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[T]he external face of the zophorus, being coated with a very fine cement, had assimilated in colour with the marble of the building, so as to be deceptive, except upon minute inspection.

The architrave in both the Ionic and the Corinthian orders consists of plain slabs, but the frieze … is in nearly every case enriched with a series of beautiful figure subjects, and is therefore known as the Zoophorus or figure-bearer.

[Composer Kaija Saariaho’s] ability to match every mood and shift in the words with music is remarkable, as is her brilliant use of the offstage chorus to add vocalization to the orchestra, and words when necessary. The score is lyrical, mysterious, powerful and hypnotic, and her melodic, arioso vocal lines ride this musical wave with intense drama.

Think of Rodolfo鈥檚 Act I aria in La Boh猫me, 鈥淐he gelida manina,鈥� in which he tells Mim矛, who had knocked on his garret door just moments before, all about his life. The aria is like a monologue in which melodic phrases segue into stretches of arioso writing that straddle aria and recitative.

The steamer Silveropolis was sharply and steadily cleaving the broad, placid shallows of the Sacramento River. A large wave like an eagre, diverging from its bow, was extending to either bank, swamping the tules and threatening to submerge the lower levees.

One eagre occasionally runs eight miles inland, up the River Great Ouse to Wiggenhall, where it鈥檚 known as the 鈥榃iggenhall wave.鈥� At the distant bend in the river, there was a sudden little shrug on the water鈥檚 surface and a crease appeared. Moving slowly but steadily, the crease rolled upstream as the bore pushed its way against the flow.