"Ivy-mantled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... only that the lands of Lochard and Cringlecut still pay a fine of six bolls of barley annually, to atone the guilt of their audacious owner, who intruded himself and his worldly suspicions upon the seclusion of the Abbot and his penitent.Admire the little belfry rising above the ivy-mantled porchthere was here a hospitium, hospitale, or hospitamentum (for it is written all these various ways in the old writings and evidents), in which the monks received pilgrims. I know our minister has said, in the Statistical Account, that the hospitium ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
... end of the old altar was still found to be intact. The priest's pulpit chair had become ivy-mantled, and one handle had rotted from its fastenings and had fallen to the floor. Statues of the Saints had pitched from their moorings in the alcoves along the walls and were lying face-downward or standing on their heads ...
— The Woman with a Stone Heart - A Romance of the Philippine War • Oscar William Coursey
... yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain 10 Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray |
