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  • In a little water in front of the grotto is the lotus-flower, a regular Indian plant; while in the shade of some of the petrified wood are several beautiful English ferns. Three Months in the Soudan
  • For, although the said Giovanni and others have carried them to absolute perfection, it is none the less true that the chief praise is due to Morto, who was the first to bring them to light and to devote his whole attention to paintings of that kind, which are called grotesques because they were found for the most part in the grottoes of the ruins of Rome; besides which, every man knows that it is easy to make additions to anything once it has been discovered. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
  • The outside world shrank down to the space of the secluded grotto, the powerful, stern-faced man in front of her, the measureless depths of his stare. Earl of Durkness
  • He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
  • The Stuarts preferred the watery art of grottoes and fountains and canals, of elaborate parterres and radiating avenues - vividly shown in bird's eye views of Knyp, Knyff and Badeslade.
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  • At 11 am there will be a May procession to bless the new grotto to Our Lady in the garden in Spring Gardens.
  • Hansen spent his summers exploring the grottoes and caves along the coastline, surfing its waves, and playing in the forests on San Simeon Point.
  • During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto.
  • He wrote a very funny piece about going on a boat from Naples to Capri, and when all the tourists went into the Blue Grotto in tiny coracles, he remained on the boat, thinking how nice it would be if they never came out again.
  • This year's grotto opens on the lower arcade in Canal Walk in the Brunel Centre at 11 am on Saturday.
  • We passed through the Grand Arch, a majestic limestone-cavern entrance-way into a hidden valley, and surveyed the spectacular grotto called Devil's Coachhouse, continuing our cryptozoological pursuit.
  • Along the path there were fascinating details, composed of the manifold greenery which revels in damp heat, ferns, mosses, confervae, fungi, trailers, shading tiny rills which dropped down into grottoes feathery with the exquisite Trichomanes radicans, or drooped over the rustic path and hung into the river, and overhead the finely incised and almost feathery foliage of several varieties of maple admitted the light only as a green mist. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
  • And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns?
  • At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage – stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad – stools and tight – sticking snails. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • They line up for hours to pray at the grotto, drink the water, light candles and take photographs.
  • The garden also features a gazebo, garden seats and grottoes.
  • The grotto will be restored to its original form and repairs will be carried out on the walls surrounding the demesne.
  • There was most likely an extension towards a smaller grotto to the east - south - east.
  • Ice rink and grotto cost extra. The Sun
  • A grandad from Trowbridge has transformed his garden into a magical grotto for children to enjoy.
  • And Antonio spent one portion of his life transforming a rocky hillside in Barcelona into a labyrinth of walkways, serpentine retaining walls, small ovalesque grottoes, a typography of earth and mind, a physical rendering of flamenco patterns, flying lines, and planes kerned in kinetic chthonic exclamations! The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • At his suggestion we go diving in the blue grottoes offshore.
  • The 1st-century mosaics decorated the nymphaeum, an artificial grotto with water features. Times, Sunday Times
  • Usually a little grotto is prepared for the Pope's tomb.
  • At the shrine he was hoisted onto a kneeler, where he prayed before the ivy-covered grotto.
  • Intended as a site for diversions, a refuge from the rigid protocols of the royal court, the grotto was also one of the stops on her way to the guillotine. Prunings XL
  • Booking has begun for the Northwest region all-weather Santatown and Santa Village Grotto at the Sligo Folk Park, Riverstown.
  • Fred the picture of the moonraker is that the pub that was destroyed in the war over in what we called the Grotto, if so nice to see what it looked like i can only remember the shell we used to play in (even though it was banned) we used to walk across the beams that ran across the bombed floors, it was always dark and everyone said it was haunted. London SE1 community website
  • It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway.
  • After they scrambled out of the grotto, the apostles conducted Ivan round the corner of the cliff, where the vertical granite wall turned into a less steep slope covered with thick brushwood.
