Solution Found:
<div id="bigbox">
<div class="leftimage" img src="images/c1.jpg" class="imageleft" alt="Image"/></div>
<div class="rightimage" img src="images/c2.jpg" class="imageright" alt="Image"/></div>
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<p class="noindentt">George Washington was the first president of our country.<br/><b>Don’t you believe it</b>.</p>
This aligned the two images which I then floated left and right in the CSS. The text within the images "noindentt" then moved up between them. Again, I adjusted the CSS until I got the text margin-top where I wanted it. So when a reader goes through the book, it doesn't matter what size font was used - the brackets remained aligned and in place.