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...details. The church had apparently been built in the days of Roman occupancy of Great Britain; in it, it seemed probable, St. Augustine had initiated bearded and barbarous tribesmen into fellowship with a kind, mysterious and splendid God. During the lapse of savage centuries, the little church had become overlaid with dust; when found, it was covered 14 feet deep with the refuse of many dreary years...
...Korin, is represented if only in delightful reproduction by a huge black pottery raven leaning forward to caw and by a single painting, more important, perhaps, than anything else in the three rooms. This is a tiny square of paper on which, in blue and gold, is a wave overlaid in spidery characters with that famous poem of the seventh century...
...said the Countess, "my bathtub in Paris is an ancient Greek sarcophagus. It has high relief sculpture and the inside is overlaid with gold. It is an original work which I prize very much. I purchased it in Greece...
...Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, had donned the uniform of a colonel-in-chief of the Royal Horse Guards. Her Majesty the Queen-Empress shimmered majestically, clad in a gown of silver tissue overlaid with tulle embroidered with pearls, wearing a tiara of diamonds, the blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced nervously at the back of a court...
...Lisbon, a capital whose surpassing natural beauty and once imposing buildings have been overlaid in recent years by a scum of filth, poverty and decay, there occurred last week one more of the successful military insurrections which have rent the republic of Portugal since the overthrow of the monarchy...