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...had buildings reared around With doors and entries false a thousandfold, A labyrinth they made that fortress brave, Like Daedal’s prison, or Porsenna’... ...s palace hides; Y et all the maze their map described so, That through the labyrinth they got in fine, As Theseus did by Ariadne’s line. 356 Jerusale...

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...It was laid out in curvi- linear beds, which, looked at together, formed a labyrinth of ornaments; all with green borders of a low, woolly plant, whic... ...d. Here we reached a wider field, but, prop- erly speaking, only a greater labyrinth, which was so much the more tiresome, as an able man, in whom we ...

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...of the many transactions of the House, in most parts of the world: a great labyrinth of which only he has held the clue: he has had the opportunity, a... ... chosen for the purpose, was a mouldy old church in a yard, hemmed in by a labyrinth of back streets and courts, with a little burying-ground round it...

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...bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, whi...

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...hat could not have had a birth except in Christianity.) All comes from the labyrinthine intricacy in which the social action of Chris- tianity involve... ...ld not have said this, had he not been nearly related to the Whig house of Panshanger. Every Whig thought it a duty occasionally to look fiercely at k... ...story, and ask in what way any man could have extricated himself from that labyrinth which invested his path but by Casuistry . Cases the most difficu...

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... a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clew, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid... ... says he, “having previously provided themselves with new clothes, new pots, pans, and other household utensils and furniture, they collect all their ...

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...ern’d they join, And march together in a friendly line. And, as the Cretan labyrinth of old, With wand’ring ways and many a winding fold, Involv’d the...

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...lushes as they may be called, are said to be produced by the alternate ex- pansion and contraction of minute vesicles contain- ing variously coloured ... ...d level ex- *The hovels of the Indians are thus called. 75 Charles Darwin panses in the midst of the brown and desolate plain, offers an extraordinar... ...animal (Cancer salinus) is said* to live in countless numbers in the brine-pans at Lymington: but only in those in which the fluid has attained, from ... ...eds are impen- etrable, except by a few tracts, as intricate as those in a labyrinth. These are only known to the robbers, who at this season inhabit ... ...ty in follow- ing the track to Copiapo; but he soon became in- volved in a labyrinth of mountains, whence he could not escape. Some of his mules had f... ...he distance, and sinks be- neath the horizon From the mast-head a wide ex- panse of smooth water can be seen within the ring. These low hollow coral i... ...tered the wall of coral. The mountains rose abruptly out of the glassy ex- panse of the lagoon, included within this narrow white line, outside which ...

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...They may at the start.” “They do everything better.” “They’re flash-in-the-pans.” “They learn their lessons.” “You can’t make soldiers or sailors of t... ...saster in love than the death of imagina- tion. He dragged her through the labyrinths of his penetralia, in his hungry coveting to be loved more and s...

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...tery about my lord’s words or actions. His Fair Rosamond did not live in a Labyrinth, like the lady of Mr. Addison’s opera, but paraded with painted c...

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...ppy hearts, That see, that know the guiding thread so fine, Along the mighty labyrinth. 4 And thou America, For the scheme’s culmination, its tho...

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... purpose, because it is the clue by which I am to be followed into my poor labyrinth. Accord- ing to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover...

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...ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon’s mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much o... ... un- derstood from him the scope of his great work, also of attrac- tively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton’s “affable ar... ...f a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whi... ...happened to lead to the dairy, and there under the high roof and among the pans he gave way to laughter which made a hollow resonance perfectly audibl...

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... ungauged reservoir of Mr. Casaubon’s mind, seeing reflected there in vague labyrinthine extension every quality she herself brought; had opened much o... ... had understood from him the scope of his great work, also of attractively labyrinthine extent. For he had been as instructive as Milton’s “affable ar... ...f a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled in maze of small paths that led no whi... ...happened to lead to the dairy, and there under the high roof and among the pans he gave way to laughter which made a hollow resonance perfectly audibl...

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...aster. Great Architect of Nature, help me to find the true path out of the labyrinth of lies! After this, three pages were left blank in the diary, an... ...l had just been raised. At the entrance to the Arbat Square an immense ex- panse of dark starry sky presented itself to his eyes. Almost in the center...