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  • The Shadow trembled — shuddered into nothingness; the obelisked outposts that had held it framed a ribbon of roadway, high banked with verdure, vanishing in green distances.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • The sombre walls bulked high; curved and ended in two obelisked pillars from which, like a tremendous curtain, stretched a barrier of that tenebrous gloom which, though weightless as shadow itself,

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • With that incomprehensible, instant obedience to her unspoken thought a mass of the Metal Things separated from us; whirled up into a dozen of those obelisked forms

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • The Shadow trembled -- shuddered into nothingness; the obelisked outposts that had held it framed a ribbon of road-way, high banked with verdure, vanishing in green distances.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • The sombre walls bulked high; curved and ended in two obelisked pillars from which, like a tremendous curtain, stretched a barrier of that tenebrous gloom which, though weightless as shadow itself, I now knew to be as impenetra-ble as the veil between life and death.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • The Shadow trembled -- shuddered into nothingness; the obelisked outposts that had held it framed a ribbon of roadway, high banked with verdure, vanishing in green distances.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • The sombre walls bulked high; curved and ended in two obelisked pillars from which, like a tremendous curtain, stretched a barrier of that tenebrous gloom which, though weightless as shadow itself, I now knew to be as impenetrable as the veil between life and death.

    The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913

  • How delightful such an occupation in such a general setting -- those of my friend, I at such moments irrepressibly moralised; and how one might after such a fashion endlessly go and come and ask nothing better; or if better, only so to the extent of another impression I was to owe to him: that of an evening meal spread, in the warm still darkness that made no candle flicker, on the wide high space of an old loggia that overhung, in one quarter, the great obelisked Square preceding one of the Gates, and in the other the Tiber and the far

    Italian Hours Henry James 1879

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