From it a portal formed by winged lions in the same material, led into an apartment 76 feet by 26, standing on the edge of the mound, and consequently one of the last on this side of the palace.
In the south side of the hall a centre portal flanked by winged bulls, and two small entrances, formed by gigantic figures, opened into a long chamber, whose sculptured walls had been burnt to lime.
By the 28th of January, the colossal lions forming the portal to the great hall in the north-west palace of Nimroud were ready to be dragged to the river-bank.
On the great bulls forming the centre portal of the grand entrance, was one continuous inscription, injured in parts, but still so far preserved as to be legible almost throughout.
A small doorway to the right of the portal formed by the winged bulls, led into a further chamber, in which an entrance had been found into a third room, whose walls had been completely uncovered.
The principal portal was formed by two colossal human-headed lions, sixteen feet and a half high and fifteen feet long.
A vast oakenportal heavily strengthened with iron swung open in the line of the bristling palisades while he was speaking.
Only the third sun was going down thereafter, when Richard, in full armor but alone, save a serving man with a pack beast heavily laden, drew rein before the portal of his own castle.
Not all the cattle nor all the wains could be cared for; and a shout from the portal summoned the villagers to make more haste, that the gate might be closed behind them.
Charge in at yonder portal with thy Irish, and we will form behind thee and press on to open the town gates and hold them.
He had passed the moat and the portal with Guy the Bow, and through a short passage.
Richard, as he sprang swiftly along the bridge; he dashed past the guards and was within the portal before they could draw their swords.
Sir Thomas Gifford was standing at theportal of the castle, and he saw a man in armor come hastily out into a light that shone beyond.
All these things Tom saw as he stood in the wide portal of the Tower Building, flanked by Astro and Roger.
When they blast through the inner portal of the lock, we'll need 'em!
One of the crewmen opened the air-lock portal while the other two jabbed Astro and Roger with ray guns.
The portal circulation is formed by the superior mesenteric vein and the splenic vein uniting to form the portal vein.
The portal vein and its tributaries are unlike the veins in the general circulation, as there are no valves.
The inferior mesenteric vein runs into the splenic vein; the gastric and cystic veins run into the portal veins.
Jaundice is present in most cases and where the portal circulation is seriously compressed, ascites developes.
The portal vein ends in capillaries in the liver, where certain important changes take place, namely, the taking out of the bile.
Peritonitis and valvular diseases of the heart are also responsible for ascites, and chronic pulmonary affections may impair the portal circulation to the extent of producing it.
The portal system has capillaries at both ends so that it is impossible to draw this blood.
Any obstruction of the portal circulation is a possible cause of ascites, the most frequent being cirrhosis of the liver.
After death about one-fourth of the blood of the body is found in the portal system.
It also effects important changes of the blood in its passage through it, for the portal circulation.
After death, about one-fourth of the blood of the body is to be found in the portal system.
Some say it is due to a reduction of blood pressure in the hepatic capillaries, while others say it is due to a stasis in the smaller bile ducts, which are compressed by the distended radicles of the portal vein.
Unpleased Llewellyn homeward hied, When near the portal seat His truant Gêlert he espied, Bounding his lord to greet.
Of the childlike humility which is the main portal to the kingdom of heaven, he knows nothing.
This barren, stony thoroughfare of life is the very portal of heaven.
The new-comer, finding the portal fast, now showed himself at the little window and peered into the room.
He was about to speak, to let the love which was troubling his heart pour itself out in a flood of words at the portal of her ear; but with a movement she checked him.
When she had extricated herself from his clasp she took his hand and led him through the butler's pantry and its swinging door, across the moonlit dining-room, through a majestic somber portal into a cave of black gloom, which was the salon.
Now the door was knee-deep in the basement, and the scar of the sealed-up portal was not healed above.
A mouse was once in mortal fear Of a cat that watch'd her portal near.
From the intestine it is gathered into the large portal vein as in the toad.
The portal vein carries blood to the liver, where nutriment may be stored up, and from thence it flows back to the sinus venosus through a very short thin-walled vessel, the hepatic sinus.
We tracked him from a corpse behind the bronze door of the outer portal through a maze of corridors.
As each masked priest passed through the gloomy portal he was halted briefly by the mysterious guardian and something passed between them, some word or gesture Conan could not make out.
The one at the grand portal looks like a narrow, miserable church-door, low and gloomy.
The royal museum is one of the finest architectural piles, and its high portal is covered with beautiful frescoes.
But, sweet mistress, if Frederick comes here, it may well be that in another week this house will be straitly shut up, with the red cross upon the door, and the watchman before the portal day and night.
I saw her come forth from a grim portal hard by Allhallowes the Less.
The great portal of the venerable church was thrown open, and the solemn chant was heard issuing, in responses, from among the quaint columns and vaulted roofs within.
Have we unconsciously entered a portal of the palace?
The portal opened; on the battlements The moonlight shone, silent and beautiful!
From the arched portal look again, Back on the lessening woods and distant plain!
Unable to rest quietly, at a little before dawn, Catharine with her two elder sons found her way to the portal of the Louvre, adjoining the tennis court.
The latter is a brick building of the 13th and 14th centuries, with a choir in the Romanesque style, and a fine western portal which has been much disfigured.
It is preceded by a rich portal in the Gothic style with elaborately carved doors, and is flanked on the north by an uncompleted tower.
In January 1893 Sir Gerald Portal left the coast as a special commissioner to inquire into the ``best means of dealing with the country, whether through Zanzibar or otherwise.
The southern portal is remarkable for a figure of the Virgin and other statuary.
Entering at the enchanted portal of the Villa P----, we found ourselves in a realm of wonder.
The columns of stone appear only in Assyrian edifices as decorations in the front of palaces, supporting a portal or portico that projects from the temple proper.
The ghost and the butcher's boy cannot well exist contemporaneously; and the avenging shade can scarcely continue to lurk beneath the portal which is visited by the matutinal milkman.
For naught knows she of her beauty, More than the palm of its peace; And who beyond Christ's portal to mortal Desires would bend her knees?
Then presently we were at the doorway where Joan and her king had entered--the portal which has been called the most beautiful this side of paradise.
Some of the five hundred and thirty statues of its wonderful portal were weatherworn and scarred, to be sure, but the general effect of beauty and completeness was not disturbed.
The portal at which Agnes and her grandmother knocked, after ascending the winding staircase cut in the precipice, opened through an arched passage into this garden.
