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alcove
in
The Secret Garden
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There seemed to have been grass paths here and there, and in one or two corners there were alcoves of evergreen with stone seats or tall moss-covered flower urns in them.†
p. 70.4
As she came near the second of these alcoves she stopped skipping.†
p. 70.4 *
His eyes seemed to be taking in everything—the gray trees with the gray creepers climbing over them and hanging from their branches, the tangle on the walls and among the grass, the evergreen alcoves with the stone seats and tall flower urns standing in them.†
p. 90.4
And over walls and earth and trees and swinging sprays and tendrils the fair green veil of tender little leaves had crept, and in the grass under the trees and the gray urns in the alcoves and here and there everywhere were touches or splashes of gold and purple and white and the trees were showing pink and snow above his head and there were fluttering of wings and faint sweet pipes and humming and scents and scents.†
p. 185.8
Iris and white lilies rose out of the grass in sheaves, and the green alcoves filled themselves with amazing armies of the blue and white flower lances of tall delphiniums or columbines or campanulas.†
p. 206.8
He sat on the seats in the alcoves, and once or twice he sat down on the grass and several times he paused in the path and leaned on Dickon, but he would not give up until he had gone all round the garden.†
p. 214.8

Definitions:

(1) (alcove)
a recessed or secluded space -- such as in a room or garden

The alcove of a room is a smaller room attached to a larger room and separated by an arch or other architectural feature other than a door.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)