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Letter "A" » arches
«Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.»
Author: Helen Rowland
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About:
40th birthday,
Funny,
Life
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Keywords:
arched,
arches,
begins,
eyesight,
fallen,
faulty,
four,
four times,
rheumatism,
story,
Telling Stories,
tells a story,
tendency,
three,
times
«I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro?s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them»
Author: John Evelyn
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Writer)
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About:
History,
Literature,
Society
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Keywords:
Adriatic,
antique,
antiques,
arches,
canopy,
cloth,
companies,
Considering,
Corinthian,
cupola,
espouse,
espoused,
Hampton,
innumerable,
magnificent,
ordnance,
pageant,
pageants,
pillars,
pomp,
representations,
sailing vessel,
stately,
supported,
Thames,
The Adriatic,
thrones,
Venetian,
wreathe,
wreathed
«You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.»
«When One made love to Zero, spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath»
«And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.»
«And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.»
«And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.»
«And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.»
«And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures; / And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.»