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...parish church, young Sean would kneel by the hour before a "full-sized carved and colored figuration of Purgatory," praying most particularly for "the girl highest in the group, always almost redeemed, her long, fair hair always falling to her waist, her manacles always already parted, her uppermost hand always just out of reach of the Divine Child's foot." O'Faolain's father was "absolutely loyal to the Empire, as only a born hero-worshiper can be," and after Sunday services Sean would accompany him to the British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch...
...rope!" Schell snarls. He attaches one end of it to Segal, who is rapidly lowered through a rainspout to the level of the uppermost aperture. Thirty seconds later, the bars suddenly rise roof-ward, and when they settle back into their sockets Segal is on the inside looking out. Sixty seconds later still, he is hanging head down in a high vaulted chamber. Thirty feet below him lies a large glass case. In the case a dagger is displayed. And in the handle of the dagger glitter four of the finest emeralds ever mined, each one of them worth...
...straight place, but not all for show; the open-end geometry that ornaments the facade functions as a sunbreak and keeps the interior cool without cumbersome draperies. The house is built on seven levels that form a series of "living platforms," the lowest being a utility room, while the uppermost is a rooftop lookout-a modern version of the widow's walk. Rudolph, chairman of the department of architecture of Yale and designer of its new all-concrete, Art and Architecture Building, had originally specified poured concrete for the Milam family, but smooth-cast sand-colored concrete blocks...
...last dozen rungs are missing. The dislocation he feels-suspended between earth and air, past and future-suggests those other climbers of various social structures who fear to edge their way down but who can never quite find room at the top. Sansom leaves his climber clinging to the uppermost rung, "shivering and past knowing what more he could ever...
...tribes. This decision was undoubtedly conveyed, tactfully, to Saudi Arabia's Premier Prince Feisal by Bunker. Unquestionably, Nasser was also told that there is a limit to his expansionist drive in the Middle East, and that the U.S. unalterably opposes his stirring up trouble in other Arab countries. Uppermost in Washington's mind was the danger that the fighting might spread into Saudi Arabia, where the U.S. has big oil holdings...