 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - Castles - 1794 - 496 pages
...of banners, now waved long grafs and wild plants, that had taken root among the mouldering ftones, and which feemed to figh, as the breeze rolled paft,...extended to other towers, overlooking the precipice, \\hofe mattered outline, appearing on a gleam, that lingered in the weft, told of the ravages of war.... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 490 pages
...of banners, now waved long grafs and wild 1 planes, that had taken root among the mouldciing ftones, and which feemed to figh, as the breeze rolled paft,...furmounting the gates : from thefe, the walls of the ran parts extended to other towers, overlooking the precipice, whofe mattered outline, appearing on... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1806 - 496 pages
...among the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the breeze rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of an huge portcullis, surmounting the gates: from these,... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...amongthemouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the breeze rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge portcullis, surmounting the gates : from these,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1825 - 260 pages
...amongst the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the wind rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge portcullis, surmounting the gates. From these,... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 506 pages
...among the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the breeze rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge portcullis, surmounting the gates : from these,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1834 - 492 pages
...among the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the breeze rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge portcullis, surmounting the gates : from these,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...amongst the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the wind rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge portcullis, surmounting the gates. From these,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...among the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh, as the breez« rolled post, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge purteulb's, surmounting the gates: from these,... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1859 - 654 pages
...among the mouldering stones, and which seemed to sigh as the breeze rolled past, over the desolation around them. The towers were united by a curtain, pierced and embattled also, below which appeared the pointed arch of a huge portcullis, surmounting the gates : from thej-e,... | |
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... surmounting the gates: from these the walls of the ramparts extended to other towers overlooking the precipice, whose shattered outline, appearing on a gleam that lingered in the west, told of the ravages of war. 
