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  • From what she can tell, it's a low grotto, maybe four yards long and half as wide, shaped like a loaf of bread.†   (source)
  • Then I ran off with my friends, shrieking with laughter as we scampered across the alley and hid in the entryway grotto of the China Gem Company, my heart pounding with hope that he would chase us.†   (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)
  • He now realized that the walls of the cave had dissolved around him, and he was standing in a grotto on the backside of the waterfall.†   (source)
  • "If you go on nagging, I'll drag you back to Martin's grotto and chain you up again."†   (source)
  • Once, as a boy, sneaking the cool grottoes behind a motion picture theatre screen, on his way to a free seat, he had glanced up and there towering and flooding the haunted dark seen a women's face as he had never seen it since, of such size and beauty built of milk-bone and moon-flesh, at to freeze him there alone behind the stage, shadowed by the, motion of her lips, the bird-wing flicker of her eyes, the snow-pale-death-shimmering illumination from her cheeks.†   (source)
  • Day and night they heard the muffled thud of the picks above and dreamt of the collapse of the grotto and of every ghastly eventuality.†   (source)
  • She walks me down into a grotto, past a circle of tall crystals, delicate as glass.†   (source)
  • When they grew up, they built a town called Qianjiadong—the Thousand-Family Grotto.†   (source)
  • The cool waters of the creek came out of a dark, shadowy grotto of overhanging thicket, then flowed about thirty feet before they entered the large pond.†   (source)
  • The grotto by Missing's back wall and in earshot of the little creek was rapidly becoming the family burial plot.†   (source)
  • They even had created a small grotto to Our Lady of Guadalupe alongside the pile of cinder blocks that served as the backstop.†   (source)
  • The "disposition" of trees was of particular importance, and among the trees and lakes were nearly always arranged a variety of classic temples or pavilions, a faux ruin or grotto, all very romantic in spirit, their size and number depending on the wealth or fancy of the client.†   (source)
  • They stood in a ragged line, facing the shadowed grotto.†   (source)
  • "A grotto," the demon hissed.†   (source)
  • The common room of the Merchant's House was a dim labyrinth of alcoves and grottoes built around a central courtyard where a trellis of flowering vines threw intricate patterns across the flagstone floor and green and purple moss grew between the stones.†   (source)
  • And plink! a silver drop falls, and the round wrinkles in the glass make all the towers bend and waver like weeds and corals in a grotto of the sea.†   (source)
  • As she left I became aware of a deep wild perfume exhumed in the rising heat of the day, lifting invisibly from the untrimmed hedges and grottoes of ill-disciplined flowers.†   (source)
  • The shrines are actually a series of grottoes built out of sponge rock and crystals so that the exterior walls sparkle in the light.†   (source)
  • Once Gabriel entered his curtained grotto, he never reappeared until the session was complete.†   (source)
  • They rested in Cacciato's rock grotto.†   (source)
  • Like a rock falling into one of those bottomless Wieliczka grottoes, he plummeted from her remembrance—another innocuous flirtation consigned to the dusty unopened scrapbook.†   (source)
  • It has a village at one end and the French Navy has blocked off the other for guided missiles; the rest of it is hills and beaches and grottoes.†   (source)
  • As they sped from chamber to vaulted chamber, down tunnels and chasms and wells, through labyrinths and grottoes and corridors of stone, Sam set his mind adrift, to move down the ways of memory and back.†   (source)
  • We passed the night in a grotto hollowed in the snow, which afforded us but poor shelter...   (source)
  • She hears her snails in the grotto drag their bodies over the rocks.†   (source)
  • The stone walls of the grotto imprisoned her as the chanting rose to a fever pitch.†   (source)
  • Just a simple hole in the wall, beyond which lay a small grotto and a meager, crumbling sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • When she got back to camp, she went behind the cabin to pray in front of the washtub grotto.†   (source)
  • Vittoria reached the bottom of the spiral staircase and entered the grotto.†   (source)
  • She crouches against the wall of the grotto, knapsack in her lap.†   (source)
  • She inched down the stone staircase, one step at a time, into that basement grotto.†   (source)
  • Did Werner let himself back into the grotto to retrieve it?†   (source)
  • The Holy Vatican Grottoes are located beneath the main floor of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • "Signore?" someone said, entering the grottoes.†   (source)
  • Deep in the Vatican Grottoes, Cardinal Mortati knelt alone before the open sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • The grotto was pitch-dark by the time they finished.†   (source)
