Opposite to the singing-seats towered the pulpit, from which the clergyman looked down upon us like a sparrow upon the house-top.
He recognised them, cold in him of death, though the outlines reared higher than the pyramids, and towered up to hide whole groups of stars.
The wall in which it had been the opening had crumbled away, but the great gate still towered above the brambles and weeds which had overgrown its base.