 Two thirds the way from the base stand four white elephants, made of shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four points of the compass. From the rounded summit rises, like a needle, a sharp spire. This was the temple tower; and all over the magnificent...  Life in Asia - Page 135by Mary Cate Smith - 1897 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1873 - 448 pages
...hold it up. Two thirds of the way from the base, stand, I remember, four white elephants, wrought in shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four...swinging that they were vocal in the slightest breeze. Here was where the music came from. Even as I stood and looked, I caught the breezes at it. Coming... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1879 - 880 pages
...and claws, to hold it up. Twothirds of the way from the base stand four white elephants, wrought in shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four...swinging that they were vocal in the slightest breeze. Here was where the musi'j came from. Even as I stood and looked, I caught the breezes at it. Coming... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1881 - 650 pages
...claws, to hold it up. Twothirds of the way from the base stand four white elephants, •wrought in shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four...swinging that they wer'e vocal in the slightest breeze. Here was where the music came from. Even as I stood and looked, I caught the breezes at it. Coming... | |
 | Mary L. Cort - 1886 - 426 pages
...or claws, to hold it up. Two-thirds of the way from the base, stand four white elephants, wrought in shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four...spire. This was the temple tower, and all over the magnhicent pile, from the tip of the highest needle to the base, from every prominent angle and projection,... | |
 | 1900 - 506 pages
...hold it up. Two thirds of the way from the base, stand, I remember, four white elephants, wrought in shining porcelain, facing one each way toward four...prominent angle and projection, there were hanging sweet- toned bells, with little gilded fans attached to their tongues ; so swinging that they were... | |
 | Larkin Dunton - 1897 - 340 pages
...Extravagant stories were formerly told of the almost royal state in which' white elephants were kept; how they were fed from golden dishes, and were decorated...swinging that they were vocal in the slightest breeze." Along the east coast of Indo-China is a region known as Cochin China which, with Anam and Ton qui.n... | |
 | Mary Cate Smith - 1898 - 346 pages
...Extravagant stories were formerly told of the almost royal state in which white elephants were kept ; how THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE. they were fed from golden...swinging that they were vocal in the slightest breeze." Along the east coast of Indo-China is a region known as Cochin China which, with Anam and TonTHE WORLD... | |
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