  • I'm going to kiss every inch of your naked skin, your lovely breasts, and your delicious grotto.†   (source)
  • A grotto in the sea cliffs north of Rowan's outer walls.†   (source)
  • I follow them under the silver arch, into the grotto.†   (source)
  • I would stay in the dirt, in the dark grotto with my friends.†   (source)
  • Gorgon is in the garden, hoisting the silver arch that leads to the grotto back into position.†   (source)
  • We enter the realms through our door of light and make our way to the grotto as quickly as possible.†   (source)
  • The silver arch that once led to the grotto has been battered and ripped from the ground.†   (source)
  • Ian carried me to the right side of the line of people, close enough to see into the murky grotto.†   (source)
  • "Follow me," I say, taking them into the grotto.†   (source)
  • Wes was already buried in the dark grotto beside Walter.†   (source)
  • As she follows her people from the grotto, she turns back and spits in my face.†   (source)
  • Over there is the grotto where the Runes of the Oracle once stood.†   (source)
  • Once we were outside it was a longish hike to the Grotto Hills and the other Gate.†   (source)
  • The grave decisions facing the camerlegno required information …. information entombed in a sarcophagus in the Vatican Grottoes.†   (source)
  • Above the foyer, nine different levels bear names like the Grotto, the Crypt Room, and the Knights Templar Chapel.†   (source)
  • Now, along with her prayers for Abuelita and Mama, Esperanza prayed for Marta and her mother at the washtub grotto.†   (source)
  • Her mind filled again with images of the secret ritual she had witnessed in the basement grotto ten years ago, and she heaved a long sigh.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure puts the loaf in her knapsack, leaves the bakery, and winds toward the ramparts to Hubert Bazin's grotto.†   (source)
  • The room was a grotto—a coarse chamber that appeared to have been hollowed from the granite of the hillside.†   (source)
  • But she is already passing through the gate and descending into the grotto in her big shoes, moving with confidence, running her fingers along the walls as though they are old friends she thought she might never meet again.†   (source)
  • She thinks of the whelks in Hubert Bazin's kennel, ten thousand of them; how they cling; how they draw themselves up into the spirals of their shells; how, when they're tucked into that grotto, the gulls cannot come in to carry them up into the sky and drop them on the rocks to break them.†   (source)
  • He knew this sacred grotto was reserved exclusively for the relics of Popes, but somehow Mortati sensed this was appropriate.†   (source)
  • The grotto around the canister blinked red as the LED counted down into its final five minutes of life.†   (source)
  • But the grotto itself comprises its own slick universe, and inside this universe spin countless galaxies: here, in the upturned half of a single mussel shell, lives a barnacle and a tiny spindle shell occupied by a still smaller hermit crab.†   (source)
  • At the base of the rear wall, a stone bulwark jutted out concealing a narrow grotto-a kind of compressed passageway cutting directly into the foundation of the church.†   (source)
  • The cathedral bells chime one two three four, all the way to eight; Etienne turns down the rue du Boyer and reaches the slightly angled base of the ramparts, traveling the paths of his youth, navigating by instinct; he turns right, passes through the curtain of swinging ivy, and ahead, behind the same locked gate, in the grotto, shivering, wet to her thighs, wholly intact, crouches Marie-Laure with the ruins of a loaf of bread in her lap.†   (source)
  • Grotto†   (source)
  • And had he not ascended miraculously into a pillar of fire, he would now be buried in the Vatican Grottoes along with the other Popes.†   (source)
  • Grotto†   (source)
  • Thirty seconds later, in the Vatican Grottoes, Vittoria was standing before a corpse when the electronic squawk of a walkie-talkie broke the silence.†   (source)
  • Grotto†   (source)
  • The central core alone was over twenty feet tall-a rugged mountain of travertine marble riddled with caves and grottoes through which the water churned.†   (source)
  • The path leads us through tall fields of wheat, past neat rows of olive trees and the grotto where the Runes of the Oracle once stood.†   (source)
  • There the Varden may visit him without disturbing our sacred grottos, and Ajihad will receive the respect he is due.†   (source)
  • The carved steps finally opened into a cold, moist grotto whose walls were covered in gray-green fungi.†   (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)
  • Then Rhunon led him to a low, grotto-like chamber set within the trunk of one of the trees out of which her house was grown.†   (source)
  • I come out into the cool air again and go down into another grotto, another series of tunnels, this one with similar stainedglass windows and crystals built into the rock walls, and angel statues, heads bowed, hands folded in prayer.†   (source)
  • Jon could not look at them without remembering Ygritte: the gleam of fire in her hair, the look on her face when she'd disrobed for him in the grotto, the sound of her voice.†   (source)
