But when they had crept along to the place where the passage led into the topless tower they found the way blocked by a great stone, which they could not move.
The place they were in was a little shrine, built on the side of a road that went winding up through yellow-green fields to the topless tower.
Others would fain deny the topless towers Of heaven, and make this earth a hell indeed.
We have been avid of the "topless grandeurs" of life, and we return to find that the spiritual satisfactions we sought were all the time within very easy reach.
We find that this is the true way to the "topless grandeurs" themselves, for those topless grandeurs are not without us but within.
But had you asked him if he was still avid for those topless grandeurs and starry majesties he would have said, "It is enough.
Lord, in two hours what a topless mount 10 Of unpeer'd mischief have these hands cast up!
Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech, And even adore my topless villainy?
His are the topless turrets; His are the plumbless pits; Earth is slave to his architrave, Heaven is thrall to his wits.
The town of Thebes is draped with moss, And Ilium's well-known topless towers Are now a total loss.
