The number and variety of fountains at play were amazing, all gifts of visiting kings, and called after them.

Out southwest to the gates of the Grove, the magnificent thoroughfare stretched a little over four miles from the city.
In his wretchedness of feeling, Ben-Hur barely observed the royal liberality which marked the construction of the road.

Nor more did he at first notice the crowd going with him.

He treated the processional displays with like indifference.

To say truth, besides his self-absorption, he had not a little of the complacency of a Roman visiting the provinces fresh from the ceremonies which daily eddied round and round the golden pillar set up by Augustus as the centre of the world.