VII He was sitting on the low stone wall that shut off the cobble-paved forecourt from the road, with his back towards them, when they sauntered through the open door after breakfast.
The extensive sect, or sects, of the gnostics contained in its teachings elements that at least paved the way for the conduct with which other Christians charged them, although the charges made may not have been true of all.
It gave supernaturalism a new and longer lease of life, and paved the way for other outbreaks, of a less general, but still of a thoroughly epidemic character.
The vestibule, paved in black and white marble, with its walls painted to resemble marble, was lighted by an antique lamp with four jets.
Bernardino preceded him in at a great arching door in the wall, and they found themselves in a stone-paved vestibule several hundred feet square.
Wide streets paved in polished stone and bordered with lush-green grass interspersed with statues and beds and mounds of strange plants and flowers stretched away in front of them till they were lost in the dim, misty distance.
The roads are in general kept in good repair, and near Paris and some other great towns they are paved in the centre.
It is a large building, with a tower at each angle, and surrounds a paved court.
You will see the market place with a temple of Neptune in the middle of it, and paved with large stones bedded in the earth.
Sir Lionel Barton was behaving like a madman too, and like a madman he tore at the ancient bolts and precipitated himself into the stone-paved cloister barred with the moon-cast shadows of the Norman pillars.
Out onto the paved pathway communicating with the wharf came Smith, shepherding his tottering charge.
The floors of dwelling rooms were generally either paved with bricks or made of a sort of cement, composed of lime, sand and crushed brick, the whole being beaten down with iron pounders, while in the moist state, during three days.
Suddenly we came upon the little village of Kretynga, whose streets were paved with cobblestones the size of a man's two fists.
Then suddenly a loud noise of hobnailed boots kicked at a wooden gate, and soon after a tramping of feet and a rapping at Daddy's door, which, it will be remembered, was only separated from our bedroom by an open paved court.
This far too airy shed was paved with stone, the flags so thickly incrusted with filth that I mistook it first for a floor of natural earth.
If youpaved the shack floor with gold eagles Tolley wouldn't bite.
I am strong for Main Street being pavedand sidewalks laid, though 'twould cost me a pretty penny.
The sight of such a fragment of oldpaved way instantly carries the mind back into the past, and animates the route as with a ghostly procession.
Thus, too, I found it in Bolivia and Chile, where remnants of the old paved Inca road, that traversed a large part of the continent from north to south, are often to be met with.
The visit was soon paid to poor Margaret in her cell, and it was one of deep interest and importance, inasmuch as it paved the way for a better frame of mind, and deeper humility, than this wretched young woman ever before felt.
The paved streets gave way to gravel roads, and the smoke of the factories hung in the air behind him.
He saw people like those on Broadway, walking paved sidewalks in front of plate glass under brilliant electric lights.
As the three men breached the gate leading into the asphalt-paved landing area, a fusillade of automatic-weapons fire began spattering off the bubble windscreen, leaving deep dents in the clear, globelike plastic.
Puzzled, he examined the huge dormitory-type residence in the middle of the island and the supply buildings, lined along a paved segment connecting the landing pad with the main building, and still saw no one.
The private aviation terminal was about a half mile down an ill-paved road, but he decided the walk would do him good.
The Savannah River was found to be badly obstructed by torpedoes, and by log piers stretched across the channel below the city, which piers were filled with the cobble stones that formerly paved the streets.
The interior court, open to all elements, is paved with marble mosaics.
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
The court before the house is most injudiciously paved with the round blueish-grey pebbles which are found upon the sea-shore; so that you walk as if upon cannon-balls driven into the ground.
Dr Johnson doubted if it was any thing more than a paved road for the nuns.
I have no doubt but that she will be delighted to accompany you; nay, I have paved the way so far.
It was the voice of Vargrave, in the little stone-paved antechamber without, inquiring of the servant if Mr. Maltravers was at home, which had startled and interrupted Cesarini as he was about to reply to Ernest.
The road to the penitentiary is paved with four flushes.
The world's most meditative highway is that road which we are told is paved with good intentions; and strolling along it, our determination to reform becomes stronger at each step until--until something occurs to change it all.
Wooden benches were fastened here and there in this large paved enclosure, which served for the walking-place of the prisoners.
It is just a wide, open space, paved like a street or market-place, and many people walk over it every day without giving a thought to all that has happened there in bygone times.
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