The monkey's face, distorted with passion, appeared at an upper window of the house, and a starred hole in the
stained-glass window to the left of 'the front door showed the first steps of his upward path.
Here, the moonlight is so very bright again that the colours of the nearest
stained-glass window are thrown upon their faces.
We loitered through the grand aisles for an hour or two, staring up at the rich
stained-glass windows embellished with blue and yellow and crimson saints and martyrs, and trying to admire the numberless great pictures in the chapels, and then we were admitted to the sacristy and shown the magnificent robes which the Pope wore when he crowned Napoleon I; a wagon-load of solid gold and silver utensils used in the great public processions and ceremonies of the church; some nails of the true cross, a fragment of the cross itself, a part of the crown of thorns.
Well may the court be dim, with wasting candles here and there; well may the fog hang heavy in it, as if it would never get out; well may the
stained-glass windows lose their colour and admit no light of day into the place; well may the uninitiated from the streets, who peep in through the glass panes in the door, be deterred from entrance by its owlish aspect and by the drawl, languidly echoing to the roof from the padded dais where the Lord High Chancellor looks into the lantern that has no light in it and where the attendant wigs are all stuck in a fog-bank!
He walked through, looking neither to the right nor the left, crossed the great library, with its curved roof, its floor of cedar wood, and its wonderful
stained-glass windows, and entered a smaller room beyond--his absolute and impenetrable sanctum.
The broad, long room they entered was decorated in gold with
stained-glass windows of splendid colors.
The
stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
Reginald Wilfer is a name with rather a grand sound, suggesting on first acquaintance brasses in country churches, scrolls in
stained-glass windows, and generally the De Wilfers who came over with the Conqueror.
Without more words the maid led them to a richly furnished drawing-room, lighted with subdued rainbow tints that came in through beautiful
stained-glass windows.
At that moment, we were just in front of the high altar; and the moonbeams fell straight upon us through the
stained-glass windows of the apse.
Then, if your view ran along the bank, from east to west, from the Tournelle to the Tour de Nesle, there was a long cordon of houses, with carved beams,
stained-glass windows, each story projecting over that beneath it, an interminable zigzag of bourgeois gables, frequently interrupted by the mouth of a street, and from time to time also by the front or angle of a huge stone mansion, planted at its ease, with courts and gardens, wings and detached buildings, amid this populace of crowded and narrow houses, like a grand gentleman among a throng of rustics.
DAVID HOCKNEY has unveiled a
stained-glass window tribute to the Queen at Westminster Abbey, saying: "I hope she'll like it".