Word: wall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Juniors next the wall, then '98, '96, and '99 on the outside...
Wisby stands now an old ruined town, surrounded by the fragments of what was once a magnificent wall, two miles long and thirty feet high, in the cracks of which the poor have built their hovels. Sixteen churches once stood in the town, of which twelve remain as ruins...
...Harvard Memorial Society, an exhibition of all the objects of historic interest connected with the College that can be obtained. The society has also under consideration a series of small bronze tablets about five by twenty-five inches which may be framed in oak and sunk in the wall over the fireplace in rooms once held by famous men. These tablets would take the place of the outside tablets previously planned...
...last evening, showing views illustrating Decadent Gothic Art in Germany in the Rhenish cathedrals at Cologne and Strasburg; and Gothic influences in Italy evident in Cistertian churches at Florence and Siena. The ornate character of the decorative sculpture was clearly brought out in several views of the portals and wall panels of these buildings; and one or two designs of the famous Giotto were shown...
...history and literary and literary development of my country. The first striking figure in Russia's history is Peter the Great. He marks the moment in the nation's life when her own his orical development was augmented by the outside influence of other nations. He shatters the wall separating Russia for 700 years from the rest of the world. But Peter's name marks one transition moment. The personality of the Empress Catherine II seems to absorb the entire eighteenth century...