Their wrists and ankles were tied, and the dark drapery prevented them from seeing anything and from being recognised.
Hamilcar, in a red cloak, like the priests of Moloch, was beside the Baal, standing upright in front of the great toe of its right foot.

When the fourteenth child was brought every one could see him make a great gesture of horror.

But he soon resumed his former attitude, folded his arms, and looked upon the ground.

The high pontiff stood on the other side of the statue as motionless as he.

His head, laden with an Assyrian mitre, was bent, and he was watching the gold plate on his breast; it was covered with fatidical stones, and the flame mirrored in it formed irisated lights.