35 adjectives to describe grottos

Never did a fairer scene undergo a worse degradation; and here, in one or other of the twelve villas which Tiberius had built, and among the azure grottoes which he caused to be constructed, the youthful Caius grew up to manhood.

Here were a number of tables, some in little grottos, like our Vauxhall in New York, with red and blue and white paper lanterns hung among the foliage.

One end of the room is an artificial grotto, and into and out of the canvas rocks this enormous cat kept creeping, thrusting his round face and blazing eyes out of unexpected holes in the manner of the true carnivora, as if he had been trained by the management as an entertainer.

It is a good centre for numerous excursionsnotably that to the Cirque de Troumouseand possesses an excellent botanist as well as a celebrated grotto.

Standing in this dripping grotto, with his feet on the edge of a probably bottomless pool, Gilliatt suddenly became aware in the transparence of that water of the approach of some mystic form.

Now is the time; be aiding to your fate; From the watch-tower, above the western-gate, I have discerned the foe securely lie, Too proud to fear a beaten enemy: Their careless chiefs to the cool grottoes run, The bowers of kings, to shade them from the sun.

As he walks up and down in the gold-and-purple evening twilight, his mind seems to him calm as that glowing sea that reflects the purple shores of Ischia, and the quaint, fantastic grottos and cliff's of Capri.

The town of Sorrento itself overhangs the sea, skirting along rocky shores, which, hollowed here and there into picturesque grottoes, and fledged with a wild plumage of brilliant flowers and trailing vines, descend in steep precipices to the water.

One day Amanda restlessly wandered a little way up the mountain, and fell asleep in a lovely grotto, which she now for the first time discovered.

Then on a sudden I found myself in a grotto so marvellous that I uttered a cry of astonishment, and started up in my admiration with a bound which endangered the frail bark on which I stood.

Above this memorable grotto stands a plain monument erected in memory of Philopapoe.

She passed the little moist grotto, which in former times she never failed to visit to see if there were any new-blown cyclamen, without giving it even a thought.

In hunting a crab he found himself once more in the mysterious grotto that glittered with jewel-like flowers.

There were obscure grottoes in her soul which she had not had the courage to explore candidly.

A pleasant grotto discovered; in it a fountain spouting; round about it Vasquez, Pizarro, and other Spaniards, lying carelessly unarmed, and by them many Indian women, one of which sings the following song.

This tower is made of glazed tiles, of the most brilliant sea-blue color, and sparkles in the sun like a vast pillar of icy spar in some Polar grotto.

It grew in a rocky grotto whose sides were kept moist by dripping water.

Some people have constructed artificial caves which they use as stables, for their cattle; and possibly some have such rude grottos for their homes!

Like all Turkish peoples, the Toba possessed a myth according to which their ancestors came into the world from a sacred grotto.

The poet tells us of a secluded grotto surrounded by trembling reeds once frequented by the wood-nymphs of the sylvan race: Till Appulus with a dishonest air And gross behaviour, banished thence the fair.

His lordship was looking intently toward the palm-shaded grotto at the base of the lower terrace.

Down in a vale with pine and cypress clad, Refreshed with gentle winds, and brown with shade, The chaste Diana's private haunt, there stood Full in the centre of the darksome wood A spacious grotto, all around o'ergrown 20 With hoary moss, and arched with pumice-stone.

The town possessed several natural wonderssacred springs, stalactite grottoes, and a deep cavern remarkable for its mephitic exhalations.

He has made a subterranean grotto, which he has furnished with looking-glass, and they tell me it has a very good effect.

That night I reposed my wearied limbs in the boat, resolving the next morning to harbour what I had gotten in my new-found subterraneous grotto; & not to carry my cargo home to my ancient castle.

35 adjectives to describe  grottos