And the whole was sheathed-in at the sides with the grey metal of which the Redoubt was builded; and each field was pillared, and floored beneath the soil, with this same compound of wonder; and so was it secure, and the monsters could not dig into that mighty garden from without.

The third thing noteworthy in the crowd which cooked, chatted, lounged, sauntered idly to and fro under the Matapalosthe pillared air-roots of which must have put them in mind of their own Banyans at homewas their good manners.

Sixty feet and more aloft, the short smooth columns of the Moriches {154} towered around us, till, as we looked through the 'pillared shade,' the eye was lost in the green abysses of the forest.

All day the wife of Pharaoh had paced the palace hall Or the long white pillared court that was open to the sky; A passion of wild restlessness ensnared her in its thrall While she fought a fear within hera thing that would not die.

Six petals with a dewdrop in their heart, Six pure brave years, an ivory cup of tears; Six pearly-pillared stamens golden-crowned Growing from out the dewdrop, and a seventh Soaring alone trilobed and mystic green; Six pearl-bright years aflower with gold of joy, Sprung from the heart of those brave tear-fed years: But what that seventh single stamen is My little wit must leave for thee to tell.

But out of this bazaar, at intervals, opened the grand gate of a khan, giving us a view of its marble court, its fountains, and the dark arches of its storerooms; or the door of a mosque, with its mosaic floor and pillared corridor.

It would be difficult to imagine a greater contrast than that between the low-roofed village school and the spacious quadrangle surrounded by heavily balustraded stone terraces and stately pillared façades, into which, at the booming of the hourly bell, there poured from the various classrooms a multitudinous throng of eager young humanity.

Dimly rising above us we see, disfigured indeed, but not destroyed, the pillared front of the palace, reminding us of the Tabularium of Rome's own capitol.

The log cabin has no monopoly of it, nor is it an immovable fixture of the stately pillared mansion.

The architecture of Corfe, as in most of the inland villages of the "island," is most pleasing; a distinctive note being the pillared porch with a room above.

Again they climbed the rocky passages, And reached at last the castle's pillared hall, Crowned with the mighty dome of blazing light.

And they relate also that in Suskind's low red-pillared palace Suskind waited with an old thought for company.

On the hills to our right, houses showed among the trees, some with the ever-pleasing white-pillared porticoes; and on the hills to our left was a village that straggled down the slope to the wharf as if coming to greet the strangers.

When our twilight call was over, it was with dreamy thoughts on the far days of Queen Anne and of the Georges that we went from the white-pillared portico down the worn stone steps and followed a side path back toward our boat.

Fifty paces before them the low wall on the right of the lane was broken by a pillared gateway, whence the dark thread of an avenue trending across the moonlit flat seemed to point the way to a house.

The startled tutor came near to dropping his companion's hand, but fortunately the threshold, dimly pillared and doubtfully Palladian, was near, and resisting the impulse to put himself back to back with the girlfor the protection of his calves rather than her skirtsthe reverend gentleman hurried to occupy it.

The old house stands stately, high-roofed, almost unaltered, its great pillared portico before it; hard by are the Druids' Mound, and Preshute Church in the lap of trees.

The north side of the quadrangle is formed by a pillared hall, of distinctly Hindu design, full of the feeling of mystery characteristic of indigenous Indian styles.

On a hill-top north of the lake, in the Deer-park, is a monument of quite other charactera great oblong marked by pillared stones, like an open temple.

Be Thou a pillared flame to show The midnight snare, the silent foe; And when the battle thunders loud, Still guide us in its moving cloud.

It has a good pillared stoup in the porch, a Jacobean screen, and fragments of a stone pulpit.

On either side of the gates is a lodge in the Ionic style, with a pillared portico, and the lodges are shadowed by two immense cedars, the marvel of the country-side.

She saw herself go in here, cross the pillared court and mount upward.

The few shafts of sunlight that had pierced their pillared gloom were lost in unfathomable depths, or splintered their ineffectual lances on the enormous trunks of the redwoods.

She stretched out her clenched fists as if to defy the pillared austerities of the vaults around her.