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  • For over a decade, the only thing posted there had been a short looping animation that showed his avatar, Anorak, sitting in a medieval library, hunched over a scarred worktable, mixing potions and poring over dusty spellbooks, with a large painting of a black dragon visible on the wall behind him.†   (source)
  • As they approached, Langdon saw the entrance was blocked by an enormous steel grate that looked like something used by medieval castles to keep out marauding armies.†   (source)
  • Granta House was on the other side of Stortfold Castle, close to the medieval walls, on the long unpavemented stretch that comprised only four houses and the National Trust shop, bang in the middle of the tourist area.†   (source)
  • There are ridges in the field, which means that in medieval times it was what is called a ridge and This is really true because I asked Siobhan what people thought about when they looked at things, and this is what she said. furrow field and people who lived in the village would have a ridge each to do farming on.†   (source)
  • Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions.†   (source)
  • It offered promise and hope for the future, and it swept away the old medieval system, which was hundreds of years old.†   (source)
  • Little by little, we ventured farther away from our building, first down the street, then around the block, and finally to the river where the Powstancow Slaskich Bridge connected our area to Krakow's main attractions: the traditional Jewish quarter of Kazimierz; the historic district of the Old Town; and Wawel Castle, the royal palace of kings and queens who had ruled when Krakow was the capital of medieval Poland.†   (source)
  • Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy.†   (source)
  • I was in an enormous classroom, with a vaulted ceiling like a medieval cathedral.†   (source)
  • It was a scene that could easily have accommodated, in the distance at least, a medieval castle.†   (source)
  • "Hope it ain't too medieval for ya!"†   (source)
  • He reads about how the pyramids and Greek temples and Medieval cathedrals were built, studying the plans of churches and palaces in his textbook.†   (source)
  • In the style of medieval villages, the town is organized around a large central square.†   (source)
  • We pass another enormous structure, this one like the ruins of a medieval castle.†   (source)
  • At sixteen, Eleanor was already built like she ran a medieval pub. She had too much of everything and too little height to hide it.†   (source)
  • Medieval city: crooked streets, lights draped on bridges and shining off rain-peppered canals, melting in the drizzle.†   (source)
  • Then they demolished their ramshackle medieval cottage and built a sensible, plain-faced brick and thatch farmhouse.†   (source)
  • The only shelter was provided by the suits of medieval armour punctuating the walls.†   (source)
  • The Code demanded a forsaking of nuclear weapons and strategic bombing campaigns in all but the most extreme cases but, more than that, it demanded a return to Old Earth medieval concepts of set battles between small, professional forces at a mutually agreed upon time in a place where destruction of public and private property would be kept to a minimum.†   (source)
  • Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can also symbolize (a) the hostility of the universe to human existence (a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer.†   (source)
  • They arrived at an enormous door, which seemed and likely was medieval, something that would have kept barbarians at bay.†   (source)
  • Hiro breaks out of his orbit and heads straight for him, and they come together like a couple of medieval jousters.†   (source)
  • The long chemical names on the little white labels were as mystifying to me as medieval Latin.†   (source)
  • The hospital could have been a medieval castle, filled with shrieks, broken bodies, smells of illness and medicines and grim, cruel faces everywhere.†   (source)
  • You can visit the ruins of an old medieval castle up there and look out on the plains and the orchards.†   (source)
  • Idling students may see time itself as a complex embellishment, a romance of human consciousness, as they witness the chairman walking across campus, crook'd arm emerging from his medieval robe, the digital watch blinking in late summer dusk. the robe is black, of course, and goes with almost anything.†   (source)