  • The grotto is the essence of the resort, which emphasizes healing, relaxing and rejuvenation; "out of the silence emerges the sound of your life," is one of the resort taglines. Andrea R. Vaucher: Along for the Ride: Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa
  • In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes.
  • Dozens of families boarded a vintage steam train and went the short distance up the track to see Santa in his grotto.
  • Having first described the Stabl Antar, he says: – In another grotto I found twice over the name of the city written in hieroglyphic characters, Çi-ou-t. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
  • It included rock gardens, grottoes, ferneries, follies, fountains, garden ornaments, bridges and even ornate ceilings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other parts of Rainbow River are better known for caves and grottos.
  • On a higher level grow broad-leaved acanthi and wild artichokes, and thick festoons of cactus hang down from the top of the rock and shade the entrances to the grottoes. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
  • The child opened the heavy door for him, and he looked into a poor mountain grotto, with bare stone walls. The Girl from the Marsh Croft
  • Schools of grunts, coneys and tangs marked the entrance to the grotto, an ancient lava flow that cooled to a black tortured cavity.
  • ££ lains they dig great cellars and grottos, and strike a hole about a foot square, ten or twelve feet into the hill, which all the summer long blows a fresh air into the cellar, so that the wine in those cellar* drinks almost as cold as if it were in ice. Omniana, or Horae otiosiores
  • You enter a plush lounge bar on street level packed with hip scenesters, and take a steel stairwell to a basement grotto ringed by a moat.
  • In its east pavilion was a double row of grottoed and illuminated aquaria containing the strangest inhabitants of the deep. Elsie at the World's Fair
  • Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls.
  • The cats were getting their own places, too, a savanna for the lions and grottoes with pools for the panthers and tigers.
  • The great majority of Stone's other armorial cartouches were for funerary monuments, while the Russell / Brydges cartouches were obviously designed with the spirit of the grotto in mind.
  • When local peasants try to remove the crystal from its grotto, believing that this would rescue them from a life of poverty, the crystal loses its magic powers.
  • They emerged from these underground rooms -- "grottoes," as they called them -- to decorate Rome in a new, "grotesque" style. Underground Rome
  • Towards the end of the eighteenth century a picturesque rock landscape with a cascade, grottoes and a hermit's cave was constructed.
  • There was a kind of grotto in the church, under the high altar; and in the grotto was a full-sized figure of a dead man, carved and painted -- and covered with wounds; and round that figure half the women and girls of the town were collected, stroking, kissing ... Bertram Cope's Year
  • There are solitary rock-columns that spring straight up out of the water and dark grottoes with narrow entrances; there are barren, perpendicular precipices, and soft, leaf-clad inclines; there are small points, and small inlets, and small rolling stones that are rattlingly washed up and down with every dashing breaker; there are majestic cliff-arches which project over the water; there are sharp stones that are constantly being sprayed by a white foam; and others that mirror themselves in unchangeable dark-green still water. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  • The grotto members are not spelunkers; they are ‘cavers.’
  • The numerous caves and grottoes were long occupied by Palaeolithic peoples.
  • The enjoyment of water was evident in garden grottoes and nymphae structures in which fountains, cascades and pools were choreographed to create an appropriately sybaritic milieu.
  • Where they did survive, many great eighteenth-century grottoes gradually slid into ruin, like the parks in which they stood or the houses they once served.
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  • Fluorescent lighting illuminates the white underside of the outer shell generating a soft iridescence that evokes the mystery of a subterranean grotto, with the cave-like auditorium at its heart.
  • The railings around the grotto were erected at a later date.
  • Longshan Grottoes, 20 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City in the Longshan Mountain.
  • At sunset, had there been one, we went into the Villa d'Este, entering through the huge deserted courts and grottoed halls of the colossal palace, surprised to find the enchanted gardens, the terraces and cypresses descending on the other side, the grey vague plain and distant mountains -- and always the sound of waters. The Spirit of Rome
  • The word grotto now wants exploring so, as your etymological spelunker I'll tell you that English got grotto from Italian. Podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
  • Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • A dray and shire horses were used to ferry Father Christmas across the brewery town centre to his grotto in the Boys' Sunday School, next to the church.
