Venturing forth to kneel upon the littered pavements of roofless churches, and pray to Our Lord before His vacant tabernacles and shattered Crucifixes--for an end to the dreadful War.
The colonel led me into a roofless house, and there I found two general officers, a map stretched over a drum in front of them, they kneeling beside it and examining it carefully by the light of a lantern.
When I reached the roofless house in which we had held the consultation the night before, I threw of my gown and I put on the busby and sabre which I had left there.
We wandered through the deserted, roofless chambers where fireplaces with elaborate stone mantels and odd bits of carving told of the pristine glory of the place.
I stood in the roofless ruins of the hall of Servia's kings, and I felt glad that we were at the other end of Europe when the Turks came.
Sailing up the lake or down, I do not know which, we passed the ruins of Portora old castle; ruined towers and battered walls, roofless and lonely.
It is roofless and open, yet still an iron gate opens from one part to another.
There they were--roofless homes, levelled walls, desolation and silence.
There were many roofless cottages standing here and there in the wide clearings.
Dharchula (3550 feet) the largest Shoka winter settlement, is situated on a fine stretch of flat land some hundred feet above the river; the village consists of twelve long rows of roofless houses very similar in size and shape.
When the sun is setting, or better still, under the mystic light of the harvest moon, the picture formed by the roofless abbey in its perfect setting, needs a Wordsworth to do it justice.
The walls of the roofless transepts as well as the central tower are still standing.
The remains of the chapelry consisted of three roofless walls with open lancet windows.
This done, he took up his position at the top of a spiral stone staircase that terminated abruptly almost on a level with the roofless walls.
Religious services continue to be held in the one or two churches which have escaped the wreck, but the greater number of churches and nearly all the monastic buildings are roofless and crumbling into ruin.
Over the crest of the hill there were several roofless buildings and a huge weather-stained derrick that had been used to hoist ore from the mine.
Tom Powers went to the roofless tool house to see what he could find.
Our headlight was shining on a roofless house with charred windows as the empty sockets of a skull and revealed the outlines of a jagged wall that had been the barn, and a huddle of fence palings and soft earth, once the garden.
Through the trees, where the road bends to the right, a row of roofless houses seems ghostly gray in the dusk.
It was spring when the second roof was blown down, and the new house stood roofless until early summer.
Near to the land where I had lately broken the fallows and grown me a crop of corn and potatoes, there were four roofless walls.
One roofless wall showed where the gear had stood, and under the shelter of this wall there crouched a low thatched tool-shed, having a door and a small window.
They had gained one of theroofless halls, when he encountered Balthazar.
Winding her way, she knew not how, through roofless halls, over disjointed fragments of fallen pillars, Sybil reached a flight of steps.
I have seen the theatre of the more visible ravages of tyranny and war, cities and villages reduced to scattered groups of black and roofless houses, and the naked inhabitants sitting famished upon their desolated thresholds.
The few moments she had to wait far more than repaid her for the trouble she had taken: through a side-door she looked into the great roofless hall, the one grand thing about the house.
From the back he found his way into the roofless hall, and there paced quietly up and down, measuring the floor, and guessing at the height and thickness of the walls, and the sort of roof they had borne.
But the silence, heavy with old dreams and drowsy, bygone meditations, the stately avenue of roofless pillars, daunted him.
As they drew nearer, the light seemed to recede, leaving the great roofless manderpam a shapeless ruin, whilst the sikhara faded into the black background of the jungle.
The roofless old church reveals the most magnificent castellated cliffs to be seen along the Batopilas River for many miles.
At the Potrero a church, built by the first Jesuits in this country, still remains, and is used for devotion by the Indians, although roofless and over two hundred years old.
Bishop Montague, seeking shelter one day within itsroofless aisles from a passing thunderstorm, was moved by the discomfort of the situation to undertake the completion of the fabric.
Israel gazed, and slowly through the blazing sunlight he discerned white roofless walls like the ruins of little sheepfolds.
But, looking again, he saw that the roofless walls covered the ground as far as the eye could see, and the thought came to him that this ashen desert was the earth itself, and that all the world of life and man was dead.
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