At these opposite poles of judgment, Sam may be taken as either icon or gargoyle. |
Our house sported gables and towers, gingerbread and scrollwork, stained-glass and leering wooden gargoyle bas-reliefs. |
First, it isn't cursed with a face like a gargoyle, like so many other Korean products have been in the past. |
I must have cut a bitter and pathetic figure, lit up in the flickering candle light like a Shakespearean gargoyle in Dolce and Gabbana trousers. |
Like some horrendous, watchful gargoyle, the Nipe crouched motionlessly on the shadowed roof of the low building. |
The two gruesome gargoyle bookends are based on the watchful pair who overlook the St Magnus Cathedral west door, gazing out over Broad Street. |