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But he marked the minarets and towers and slender masses that streamed skyward above the city windvanes, and knew that in the matter of grace at least Paris still kept in front of her larger rival.
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Some hundred feet or more sheer below him was one of the big windvanes of south-west London, and beyond it the southernmost flying stage crowded with little black dots.
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He walked around and through the overgrown wreck - age, trying to imagine how the thing might once have looked - a huge, impossibly complex machine standing at least a hundred feet tall on four gigantic wheels with spiked iron rims ... endlessly intricate systems of pul - leys and gears, levers and winding mechanisms, steam boilers and windvanes ... and probably half a hundred whistles, bells, and ratchet-rattles.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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He walked around and through the overgrown wreck - age, trying to imagine how the thing might once have looked - a huge, impossibly complex machine standing at least a hundred feet tall on four gigantic wheels with spiked iron rims ... endlessly intricate systems of pul - leys and gears, levers and winding mechanisms, steam boilers and windvanes ... and probably half a hundred whistles, bells, and ratchet-rattles.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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He walked around and through the overgrown wreck - age, trying to imagine how the thing might once have looked - a huge, impossibly complex machine standing at least a hundred feet tall on four gigantic wheels with spiked iron rims ... endlessly intricate systems of pul - leys and gears, levers and winding mechanisms, steam boilers and windvanes ... and probably half a hundred whistles, bells, and ratchet-rattles.
The Gates of Thorbardin Parkinson, Dan 1990
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Some hundred feet or more sheer below him was one of the big windvanes of south-west London, and beyond it the southernmost flying stage crowded with little black dots.
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But he marked the minarets and towers and slender masses that streamed skyward above the city windvanes, and knew that in the matter of grace at least Paris still kept in front of her larger rival.
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