  • Did you ever go to one of those fairs where people pretend they're still living in medieval times?†   (source)
  • Filth had laid seige to the Ayemenem House like a medieval army advancing on an enemy castle.†   (source)
  • Her jerkin was studded with shining silver bolts, giving it the appearance of a medieval breastplate, and her leather gloves had rectangular silver studs sewn onto the back of the fingers.†   (source)
  • It was like looking at a row of skeletons, like one of those medieval woodcuts where the dead walked and talked and danced on the piled bodies of the living.†   (source)
  • The Germans were too cultured and magnanimous a race, said the newspaper, to confine even parasites like the Jews to ghettos, a medieval remnant unworthy of the new order in Europe.†   (source)
  • Those Indians and medieval men were just as intelligent as we are, but the context in which they thought was completely different.†   (source)
  • That night, as we were watching the final, fantasy /medieval battle scene, Colton, then six, was really getting into it as winged creatures dropped boulders from the sky and the battle-dressed Pevensie kids clashed swords with the White Witch's evil army.†   (source)
  • In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.†   (source)
  • "You started that letter on a hike in rural Haiti," I mused aloud, thinking now of those arid highlands, of medieval peasant huts, donkey ambulances.†   (source)
  • She came upon an ancient book in the house called Devils, Drugs, and Doctors and was frightened to mute hysteria by pictures of medieval labor chairs, delivery instruments, and the information that women were sometimes thrown repeatedly against walls to induce birth.†   (source)
  • It sounds medieval in some ways.†   (source)
  • The eyes were turned up in a medieval expression of slanted agony.†   (source)
  • Then she found something that looked less, well, medieval: vitamin C. Surely that couldn't be too bad for her?†   (source)
  • The train put wheels under them and here they run down the long road out of the Gothic and Baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men.†   (source)
  • Dr. Isaacson did everything she could to save Mayinga, but she was as helpless before the agent as medieval doctors had been in the face of the black plague.†   (source)
  • "Yes, in ye olde medieval Europe you would've been quite the catch—"†   (source)
  • Yes; they are mediaeval—half savage.†   (source)
  • She was a large black woman with solid bones, the hips of a mare, teats like live melons, and a round and perfect head armored with a hard surface of wiry hair which looked like a medieval warrior's mail headdress.†   (source)
  • One chair seemed vaguely medieval, while a low ottoman by the fire was more contemporary and the stocked bookshelf against the far window reminded me of movies set in Italy.†   (source)
  • It felt as if his body had been put into one of those medieval torture racks, stretching his bones and sinews.†   (source)
  • When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers responded tersely: "A medieval device for a medieval deed.†   (source)
  • Whereas the old Castle looked like a medieval fortress made of stone and brick, the new USDB looked like a community college.†   (source)
  • Past the gauntlet of black pebbles, Mortenson felt he had entered a medieval society of warring city states.†   (source)
  • "It's a medieval, gravity-operated catapult," Fredi said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.†   (source)
  • They molded to the almost medieval landscape: the harsh mill yards, the endless solid walls of factory buildings, the heavy wrought-iron gates, the dwarfing scale of architecture.†   (source)
  • His face seemed illuminated, shining against a dark background like one of those medieval Russian icons.†   (source)
  • Added to that was the thin melody of a wooden flute, which seemed to pick up the sharp metallic tink of the bells of the tambourine, winding them into a haunting melody that was medieval in sound.†   (source)
  • He and Meredith made their way to the basement, which had been decorated like some kind of medieval torture room.†   (source)
  • The chief surgeon went on: The pressure to make public retractions of past statementsthere's something medieval about it.†   (source)
  • This awkward medieval instrument had three separate pieces.†   (source)