  • Cico pointed and I turned to where the stream came out of the dark grotto of overhanging tree branches.†   (source)
  • During this dialogue, the boys remained seated by the grotto and Cesar noticed that they neither moved nor took their gaze from the statue of the Dark Virgin.†   (source)
  • And all of these things wise Vainamoinen might have endured until the young sorcerer made this boast: For 'twas I who plowed the ocean; Hollowed out the depths of ocean; When I dug the salmon grottoes, When I all the lakes created, When I heaped the mountains round them, When I piled the rocks around them.†   (source)
  • He led them into a bleak back street, through a series of alleys and archways, then down into a basement grotto.†   (source)
  • Still, they routinely poked their heads into his little curtained grotto merely to glimpse the altarpiece with their own eyes.†   (source)
  • Later, after a visit with Abigail to Pains Hill on the outskirts of London, at Surrey, where an immense ornamental park with lakes, grottoes, hermit's hut, even a facsimile tent of an Arab prince, had been created from a "heap of sand," Adams declared it "the most striking piece of art" of any.†   (source)
  • But he remembered the grotto best of all, the look of her naked in the torchlight, the taste of her mouth when it opened under his.†   (source)
  • On the last day, the day of Uzi Navot's journey to Paris, Gabriel arrived at the lab before dawn and remained in his little grotto long after the museum had closed for the night.†   (source)
  • I'm pulling the thing back from the world with me, back to the mountaintop, back to the grotto and the runes.†   (source)
  • Andy started to work as soon as Ian took the first step back, shoveling from a mound of pale, dusty earth that was piled a few feet farther into the grotto.†   (source)
  • Beneath the olive trees in the grotto where the Runes of the Order once stood, Creostus's body lies sprawled, his arms stretched out on either side.†   (source)
  • They spread again, walking and then running, and then walking on the hot hillside places where there would be sudden cool grottoes that smelled of moss, and sudden open blasting places that smelled of sun on stone.†   (source)
  • At one time this low rambling edifice with its slanted slate roof had been a storage warehouse for vegetables, and the Germans obviously found its architecture congenial to their purpose; the large underground grotto where turnips and potatoes had been piled high was perfectly suited to the asphyxiation of people en masse, just as the adjoining anterooms were so naturally fit for the installation of cremation ovens as to appear almost custom-made.†   (source)
  • But far back in the Grotto Hills.†   (source)
  • They should be watching for us to appear from the Grotto Hills, as they know we have a Gate somewhere in those hills—and indeed that is the Gate I planned to use.†   (source)
  • Three days later I was sitting on Grotto Beach, leaning against a rock and working the crossword puzzle, when suddenly I got cross-eyed trying not to stare at the most stare-able woman I have ever seen in my life.†   (source)
  • More practically, he saw for himself great mansions in the ground, grottoes buried in the deep heart of a hill, vast chambers of brown earth, sumptuously appointed with his bee-like plunder.†   (source)
  • Anthony led me from the gallery and down a side street to a door between a disreputable newsagent and a disreputable chemist, painted with the words 'Blue Grotto Club.†   (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)
  • There was a grotto within it, watered by a gentle, purling spring and with a stream that widened to a grassy pool.†   (source)
  • The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, while the houses were white shells in a rounded grotto, pricked here and there by a great orange sun.†   (source)
  • Morrel mechanically followed the count, and they had entered the grotto before he perceived it.†   (source)
  • I was delighted to leave my dark grotto.†   (source)
  • The young girl was seated near the window still embroidering her grotto of Neptune.†   (source)
  • He smiled, and introduced them instantly into this "grotto."†   (source)
  • Franz took the lamp, and entered the subterranean grotto, followed by Gaetano.†   (source)
  • We left this grotto which lay open to every wind.†   (source)
  • He had only found the first grotto; he had now to seek the second.†   (source)
  • For greater safety I wrapped myself in a blanket, and came out of the grotto.†   (source)
  • As he came within two or three hundred paces of the grotto, he thought he heard a cry.†   (source)
  • Luigi took her arm beneath his own, and led her to the door of the grotto.†   (source)
  • 'Go into the grotto and dress yourself.'†   (source)
  • Ali was on the box, in whom Franz recognized the dumb slave of the grotto of Monte Cristo.†   (source)
  • At last, after renewed hesitation, Dantes entered the second grotto.†   (source)
  • He glanced around this second grotto; it was, like the first, empty.†   (source)
