The Khalifa found himself in a high-ceiled hall, ornamented with a perfection of taste, in the middle of which there was a square throne of ivory and gold upon gold feet.

page 139: It is an established fact that Anequin de Egas gave shape to the new conception of the priant in about 1467, when Juan […] , the architect of the famous convent church of Guadalupe in Estramadura, died. page 144: We begin to ask ourselves whether the priants were intended to depict souls or human portraits.

On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever.

She is deep in the stacks of the university library, her carrel in a mauvely lit cave around which book spines rise like a forest.