 ... river. High up overhead the snow settled among the tracery of the cathedral towers. Many a niche was drifted full; many a statue wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses,...  New Arabian Nights - Page 246by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1888 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 408 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...like their domiciles ; there was no light in all the neighbourhood but a little peep from a lamp that hung swinging in the church choir, and tossed the... | |
 | English fiction - 1896 - 216 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping toward the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...like their domiciles ; there was no light in all the neighbourhood but a little peep from a lamp that hung swinging in the church choir, and tossed the... | |
 | English fiction - 1901 - 206 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping toward the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...like their domiciles; there was no light in all the neighbourhood but a little peep from a lamp that hung swinging in the church choir, and tossed the... | |
 | Short stories, English - 1896 - 224 pages
...gargoyles had '>een transformed into great false noses, drooping toward the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...be-nightcapped like their domiciles; there was no liglit in all the neighbourhood but a little peep from a lamp that hung swinging in the church choir,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...All the graves were decently covered ; tall white house tops stood around in grave array ; worthy burghers were long ago in bed, be-nightcapped like... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - City and town life - 1905 - 454 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...like their domiciles ; there was no light in all the neighbourhood but a little peep from a lamp that hung swinging in the church choir, and tossed the... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...All the graves were decently covered ; tall white house tops stood around in grave array ; worthy burghers were long ago in bed, be-nightcapped like... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...All the graves were decently covered ; tall white house tops stood around in grave array ; worthy burghers were long ago in bed, be-nightcapped like... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1902 - 412 pages
...gargoyles had been transformed into great false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals...like their domiciles ; there was no light in all the neighbourhood but a little peep from a lamp that hung swinging in the church choir, and tossed the... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - English language - 1903 - 346 pages
...(large, huge, enormous, vast, great) false noses, drooping towards the point. The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the intervals of the wind, there was a (monotonous, quiet, dull, unchanging) sound of dripping about the precincts of the church. STEVENSON,... | |
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