  • "I do not know of any grottos," replied Jacopo.†   (source)
  • "What, are there no grottos at Monte Cristo?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Here and there would appear some meaningless erection, a sham grotto, a mill, for which the trees made room by drawing away from it, or which was borne upon the soft green platform of a grassy lawn.†   (source)
  • Anyhow, she left it almost finished in the Grotto of the Calvary at the Capuccini Hotel at Amalfi while she went for a little ink.†   (source)
  • A section of the level ground had been fenced in to form a garden with gravel paths, flowerbeds, and an artificial grotto beneath a stately silver fir.†   (source)
  • But you know what Italians are, and meanwhile the Grotto fell roaring on to the beach, and the saddest thing of all is that she cannot remember what she has written.†   (source)
  • …had taken on all the iridescence of a peacock's tail, then shook and wavered in a flaming and fantastic shower, distilled and dropping from the groin of the dark and rocky vault down the moist walls, as though it were along the bed of some rainbow grotto of sinuous stalactites that I was following my parents, who marched before me, their prayer-books clasped in their hands; a moment later the little lozenge windows had put on the deep transparence, the unbreakable hardness of sapphires…†   (source)
  • And so he sank back down on his knees, his face and hands raised toward a heaven darkened by sulfurous fumes, but no longer the grotto ceiling in a sinful mountain of delight.†   (source)
  • It was to me like one of those zoological gardens in which one sees assembled together a variety of flora, and contrasted effects in landscape; where from a hill one passes to a grotto, a meadow, rocks, a stream, a trench, another hill, a marsh, but knows that they are there only to enable the hippopotamus, zebra, crocodile, rabbit, bear and heron to disport themselves in a natural or a picturesque setting; this, the Bois, equally complex, uniting a multitude of little worlds, distinct…†   (source)
  • He looked down at the paths and flowerbeds of the level gardens, the grotto, the silver fir, listened to whispers drifting up from the lounging area, where people were taking their rest cure—and turned back into the room, where he tried to correct the way the instrument sat in his mouth.†   (source)
  • It became apparent immediately that the house was but a mask or covering for the mouth of a natural cave or grotto, probably forty feet long, nine or ten high, and twelve or fifteen in width.†   (source)
  • It is said to be a grotto.†   (source)
  • However, the door jarred open on a dead sort of spring; and he closed it behind him as he entered a dull yard, soon brought to a close by another dead wall, where an attempt had been made to train some creeping shrubs, which were dead; and to make a little fountain in a grotto, which was dry; and to decorate that with a little statue, which was gone.†   (source)
  • The grotto was an immense apartment.†   (source)
  • He would not deign to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south-east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette.†   (source)
  • Every shadowy nook, where seats invited one to stop and rest, was a mass of bloom, every cool grotto had its marble nymph smiling from a veil of flowers and every fountain reflected crimson, white, or pale pink roses, leaning down to smile at their own beauty.†   (source)
  • 'tis the grotto of Neptune.†   (source)
  • Emerging beyond the thicket we found ourselves on firm ground, near the precipitous wall of rock, and perceived a clear sparkling brook flowing from an opening, which proved to be a cave or grotto of considerable size.†   (source)
  • He ascended into grottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.†   (source)
  • We remained some time in this interesting grotto, but our light burnt low after we had examined it in different directions; and Fritz having secured a large lump, which exhibited several crystals in perfection, we quitted the place, Fritz discharging a farewell shot for the sake of hearing the grand echoes.†   (source)
  • A large company whom they met going to the Grotto of Jeremiah were so astonished by the inquiry and the appearance of the travellers that they turned about and followed them into the city.†   (source)
  • Silently we marched—my wife, the boys, and even the dogs seeming overawed with the grandeur and beauty of the scene We were in a grotto of diamonds—a vast cave of glittering crystal; the candles reflected on the walls a golden light, bright as the stars of Heaven, while great crystal pillars rose from the floor like mighty trees, mingling their branches high above us and drooping in hundreds of stalactites, which sparkled and glittered with all the colours of the rainbow.†   (source)
  • They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in his grotto, tried the mysterious little effects of the famous cabinet of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of Turcaret metamorphosed into a Priapus.†   (source)
  • Their wood and wine were put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was without a grotto.†   (source)
