37 examples of rockery in sentences

What in the world are you going to do with those?" "I'm going to make a rockery, ma'am, by the window.

" The rockery was completed, and was a most imposing structure.

At the base of the rockery were a large pink-lined conch-shell and several smaller shells.

" Following through a toy courtyard, among shadow hints of pigmy shrubs and rockery, they found themselves cramped in a bare, clean cell, lighted by a European lamp, but smelling of soy and Asiatics.

A gateway in Lancaster-road, leading to a footpath, fringed with rockery, would appear to be the front way, but it is only a rear road, and when you get fairly upon it you wonder where it will end whether you will be able to get to the interior by it, or only to some rails on one side and a wall on the other.

In the garden there is a quantity of handsome rockery, purchased by the late Mr. James Carr (who was at one time a warden), out of the church funds.

This rockery was originally placed in the church yard, along with that still remaining there; but it was thought by somebody that the yard didn't require so much ornamental stone, so a quantity of it was removed to the place mentioned.

"At the end of this garden there is a small studio which had been built by a former owner of the house, and behind it a small piece of waste ground about seven feet square which had once been a rockery, and is still filled with large loose stones, in the shadow of which earwigs and woodlice innumerable have made a happy hunting ground.

" "I'll play on a rockery, if you want me to," said Mike.

[Illustration: "YOU'VE GOT SOME ROCKERY HERE, DAD, SINCE I LEFT.

And so Jim Butcher, playing this time from the rockery end, brought off the double event and caused another new clause to be added to the local rules.

In front of the cabin itself was a "rockery" of pink quartz, on which were piled elk antlers.

According to Woolson, "No rockery is complete without the Hart's Tongue, the long, glossy, undulating fronds of which are sufficiently unique to distinguish any collection."

A fine species for cultivation at the base of the artificial rockery.

On the right of this gate, on the garden side, was a bit of a rockery which was said to have been made by my father's mother many years before.

I can remember that my eyes caught a little knob of marble as broad as my palm, which was imbedded in one of the grey stones of the rockery, and I found time to admire its delicate mottling.

Something growing over a rockery.

He seemed to like employment, regarding it as a sort of game, and Kinkle, Lady Wondershoot's agent, seeing him shift a rockery for her one day, was struck by the brilliant idea of putting him into her chalk quarry at Thursley Hanger, hard by Hickleybrow.

They walked out on the green sward, under the evergreen oaks where the young rooks are swinging; out on the mundane swards into the pleasure ground; a rosery and a rockery; the pleasure ground divided from the park by iron railings, the park encircled by the rich elms, the elms shutting out the view of the lofty downs.

And about the rockery there are purple bunches of lilac, and the striped awning of the tennis seat touches with red the paleness of the English spring.

A charming little herbaceous perennial which proves quite hardy in our climate, and well deserves a place in the rockery.

They are suitable for the border or the rockery, and will grow in any soil if not too dry and exposed.

" Nertera Depressa (Coral Berry).This pretty Moss-like plant is fairly hardy, and is eminently suited for a sheltered position on the rockery.

I whispered; "Bob has just got the range of a supply train on the far side of the rockery, and if Nevin (Nevin is the Crown Prince of Wurtemberg) doesn't get the longitude of Bob's battery in the next minute or so it's all up with his day's rations.

The tenth edifice of the great temple at Tenochtitlan was a wall surrounding an artificial rockery planted with these bushes.

37 examples of  rockery  in sentences