It was a town of some seven or eight thousand inhabitants, and the mosque-like domes of the churches shining, brightly in the sun, and the green-painted roofs and bright colors of many of the houses, gave it a gay and cheerful appearance.

HEADThe head should have a capacious skull, fairly but not excessively domed, with plenty of brain room.

Darker grew the ghostly domes and shattered battlements against a golden sky, and the swift southern night fell, dark yet luminous, as we turned down the hill and left the dead city, splendid in its loneliness and isolation, asleep within its crumbling walls.

Here and there a flat-topped structure may be seen, or one imperfectly domed; but the prevailing style is ornate Gothic, with many hints of Egyptian and Indian.

Around his couch he roll'd, Till midnight hatch'd resolve "Unto the shrine!" Stealthily on, the involuntary tread Bears himhe gains the boundary, scales the wall, And midway in the inmost, holiest dome, Strides with adventurous step the daring man.

When those glossy domes swim into the alpenglow, wet after rain, you conceive how long and imperturbable are the purposes of God.