  • There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or tunnels, or grottos; there was a magnificent, dishevelled obscurity falling like a veil over all.†   (source)
  • My couch, made up of all our travelling gear, was in a charming grotto, adorned with splendid stalactites, and the soil of which was a fine sand.†   (source)
  • There was no torch, no lamp, yet certain mysterious glimpses of light came from without through a narrow opening in the grotto.†   (source)
  • I thought I recognised the bed of surturbrand, our faithful Hansbach, and the grotto in which I had recovered life and consciousness.†   (source)
  • After spending an hour in the contemplation of this marvellous spectacle, we returned to the shore to regain the grotto, and I fell asleep in the midst of the strangest thoughts.†   (source)
  • If the grotto of Guachara, in Colombia, visited by Humboldt, had not given up the whole of the secret of its depth to the philosopher, who investigated it to the depth of 2,500 feet, it probably did not extend much farther.†   (source)
  • Four days later, Saturday, the 18th of July, in the evening, we arrived at a kind of vast grotto; and here my uncle paid Hans his weekly wages, and it was settled that the next day, Sunday, should be a day of rest.†   (source)
  • Other similar maxillaries, though belonging to individuals of various types and different nations, were found in the loose grey soil of certain grottoes in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, as well as weapons, tools, earthen utensils, bones of children and adults.†   (source)
  • At the end of a quarter of an hour Vampa quitted the grotto; his costume was no less elegant than that of Teresa.†   (source)
  • Vampa took Cucumetto's body in his arms and conveyed it to the grotto, while in her turn Teresa remained outside.†   (source)
  • They had found the door of the grotto opened, and gone forth; on the azure dome of heaven still glittered a few remaining stars.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • This man, who was hastening towards the wood, was already three-quarters of the way on the road from the grotto to the forest.†   (source)
  • These twenty millions are concealed in my grotto at Monte Cristo, of which Bertuccio knows the secret.†   (source)
  • Teresa uttered a cry of joy, and, without inquiring whence this attire came, or even thanking Luigi, darted into the grotto, transformed into a dressing-room.†   (source)
  • All that is in this grotto, my friend, my house in the Champs Elysees, and my chateau at Treport, are the marriage gifts bestowed by Edmond Dantes upon the son of his old master, Morrel.†   (source)
  • The cry proceeded from the grotto.†   (source)
  • The second grotto was lower and more gloomy than the first; the air that could only enter by the newly formed opening had the mephitic smell Dantes was surprised not to find in the outer cavern.†   (source)
  • He recognized the place where he had awaked by the bed of heather that was there; but it was in vain that he carried his torch all round the exterior surface of the grotto.†   (source)
  • At length the boat touched the shore, but without effort, without shock, as lips touch lips; and he entered the grotto amidst continued strains of most delicious melody.†   (source)
  • He had lost all hope of detecting the secret of the grotto; he consequently despatched his breakfast, and, his boat being ready, he hastened on board, and they were soon under way.†   (source)
  • Edmond inserted his lever in the ring and exerted all his strength; the flag-stone yielded, and disclosed steps that descended until they were lost in the obscurity of a subterraneous grotto.†   (source)
  • He dwelt with considerable force and energy on the almost magical hospitality he had received from the count, and the magnificence of his entertainment in the grotto of the "Thousand and One Nights."†   (source)
  • Since, the evening before, he had really been the hero of one of the tales of the "Thousand and One Nights," and he was irresistibly attracted towards the grotto.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said he, "I made a vow, to our Lady of the Grotto not to cut my hair or beard for ten years if I were saved in a moment of danger; but to-day the vow expires."†   (source)
  • It seemed, however, to Edmond, who was hidden from his comrades by the inequalities of the ground, that at sixty paces from the harbor the marks ceased; nor did they terminate at any grotto.†   (source)
  • He reflected that this second grotto must penetrate deeper into the island; he examined the stones, and sounded one part of the wall where he fancied the opening existed, masked for precaution's sake.†   (source)
  • At these words he drew away the stone, and showed Teresa the grotto, lighted up by two wax lights, which burnt on each side of a splendid mirror; on a rustic table, made by Luigi, were spread out the pearl necklace and the diamond pins, and on a chair at the side was laid the rest of the costume.†   (source)
  • Vampa, without saying a word, hastened to the stone that closed up the entrance to their grotto, drew it away, made a sign to the fugitive to take refuge there, in a retreat unknown to every one, closed the stone upon him, and then went and resumed his seat by Teresa.†   (source)
