That road ran close under the huge rock on which the citadel is built.

Gordon had appeared on the ramparts, and had made a sign that he had something to say.

Dundee had climbed high enough to hear and to be heard, and was then actually conferring with the Duke.
Up to that moment the hatred with which the Presbyterian members of the assembly regarded the merciless persecutor of their brethren in the faith had been restrained by the decorous forms of parliamentary deliberation.

But now the explosion was terrible.

Hamilton himself, who, by the acknowledgment of his opponents, had hitherto performed the duties of President with gravity and impartiality, was the loudest and fiercest man in the hall.