Sidney, the poet, courtier, and soldier, wrote not from the musty alcoves of libraries.

" "Be it so," answered the Magician: and the star became a lovely alabaster lamp, set in an alcove in his study.

With as light a step and as little noise as possible, I descended into the garden from the veranda, and approaching the alcove on the side where its foliage was thickest, I found that the beauty, of which I had before thought so highly, did not appear less on a closer survey.

The shadow in the alcove at the end in particular, had that undefinable quality of a presence, that odd suggestion of a lurking, living thing, that comes so easily in silence and solitude.

It was impossible, however, to push backward, but in an instant the lovers were sheltered in an alcove near the doorway.

They gave as a reason for sticking the new part against their own irregularly that they intended to use the alcoves for verandahs!

He turned round to conduct his wife to the little alcove from which she should vanish.

There also her little great-grandson Peter first learned to walk, and as she slowly passed from one alcove to the other, resting in each when she reached it, he would take hold of her high staff and totter beside her, always bestowing on her as much as he could of his company, and early showing a preference for her over his aunt and even over his mother.

She was found by them when Mr. Mortimer and his brother had withdrawn sitting in her favourite alcove with her chin resting upon her staff.

'Now when the King sitteth in his opal alcove by the sacred lake with the orchids blooming around him all sounds are become still.

She registered, was assigned a room, and ate luncheon to the melancholy accompaniment of a three-man orchestra struggling vainly with Bach in an alcove off the dining room.

The musicians had laid away their cornopeans and other cunningly twisted horns upon the broad disk of the big drum, in a dark alcove between-decks, and were fishing savagely in German and broken English, according to the nationality with which their affairs happened to get entangled.

It seems he spends all his time in a little alcove opposite his sister's door.

A band of string music, stationed in an alcove behind a row of palms, played popular airs while the guests were gathering.

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.