I had gotten a good echo from him, like the unblurred ring of uncracked metal when you tap a bronze vase with a fingernail.

Rare decorations dating to the ninth century B.C., bronze vases and ancient skeletons make the medieval towers outside seem downright modern.

Two large 19th-century bronze vases flank the stairway at the far end.

The mantelpiece held a bronze clock and two bronze vases.

"Much mischief may be done in a week, and this is the beginning of it," muttered Treherne, as he raised himself to look under the bronze vase for the note.

In one case, brass makes a golden cloud on the patinated surface of a smoothly curving bronze vase (about $1,850).

A jury of eight men and one woman was selected from among 24 names placed in a bronze vase.

Jehan Addels, watching from behind the couch, uttered a sharp cry and threw a bronze vase.

Items recovered include bronze vases, objects of lead and clay, weapons, iron tools, and figurines.

On a low platform across the room, bronze vases stand in a row.