  • At the other end, silent, scarcely visible, and like a shadow, was a sentinel, who was walking up and down before a grotto, which was only distinguishable because in that spot the darkness seemed more dense than elsewhere.†   (source)
  • Oh, yes, more than once, but always in vain; we examined the grotto all over, but we never could find the slightest trace of any opening; they say that the door is not opened by a key, but a magic word.†   (source)
  • He descended, or rather seemed to descend, several steps, inhaling the fresh and balmy air, like that which may be supposed to reign around the grotto of Circe, formed from such perfumes as set the mind a dreaming, and such fires as burn the very senses; and he saw again all he had seen before his sleep, from Sinbad, his singular host, to Ali, the mute attendant; then all seemed to fade away and become confused before his eyes, like the last shadows of the magic lantern before it is…†   (source)
  • Franz did not doubt that these plans were the same concerning which the count had dropped a few words in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and while the Count was speaking the young man watched him closely, hoping to read something of his purpose in his face, but his countenance was inscrutable especially when, as in the present case, it was veiled in a sphinx-like smile.†   (source)
  • Slumber refused to visit his eyelids and the night was passed in feverish contemplation of the chain of circumstances tending to prove the identity of the mysterious visitant to the Colosseum with the inhabitant of the grotto of Monte Cristo; and the more he thought, the firmer grew his opinion on the subject.†   (source)
  • France is so prosaic, and Paris so civilized a city, that you will not find in its eighty-five departments—I say eighty-five, because I do not include Corsica—you will not find, then, in these eighty-five departments a single hill on which there is not a telegraph, or a grotto in which the commissary of police has not put up a gaslamp.†   (source)
  • Descending into the grotto, he lifted the stone, filled his pockets with gems, put the box together as well and securely as he could, sprinkled fresh sand over the spot from which it had been taken, and then carefully trod down the earth to give it everywhere a uniform appearance; then, quitting the grotto, he replaced the stone, heaping on it broken masses of rocks and rough fragments of crumbling granite, filling the interstices with earth, into which he deftly inserted rapidly…†   (source)
  • He would fain have gazed upon his gold, and yet he had not strength enough; for an instant he leaned his head in his hands as if to prevent his senses from leaving him, and then rushed madly about the rocks of Monte Cristo, terrifying the wild goats and scaring the sea-fowls with his wild cries and gestures; then he returned, and, still unable to believe the evidence of his senses, rushed into the grotto, and found himself before this mine of gold and jewels.†   (source)
  • It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz's ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.†   (source)
  • Should we not do better in the grottos?†   (source)
  • Why, the grottos—caves of the island.†   (source)
  • He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, by a cleft between two walls of rock, following a path worn by a torrent, and which, in all human probability, human foot had never before trod, Dantes approached the spot where he supposed the grottos must have existed.†   (source)
  • On shore in the grottos, or on board in your cloak; besides, if your excellency pleases, we can leave as soon as you like—we can sail as well by night as by day, and if the wind drops we can use our oars.†   (source)
  • What grottos?†   (source)
  • At the entrance of that cave I will find the answer, if I dare go back and plunge through it into the grotto of light beyond.†   (source)
  • That's where the water would be, healing out to the seaand the peaceful grottoes.†   (source)
  • It twinkled and glinted, like breathing, the floatslow like breathing too, and debris half submerged, healing out to the sea and the caverns and the grottoes of the sea.†   (source)
  • Sir I will not need Shreve's I have soldBenjy's pasture and I can be dead in Harvard Caddy said in the caverns and the grottoes of the sea tumbling peacefully to the wavering tides because Harvard is such a fine sound fortyacres is no high price for a fine sound.†   (source)
  • Out of her oakframe a nymph with hair unbound, lightly clad in teabrown artcolours, descends from her grotto and passing under interlacing yews stands over Bloom.†   (source)
  • And indeed it was the most delightful cavity or grotto of its kind that could be desired, though entirely dark.†   (source)
  • That night I reposed my wearied limbs in the boat, resolving the next morning to harbour what I had gotten in my new-found subterraneous grotto; & not to carry my cargo home to my ancient castle.†   (source)
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