  • As in the case of any musical instrument, the actual form of each grotto directly influenced its individual acoustic properties.
  • This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs.
  • A recent Thursday night at the Grotto in San Marco found the place full of attractive, unattached single women.
  • Water came down from the roof through a small drain carved in the outside north wall of the grotto. It was led to a small pool which served to decant it before it flowed into the cistern proper.
  • A gazebo, garden seats, the grottoes and the waterside plantings and eventually the bedding schemes will convey the exuberance of the Victorian garden - to be again enjoyed in Tramore.
  • Park, in his second journey, was informed, that "one month's travel south of Baedo, through the kingdom of Grotto, will bring the traveller to the country of the Christians, who have their houses on the banks of the _Ba Seafeena_ [268], which they describe as incomparably larger than the lake Dehebby (Dibbie). An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
  • However the fact that these two shadow-box grottoes were made by mature women suggests that shellwork was an amusing pastime for women of education and wealth.
  • Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes.
  • He found that he was in a grotto, went towards the opening, and through a kind of fanlight saw a blue sea and an azure sky. The Count of Monte Cristo
  • This last amusement soon grew quite absorbing, and her "cubby," as she called it, rapidly became a pretty grotto, where she lived like a little mermaid, daily loving more and more the beauty of the wonderful sea, Finding the boat too sunny at times, the boys cut long willow boughs and arched them over the seats, laying hemlock branches across till a green roof made it cool and shady inside. Jack And Jill
  • She made a garden and restored the 19th-century grotto before branching out into animal husbandry. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto. Broadway's Last Good Time
  • The Grotto of St Paul, below the adjoining Chapel of St Publius, is the main point of interest.
  • The insides of the Basilica and Rosary are stunning, while the grotto, with a statue of the Virgin Mary in creamy white and baby blue and nestled in the cave, is the main drawcard.
  • With a poncho, the correct accoutrements are a sombrero and some tequila; with matching hats and scarves, facial hair and a job at Santa's grotto is recommended.
  • The real highlight, though, was the grotto, which took up most of one wall.
  • In the grotto itself he was well entertained, there are nativity scenes and mechanical polar bears. The Sun
  • We reached a beautiful grotto , whose entrance was almost hiden by the vine.
  • Now only the sea thunders rhythmically through the grotto, flinging up fans of salty spray.
  • In about two hours, when the sun was just peeking over the horizon, the group met in the grotto.
  • Our guide Roberto skilfully navigated his boat into the various grottos lining the coast.
  • Giuseppe Cacace/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images RAY OF LIGHT: A view of the 'Grave' part of the grottoes of Castellana, one of the most important natural underground caves in Europe, in Apulia, Italy. Photos of the Day: Aug. 5
  • A little past the grotto is another small piece of water, springing from the centre of which is a rockery tastefully covered with ferns, and forming the pedestal to two statues of children, a boy and girl, the boy holding an umbrella over the girl's head; the trees around cover them with a deep shadow, and the tout ensemble is very pretty and shows great taste. Three Months in the Soudan
  • In one marvellous passage he defines the word "grotesque" from the word grotto, a small cave and goes on to sing the praises of the "modern master printers who think like the scribes of our old Icelandic languages" and decorate their texts with impossible creatures –"a centaur here, an old woman with birds' feet there, a three-headed dog". From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review
  • Step off the Violet to see emerald lagoons and secret grottoes hidden within the 3,000 limestone karsts, accessed by bamboo boats straight out of a Hollywood backlot. Ships for the Hip
  • I thought I recognised the bed of surturbrand, our faithful Hansbach, and the grotto in which I had recovered life and consciousness. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
  • I lower myself into the grotto feet first, kicking aside a latticework of spider webs. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II)
  • It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art.
