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  • Giant tented pavilions were set up in the gardens, with food and wine stations scattered about the lawn.†   (source)
  • Got himself all involved buying up the new fairgrounds, getting folks in Amity Harbor to donate lumber and whatnot for the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen.†   (source)
  • On a granite panel outside the Protagorean Pavilion the building's namesake was quoted loosely: Humans are the measure of all things.†   (source)
  • In the darkness we passed lots and lots of surf spots: the Bay, the Bowl, Pavilions, Pine Trees, Middles, Chicken Wings, Wai Koko.†   (source)
  • We're just about to go on a tour of the birthing pavilion.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in the buffalo shed; other times the band shell benches or the pavilion.†   (source)
  • We browse a few more pavilions until we reach the pavilion Karen and Jack are set up in.†   (source)
  • Outside, she stood for a moment amidst the shouts and curses and the creak of wooden wheels as the men broke down the tents and pavilions and loaded the wagons for another day's march.†   (source)
  • She got up irritably and walked away, toward the swimming pool pavilion, an open structure supported by three fluted pillars.†   (source)
  • The ornate gables, the tiered pavilions that teetered dangerously close to the cliff's edge, the rounded temples stretching to the heavens.†   (source)
  • The park itself is made up of three baseball fields, a playground, and a large pavilion where volunteers serve cider and slices of pumpkin pie.†   (source)
  • No one answered, and we carried on over to the pavilion, not saying anything more about what had happened.†   (source)
  • Beyond the town were tents, pavilions, campfires, cooking fires, and great flaming pyres, too large for function, too large for anything except to serve as a welcome to the returning isles.†   (source)
  • Beyond the gate, we passed between several small pavilions to a flight of stone steps leading up through trees in their brilliant fall coloring.†   (source)
  • We're in Cell #61, Pavilion A, La Victoria—Dulce, Miriam, Violeta, Asela, Delia, Sina, Minerva, and me.†   (source)
  • Sonja had heard of a neat place for kids to visit just outside Denver called the Butterfly Pavilion.†   (source)
  • The monstrous guns of Krupp were in place in their pavilion on the lake south of the Court of Honor.†   (source)
  • The pavilion's muted night-lighting was about the intensity of a crescent moon: enough to allow sleep, but also enough to see shapes, though not colors.†   (source)
  • At the foot of the stairs was another tunnel, which widened out at the end into a square pavilion, each corner of which was marked by a spire of carved bone.†   (source)
  • The nineteen men from Brazzaville were stashed, along with other Kabila rivals and political dissidents, into a high-security section of Makala called Pavilion One.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, no one ever learned about the visions of those who did not return, including the saddest of them all: those who had died as exiles in the tuberculosis pavilion, more from the sadness of the rain than because of the complications of their disease.†   (source)
  • And at the head of the assembly stood a white pavilion that sheltered a throne of knotted roots.†   (source)
  • Each screen in the grid above me shows a different part of the city: the Merciless Mart, the lobby of Erudite headquarters, Millennium Park, the pavilion outside the Hancock building.†   (source)
  • They set up two biocontainment pavilions at the hospital and shut the people up for a couple of weeks.†   (source)
  • Until 1955 she and her late husband operated the Holcomb Dance Pavilion, an enterprise that owing to its uniqueness in the area, attracted from a hundred around a fast-drinking, fancy-stepping clientele, whose behavior, in turn, attracted the interest of the sheriff now and then.†   (source)
  • Gaily striped tents and pavilions sprang up everywhere as the workmen scurried about like ants.†   (source)
  • That old pavilion where they'd had dances years ago during the Big Band era her parents always talked al>out?†   (source)
  • A new Ilium Government Center and a Pavilion of the Arts and a Peace Lagoon and high-rise apartment buildings were going up here soon.†   (source)
  • A little girl had died in the Children's Pavilion last night, one he felt shouldn't have.†   (source)
  • We were sitting in the Pavilion having Cokes, and he was being very formal and courteous like he always is when we're around someone.†   (source)
  • Two enormous pavilions had been erected: white canvas swooped down in graceful arcs from tall, sturdy tent poles.†   (source)
  • One morning the hobbits woke to find the large field, south of Bilbo's front door, covered with ropes and poles for tents and pavilions.†   (source)
  • It documented the entire camp scene—the graduating seniors, the guard towers, the Judo pavilion, the creeks I used to wade in, my family's barracks.†   (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)
  • Out on the floor, Maggie had a steady stream of customers, thanks to an outdoor concert that was going on at the boardwalk pavilion.†   (source)
  • Noah held my hand and my bag as he escorted me to the third floor—the Women's Pavilion.†   (source)
