Now in due order all again Into its place he puts; The Sanctuary arranges; then Withdraws, and that upshuts.

He burst into the sitting-room, covered with meal and panting like a bellowsed horse, frightening my grandmother almost into hysterics.

Derived ultimately from imperial aulic art, the scheme was well established in the Christian repertoire by the ninth century.

Is death closer than they think? [Samuel Langhorne] Clemens sets the scene with a numinous description of the men waiting in the corncrib in the veiled moonlight.