 | Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...people is heard no more. The stream of Clutha is removed from its place, by the fall of the walls. The thistle shook its lonely head. The moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the window, and the rank grass of the wall waved round his head." Language... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 240 pages
...lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which...breeze. " The thistle shook its lonely head; the moss whistied to the wind." A Gothic gate, richly ornamented with fret-work, which opened into the main... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1820 - 238 pages
...lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which...waved slowly to the breeze. " The thistle shook its loijely head ; the moss whistied to the wind." A Gothic gate, richly ornamented with ffet-work, which... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...battlements, thickly en wreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which...thistle shook its lonely head; the moss whistled to the forest, La Motte began to have apprehensions^ wind. A Gothjc gate, richly ornamented with fret-work,... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...lofty battlements, thickly enwreathedwith ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which...grass, that waved slowly to the breeze. " The thistle »hook its lonely head ; the moss whistled to the wind." A Gothic gate, richly orna, mented with fret-work,... | |
 | William Wood (of Eyam.) - Eyam (England) - 1842 - 176 pages
...desolate there is no doubt; and in the following sublime language of Ossian, it may be said:— " There the thistle shook its lonely head: the moss whistled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows, the rank grass of the wall waved round its head." The winter which... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 352 pages
...lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which...gate, richly ornamented with fretwork, which opened into the main body of the edifice, but which was now obstructed with brushwood, remained entire. Above... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 pages
...were half deFor the remainder of the day they continued molished and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which...gate, richly ornamented with fretwork, which opened into the main body of the edifice but which was now obstructed with brushwood, remained entire. Above... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - Authors, English - 1892 - 334 pages
...refuge in a ruined Gothic abbey, with " lofty battlements, half demolished, thickly enwreathed by ivy. The thistle shook its lonely head, the moss whistled to the wind." There were broken pillars, spiral staircases, and trap-doors, of course. According to the old saying,... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - Authors, English - 1892 - 338 pages
...refuge in a ruined Gothic abbey, with " lofty battlements, half demolished, thickly enwreathed by ivy. The thistle shook its lonely head, the moss whistled to the wind." There were broken pillars, spiral staircases, and trap-doors, of course. According to the old saying,... | |
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... showed the remaining features of the fabric more awful in decay. The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Huge fragments of the eastern tower, which was almost demolished,... 
