745 examples of veranda in sentences

Aunt Sykes kept him on the veranda till she was sure he wasn't an agent.

It led into another room, smaller, with no veranda in front of it, yet with a window looking toward the road and two side windows through which the after flush of sunrise streamed.

Farther back, near the dusk of one of the veranda windows, Mrs. Coombe reclined in an easy chair.

called Mrs. Sykes cheerfully from the veranda.

Carmen Gaylor thought, hovering in the doorway between the dim, cool hall and the huge veranda that was like an out-of-doors drawing-room.

She and Nick mounted the steps, passed the fountain which spouted diamond spray through a round head made of some flowering water-plant, went on round a corner, Carmen's dress brushing fallen camellia petals or pink shells of broken roses, and so came to another veranda.

Wherever she decided to live, the house must be like the one where her father had been bornlong and low built of adobe; there must be a patio, with a fountain in the middle; and the rooms must be kept cool by the roof of a veranda, shading the windows like a great overhanging eyelid.

With the other men who did not dance, Jimmie was standing in the doorway when, over the heads of those looking in from the veranda, he saw the white face and black eyes of Maddox.

We were loitering on the steps between the glass veranda and the terrace at the back of the hotel.

To do the man justice, however, I had no fault to find with the very pleasant little circle into which he insisted on ushering me, at one end of the glazed veranda, and should have enjoyed my evening but for an inquisitive anxiety to get in touch with the unsuspecting pair.

" "Haven't we been walking up and down outside this lighted veranda for the last ten minutes?

He was still a little stern; we were just within range of the veranda lights, and I can see and hear him to this day, almost as clearly as I did that night.

It appeared that Bob and Mrs. Lascelles had talked of taking their lunch to the Findelen Glacier on the next fine day, for he came up and reminded her of it as she sat with me in the glazed veranda after dinner.

Consequently I was thus in the last mood for a familiarity from Quinby, who was hanging about the door between the veranda and the hall, and who would not let me pass.

It was still visible, however, when I came down, a white cloud wound about its middle like a cloth, and the hotel telescope already trained upon its summit from the shelter of the glass veranda.

Returning to the glass veranda, after the stock breakfast of the Swiss hotel, with its horseshoe rolls and fabricated honey, I found the telescope the centre of an ominous crowd, on whose fringe hovered my new friend the mountaineer.

I had hoped I might see something of Mrs. Lascelles; she was not one of those in the glass veranda.

Disappointed faces met me on my next visit to the veranda.

I have ordered the corner table on the veranda for supperand such a table!

" We had supper that night in the open air of the veranda, where Jimmie had engaged the table.

" Back at the hotel Lorry was leaning against the veranda rail, talking to Mrs. Weston.

He attached the hose to a faucet, and suggested that Mrs. Weston take a chair, which he brought from the veranda.

She picked up a book and came down, where she found it comfortably cool on the veranda.

The men stepped down from the veranda, and stood near the horses.

" Waring, who had been watching his son closely, strolled to the veranda steps and sat down.

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