The famous toy palace, with its more than six hundred rooms, its dungeons and secret passageways, its gardens and courtyards and orchards, rose to the height of a man's chest and occupied its own chamber, across from the King's library.
As soon as a disk flower exposes its pollen to some bee likely to come buzzing by, it closes the passageway to its ovary, to avoid being self-pollinated.
It was, and is, a destination for tourists whose guidebooks tell of its secret passageways and its back-alley entrances.
The Long Island Rail Road's new East Side Access terminal will introduce numerous street connections and a possible new passageway from its own concourse directly to the Lexington Avenue subway so that the overcrowding above can be eased.
An underground passageway with its own display of art will run through four of the museums: the Altes Museum, or Old Museum; the Neues Museum, or New Museum; the Pergamon Museum; and the Bode Museum.
This edifice borrowed its three arch-shaped passageways and its sectioning by means of Classically influenced half-columns from ancient triumphal arches.
The walk along the canals and through winding passageways was its own reward, and it was early enough in the season that the streets were not yet choked with tourists.
This last belief is so powerful that when workmen cleared out the basement of the Nightingale-Brown house some years ago, a crew from a local TV station showed up to film the opening of its passageway.
The dense foliage covering the chapter house and its passageway is a veritable botanical garden in stone, and the subject of a delightful little book by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, "The Leaves of Southwell" (1945), reprinted by Southwell Minster and sold in the bookshop.
This covered bazaar offered Schwartz a sense of living history; with all manner of foodstuffs, jewelry, textiles, and tools being traded along its vaulted passageways just as in its Silk Road heyday.
