And since there was need of large funds for the war, they all contributed the twenty-fifth part of the property they owned and the senators also four asses per tile of all the houses in the city that they themselves owned or dwelt in belonging to others.

The feathers are so placed as to overlap each other, like the slates or the tiles on the roof of a house.

Croesus, king of Lydia dedicated a hundred golden tiles in the same place with a golden altar: no man came empty-handed to their shrines.

Two young girls, nameless, but real presences to my imagination, as much as when they came fluttering down on the tiles with a cry that outscreamed the sharpest treble in the Te Deum!

Marius and Sulpicius met them on the Esquiline and, pouring down tiles from the housetops, at first beat them back.

The houses which we saw from the train, were small and covered with tiles like those which I had seen in northwestern England.

"The articles of delft ware, for which there still continues to be an effective demand, are plain white tiles for dairies and for lining baths, pomatum pots, and a few jugs, and other similar articles of a pale blue colour.

I slept but little, for the wind was howling around the tiles over my head, and I was busy with plans for constructing rafts and swimming currents with a rope around my waist.

His nephew used to take a tile off the roof, drop a big lump of tallow attached to a cord into the basket, and scoop up what he could.

From the stepped pyramid of Sakkara with its encaustic tiles to mediaeval church floors; from Elizabethan woodwork to Mycaenaean pottery, and thence to the industrial arts of the Stone Age and the civilisation of the Aztecs.

On the return of Pius VII., one of the deputation of Neapolitan clergy sent to congratulate him sought and received from the Pope these relics and the tiles as a gift for his church.

" After some little discussion, a compromise was effected, and Zuran Patel received permission, as a special mark of favour, to place a few copper tiles above his house.

Near the town, at last, he reined aside to a cluster of buildings,white walls and rosy tiles under a great willow.

The inscription had been read by placing the first tile after the two others, thus,PAX TECUM FILUMENA, Peace be with thee, Filumena; and Filumena was adopted as a new saint in the long list of those to whom the Roman Church has given this title.

A spearhead grazed his scalp, and smashed a tile behind him.

Descending from his velvet saddle, still entranced, he paced across the tiles between a double line of white servitors bowing to the ground.

Every pilgrim in sight had instantaneously fallen to the earth, on the gravel of the Haram, along the raised walks from the porticoes to the Ka'aba, on the marble tiling about the Ka'aba itself, even in the farthest visible streets.

I pulled up all the tiles along one wall about eight feet long and out into the room a distance of about four feet.

An old basket, with a broken tile at the top of it, and the root of the acanthus within, produced an effect which seemed to Calimachus, the architect, "the work of the Graces."

I can hear them stripping off the roof-tile overheadif such rabbit-warrens as this have Christian roofs!" Boris sat down calmly with his back against the earthen wall and trained his pistol upward, ready to shoot whatever should appear.