220 examples of alcoves in sentences
Lighting our candles, which seemed to have no illuminating power in the thick darkness, we groped our way onward as best we could along narrow lanes and alleys, from chamber to chamber, around rustic columns and heaps of fallen rocks, stopping to rest now and then in particularly beautiful placesfairy alcoves furnished with admirable variety of shelves and tables, and round bossy stools covered with sparkling crystals.
Sidney, the poet, courtier, and soldier, wrote not from the musty alcoves of libraries.
He was from a very early period a Trustee of the Society Library, in which he took great interest, delighting to make additions to its stock of books, and passing much time in its alcoves and its reading rooms.
you can hear the plump, plump of the metate from the alcoves of the vines where comfortable old dames, whose experience gives them the touch of art, are pounding out corn for tamales.
Verulam Buildings had not encroached upon all the east side of them, cutting out delicate green crankles, and shouldering away one of two of the stately alcoves of the terracethe survivor stands gaping and relationless as if it remembered its brotherthey are still the best gardens of any of the Inns of Court, my beloved Temple not forgottenhave the gravest character, their aspect being altogether reverend
Verulam Buildings had not encroached upon all the east side of them, cutting out delicate green crankles, and shouldering away one of two of the stately alcoves of the terracethe survivor stands gaping and relationless as if it remembered its brotherthey are still the best gardens of any of the Inns of Court, my beloved Temple not forgottenhave the gravest character, their aspect being altogether reverend
And presently lawns and shrubberies, widening invariably simple flower-beds, supplanted the stately uniformity of terraces, alleys converging on central fountains, or on alcoves as solid and stiff as the palace itself, and trees cut into all kinds of fantastic shapes, which had previously been regarded as the masterpieces of the gardeners' invention.
Then Mrs. Golding would have us take her into the garden and show us what used to be our mother's favourite walks and alcoves; there was a good prospect of the house from one of them, and she stood some time regarding it.
One of these alcoves contains a bed, and a door opening into an adjoining oratory, which has immediate communication with the chancel of the great church, so that an occupant of the bed might, if supported in a sitting posture, have a view of the high altar and witness the elevation of the host.
XI In the living-hall Margaret came upon Hugh Van Orden, who was searching in one of the alcoves for a piece of music that Adèle Haggage wanted and had misplaced.
The tablets high are heaped, the alcoves full, Where truth at last has found a welcome goal.
The books are arranged in alcoves according to their character,TheologyBiblical LiteratureClassicsHistoryPhilosophy; and so forth.
Silently the father and daughter walked up and down the room, looking into the alcoves.
Proof against fire from without, it had ladders to mount from floor to floor and often contained its beds in the deep recesses of the windows, or in alcoves wrought in the massive wall.
The white figures melted and warmed into masses and alcoves, and innumerable volumes looked affectionately at me.
The grounds are ornamented with rustic alcoves, boscages, and a bowery walk, all in good taste.
They were merely flowers, like all others, grown in a land like other lands, but the frame of the thousand-year-old wall, the propinquity of the alcoves and drinking shops of a house built by Pansa in the time of the first Caesars, gave them the interest of roses two thousand years old, miraculously preserved.
Inclosed within a high stone wall were beautiful gardens with fountains and shrines, where images of departed saints, in alcoves lighted with tapers were worshiped on certain days of the year.
I am a student only of ball rooms, bar rooms, streets, and alcoves.
In the days when he had deemed it necessary to affect singularity, Des Esseintes had designed marvelously strange furnishings, dividing his salon into a series of alcoves hung with varied tapestries to relate by a subtle analogy, by a vague harmony of joyous or sombre, delicate or barbaric colors to the character of the Latin or French books he loved.
At one end there are two large arches; these were adorned with wreaths and bunches of artificial flowers upon the walls; in the alcoves were cornucopiae loaded with oranges, sweetmeats, and other trifles.
In one corner lay a bearskin and blanket; at the side were two alcoves or indentations, one of which was evidently used as a table, and the other as a cupboard.
Begin by finding particular locations in a room; corners, alcoves, doors, etc. 2. LARGE OBJECTS.
Book shelves projected from each side toward the middle, forming alcoves.
Seated in one of these alcoves, you could be seen only by persons who should chance to pass.