage these representatives of the different English-speaking peoples, Shakespeare had another and deeper purpose than that of merely amusing his public with a medley of dialects.
It hardly possessed a house, being but a medley of sheds and stables with an open drain running down the middle of the street.
Orioles, robins, blue jays, larks: a perfect medley of rollicking song flew by on joyous wing.
Thanks were voted to Mr. Jonathan Medley and Mr. Humphry Negus “for their great care in defending and preserving the Rights Priviledges and property of this Company on their Separation from the Surgeons.
But Power's first stroll from the portals of the Ocean House revealed a medley in which bad taste ran riot.
The motley, medley coach provide-- Or like Joe Frankenstein compile The vegetable man complete!
It stood, low and whitewashed, amid a medley of little tumble-down erections, and was guarded on one side by cowsheds and on the other by the haystack.
In succession now follow in a prosy catalogue Medley Weir, the Four Streams, the Railway, the Canal, Seven Bridges Road, and Osney Loch and Mill.
The division of the river at Medley leaves the business of practical navigation to the straight cut, and the original Thames, once flowing by the site of Bewley Abbey, will probably be soon choked out of existence.
Of the navigation stream in its course from Medley Weir there is less to say.
The two main branches of the stream enclose a space rather over a mile in length, and roughly of the shape of a slim ewer, with a handle broken off near the top, that is atMedley Weir.
As he spoke we entered a room quite filled with curious machinery, a medley of levers, wires, and rope above; below, two large cylinders studded with shining brass points.
He really did not know exactly what happened, or how he managed to stammer out the medley of excuses and semi-explanations that battered their way through his brain and issued somehow in definite words from his lips.
The war shouts of Norseman and South Saxon and Wessex men were in startling medleytogether here, and that terrified the Welsh yet more.
It was a curious medley of vessels that assembled in the Great Harbour in the late autumn for the embarkation of the army.
A very curious medley of nationalities was that group.
Here the trail ended in a medley of hoof-prints, while hard by a rock were traces of the splaying of half a dozen bullets.
Originally fawn-coloured it had been liberally camouflaged with bizarre circles, squares and triangles painted in a medley of colouring.
The next morning he found himself and the bears safe landed at the terminus in London, where I have already said that I found him and released him from a medley of difficulties he had worked himself into.
How well do we remember those gaunt chilly chambers, filled from pavement to ceiling with painted fragments of all sizes, a medley of domestic subjects and of classical myths!
There may be a medley in respect of these, some coming from one quarter, some from another; but there is never a mixture of grammatical forms and inflections.
Here the nomad Si Fan tribes dwell side by side with Chinese farmers,[378] who themselves show a strong infusion of the Mongolian and Tibetan blood to the north and south, and whose language is a medley of all three tongues.
While the urban Arabs show a medley of breeds, dashed with a strain of negro blood, among the nomad Bedouins, mixture is exceptional and is regarded as a disgrace.