  • He asked what a certain medieval commentator had remarked about that statement,, and Danny answered.†   (source)
  • It's like a history club, where they study the medieval period together, on weekends.†   (source)
  • Armor was displayed, from medieval ages to the thin, impenetrable vests that were current military issue.†   (source)
  • And you expound on these unoriginal, medieval concepts only to promote yourself as a brilliant maverick-of disaster.†   (source)
  • Sadly, the power games of medieval monarchs and feudal chiefs sowed the seeds of later trouble.†   (source)
  • Max backed away, confused and frightened, and crossed the velvet rope into the medieval gallery.†   (source)
  • The real Iron Maiden was a medieval torture instrument, a sort of boiler which was shaped like a woman on the outside-and lined with spikes.†   (source)
  • Instead, I found a group of girls standing in front of the bathroom door, waiting like excited spectators at a medieval hanging.†   (source)
  • They have one tower built, and Spencer checks the box to make sure they are building the second tower just like in the medieval castle in the picture.†   (source)
  • But I'm not quite ready to throw away centuries of scientific progress to start thinking like a medieval peasant.†   (source)
  • "A medieval princess," Sarah went on.†   (source)
  • Those found guilty of an honor violation were drummed out of the Corps in a dark ceremony of expatriation that had a remorseless medieval splendor about it.†   (source)
  • Remember how I said the only thing missing from this medieval village was a big old castle looming over it?†   (source)
  • Ann gives herself a medieval gown of spun gold.†   (source)
  • The maps reveal rumours of topography, the routes for invasion and trade, and the dark mad mind of travellers' tales appears throughout Arab and Chinese and medieval records.†   (source)
  • Janet stepped off to the left to examine a huge painting of a medieval battle.†   (source)
  • It's hard not to be distracted by the sight of a set of high-fortified walls—Luke says they belong to the ancient medieval village of Sarlat, and that we can go there to shop if I want to.†   (source)
  • My mind started conjuring up images of a medieval dungeon.†   (source)
  • Jalal sped through the cobbled alleyways of the medieval center and parked in a small courtyard.†   (source)
  • In medieval times, men sought sanctuary in churches.†   (source)
  • The moral rage, it's a throwback, it's medieval.†   (source)
  • You know, Cracow is a very ancient city, and our house was not far from the central square, where in the middle is this beautiful building that was made in medieval times—the Sukiennice it is called in Polish, which I believe translated in English means the cloth-hall, where they would have a market in all types of cloths and fabrics.†   (source)
  • Mr. Welti knew about the whole throng of them, from medieval times on, and the three brothers who set forth to the New World from German Switzerland and settled from Virginia westward over Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana before the Revolutionary War.†   (source)
  • New York makes its own hills with craning buildings, but this gold and white acropolis rising wave on wave against the blue of . the Pacific sky was a stunning thing, a painted thing like a picture of a medieval Italian city which can never have existed.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND All I want is to prevent the clock-stoppers from dumping a load of medieval nonsense into the United States Constitution.†   (source)
  • The cop on the beat--an old-fashioned curiosity as impractical and inefficient today as the hand-crank butter churn or the medieval gisarme--could come to know his neighborhood, protect it and be protected by it: he could be as well liked as the grocer or mailman or launderer.†   (source)
  • They were not as medieval as they looked; they zipped up the front and were marked inside Fabrique en France.†   (source)
  • Between the gloomy, bristling walls of almost black pines the leafy thickets shone flame— and wine-colored like medieval towns with painted and gold-roofed palaces built of the timber cut down in the thickness of the forest.†   (source)
  • The book examines the connections between medieval literature and courtly love.
    medieval = relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages
  • India and China have not been so relatively powerful since medieval  times.