  • At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage-stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad-stools and tight-sticking snails. The Old Curiosity Shop
  • They had what they called a grotto — a show you'd go to. Oral History Interview with Ethel Marshall Faucette, November 16, 1978, and January 4, 1979. Interview H-0020. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • The illusion is that the water is emerging from within the grotto.
  • A bunch of us sat in the Silver Grill of the Hotel Spokane where we could see the gold fish and the baby turtles swimming in the pool of the ferned grotto in the center of the room. Tales of the Road
  • Here is the world's largest treasure house of Buddhist art - the Mogao Grottoes.
  • Neither the grottoes and cascades of Tivoli, the cypress and ilex gardens of Frascati and Albano, nor the ruins of Tusculum, were ever so pleasant to her eyes as the poplar-fringed banks of the Indre, the corn-land sand hedgerows of Berry, and the rocky borders of the Creuse at Crozant and Argenton. Famous Women: George Sand
  • There he created the landscaped garden with temples, statues, grottoes, glades and a series of urns, columns, monoliths and headstones, many of them inscribed.
  • In the middle of this waste ground remained the slate grotto of St Pinnock's well, its open mouth still bearded with ferns. THE MAIN CAGES
  • Several of Salomon's figures were obviously used as templates for the figures reclining on shells pulled by dolphins on the rear wall of the grotto, and the putti riding dolphins in the flanking lunettes.
  • As in the case of any musical instrument, the actual form of each grotto directly influenced its individual acoustic properties.
  • A wife's quest to honour her husband's memory came to fruition on Friday evening when an impressive new Grotto was unveiled in Bangor.
  • A gazebo, garden seats, the grottoes and the waterside plantings will convey the exuberance of the Victorian garden.
  • A portion of the wall shifted and moved under her hand, and then the grotto was filled with the loud grinding sound of stone against stone and something more.
  • There are a great many mountains, valleys, streams, villages, caves, residences, grottos, bowers, fields, high roads, low roads, and along them the Hobbits and their larger companions travel while paying great attention to mealtimes.
  • The present grotto commemorating Our Lady's apparitions at Lourdes will be moved to another location in the garden.
  • A virtual kaleidoscope of colour inundate not only the standing piles, but also overrun old fallen timbers that overlap, forming small overhangs and grottoes.
  • The grotto will be rebuilt as it is and reset in the entrance wall to the housing estate with a plaque to state the reason for its existence.
  • Local art hung on the walls, and there was a fake grotto with a waterfall and a gazing globe set on a pedestal. IN A STRANGE CITY
  • An elegant swan wandered around the grotto flapping its wings at the mosquitos. DESPERADOES
  • Here are about 1200 caves, some of them with lakes and rivers; subterranean grottos are suitable for diving.
  • In one marvellous passage he defines the word "grotesque" from the word grotto, a small cave and goes on to sing the praises of the "modern master printers who think like the scribes of our old Icelandic languages" and decorate their texts with impossible creatures –"a centaur here, an old woman with birds' feet there, a three-headed dog". From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review
  • "Children look forward to visiting a Grotto for a little present and to meet Father Christmas.
  • That was somewhat away from the most precious part of the church, the knave, which is built over the grotto where Jesus is said to have been born. CNN Transcript May 2, 2002
  • Such garden grottos first became popular in Italy before spreading to England in the Tudor period.
  • Vines and flowers climbed the trellis, turning our nook into a subtle and intriguing grotto.
  • As Gardaí continue the hunt for reckless vandals who defaced statues of Our Lady at a rural grotto in Kerry, shocked locals held a prayer meeting on the site on Monday night and prayed for forgiveness for the culprits.
  • This last amusement soon grew quite absorbing, and her "cubby," as she called it, rapidly became a pretty grotto, where she lived like a little mermaid, daily loving more and more the beauty of the wonderful sea. Jack and Jill
  • You can believe it if you want as you wander through gilt throne rooms and baroque bedrooms, romantic grottoes and misty gardens.
