 | Funeral rites and ceremonies - 1876 - 470 pages
...attracts and fascinates the gaze. It is a coping formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultureSi These birds on the occasion of my visit had settled...themselves side by side in perfect order and in a eomplete circle around the parapets of the towers^ with their heads pointed inwards, and so lazily... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1891 - 184 pages
...bodies here placed. He says: ''Though wholly destitute of ornament and even the simplest moldings, the parapet of each tower possesses an extraordinary...of dead stone, but of living vultures. These birds had settled themselves side by side in perfect order, and in a complete circle around the parapets... | |
 | Charles Force Deems - 1878 - 802 pages
...smallest circle, nearest the well, those of children. " The parapet of each tower has an extraordinary coping, formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultures....the parapets of the towers, with their heads pointed inward ; and so lazily did they sit there, and so motionless were they, that, except for their color,... | |
 | 1877 - 996 pages
...night with incense and fragrant wood, and never extinguished. Although wholly destitute of ornament, the parapet of each tower possesses an extraordinary...formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultures. After these structures have been once solemnly consecrated, no one except the corpse-bearers is allowed... | |
 | 1878 - 924 pages
...night with incense and fragrant wood, and never extinguished. Although wholly destitute of ornament, the parapet of each tower possesses an extraordinary...formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultures. After these structures have been once solemnly consecrated, no one except the corpse-bearers is allowed... | |
 | Children's literature - 1884 - 672 pages
...parapet of each tower has an extraordinary coping, formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultures 1 These birds, on the occasion of my visit, had settled...themselves side by side in perfect order, and in a complete c1rcle around the parapets of the towers, with their heads pointed inwards ; and so lazily did they... | |
 | Mary Frances Billington - Women - 1895 - 412 pages
...would not attract much notice, perhaps, but for what Professor Monier Williams has aptly described as " an extraordinary coping, which instantly attracts...themselves side by side in perfect order, and in a I complete circle, around the parapets of the towers, with their heads pointed inwards ; and so lazily... | |
 | 1878 - 660 pages
...smallest circle, nearest the well, those of children. " The parapet of each tower has an extraordinary coping, formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultures....settled themselves side by side in perfect order, and iu a complete circle around the parapets of the towers, with their heads pointed inward ; and so lazily... | |
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Though wholly destitute of ornament, and even of the simplest moulding, the parapet of each tower possesses an extraordinary coping, which instantly attracts and fascinates the gaze. It is a coping formed, not of dead stone, but of living vultures. These... 