  • Thirteenth-century translation of the original medieval Aramaic.†   (source)
  • Dressed in a wool robe with a rope tie, he resembled a medieval cleric.†   (source)
  • The Merchants' Gate was a medieval tunnel of stone and brick.†   (source)
  • I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period.†   (source)
  • Did you know that Inkheart is set in a world not unlike our own medieval times?†   (source)
  • They were Muggles, and they had a very medieval attitude toward magic.†   (source)
  • The chanting continued like the drone of voices in a medieval canticle.†   (source)
  • Medieval voices, austere and otherworldly.†   (source)
  • "The medieval philosophers took it almost for granted that Christianity was true," he began.†   (source)
  • And he carries off, among other things, images of them and their medieval huts.†   (source)
  • But, in truth, this was because the medieval world didn't really work any more.†   (source)
  • The human, Butler, was strapping on a medieval suit of armour.†   (source)
  • We mast first talk a little about medieval philosophy.†   (source)
  • He danced under the tusks, hammering home a devastating uppercut with his medieval weapon.†   (source)
  • And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more.†   (source)
  • Grail Allegory in Medieval Literature: A Treatise on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.†   (source)
  • A model for a fully articulated medieval French knight.†   (source)
  • Throughout the whole medieval period, the point of departure had always been God.†   (source)
  • He wrote a novel called Heinrich von Ofterdingen set in Medieval times.†   (source)
  • But first I must tell you about the other great medieval philosopher.†   (source)
  • And then Sophie meets Alberto Knox disguised as a medieval monk in the twelfth-century stone church.†   (source)
  • Almost all medieval philosophy centered on this one question.†   (source)
  • Alberto had no problem slipping into the role of a medieval priest.†   (source)
  • Rome was thus the Christian capital throughout most of the medieval period.†   (source)
  • What medieval person would have believed such a thing possible?†   (source)
  • Maybe you could do your dining room in medieval monk skulls.†   (source)
  • The one main road through town led uphill to an incredible medieval castle.†   (source)
  • The press of people was relieved when the street widened into an old medieval square.†   (source)
  • Some einherjar wore full plate mail like medieval knights.†   (source)
  • My first books were medieval demonologies with illuminated pages.†   (source)
  • "So medieval," an unpleasantly shrill, female voice gushed back.†   (source)
  • The walls rose about three feet and were utterly medieval in their homeliness.†   (source)
  • Like some medieval town with the castle smack at the center.†   (source)
  • The Church with all its medieval lunacies once held sway over Cuba.†   (source)
  • If it was a catapult, it needed to look appropriately medieval.†   (source)
  • From the outside it looked like an ancient stone castle like they had in medieval times.†   (source)
  • All I could picture in my head was a ridiculous medieval suit of armor.†   (source)
  • Two large towers rise like medieval buttresses.†   (source)
  • Alex reached for a leather satchel and unclasped it to reveal a row of medieval torture implements.†   (source)
  • Back in medieval times, some of the Vikings settled in Russia.†   (source)
  • 'I'm not certain,' I said, unable to keep my eyes off that awful medieval Satan.†   (source)
  • It's like a movie-set version of a French medieval village—only it isn't a movie set.†   (source)
  • She wore a conical steel helmet over a green head wrap, sort of like a medieval knight.†   (source)
  • I'm a woman, the Pontiff is not; he's merely medieval.†   (source)
  • T.J. jabbed his bayonet through the faceplate of a medieval knight.†   (source)
  • To say I nurtured a medieval atmosphere in a modern, incredulous world.†   (source)
  • You've heard about mad medieval nuns and monks turned rapist.†   (source)
  • Lot of people say they're a medieval torture.†   (source)
  • Medieval.†   (source)
  • It was an image almost mediaeval in its plain lines, its angular clarity: a nun in a cloister, a maiden in a towered dungeon, awaiting the next day's burning at the stake, or else the last-minute champion come to rescue her.†   (source)
  • Ron was seriously affronted when a medieval wizard called out that he clearly had a bad case of spattergroit.†   (source)
  • Buildings crowded together inside high walls like a medieval town, way older than any place Leo had seen before.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks…. nothing in A Guide to Medieval Sorcery …. not one mention of underwater exploits in An Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Charms, or in Dreadful Denizens of the Deep, or Powers You Never Knew You Had and What to Do with Them Now Youve Wised Up.†   (source)