  • Grandfather sits a few rows behind the Commandant's pavilion with a group of his personal guard, his eyes on me.†   (source)
  • "I'll go see about the pavilion for Your Majesty," said Teleus, backing up as the Mede's personal guard distributed themselves around the clearing.†   (source)
  • She read the story of the party he gave at an Algerian desert resort; he built a pavilion of thin sheets of ice and presented every woman guest with an ermine wrap, as a gift to be worn for the occasion, on condition that they remove their wraps, then their evening gowns, then all the rest, in tempo with the melting of the walls.†   (source)
  • Moonlight played on the high iron-latticed pavilions.†   (source)
  • Her sister spent hours in the pavilion by the carp pond, composing replies.†   (source)
  • Welcome to The Pavilion, Derek.†   (source)
  • Pink pavilions bravely shining.†   (source)
  • Brahma entered the pavilion and crossed to the screen of crystal, about which a bronze Naga twisted, tail in teeth.†   (source)
  • From my position I was looking at a rectangle brightly lit, actually glaring at me, with sun, sand, water, a little pavilion, a few solitary people in fixed attitudes, and around it all a border of dark rounded oak trees, like the engraved thunderclouds surrounding illustrations in the Bible.†   (source)
  • After a while, the servant returned, asked him, who had been waiting, to follow him conducted him, who was following him, without a word into a pavilion, where Kamala was lying on a couch, and left him alone with her.†   (source)
  • The lovely pavilion was gone and the black box mostly repacked; it was no bigger than a piano box.†   (source)
  • Muted music from costumed robot string quartets sawing away in strategic pavilions.†   (source)
  • It's hard to say clearly what sort of impact Miss Lucy's outburst at the pavilion made.†   (source)
  • I see a sports pavilion in the distance and I'm sure it's ours.†   (source)
  • Tommy was still going strong as we came out of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • We'd been in the pavilion getting ready for a game of rounders.†   (source)
  • The two of us were walking from the dorm huts perhaps towards the pavilion, I'm not sure.†   (source)
  • The girls heading for the pavilion had spotted me and were waving and calling.†   (source)
  • The Juniors at the window had lost interest and gone; some girls from our year were walking towards the pavilion, but they were still a good way off.†   (source)
  • You could talk about things there you wouldn't dream of talking about any other place, not even in the pavilion.†   (source)
  • The classrooms were all officially "out of bounds" in the evenings, as were the areas behind the sheds and the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Once, for instance, a few of us were going back from the pavilion towards the dorm huts and found ourselves walking behind Tommy and a couple of other boys.†   (source)
  • Then maybe a day or two later, I was coming out of the pavilion with Hannah when she suddenly nudged me and nodded towards a group of boys over on the North Playing Field.†   (source)
  • The downpour had started while we were changing, and we found ourselves gathering on the veranda—which was sheltered by the pavilion roof—while we waited for it to stop.†   (source)
  • The guardians were always telling us to be civilised about it, but in practice, you needed to have some strong personalities in your group to stand a chance of getting the pavilion during a break or free period.†   (source)
  • And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later—particularly what happened that day at the pavilion while we were sheltering from the downpour.†   (source)
  • There's a particular memory I have of sitting by myself one evening on one of the benches outside the pavilion, trying over and over to think of some way out, while a heavy mix of remorse and frustration brought me virtually to tears.†   (source)
  • That meant that from almost any of the classroom windows in the main house—and even from the pavilion—you had a good view of the long narrow road that came down across the fields and arrived at the main gate.†   (source)
  • There was a kind of conversation that could only happen when you were hidden away in the pavilion; we might discuss something that was worrying us, or we might end up screaming with laughter, or in a furious row.†   (source)
  • Maybe once Hailsham was behind us, it was possible, just for that half year or so, before all the talk of becoming carers, before the driving lessons, all those other things, it was possible to forget for whole stretches of time who we really were; to forget what the guardians had told us; to forget Miss Lucy's outburst that rainy afternoon at the pavilion, as well as all those theories we'd developed amongst ourselves over the years.†   (source)
  • Because as I'd stood there watching them all talking and laughing, I'd felt an unexpected little tug; because there was something about the way these donors had arranged themselves in a rough semi-circle, something about their poses, almost studiedly relaxed, whether standing or sitting, as though to announce to the world how much each one of them was savouring the company, that reminded me of the way our little gang used to sit around our pavilion together.†   (source)
  • She pointed out the open-air dining pavilion that overlooked Long Island Sound.†   (source)
  • The dining pavilion was pleasant enough.†   (source)