  • In gardening, designers turned their backs on Italianate fountains and grottoes and on the stiff French parterres, long vistas and avenues beloved of Stuart kings.
  • With their grottoes, fountains and elaborate topiaries, 18th-century gardens such as those at Versailles and Sanssouci in Potsdam were as much architectural as horticultural achievements. Photo-Op: Hanging Garden
  • Wait a moment, till I fill a pipe with caporal, and have a smoke; for if I meet another man with that delicacy, I shall have to give up the Grotto -- unless I have a pipe under my nose, as counter-irritant. ' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy
  • Operation Wonderland follows an employee, Jed, whose daily duties at the theme park's waste disposal unit are interrupted by the enigmatic Blue Fairy, the granter of children's wishes at her grotto.
  • Imagine that the earth takes up arms to defend itself against invasion, that the hills, the streams, the gorges, the grottos are death-dealing machines which come out to meet the regular troops. George Washington’s First War
  • While I had the keys to the Grotto I did my damndest to bring the bunnies around to colectivised bargaining and professional industrial representation. Cheeseburger Gothic » Sunday morning. Back at my desk.
  • In the grotto itself he was well entertained, there are nativity scenes and mechanical polar bears. The Sun
  • Past the end of the lake a limestone grotto is reached, affording shelter but not now maintained in pristine condition.
  • Every inch is taken up with merchandise, and browsing the corridors and grottos can feel like a spelunk into a colorful cave or an archaeological dig through the lost library of Alexandria. The best book store in the known universe « The Retort
  • a place was the Grotto, where Brissenden and he lounged in capacious leather chairs and drank Scotch and soda. Chapter 31
  • An elegant swan wandered around the grotto flapping its wings at the mosquitos. DESPERADOES
  • His next book, Angelica's Grotto 1999, concerned an elderly man's journey into the world of cyberporn and ended with its anti-hero crushed under the wheels of a number 14 bus. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Residents in the area have been pushing for the building of a grotto in the green area of the park and the building of a wall around the park over the last 12 months.
  • At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto.
  • If scuba diving appeals, you'll find the Adriatic sea floor is littered with wrecks where exotic fish swim in coral reefs and colourful underwater gardens and grottoes.
  • Pilgrims are gathering in Bethlehem's manger square, near the church of the nativity, which is built over the grotto where it is believed Jesus was born, a belief not all share. CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2005
  • More than 30,000 children and adults had visited his grotto the year before.
  • The principal charm, however, belongs to the grotto with the river which it discharges -- the site of which may be described as a semicircular termination of a valley on a natural platform half way up a cliff -- the water tumbles down in short cascades for some distance; the grotto inside is untouched by chisel squarings or embellishment, just as Juvenal wished the grot of AEgeria to be. Byeways in Palestine
  • We reached a beautiful grotto , whose entrance was almost hiden by the vine.
  • The Pope was buried in the grottoes underneath St Peter's Basilica, on the site where Pope John XXIII had been laid to rest until his corpse was exhumed for public display upstairs in the basilica.
  • The best facials and Swedish massage in Cape Town, the Spa is built into the cliff-side and has pools set in rocky grottoes. Secret Season
  • There Wright filled the grounds with follies, grottoes, and garden buildings in the rustic, Gothic, and Palladian styles.
  • There are four masks - but only two designs - with cartouche surrounds in the four corners of the grotto at the springing of the ribs, notionally supporting the roof.
  • The grotto guide is a brilliantly jaded girl whose patience is obviously waning come November.
  • The larger London department stores are moving away from your more traditional Grotto based lap-sitting experiences and towards a more drive-by Santa encounter where the failed beardy actor accosts you on the shop floor.
  • It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • At one end of the square stands the town's main mosque, at the other the Church of the Nativity, in which a subterranean grotto marks the place of Christ's birth.