  • If it were possible to run from disease spirits, the medieval Europeans would've put on their track shoes and escaped the Black Death.†   (source)
  • As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter, as witness the pagan elements in medieval Christianity and the evolution of the Russian "KGB" from the czarist secret service that preceded it; and Gilead was no exception to this rule.†   (source)
  • The fast food joints along the Strip seem insignificant compared to the new monuments towering over them: recreations of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Sphinx, enormous buildings that evoke Venice, Paris, New York, Tuscany, medieval England, ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle East, the South Seas.†   (source)
  • It was so dense in places that it even reflected the sunlight, making it appear like a medieval suit of armor.†   (source)
  • Before Daddy can get started on telling us more about medieval Scotland, I say, "Let's send Gogo a care package!†   (source)
  • All around the room stood life-size ice sculpture warriors—some in Greek armor, some medieval, some in modern camouflage—all frozen in various attack positions, swords raised, guns locked and loaded.†   (source)
  • Shoulder to shoulder, half standing, half sitting, they faced their childhood home whose architecturally confused medieval references seemed now to be whimsically lighthearted; their mother's migraine was a comic interlude in a light opera, the sadness of the twins a sentimental extravagance, the incident in the kitchen no more than the merry jostling of lively spirits.†   (source)
  • The skin becomes almost translucent, the eye sockets dark, so that the sufferer takes on the appearance of a martyr in medieval paintings.†   (source)
  • Like a medieval executioner peering through the tilted eye-slits of his peaked black hood at the executionee.†   (source)
  • If you strike a man on the top of his head with a katana and do not make 2flY effort to stop the blade, it will divide his;kull and probably get hung up in his collarbone or his pelvis, and then you will be out there in the middle of the medieval battlefield with a foot on your late opponent's face, trying to work the blade loose as his best friend comes running up to you with a certain vengeful gleam in his eye.†   (source)
  • 'Get over here,' muttered Hermione, tugging at Harry's wrist and pulling him back into a recess where the ugly stone head of a medieval wizard stood muttering to itself on a column.†   (source)
  • I'm dressed like a medieval peasant (we're studying the Black Plague), and I have a fierce scowl and a dead rat dangling from one hand.†   (source)
  • It could have been a modest abode in almost any age—ancient Athens, medieval France, the farmlands of Iowa.†   (source)
  • He runs across the sand at full tilt, then stops and stares up at the ramparts rearing above him as though imagining pennants and cannons and medieval archers ranged along the parapets.†   (source)
  • Nikhil registers for his first four classes: Intro to the History of Art, Medieval History, a semester of Spanish, Astronomy to fulfill his hard science requirement.†   (source)
  • We are like lepers in medieval times.†   (source)
  • The hollow let out an ear-splitting screech and began to lift sheep to its slavering jaws one after another, taking a blood-spurting bite from each and then tossing it aside like a gluttonous king gorging at a medieval feast.†   (source)
  • Medieval stuff.†   (source)
  • The only way they could assimilate it was to abandon the entire medieval outlook and enter into a new expansion of reason.†   (source)
  • Every few years, there seemed to be another news article about the missing masterworks, which along with my Goldfinch and two loaned van der Asts also included some valuable Medieval pieces and a number of Egyptian antiquities; scholars had written papers, there had even been books; it was mentioned as one of the Ten Top Art Crimes on the FBI's website; previously, I'd taken great comfort in the fact that most people assumed that whoever had made off with the van der Asts from…†   (source)
  • The symbol , as any scholar of medieval art would recognize, was a well-known symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of people in the beautiful and damaged medieval town of Deventer who deeply disliked Ruud van der Spil.†   (source)
  • As I drove I found myself giving and taking an oral examination based on the kind of quibbling fine-points that had entertained several centuries' worth of medieval idlers.†   (source)
  • Sometimes influence is direct and obvious, as when the twentieth-century American writer T. Coraghessan Boyle writes "The Overcoat II," a postmodern reworking of the nineteenth-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's classic story "The Overcoat," or when William Trevor updates James Joyce's "Two Gallants" with "Two More Gallants," or when John Gardner reworks the medieval Beowulf into his little postmodern masterpiece Grendel.†   (source)
