whispering-gallery

If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face down-most for ages on a forsaken beach, or "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests," it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:-this world being apparently a huge whispering-gallery.

Archive 2005-01-01 2005

If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face down-most for ages on a forsaken beach, or "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests," it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago:-this world being apparently a huge whispering-gallery.

Uriel's View 2005

Exhausted, physically and mentally, and with my mind a whispering-gallery of conjectures (it were needless for me to mention whom respecting) I turned in, gratefully, having patched up the slight wound in my calf.

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer 1921

By listening intently they could hear almost what they said, for the stone stairway acted like a whispering-gallery, the voices echoing up it from wall to wall.

Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

By listening intently they could hear almost what they said, for the stone stairway acted like a whispering-gallery, the voices echoing up it from wall to wall.

Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

I've said that thoughts covered the seas with floating cities, and converted the world into a whispering-gallery.

All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Joseph Hocking 1898

The stone steps and the stone floor of the hall, the stuccoed walls, and the coved stucco roof which held the skylight at the top, made a whispering-gallery of that gaunt staircase; and before Mr Sharnall had climbed half-way up he heard voices.

The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

When June became perfect, and afterwards till nuts were ripe, my father loved to lie at full length upon the mossy and leaf-strewn floor, looking up at the green roof, the lofty whispering-gallery of vaulted boughs, with its azure lattices and descending sunlight-shafts; wrapped in imaginings some of which were afterwards to delight the world; but many more of them, no doubt, were fated to join the glorious company of untold tales.

Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

London discussions might as well go on in the whispering-gallery of St. Paul's.

The Path Of Duty Henry James 1879

If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face down-most for ages on a forsaken beach, or "rest quietly under the drums and tramplings of many conquests," it may end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and other scandals gossiped about long empires ago: -- this world being apparently a huge whispering-gallery.

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871