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  • Beholding images of uncanny accuracy, presented at enormous scale and in the round, visitors to Barker's Leicester Square rotunda could find themselves thrust into military engagements on the major battlefields of Europe or bewildered by exotic locales at the farthest reaches of the Empire.

    A Physical Place of Enchanting Illusion Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • Beholding folks settling into the spindle-backed number revealed Maloof's genius.

    Comfort and Joy Jeremy Hildreth 2012

  • Beholding the magnificent stadium, its intricate columns, its expansive roof, its plush seating, he continued, intensely touched:

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • Beholding the magnificent stadium, its intricate columns, its expansive roof, its plush seating, he continued, intensely touched:

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • Beholding the magnificent stadium, its intricate columns, its expansive roof, its plush seating, he continued, intensely touched:

    Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011

  • Beholding the infirmarer, with a second habited brother beside him, he immediately lowered his gaze again to his reading, his face impassive.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Beholding the work in progress in the meadow, the row of shrouded bodies, the last of them just brought forth and laid beside the rest, and the chaplain, drooping and disconsolate, stumbling after, the driver of the cart, blithely ignoring the guards at the gate, turned his team aside, and made straight for the place of burial.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Beholding a Benedictine brother, he perceptibly relaxed his braced shoulders, slackened his grip on the spade, and called a greeting across the dozen yards or so between.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Beholding the Johnson Wax administration building here, one can only wish that its famously strong-willed architect, F.ank Lloyd Wright, had managed to persuade Herbert F. Johnson Jr. to locate it outside the city.

    Wright's House of Wax 2009

  • Beholding the bitter tears which spring to my eyes and my old wrinkled skin torn by my hands; for what can I do else? who never laid out my children dead within my halls, nor now behold their tombs heaped up with earth.

    The Suppliants 2008

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