The wretched beholder got off his horse and entered the grotto.

After having once more given expression to their love by tears and fond embraces, they left the grotto.

Ladies in particular are very much annoyed by children getting before them and asking for money; nor will they take the answer given them, but put their hats up to the ladies' faces, saying, "Please, ma'am, remember the grotto;" and when told by the parties that they have no money to give, they will still continue to follow, and be as importunate as any common beggar.

Amboyna. Visit a natural grotto.

In the first house, we were received by the family in a room of precious marbles, with niches in the walls, resembling grottoes of silver stalactites.

The grouping of the figures round the grotto, representing the scene at the eighteenth appearance of the Virgin to Bernadettewho is the foremost figure kneeling in the grottois particularly fine; but how that huge crowd standing there were content with Bernadette's assertion that she saw the vision, when none of them saw anything but the stones, is a practical question that few probably could answer, and least of all the priests.

On reaching the grotto, he found it already occupied.

He has immortalized this grotto, so radiant with spars and ores and shells, in the following poetical inscription: Thou, who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave, Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distil, And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill, Unpolished gems no ray on pride bestow, And latent metals innocently glow, Approach!

I know these Kentucky grottoes, having visited them, as many thousands of tourists have done.

She passed the little moist grotto, which in former times she never failed to visit to see if there were any new-blown cyclamen, without giving it even a thought.

It was twenty feet wide and thirty yards long, narrowing as it approached a circular grotto eroded into the base of the cliff.

She led Susy away gently, but firmly, into another part of the garden, where spying her grandfather, she took the unwilling and ashamed little girl for him to deal with, and ran hack to the crying children and ruined grotto.

We sauntered after dinner in Sir Alexander's garden, and saw his little grotto, which is hung with pieces of poetry written in a fair hand.

"How lived, how loved, how died she?" I made a hurried drawing of it, and we then turned to the left, across the Campagna, to seek the grotto of Egeria.

In the middle stands a grotto ornamented with rough pebbles and shells, and only needing a fountain to make it a perfect hall of Neptune.

The rock that surmounts the grotto is covered with trees of gigantic height.

The first rays flashed directly into their cave, sparkling and glimmering upon the ice crystals and tingeing the whole grotto with a rich warm light.

"At all events, I think that you, Mrs. Weldon, Jack, Mr. Benedict, and Nan, ought not to quit this grotto.

They were not building a grotto, they were dancing, and jumping, and laughing, in the full merriment of good healthy happy children.

Having brought off all that was valuable, he built a house close under a bluff, where a projecting shelf of rock covered a small grotto, which he enlarged with pick and shovel.

Even Virgil describes the grotto of Aeneas merely as a "black grove" with "horrid shade,""Horrenti atrum nemus imminet umbrâ."

Nero admiring his mother's corpse; Claudius interrupting Messalina's marriage with her lover Silus; Clodius disguised among the women of Cæsar's household; Pyrrha's grotto.

"I confess that this little piece of information raised a certain disquietude, and I found the azure grotto infinitely less agreeable to the imagination....

Every particle of his being seemed torn up with rage and fury; and he drew his mighty sword, and hewed the grotto and the writing, till the words flew in pieces to the heavens.