I have seen the hull of a steamboat that was smaller than one of those stones.

All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days.

A race of gods or of giants must have inhabited Baalbec many a century ago.

Men like the men of our day could hardly rear such temples as these.
We went to the quarry from whence the stones of Baalbec were taken.

It was about a quarter of a mile off, and down hill.