Then there came a time when the grey cub no longer saw his father appearing and disappearing in
the wall nor lying down asleep in the entrance.
This was what Neptune and Apollo were to do in after time; but as yet battle and turmoil were still raging round
the wall till its timbers rang under the blows that rained upon them.
But in the round keep, a shape only seen in the most ancient castles the chambers excavated in the thickness of
the walls and buttresses the difficulty by which access is gained from one story to those above it, Coningsburgh still retains the simplicity of its origin, and shows by what slow degrees man proceeded from occupying such rude and inconvenient lodgings, as were afforded by the galleries of the Castle of Mousa, to the more splendid accommodations of the Norman castles, with all their stern and Gothic graces.
Of course I cannot break through
the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.
Beyond
the wall rose the domes of several structures and numerous minarets dotted the sky line of the city.
For fifteen minutes they marched along the face of
the wall before they discovered a means of ingress.
The Persian and Raoul could retreat no farther and flattened themselves against
the wall, not knowing what was going to happen because of that incomprehensible head of fire, and especially now, because of the more intense, swarming, living, "numerous" sound, for the sound was certainly made up of hundreds of little sounds that moved in the darkness, under the fiery face.
Cautiously opening the gate the fellow peered carefully along
the wall upon the outside in the direction from which he had come.
With javelins snatched from
the wall he wrought havoc among the foremost of the Okarians while we battled with the insensate metal that stood between our fellows and freedom.
By the last dim rays of twilight, Geoffrey looked at
the wall.
We don't know the locality, and shall never find
the wall. Since your eminence has come so far, come a few steps further; conduct us, my lord, to
the wall."
Everything led to the presumption that these drops of blood had fallen from the wound of the man who had, for a moment, placed his red hand on
the wall. There were other traces of the same hand on
the wall, but much less distinct.