The room was oddly shaped, with eight equal sides: the ceiling was of a light and brilliant blue, powdered with many golden stars, and the walls were hung with smart tapestries which commemorated the exploits of Theseus.

I would not have you stained; I desired to pass my whole life between the four walls of some dingy and eternal gaol, forever alone with you, lest you become like other men.

A curled pert page took the Vicomte to where she sat alone, by prearrangement, in a chamber with painted walls, profusely lighted by the sun, and made pretence to weave a tapestry.

The Walls of Jericho.

The earthquakes began and grew until all down America from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn, hillsides were sliding, fissures were opening, and houses and walls crumbling to destruction.

We still heard the cannonthey are booming this minutebut we had not seen the spiked helmets dashing up my hill, nor watched the walls of our little hamlet fall.

I confess to you that even I am absolutely obsessed by the miracle which has turned the invaders back from the walls of Paris.

He tells me that blowing up the bridge- heads smashed all the windows, blew out all the doors, and damaged the walls more or less, but all that is reparable.

The walls stand, but the roofs are off and doors and windows gone, while the shells seem burned out.

There they stood, long walls of rubble and plaster, breeched; ends of farm buildings gone; and many only a heap of rubbish.

From Penchard we ran a little out to the west at the foot of the hill, on top of which stand the white walls of Montyon, from which, on September 5, we had seen the first smoke of battle.

At the foot of the hill crowned by the walls of Montyon lies Villeroy today the objective point for patriotic pilgrimages.

Its windows are gone, and there are gaping wounds in its side walls.

We entered through the mairie, which is at one side, into a small courtyard, where the school children were playing under the propped- up walls as gaily as if there had never been a bombardment.

It was only a shell, its walls alone standing.

To the west and northwest the walls are on the top of a bank, high above the crossroads.

As near as I could guess, from the condition of the walls, I imagine that the French artillery must have been in the direction of Penchard, on the wooded hills.

The walls are pierced with gun holes, about three feet apart, and those on the west and southwest are breeched by cannon and shell- fire.

Here, after the position had been several times stormed by artillery, the Zouaves made one of the most brilliant bayonet charges of the day, dashing up the steep banks and through the breeched walls.

The walls became higher as the cove deepened toward the canyon.

On the walls hung some pictures, that were not unpleasant to look at.

The furniture was of rude, heavy pattern, Creole-made, and the walls were unadorned; the day of cheap pictures had not come.

But time pressed and I passed on to the central Hall where I stood in a jostling crowd, absorbed in the present with little thought of the fine frescoes that lined the walls or of the history that had been made in that environment.

a theologue once exclaimed as the walls were rising, feeling that there must always be a battle between what the old Hall stood for and the new building was to foster.

For building purposes, unhewn granite is chiefly used, the walls being afterwards smoothed over with a layer of plaster, whitewashed, and margined with yellow or blue.