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1 I | might crush them against the walls. Then they felt themselves 2 I | divided into several basins by walls of blue stones. So limpid 3 I | terrace brushing against the walls. He strained his ears at 4 I | like a viper through the walls. Come! in the Ancestor’s 5 I | palm-trees that topped the walls here and there were motionless; 6 II | and the people mounted the walls to see them go away.~They 7 II | enough to have made the walls crack, and the long mass 8 II | terraces, fortifications, and walls were hidden beneath the 9 II | did not descend from the walls. The army soon spread over 10 II | could now only see its long walls with their vacant battlements 11 II | camped at the foot of the walls, and the townspeople came 12 II | then appeared a line of walls resting on white rocks and 13 II | white veils moved on the walls in the redness of the evening. 14 II | speedily thrown over the walls; Zarxas had remained among 15 III | exhalation from the sun-heated walls. The motionless waves shone 16 III | which are painted on the walls of the sanctuaries.~“Then 17 IV | CHAPTER IV~BENEATH THE WALLS OF CARTHAGE~Some country 18 IV | sometimes wander along the walls. A little man carefully 19 IV | through colonnades; granite walls supported tile partitions; 20 IV | pediments, on the tops of the walls, at the corners of the squares, 21 IV | walked along the foot of the walls, shouting a demand that 22 IV | limbs knocked against the walls of the narrow duct. The 23 IV | another, opened up amid large walls separating the various basins. 24 IV | about thickened towards the walls and threw them back to an 25 IV | projected over the long lines of walls. The whole town was asleep. 26 V | closed, beat against the walls. Some camels were ruminating 27 V | pearls alternated on the walls, and a hedge of silver filigree 28 V | Spendius was examining the walls.~He wanted the veil, not 29 V | terror more than by their walls. Matho expected to die at 30 V | emptying itself upon the walls of the hall.~Round the latter 31 V | the sheets of talc in the walls were filled with a vinous 32 V | sides up to the tops of the walls. Everywhere he could perceive 33 V | tents, and the people on the walls watched the fortune of Carthage 34 VI | greatness, and it fronted her walls crouching in the mire on 35 VI | inspired when they meet with walls.~Utica and Hippo-Zarytus 36 VI | in red waves against the walls. Finally the tumult would 37 VI | taken for suns passing over walls of brass.~But the Carthaginians 38 VI | quarters at the foot of the walls with their baggage, mules, 39 VII | had to proceed between two walls through a passage which 40 VII | could be seen but lofty walls rising indefinitely like 41 VII | they had passed through the walls.~But as soon as the doorway 42 VII | and finally reached to the walls of the sanctuary.~Here it 43 VII | that the red colour of the walls grew black as it rose towards 44 VII | your houses, behind your walls? There are Gauls on the 45 VII | another by little pebble walls, trenches of spring water, 46 VII | ranged in line like two walls of bronze.~When the echoing 47 VII | bushes at the foot of the walls; and an indefinable odour— 48 VII | the roof along the four walls. In the corners there were 49 VII | the shape of a cone.~The walls were covered with scales 50 VII | benedictions.~Along the walls of the circular gallery, 51 VII | distinguished hanging from the walls.~This was all that remained 52 VIII| old and now useless inner walls demolished in order to furnish 53 VIII| were seen approaching the walls. The Suffet opened the gates 54 VIII| interlacings of thorn, and stone walls; on the summits heaps of 55 VIII| Macaras as though between two walls. He had noticed that the 56 VIII| skeletons leaning against the walls.~All was peaceful amid extraordinary 57 VIII| ergastulum. But give me walls to scale at night, and I 58 IX | last they came beneath the walls of Carthage to implore the 59 IX | of the temples; all the walls were covered with black 60 X | wish to be seen even by the walls. The kinnor-player squatted 61 XI | beams jutting out from the walls obliged them to bend their 62 XI | might be seen along the walls. There were some, too, of 63 XI | wanted to throw down its walls that I might reach you to 64 XII | extended beyond a girdle of walls; then the sea spread out 65 XII | hundred men ascend their walls; then coming behind them 66 XII | were shivering against the walls.~Hamilcar was to be seen 67 XII | front of them, close to the walls, being unwilling to move.~ 68 XII | frightened by the shadows of the walls.~The isthmus was now hidden 69 XII | arrived in front of the walls.~But several days were still 70 XII | for a long time; her broad walls presented a series of re-entrant 71 XII | people for the defence of the walls.~The former slave practised 72 XII | Carthaginians appeared on the walls, the houses, and the temples. 73 XIII| facilitate the approach to the walls, the entrenchments bordering 74 XIII| separated them from the walls.~They pushed forward galleries 75 XIII| curve which fell behind the walls. But long cranes, used for 76 XIII| following day, the tops of the walls were completely carpeted 77 XIII| drove augers against the walls; these were applied to the 78 XIII| rampart. It was formed of two walls and was completely filled 79 XIII| against the foot of the walls like an overflowing sea.~ 80 XIII| to the same height as the walls, so as to enable them to 81 XIII| kindled the neighbouring walls, and long flames suddenly 82 XIII| her. The summits of the walls at the end of the town cut 83 XIII| quarters remote from the walls, the inhabitants, whose 84 XIII| issue naturally from the walls. Then the Barbarians, not 85 XIII| of the doors touched the walls; in the middle of the upper 86 XIII| be distinguished on the walls. A broken-down wooden tower 87 XIII| silent steps, feeling the walls around him, and came into 88 XIII| shoulders overlapped the walls. No sooner did the Carthaginians 89 XIII| still more were needful. The walls, with their burden of people, 90 XIII| Barbarians to the foot of the walls; they clung to the wreck 91 XIV | cloths hung dimly upon the walls, and the washed temple-roofs 92 XIV | not hesitate to leave the walls in order to try and rejoin 93 XIV | shut himself up within its walls. This persistence was full 94 XIV | his country, was under the walls of the town on the appointed 95 XIV | schalischim gazed at its lofty walls from afar, looking back 96 XIV | so as all to attack the walls simultaneously.~But Hamilcar 97 XIV | he could pass between the walls and Narr’ Havas’s tents 98 XIV | meanwhile, had bored through the walls and reached the citadel. 99 XIV | the horizon as far as the walls of Carthage; he even thought 100 XIV | they had plucked from the walls, and the great beasts, in 101 XIV | through the breaches in the walls to the centre of the plain; 102 XIV | their country, forsaking its walls, was coming to command them 103 XV | staircases which rose against the walls, and drew together at the 104 XV | all the openings in the walls were stopped up with heads; 105 XV | by the entire people. The walls would vibrate with it from