It was decided that the guide should direct the elephant towards the pagoda of Pillaji, which he accordingly approached as quickly as possible.
To the pagoda of Pillaji, two miles from here; she will pass the night there.
They took a roundabout way, so as to get at the pagoda on the rear.
The doors of the pagoda swung open, and a bright light escaped from its interior, in the midst of which Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis espied the victim.
The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman was imprisoned.
The other plan must be carried out; an opening in the walls of the pagoda must be made.
We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji, but of the pagoda of Malabar Hill, at Bombay.
I admit it, and I wish to hear these priests admit, in their turn, what they were going to do at the pagoda of Pillaji.
In the background, among the trees, the pagoda of Pillaji loomed distinctly.
There he was met by Li, the Pagoda-bearer, [28] who threw his golden pagoda into the air.
The Emperor then built a temple and a pagoda to the god on Chih-fu Shan and Wên-têng Shan respectively; by which act of propitiation he was apparently appeased.
The pagoda fell on Lo Hsüan's head and broke his skull.
By night the Battalion was occupied in digging a new communication trench, Pagoda Trench.
When we got to Potijze the men were given material to take to Pagoda Trench; so we proceeded there in small parties.
We threaded our way along a winding communication trench (Pagoda Trench).
It was a case of extending the trench inPagoda Wood another fifty yards.
We proceeded to Potijze Dump and drew tools; thence to Pagoda Trench and carried on with the making of a new trench branching off that trench.
The view of the winding river from the top of the ruins of the pagoda is certainly exquisite, and for ever to be remembered.
I intended to paint at the Arrakan Pagoda to-day, but a pleasant looking man came on board with a chitsaya harp; I had to try and make a jotting of him.
Whilst the wood goes on board we wander through the village and look at people weaving fringes of grass for thatch, much as grooms weave straw for the edges of stalls; then to the pagoda on the hillock, and up the narrow flight of steps.
We went to see the second biggest bell in the world and a pagoda that would have been one of the biggest buildings, if it had ever been finished!
There are no inhabitants on the river side, though we pass every mile or two a ruined pagoda spire.
These headed a single and double file procession to the pagoda along the top of the river bank.
We were presented first to the Chiefs; they were in the most magnificent, shimmering brown silk robes of state, all over gold and precious stones, and had pointed seven-roofed pagoda crowns of gold.
We are coming to a village on the bank, palms and trees behind it, and a white pagoda spire rising from them, and one in gold above the village.
A Chinese Pagoda Fold the end of a long and narrow strip of paper over several times as shown in Fig.
Illustration: Stages in Making the Strip of Paper into the Finished Pagoda (Fig.
Clive set out on the 7th of April, occupied Samiaveram the same day, and, two days later, made his position stronger by storming and occupying the pagoda of Mansurpet, and the mud fort of Lalgudi.
Clive then proceeded to the other pagoda to rally the men posted there.
Above Lake Mills the western wall of the gorge is formed by McHenrys Peak and Thatchtop; its head lies in the hollow between the Continental Divide and Longs Peak, with Chiefs Head and Pagoda looming on its horizon.
Maffeus mentions a noble Pagoda in India, which was called the monkeys' Pagoda.
The Petra andPagoda were the same: both names for temples.
I quitted the pagoda and was glad to get into the fresh air again, but the respite was of short duration.
Of course we must begin with the pagoda of innumerable bells, but where to stop we knew not.
The grandest and most characteristic pagoda is on the right bank, surrounded by a fine and verdant wood.
I had been told that the Siamese were about to celebrate a grand fete at a pagoda about three miles off, in honor of a superior priest who died last year, and whose remains were now to be burned according to the custom of the country.
There is no evidence that this pagoda had ever been brought from Peking though it finds its final resting place now in Tokyo.
In the same courtyard, you remember that we saw a little tower or pagoda of stone, thirteen stories high, but in reality no taller than a man.
The form of it was modelled after the Pagoda in Pung Tuk County, which had already been standing nearly a hundred years, and had been built by Chinese workmen.
Gale finds that the history of the erection of the Seoul pagoda was originally inscribed upon the turtle-borne slab that accompanies it.
Also a pagoda was built of thirteen stories called sul-to-pa, Buddhist pagoda.
It occurs in the inscription regarding the Seoul pagoda and is particularly interesting as a contemporary description of a temple of remarkable splendor.
