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  • Someone had built a grotto of rocks around the base of the tub.†  (source)
  • I searched out every cove and grotto, found the gentle bays, the harbor safe for ships.†  (source)
  • We found the damp dirt-floored grotto beneath the verandah, reached by crawling between the hollyhocks, where only spidery dandelions tried to grow, and creeping Charlie, its crushed-mint smell mingling with cat spray and (once) the hot, sick stink of an alarmed garter snake.†  (source)
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  • She inched down the stone staircase, one step at a time, into that basement grotto.†  (source)
  • The evening after bumping into them, Kya and Chase drifted in her boat under an oak so huge its knees jutted over the water, creating little grottoes for otters and ducks.†  (source)
  • There the heat was thick; it collected stagnant in the rocks, which were soft and eaten by rain acids into grottos and Cambodian shapes.†  (source)
  • She crouches against the wall of the grotto, knapsack in her lap.†  (source)
  • Neighbors' servants tugged off earrings and bangles, defiled grottoes, sabered my grandfather's horse.†  (source)
  • There the Varden may visit him without disturbing our sacred grottos, and Ajihad will receive the respect he is due.†  (source)
  • Over their heads he saw that an area of lawn right in front of the castle had been transformed into a sort of grotto full of fairy lights — meaning hundreds of actual living fairies were sitting in the rosebushes that had been conjured there, and fluttering over the statues of what seemed to be Father Christmas and his reindeer.†  (source)
  • The walls were lined with the dark openings of caves, which differed in size from grottoes no larger than a man to a gaping cavern larger than a house.†  (source)
  • Vines spilled forth from stone and interwove to form tapestries and paintings; musty toadstools became luxuriant divans; and the tongues of the bonfire were snatched by invisible hands and used to fuel lanterns and candles set within the grottos of what was rapidly becoming the richest, most splendid entry hall Max had ever seen.†  (source)
  • The owner of the health club, a large lady with a bouffant blond hairdo, took us on a tour of the spa and showed us the new indoor-outdoor swimming pool and underwater grotto of which she was very proud.†  (source)
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