And thus sat he all that day, bowed forward upon his hand, his fingers tight-clenched within his hair, staring ever at the square flagstone beneath his foot, heedless alike of the coming and going of his gaoler or of the food set out upon the bench hard by.

Now upon the seventh evening as he sat thus, came Sir Pertolepe according to his wont, but to-night he leaned upon the shoulder of Beda the Jester, whose motley flared 'gainst rugged wall and dingy flagstone and whose bells rang loud and merry by contrast with the gloom.

Now as he watched, behold the spark changed to a line of golden light, so that his eyes ached and he was fain to shade them in his shackled arm; and thus he beheld a flagstone that seemed to lift itself with infinite caution, and, thereafter, a voice breathed his name.

So saying, Beda rose, and taking the lanthorn, began to descend through the floor, having first shown how the flagstone must be lowered in place.

the flagstone above the steps reared itself on end and showed a square of gloom beyond.

" In less time than it takes to tell Hayle had complied with the other's request, and was hard at work picking out the earth which held the enormous flagstone in its place.

On the 20th of December, he was interred in Westminster Abbey, under a blue flagstone, which bears this inscription.

Just so may be seenI have seena large flagstone lifted in a night by a crop of tiny soft toadstools which have suddenly blossomed up beneath it.

[smooth materials] down, velvet, velure, silk, satin; velveteen, velour, velours, velumen^; glass, ice. slide; bowling green &c (level) 213; asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags.

The word is French, "dalle," and means, variously, "a plate," "a flagstone," "a slab," alluding to the oval or square shaped stones which abound in the river bed and the valley above.

losa, f., flag, flagstone; slab.

Picking through the cement, we came on a large flagstone, which we lifted out of the cavity.

More than once we find a flagstone turned into a raft to bear a missionary band beyond the seas!

" In a moment they were standing on a broad flagstone.

More than once we find a flagstone turned into a raft to bear a missionary band beyond the seas!

Inside the edifice every flagstone covers a tomb, and in several instances masons' hammers and other tools are carved upon them.

He never in his life saw a flagstone sidewalk, nor an asphalted street, nor a pane of glass six feet square.

This opinion of the cause of failure was, however, not adopted universally by engineers, the line of pipes when examined being found to be, although disjointed, fairly in line; and there having occurred a land slip in the immediate neighborhood, it was suggested that the rupture might be caused by a slip also having taken place here, especially as the substratum was of flagstone rock tilted at a considerable angle.

and he related to at least seven different persons the well-known story of the flagstone that was lifted from the cellar floor by a growth of fungi beneath.

But the time he will be lying under the flagstone, it is holly rods and brambles will spring up from out of his thorny heart.

Your steps following quick on one another the same as hard rain on a flagstone!

They lingered a moment by the half-open door; she on the threshold, he on the garden path; the width of a flagstone separated them.

Nor did the occasion lack the heightening glamour and dramatic contrast of historical association, for in this very hall just a century and a half before, if tradition is to be credited, the unfortunate Prince Edward, son of Edward IV, was crowned before setting out with his young brother on the fatal journey which was to terminate under a forgotten flagstone in the Tower of London.

CAITHNESS (37), a level, except in the W. and S., bare, and somewhat barren, county in the NE. of Scotland, 43 m. by 28 m., with a bold and rocky coast; has flagstone quarries; fishing the chief industry, of which Wick is the chief seat; the inhabitants are to a great extent of Scandinavian origin, and English, not Gaelic, is the language spoken.

But one thing I did do: I went to the grave of Michael Scott the wizard, where once was shut up the book of awful mysteries, with a lamp always burning by it, though the flagstone was shut down tight on top of it, and I got a piece of moss and a weed.