  • In the middle of this waste ground remained the slate grotto of St Pinnock's well, its open mouth still bearded with ferns. THE MAIN CAGES
  • Nothing was found to satisfy them on this point, but, passing on beyond the first recess entered, they were amazed to find a second grottoed recess, similar to the first, but much longer, and here, with merely a wall separating them from the other recess, was an orgy of bones and weapons. The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns
  • Presently the man whistled and another ruffianly person sprang out from near the gate at the corner of the Grotto-field and joined his companion.
  • I had my lunch sitting beside the war memorial cross in an almost grotto-like setting.
  • But the letters from animal rights activists, the e-mails, even the odd picket outside the grotto, were wearing him down.
  • The near-miss knocked the lizard and her rider off the cliff-side, sending both plunging into the sinkhole grotto.
  • I ketched 'em in grottoes, I ketched 'em in caves, Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith
  • The Maijishan grottoes' 7200 clay Buddhist statues and 1000 square meters of murals reflect he unique style . of ancient Chinese clay sculpture , called China's sculpture palace.
  • In a Mexican grotto on 14th Street, kitsch provides the kick, but it's shrimp tostadas and earthy enchiladas that keep the crowds returning to El Rey del Sol.
  • Grottos and ruins gave gardens a visual impact while ornamental shrubberies appealed to the emerging middle class.
  • The curious discovering them in such places (since the level of the ground has gradually been raised while they have remained below, and since in Rome these vaulted rooms are commonly called grottoes), it has followed that the word grotesque is applied to the patterns I have mentioned. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • Local art hung on the walls, and there was a fake grotto with a waterfall and a gazing globe set on a pedestal. IN A STRANGE CITY
  • Flying acrobats and a lone beribboned female dancer recalled the grottos of Dunhuang, painted in the Wei and Tang dynasties when camel caravans plied the Silk Road.
  • Until the mid-1st century ad, these were used almost exclusively in fountains and nymphaea, or grottoes, which acted as cool retreats and so had a place in almost every villa.
  • In underwater grottoes, hollowed out of the island's jagged rock-face, we discover swarms of good-sized lobster and shrimp.
  • He saw a strange excess of beauty in every flower, in every leaf, in the wavering blue of the sea, in the red grottoed rocks that overhung the shore, with their purple, green, orange, and yellow hangings of flower-and-leaf-tapestry. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
  • The second dolmen had also a grotto or allée couverte, in which was found an earthen pot, containing ashes and three gold necklaces. Brittany & Its Byways
  • From the middle of the parterre is a descent by many steps flying on each side of a grotto that lies between them (covered with lead and flat) into the lower garden, which is all fruit trees ranged about the several quarters of a wilderness, which is very shady; the walks here are all green, the grotto embellished with figures of shell rock work, fountains, and water works. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
  • His grotto is decorated with rooftop snow and festive lights and inside the chalet the floor is littered with presents.
  • Paths made from mosaic pebbles and broken paving stones will wind through forest glades, leading the visitor to secret places and moonlit grottoes.
  • Derwent Hall charity fund-raisers are supporting the fund and donations can be made to them on 01254 702259, or at The Grotto on Darwen Market.
  • Other highlights include the cascade, grotto, pinetum and arboretum.
  • It's happy "cooing," not yelling, but if he does it just so, it sounds like a monkey's gotten loose in the Lourdes grotto... Adoration tonight
  • If sitting on a burro is too distressing for the little one, there are peaceful grottoes, with the figure of Juan Diego kneeling before the Blessed Mother, that can serve as a background. The Virgin of Guadalupe celebration in Oaxaca
  • The Village Grotto is home to Rudolf, the reindeers and Santa's elves.
  • At one end of the grotto, an elf is impaled on a spike.
  • In addition to the gardens, there were two grottos with hidden, artificial lighting, that sheltered the new friendship, if not love, flourishing between David and Carrie.
  • The room was bedecked as a magical grotto with the symbols of yuletide the theme. THE PROMISE IN A KISS
  • I would keep it in a grotto, if I only had a potto, and I'd feed it on risotto I bin to London Zoo again

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