The Chinese pagoda which the doctor made his study had outside blinds to the glass doors; Ursula invented the excuse of shutting them.
Leave us, my child," he said to the girl, who went to the pagoda and sat upon the steps, after allowing Savinien to take her hand and kiss it respectfully.
Ursula went down the steps of the portico which led to the pagoda at the foot of the garden.
The doctor and notary were at the end of the terrace, but as they turned she heard the doctor make an answer which reached the pagoda where she was.
About nine o'clock he was sitting in the Chinese pagoda digesting his dinner beside his wife, with whom he was making plans for Desire's future.
On its summit was erected a golden temple or pagoda of exquisite beauty, richly hung with tapestries, displaying on the east the rising sun, on the west a moon of silver.
Repairing an old pagoda will not answer the purpose; hence many an old pagoda goes to ruin, side by side with a new one coated with whitewash or gold-leaf.
Still another ascent, and we come to a pagoda in which Buddha stands, a towering form fifty feet in height, with his finger extended in expectation toward the plain.
It shows what the original pagoda really was, for this temple has a number of bell-shaped structures resting on the ground.
In Gauhati the Hindus have established a temple which attracts thousands of pilgrim worshipers from all parts of Assam and indeed of India, as the pagoda of Mandalay attracts pilgrims from all parts of Burma.
Going upward some two hundred steps, we rested upon a platform with a pagoda which enshrined the statue of a Buddha perhaps twenty feet in height and covered with gold-leaf from top to toe.
Upon its summit, commanding a far-reaching view of the winding river and of endless paddy-fields, with mountains in the distance, stands a pagoda which is in many respects more remarkable than the great Shwe Dagon pagoda at Rangoon.
The main platform from which thepagoda proper rises is an immense court nine hundred feet long by six hundred and eighty-five feet wide, and crowded with minor pagodas and shrines.
And yet the great conical or bell-shaped dome of the pagoda is its chief attraction, for this is covered with gold-leaf from its base to its summit, and its shining splendor salutes the traveler from miles and miles away.
Two hundred feet more brought us to a second platform and a second pagoda in which Buddha also appears; but now he is in the attitude of teaching.
The hill of Mandalay is crowned by a pagoda so unique and splendid that it draws pilgrims from every part of Burma; the hill at Gauhati is similarly attractive in Assam.
She took a golden pagoda from one of the monasteries and melted it down.
The king constructed a thirteen-storey pagoda in the palace.
A pagoda is erected, and on it are placed several kinds of food known to be favoured by the spirit.
Under the central pagoda is a royal throne richly draped, and an eight-sided pyramid which rests upon a firm platform.
The brocaded cloth from the central pagoda is now removed, rolled up tightly and handed to the child, who is told to clasp it firmly to his breast and not to let the "kwun" escape.
One very beautiful little pagodaat the west end is now encased in a magnificent peepul tree which has grown in and around it, and has preserved it in its embrace.
The pagoda tapers towards the summit and is of very frail material.
Chance led her to shelter for a night in the ruined but beautiful pagoda which stands high above the river on the cliff outside the city wall.
It is said to have been erected by a tea merchant, and it certainly looks very much like a cross between a Chinese pagoda and a house of cards.
From this place they went forwards to the city of Calicut, and were taken at their arrival into another pagoda similar to the former.
In the middle of the pagoda stood a chapel, having a roof or dome of freestone like a tower, in one part of which was a door of wire, to which there led a flight of stone steps.
A three-storied pagoda on a prominent hill to the right marks the approach to Nam-hung, and another of nine stories marks the entrance.
The sun is sinking behind the mountains to the west when we approach the city of Ki-ngan-foo, its northern extremity marked by a very ancientpagoda now rapidly crumbling to decay.
A towering white pagoda is observable in the distance ahead; thia the yameni-runner says is Kui-kiang.
Near the old ruined pagoda the rear-guard points in an indifferent sort of a way to a substantial brick edifice surmounted by a plain wooden cross.
He was on his way to rescue the lady who was immured in the top of the red pagoda on the opposite hill.
Behind the squat pagoda a sky of raspberry pink closed the background.
Away down the valley appeared the grey scaly roofs of huddled houses, and on a hill opposite more trees with the bizarre pinnacle of a pagoda forcing its way through the midst of them.
The night is velvety; and the moonlight and the starlight transfigure the dolls' house architecture, the warped pine-trees, the feathery bamboo clumps and the pagoda spires.
