The town was taking its siesta, and the brisk step of a stranger who crossed the tessellated floor and rapped with his knuckles on the top of the cigar-case was the only sign of life.
From the steps of the gateway to the tomb is a vista about a hundred feet wide paved with white and black marble with tessellated designs, inclosed with walls of cypress boughs.
Illustration: Tessellated work of free stone] With the sixth arch of the nave begins the pointed style.
They picked up his body from the tessellated floor of the loggia, carried it to the parapet as Andreas's had been carried, and flung it down into the Abbot's garden as Andreas's had been flung.
They stepped along the tessellated floor above the Abbot's garden, flooded now with sunshine which drew the perfume from the roses blooming there.
The waiter admitted me into a great basement hall, with a tessellated or mosaic or somehow figured floor of stone, and lighted from a dome of lofty height.
Miss Haldin had already noticed that the hall was like a dusty barn of marble and stucco with cobwebs in the corners and faint tracks of mud on the black and white tessellated floor.
In the crude light falling from the dusty glass skylight upon the black and white tessellated floor, covered with muddy tracks, their footsteps echoed faintly.
The specimens of the tessellatedpavement that once formed the flooring of the great hall are worthy of passing notice.
Four upright stones at the top of the field mark the site, and portions of the tessellated pavement are still said to lie beneath the sod.
A Roman tessellated pavement was discovered in making the railway cutting, and was removed to Bristol.
We now wended our way to one of the village inns, where we had been told to ask permission from the landlord to see the Roman tessellated pavement in his back garden.
The pavement is either tessellated or of chequered marble; some of the walls of the rooms are also tessellated with arabesque, borders, the ceilings are painted with gay colours, viz.
Roman mosaic-work (commonly in the tessellated style and not the opus sectile) has been unearthed in many parts of the Peninsula.
Bright drops of blood from her mouth dripped slowly to the tessellated pavement.
The hall clock ticked loudly through the silence; slanting sun rays fell through the street grille, across the tessellated floor where flies crawled and buzzed.
Soane sat on the chair behind the desk, his face over-red and shiny, his heels drumming the devil's tattoo on the tessellated pavement.
Each pond was surrounded with tessellated marble pavement and shaded by clumps of trees.
The Mosaic Pavement is a representation of the ground floor of King Solomon's Temple; the Indented Tessel, of that beautiful tessellated border or skirting which surrounded it.
The pileus is sometimes cracked in a tessellated manner.
The pileus is not cracked in a tessellated manner, as one might easily imagine from the name, but variegated with spots.
Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section.
Lower parts yellow or coral red, with black spots, which may form a tessellated pattern, two longitudinal series, or be so crowded as to fuse into a band along the middle of the belly and tail.
The Tessellated Snake has a wide range in Europe and Asia.
Like the Grass-snake, the Tessellated Snake seldom bites.
Out in the sanded strip across the tessellated floor, tumblers were glistening with perspiration from their vaguely noticed efforts.
If Kenkenes sat, he paced the tessellated pavement slowly and with a foot-fall lighter than a birds.
That lucio straight ahead is a mile across, yet it is literally tessellated with a sonorous crowd.
In the profound, tomb-like stillness of the great house, I had heard the sound of his footsteps on the tessellated pavement from afar.
Most people suppose that the old Roman tessellated pavement suggested the idea of representing figures on tiles.
Tessellated or mosaic pavements are to be found in a few old churches; the most beautiful now existing in England, are in Westminster Abbey, and in Canterbury Cathedral, near the tomb of Thomas a Becket.
It will be a long time, Norman Lovel, before that girl asks pardon of you again; she is almost ready to scoff at herself for loving you; her foot presses the tessellated floor of that hall with the tread of a queen.
He followed her into the vestibule, and began pacing up and down, turning his eyes now on the floor, tessellated with lozenges of black oak and red cedar, now upon the staircase, hoping to see the young girl descend again.
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