Crossword-Solution: GRILLES 7 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

This castle, situated in the Quadling Country, far south of the Emerald City where Ozma ruled, was a splendid structure of exquisite marbles and silver grilles.

The streets near the palace were full of noble residences, recording, in their sculptured doorways, in the wrought-iron work of torch-holders and window-grilles, and in every architectural detail, the gradual change of taste that had transformed the machicolations of the mediaeval fighter into the open cortiles and airy balconies of his descendant.

Est-il possible de découvrir une ressemblance entra ces vierges robustes et pures des temps barbares, ces royales métayères, et les abbesses qui, sous Louis XV, mettaient des mouches pour aller à l'office et parfumaient de poudre à la maréchale les lèvres des abbés qui leur baisaient les doigts? Et même alors, même en ces jours de scandale, quand la noblesse jetait dans les abbayes des cadettes révoltées, il y avait de bonnes âmes sous les grilles des maisons conventuelles.

The nuns came beautifully dressed to hear mass at the grilles giving into the chapel adjoining the church; the tourist may have his glimpse of them there on Sundays, and on week-days he may have his guess of their cloistered life and his wonder how much it continues the tradition of repose which the name of the old garden grounds implies.

The passing tram-car might grind him against the tall grilles which were the only barriers to the _patios,_ but otherwise there would be nothing to spoil his enjoyment of those marble floors and tiled walls and fountains potted round with flowering plants.