Pushing back the heavy ebony doors we entered the courtyard, but upon the threshold of the great hall beyond it we paused, frozen with horror, at the sight which greeted us.

"He was never seen crossing the courtyard without a group of the younger pupils hanging to his coat tails and clasping his arms.

And that room, too, overlooks a tiny courtyard where one can neither see nor breathe.

When we left the courtyard and passed through the back part of the town by the old church, the sky was still of the same lovely hue, though unhappily there was hardly a breath of wind.

La Couteau quickly sprang from the cab as soon as they reached the courtyard of the St. Lazare Station.

The boy and girl were too frightened to walk into Soma's house, so they hid all that day, and next morning they got up at dawn and they swept the courtyard and neaped the floor with cow-dung.

At the back in the gloom he could see a great idol of the goddess, and in front, facing the courtyard, stood the lady from Gujerat.

The low door in the wall that enclosed the tavern courtyard was still closed.

In the crowd which filled the courtyard there was a gamin of Paris, a child of Athens, who has since become am elegant and charming poet, Albert Glatigny.

Now what we've got to do is to find that courtyard, and find it we will."

Thatch fences surround all the little courtyards.

He often closed his lids and endeavored to recall his youth;he beheld the courtyard of a castle, with greyhounds stretched out on a terrace, an armoury filled with valets, and under a bower of vines a youth with blond curls, sitting between an old man wrapped in furs and a lady with a high cap; presently the corpses rose before him, and then he would throw himself face downward on his cot and sob: "Oh! poor father!

I was watching the movements of a man, similarly attired to myself, as he crossed and recrossed the courtyard to draw water from the well or to fetch wood from one of the sheds, and then disappeared up the main staircase.

Then we came upon a deserted mosque of pitted brick colonnades round a vast courtyard open to the pale sky.

But the conqueror, Time, hath thy banner o'erthrown, And crumbled to ruin the courtyards that shone With chivalry's gorgeous array; And where music, and laughter so often have rung, In thy tapestried halls, now the ivy hath flung A mantle to hide their decay.

Passing under one of the three arches of the façade, we traversed the courtyard to the extremity, and while waiting for the guide to come to us at the small side door, examined the curious sculptures surrounding the window on the left.

But as the compositions I rendered didn't meet with approval, I visited the courtyards of houses, believing that among so many tenants there must be a few who value serious music.

It would do no good to ask even that colonial courtyard for an explanation of all this.

And to the policeman: "Watch the courtyard.

Behind the church, and about a hundred yards to the west of the mansion-house, are the officesstables, close boxes, coach-house, etc., all of a single storey, and built round a square paved courtyard.

Then silently, anxiously, one would say, he darted away, circling the courtyard back and forth, sniffing the ground as he went, pausing occasionally or retracing his steps and presently stopping before M. Paul with a little bark of disappointment.

I was a scullion in it, at odd hours of the day and night when I was not following the ambulance wagons to the field, or helping to clean the courtyard or doing queer little jobs which some one had to do.

Chinamen and lanterns crowded the courtyard, stuffed the passage, and still came straggling in at the gate.

The next commission after the Scalzo was to decorate the courtyard of the Convent of the Servi, now known as the Church of the Annunciation; and moving into adjacent lodgings, Andrea met Jacopo Sansovino, the Venetian sculptor, whose portrait by Bassano is in the Uffizi, a capable all-round man who had studied in Rome and was in the way of helping the young Andrea at all points.

It seemed to take a long time, and I sat on a stone bench, eying the courtyard curiously from beneath the archway.