  • In the middle, a tattered pavilion covered an empty dais where a throne might once have sat.†   (source)
  • I stayed until the pavilion was nearly empty.†   (source)
  • We browse a few more pavilions until we reach the pavilion Karen and Jack are set up in.†   (source)
  • Percy glanced back at the destroyed dining pavilion.†   (source)
  • We marched up the hill to the mess hall pavilion.†   (source)
  • Chiron's hoof thundered on the pavilion floor.†   (source)
  • The sun was setting behind the dining pavilion as the campers came up from their cabins.†   (source)
  • The only thing that bothered me was Nico, hanging out in the shadows at the edge of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • He drooled and muttered as we dragged him back into the pavilion and set him on his throne.†   (source)
  • Only one prisoner from each pavilion will be interviewed.†   (source)
  • Now, run along to the dining pavilion, and explain to Chiron why we're late.†   (source)
  • Alternating squares made up the pavilion floor: golden bronze and a darker red.†   (source)
  • NARGARZHVOG Eragon entered the pavilion, Saphira pushing her head through after him.†   (source)
  • They cheered him as he left the lists to return to his pavilion.†   (source)
  • At the pavilion of the Inman line a full-sized slice of an ocean liner towered above them.†   (source)
  • We hold hands on the walk to the pavilion.†   (source)
  • There were some shouts from the floating pavilion, and I strained to see faces of Amah, Baba, Mama.†   (source)
  • I stopped at the dining pavilion and waited for them.†   (source)
  • Now, at the Butterfly Pavilion, Sonja checked her watch.†   (source)
  • In the center of the pavilion was a long table of black basalt veined in white.†   (source)
  • Now, here we were at the Butterfly Pavilion.†   (source)
  • The line coming from the right side of the judgment pavilion was much better.†   (source)
  • The voices from the pavilion cried in happy disbelief, "Ai!†   (source)
  • Everything outside the pavilion darkened like a stage set.†   (source)
  • Singers sat before the king's pavilion, filling the dusk with music.†   (source)
  • Westinghouse only began building its pavilion on Tuesday, May 2.†   (source)
  • El Rayo says he's in Pavilion B with Manolo and Pedrito and the rest of the central committee.†   (source)
  • At the dining pavilion, the conch horn blew.†   (source)
  • He gave Grover a meaningful look, then trotted out of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Will showed him the cabins, the dining pavilion, and the sword arena.†   (source)
  • As soon as the last campers had filed in, I led Tyson into the middle of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • I could see the dining pavilion and cabins and the amphitheater.†   (source)
  • Now I was outside the pavilion, hiding in the shadows of a Greek column.†   (source)
  • Henri and I stand beneath the pavilion and I again scan the long line of people waiting their turn.†   (source)
  • A long, uncomfortable silence filled the pavilion.†   (source)
  • My half-sisters and I ran our fingers over benches and small tables in the pavilion.†   (source)
  • "Sarah," I call, but she keeps walking and disappears past the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Then dinner came, and all the campers lined up by cabin and marched into the dining pavilion.†   (source)
  • In the entire pavilion, I counted nineteen campers.†   (source)
  • We walked back toward the dining pavilion together, just the three of us, like old times.†   (source)
  • The main pavilion was open to the night, ringed with black Greek columns and statues of the Titans.†   (source)
  • Afterward Ser Barristan walked with Ned to the king's pavilion.†   (source)
  • March 1, 2003—The Burpo family visits the Denver Butterfly Pavilion to celebrate Todd's recovery.†   (source)
  • Fredric pulled back the flap and Eragon and Orik entered the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Sadie backed up and eventually managed to coax Ra into the pavilion.†   (source)
  • When "Yesterday morning on the pavilion," I said, before I could stop myself.†   (source)
  • Traffic problems at the judgment pavilion.†   (source)
  • At the pavilion, torches blazed around the marble columns.†   (source)
  • As we left the Butterfly Pavilion, I reflected back over the past several months.†   (source)
  • People were crowded on one side of the pavilion, leaning over, pointing, looking into our boat.†   (source)
  • When at last they won free of Orrin's pavilion, Eragon asked Nasuada, "What shall I do now?†   (source)
  • And Zoe followed her out of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • I glanced over at Sherman, who sat at a safe distance across the pavilion, glaring daggers at Meg.†   (source)
  • From the dining pavilion, you could see pretty much everything.†   (source)
  • Then I stepped inside the pavilion, and my jaw dropped.†   (source)
  • The hull no longer leaked, and the tent house was once more a beautiful pavilion.†   (source)
  • I said, and pointed to a floating pavilion filled with laughing people and lanterns.†   (source)
  • We left the judgment pavilion and moved deeper into the Asphodel Fields.†   (source)
  • Suddenly the pavilion was filled with torchlight and campers.†   (source)
  • We were standing at the dining pavilion, just where we'd last spoken before I went on the quest.†   (source)
