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pavilion
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Lord of Light
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- A chariot moved slowly by, headed in the opposite direction, its driver squinting up at the banner the chief retainer bore; a courtesan stood at the gateway to her pavilion, studying the traffic; and a pack of mongrel dogs followed at the heels of the horses, barking.†
Part 2pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- He rose and stalked off toward his pavilion, past stunted trees that twisted with a certain grotesque beauty, past trellises woven with morning glory, pools of blue water lilies, strings of pearls swinging from rings all wrought of white gold, past lamps shaped like girls, tripods wherein pungent incenses burnt and an eight-armed statue of a blue goddess who played upon the veena when properly addressed.†
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- Brahma entered the pavilion and crossed to the screen of crystal, about which a bronze Naga twisted, tail in teeth.†
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- Brahma moved to another part of the pavilion and stood awhile before his wardrobe, deciding what to wear.†
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- When they came again to the purple grove, the Enlightened One instructed his monks to take rest, and he moved off in the direction of a small pavilion located deep within the wood.†
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- The monk who had brought the message during the drama sat within the pavilion.†
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- The monk hurried forth from the pavilion.†
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- But during those two days, anyone who passed by the pavilion might have heard the voice of the Enlightened One droning on and on, as though he addressed his sleeping charge.†
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- He came upon a purple pavilion, but it was empty.†
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- Warm meals would still be laid within the garden pavilions.†
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- At the place called Worldsend, where there is nothing beyond the edge of Heaven but the distant flicker of the dome and, far below, the blank ground, hidden beneath a smoke-white mist, there stands the open-sided Pavilion of Silence, upon whose round, gray roof the rains never fall, and across whose balconies and balustrades the fog boils in the morning and the winds walk at twilight, and within whose airy chambers, seated upon the stark, dark furniture, or pacing among the gray columns, are sometimes to be found the gods contemplative, the broken warriors or those injured in love, who come to consider there all things hurtful or futile, beneath a sky that is beyond the Bridge of the Gods, i†
Part 5pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- It was twilight all about the Pavilion of Silence, and the winds that circled through Heaven flowed past them.†
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- Then let us adjourn to my Pavilion of Joys and discuss the matter fully.†
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- Lord Varuna the Just turned away his face from the proceedings and visited the Pavilion of Silence at Worldsend, where he sat for a spell in the room named Fear.†
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- The groom, attended by a great procession of friends and retainers decked all in red, was escorted through the City to the Pavilion of Kali, where all were taken within by her servants and led into the great dining hall.†
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- The legion of the groom then departed to the pavilion in the Square, and that of the bride advanced upon it from another direction.†
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- Yama and Kali entered this pavilion separately and sat on either side of a small curtain.†
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- The retainers and guests then combined into a single procession and moved off through the town in the direction of the dark pavilion of Yama, where great feasting and revelry was held, and where the Masque of Blood was presented.†
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- On the last night of the revels, a lone god entered the Pavilion of Silence at Worldsend and dwelled for a long while in the room called Memory.†
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- She told Brahma's First Concubine, who went to see for herself, agreed that her Lord was indeed dead, addressed the statue of the blue goddess, who immediately began playing upon the veena, and then sent messages to Vishnu and Shiva to come at once to the Pavilion.†
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- They did not pause for any purpose, but went directly to the Pavilion of Brahma.†
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- An hour hence we shall dine together in the Pavilion.†
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- He spent time in each of the five rooms in the Pavilion of Silence.†
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- Yama departed the Pavilion of the Lokapalas.†
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- I had gone to his Pavilion early yesterday morning, to intercede with him that he might lift his wrath and permit the return of Lady Parvati.†
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- Did you depart directly from the Garden, or did you stop back at the Pavilion?†
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- I passed the Pavilion and saw the same girl.†
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- I knew of only one place where I might get me another body, that being the Pavilion of the Gods of Karma.†
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- "You built the room called Fear," he said, "at the Pavilion of Silence.†
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- The Rakasha would then storm Heaven, and Nirriti would level the Celestial City; Milehigh Spire would fall, the dome would be shattered, the great white cats of Kaniburrha would look upon ruins, and the pavilions of the gods and the demigods would be covered with the snows of the Pole.†
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- When Brahma activated the screen within his Pavilion, he saw a man who wore the blue-green turban of Urath.†
Part 7pavilion = a large structure separate from a main structure or temporary
- Nirriti's Palace was made into an art gallery and Kama Pavilion.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(pavilion) a large building or section of a building that stands apart in function or design -- often used for gatherings, exhibitions, or specialized purposes
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, pavilion can reference a facet of a gem or part of the outer ear.