Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting, The river ran below; The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting Their minarets of snow.

We hurried on, thinking we saw minarets in the distance, but they proved to be poplars.

In a corner of the courts stands the minaret.

Over the battlements of the walls rise the slender minarets and shining domes of the mosques, the pavilions and the towers of the gates, the balustraded roofs of the higher and finer houses, the light foliage of acacias, and the dark crests of tall date-palms.

A local effort against Nebi Samwil was easily repulsed, but the 60th Division reported that the enemy had in the past few days continued his shelling of the Mosque, and had added to his destruction of that sacred place by demolishing the minaret by gunfire.

In another hour, we could distinguish a minaret or two, and finally, walls and the stately domes of mosques.

They were eager to gain possession of the country where the sacred olive alternates its stiff old age with the joyous vineyard; where the pine rears its cupola and the cypress erects its minaret.

It is a flood of roofs sweeping south to that golden, flashing minaret, a flood bearing innumerable high mill chimneys, church steeples, school spires, and the skeleton frames of gas-works.

Who does not prefer the minarets of Stambul and Edirne to the architecture of Budapest, notoriously the ideal of Christian south-eastern Europe?

In a bit of the clear, blue sky appeared various minarets, their peaks sparkling with the fires of Aurora.

Many of these are of faultless symmetry, resembling the minaret of a mosque; others are so grotesque as to provoke merriment as well as wonder.

from the mosque the nightly solemn sound; The Muezzin's call doth shake the minaret.

The houses are all of stone, two stories high, with tiled roofs and chimneys, so that, but for the clapboarded and shingled minarets, it would answer for a North-German village.

" =332.= As, when from some proud capital that crowns Imperial Ganges, the reviving breeze Sweeps the dank mist, or hoary river fog Impervious mantled o'er her highest towers, Bright on the eye rush Bramah's temples, capp'd With spiry tops, gay-trellised minarets, Pagods of gold, and mosques with burnish'd domes, Gilded, and glistening in the morning sun, So from the hill the cloudy curtains roll'd,

The beautiful, powerful, and wise Cordova, crowned with three thousand villages, proudly raised her white minarets in the midst of orange groves, and spread around the valley a voluptuous atmosphere of joy and glory.

" When Bilal, a slave, received the command, he went up to the Mosque, and climbing its highest minaret, he cried aloud his summons, adding at each dawn: "Prayer is better than sleep, prayer is better than sleep.

The domes that crown these four minarets are exact miniatures of that which covers the tomb.

A great shell had cut the minaret in half and had left exposed telephone wires leading direct to army headquarters and to the Turkish gunners' fire control station.