Mundane considerations were imperative and courtyards were a luxury of the rich.

And for what striking bits of colonial life has this old courtyard been the setting!

The courtyard of the castle was soon the last scene of the contest.

All round the courtyard are rooms, the doors and windows of which are jealously closed, but as we pass we hear whispered conversations behind them, and titters of suppressed merriment.

Its courtyard is a dream of beauty, and the stone galleries around it are surrounded with inscriptions of great age.

The courtyard of her house is wide XIX There is a medlar-tree XX I behold Arcturus going westward

Yet the mosque which this precious gem made famous is abandoned and deserted, and the courtyard is now a cow pasture.