  • Connor wailed, thrashing blindly around the pavilion.†   (source)
  • I stood forlornly in a corner of the pavilion and ate a sandwich.†   (source)
  • As Blackjack flew back toward my cabin, I happened to glance at the dining pavilion.†   (source)
  • Where do you guys eat lunch now that the Colossus stepped on the dining pavilion?†   (source)
  • Strands of web covered it like a gauze pavilion.†   (source)
  • I will have a guard alert you once she is ready to return to The Pavilion.†   (source)
  • The main pavilion could use several of these.†   (source)
  • She thought about sitting in the dining pavilion, watching the sunset over Long Island Sound.†   (source)
  • When they woke they found that the light of day was broad upon the lawn before the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Across the ravine, the windows of the pavilion were squares of yellow light.†   (source)
  • Some months back, a boy named Alcante arrived at Zanmi Lasante's Children's Pavilion.†   (source)
  • Ser Richard Farrow played love, songs on his lute outside her pavilion.†   (source)
  • Lady Catelyn shall have my own pavilion.†   (source)
  • A long, low table covered with scattered reports and maps occupied one-half of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Max found Sarah and Omar chatting near the dance pavilion.†   (source)
  • In the center of the pavilion was a black table.†   (source)
  • The dining hall pavilion had never been so crowded.†   (source)
  • Then I wonder he's gone off to fetch a pavilion like a steward.†   (source)
  • I was standing in a pavilion ringed with gray stone columns.†   (source)
  • The three of them were gathered in Orrin's pavilion, where the king had summoned them.†   (source)
  • Lord Bracken's pavilion did not prove difficult to find.†   (source)
  • "That was wisely done," Ser Jorah said as they watched from the front of her pavilion.†   (source)
  • Hazel stormed out of the pavilion, and Percy followed.†   (source)
  • Underneath one pavilion were row upon row of covered serving trays.†   (source)
  • She passed through the pavilion, into yellow fields that went on forever.†   (source)
  • He went bed by bed through the tb hospital, the main hospital, the Children's Pavilion.†   (source)
  • Then they presented themselves to Nasuada in her pavilion.†   (source)
  • Only then did she lead her captains and commanders inside her pavilion for their council.†   (source)
  • Angela bustled into the pavilion, carrying several bags and baskets looped over her arms.†   (source)
  • The note appeared in the sacrificial fire at our dining pavilion.†   (source)
  • ' The Company now took their leave and returned to their pavilion.†   (source)
  • She looked across the ravine to the old pavilion building.†   (source)
  • The path of footprints led from the pavilion and down a narrow tunnel, disappearing into darkness.†   (source)
  • Back at his pavilion, he dismissed Strongboar and Ser Ilyn, but not the singer.†   (source)
  • "The Pavilion's penthouses have more rooms than I can keep track of," Vivienne said.†   (source)
  • Loud voices came from the other side of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • 'ProudFEET!' shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • His robes swirled about him as he turned and stalked out of the pavilion.†   (source)
  • He paced in front of the pavilion until Jormundur emerged.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she could not stand the close confines of the pavilion another moment.†   (source)
  • Alec tilted his head toward the forest of arches that led away from the pavilion.†   (source)
  • "Welcome to The Pavilion, boy," Lucas grinned.†   (source)
  • Inside the gates, they walked into a large pavilion and stood before the judges' bench.†   (source)
  • Serena and Carole went right up to the Children's Pavilion.†   (source)
  • After the brightness of the morning, the interior of the pavilion seemed cool and dim.†   (source)
  • He landed close to Nasuada's pavilion, and the earth shook from the impact of his weight.†   (source)
  • But for every shimmering silk pavilion there were two dozen of felt or canvas, opaque and dark.†   (source)
  • Dusk was falling when Catelyn left the pavilion.†   (source)
  • This was held in the great pavilion with the tree.†   (source)
  • Blodhgarm accompanied Eragon as he strode into the pavilion toward Fredric.†   (source)
  • They found the huge brown eunuch sitting in the shade of her pavilion, eating a sausage.†   (source)
  • The pavilion became as silent as a tomb.†   (source)
  • It had been wise of Arya, Eragon thought, to stage the meeting in Orik's pavilion.†   (source)
  • At the feast, in the melee, even in Renly's pavilion with her brothers of the Rainbow Guard.†   (source)
  • "Yunkai will have war," Dany told Whitebeard inside the pavilion.†   (source)
  • "Farica left some bread and wine behind those scrolls," said Nasuada, pointing across the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Behind them, the king's pavilion was well ablaze, flames rising high against the dark.†   (source)
  • No one else had been allowed into the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Groups of werecats chased soldiers back and forth throughout the clearing around the pavilion.†   (source)
  • Fadawar and his men had departed the pavilion.†   (source)
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