  • Then came Astronomy at midnight, up on the tallest tower; History of Magic on Wednesday morning, in which Harry scribbled everything Florean Fortescue had ever told him about medieval witch-hunts, while wishing he could have had one of Fortescue's choco-nut sundaes with him in the stifling classroom.†   (source)
  • Ammu was incoherent with rage and disbelief at what was happening to her—at being locked away like the family lunatic in a medieval household.†   (source)
  • We were led on another twisty passage, down a winding metal stair, then through what looked like a medieval dungeon.†   (source)
  • It was the acceptance of the Copernican revolution that distinguishes modern man from his medieval predecessors.†   (source)
  • The medieval world of feudal politics and religious dogma and hateful superstitions fell before science.†   (source)
  • Harry didn't have to do his homework under the blankets by flashlight anymore; now he could sit in the bright sunshine outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, finishing all his essays with occasional help from Florean Fortescue himself, who, apart from knowing a great deal about medieval witch burnings, gave Harry free sundaes every half an hour.†   (source)
  • Behind those medieval walls lay the bodies of a million insects, and under its floors the cooling corpses of spiders and mice.†   (source)
  • On their right was a medieval-style garden, famous for its ancient rosebushes and Shadow House gazebo.†   (source)
  • He's referring to a current patient, a boy back in Cange whose hand got caught in a sugarcane press—a "low medieval device," Farmer called it—and ended up with gangrene.†   (source)
  • The centrepiece of the Fowl estate was a renovated late-medieval/earlymodern castle, built by Lord Hugh Fowl in the fifteenth century.†   (source)
  • A series of candles on medieval floor stands shed a flickering glow on a wall that was completely hidden beneath pages of text, photos, and drawings.†   (source)
  • In the Aristotelian tradition as interpreted by the medieval scholastics, man is counted a rational animal, capable of seeking and defining the good life and achieving it.†   (source)
  • Beyond the prelature's adherence to the arcane ritual of corporal mortification, their views on women were medieval at best.†   (source)
  • C#63 CHAPTER 63 In a quiet neighborhood just west of Embassy Row in Washington, there exists a medieval-style walled garden whose roses, it is said, spring from twelfth-century plants.†   (source)
  • Half a millennium's bad drainage from the medieval walls had transformed the foundations into a virtual bog.†   (source)
  • He consistently harked back to St. Thomas Aquinas, who had taken Plato and Aristotle and made them part of his medieval synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian faith.†   (source)
  • The medieval Italian card game was so replete with hidden heretical symbolism that Langdon had dedicated an entire chapter in his new manuscript to the Tarot.†   (source)
  • As predicted, it swooped through the decimated doorway without knocking so much as a sliver of stone from the medieval walls.†   (source)
  • They insisted that no values can be fixed, and that a valid modern philosophy need not reckon with ideas as they are expressed in the books of ancient and medieval times.†   (source)
  • With the exception of the eerie, robot-like doll of a medieval knight that seemed to be staring at him from the corner of Saunière's desk, Collet was comfortable.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in the garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows—noose around his neck, left pant leg rolled up to the knee, right sleeve rolled up to the elbow, and his shirt gaping open to reveal his bare chest.†   (source)
  • One of Jacques Saunière's favorite pastimes was bringing Da Vinci's more obscure brainstorms to life—timepieces, water pumps, cryptexes, and even a fully articulated model of a medieval French knight, which now stood proudly on the desk in his office.†   (source)
  • Moving faster than Butler would have believed possible, the troll sprang across the lobby, brushing the medieval armour aside as though it were a shop mannequin.†   (source)
  • He continued to read day and night—ancient mystical texts, epic medieval poems, the early philosophers—and the more he learned about the true nature of things, the more he realized that all hope for mankind was lost.†   (source)
  • To throw out Hume's conclusions was necessary, but unfortunately he had arrived at them in such a way that it was seemingly impossible to throw them out without abandoning empirical reason itself and retiring into some medieval predecessor of empirical reason.†   (source)
  • But if a group of foreign students were brought in, or, say, medieval poems out of the range of class experience were brought in, then the students' ability to rank Quality would probably not correlate as well.†   (source)
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