A delay in the arrival of the New York train lengthened their five minutes to fifteen; and as they paced the icy platform Faxon began to see why it had seemed the most natural thing in the world to accede to his new acquaintance’s suggestion. It was because Frank Rainer was one of t...
Hosseini (The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns) weaves a gorgeous tapestry of disparate characters joined by threads of blood and fate. Siblings Pari and Abdullah are cruelly separated at childhood. A disfigured young woman, Thalia is abandoned by her mother and learns to love herself under...
Mrs. Grose watched them with positive placidity; then I caught the suppressed intellectual creak with which she conscientiously turned to take from me a view of the back of the tapestry. I had made her a receptacle of lurid things, but there was an odd recognition of my superior...
The court of Henry II of England in the 1180s, and the office of King of Arms. By David Crouch(pp. 47-55). Petticoat heraldry. By Bruce McAndrew(pp. 57-64, with plates 1 and 2). Some aspects of the ‘crisis of heraldry’. By Clive Cheesman(pp. 65-80, with plates 3 an...
Colbert's mercantilist administration established new industries and encouraged manufacturers and inventors, such as the Lyon silk manufacturers and the Gobelins tapestry manufactory. He invited manufacturers and artisans from all over Europe to France, such as Murano glassmakers, Swedish ironworkers, and...
As we journey through Holy Week, a time marked by reflection, penance, and renewal, we find ourselves drawn into the profound lessons of love and sacrifice that this sacred period embodies. Among the luminous figures in the tapestry of Christian history, St. Francis... POWERFUL UNITING PRAYER...
My lad! I have finished ten metaphysical treatises; argued five cases before the court; attended all our society's meetings; accompanied our great Professor, Monsieur Volvoon, the lecturer, through his circuit in the philosophical saloons, sharing all the honors of his illustrious triumph; and ...
The endless halls shine in marble and many colors. “Master Bloodless” here moves his limbs of steel and iron in the great circular hall of machinery. Works of art in metal, in stone, in Gobelins tapestry, announce the vitality of mind that is stirring in every land. Halls of paintings...
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, generations of ~lite Indian nationalists found their subject-positions, as nationalists, within this transition-narrative that, at various times depending on one's ideology, hung the tapestry of 'Indian history' between the two poles of the homologous ...
while the gentlemen smoked below stairs, they sat beside a Carcel lamp with an engraved globe, facing each other across a rosewood work-table with a green silk bag under it, and stitched at the two ends of a tapestry band of field-flowers destined to adorn an "occasional" chair in the ...