All 12 Uses of
grotto
in
All the Light We Cannot See
- Grotto†
p. 259.0
- From what she can tell, it's a low grotto, maybe four yards long and half as wide, shaped like a loaf of bread.†
p. 260.2 *
- Grotto†
p. 341.0
- 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.†
p. 341.8
- She hears her snails in the grotto drag their bodies over the rocks.†
p. 391.8
- Grotto†
p. 414.0
- Marie-Laure puts the loaf in her knapsack, leaves the bakery, and winds toward the ramparts to Hubert Bazin's grotto.†
p. 414.5
- She crouches against the wall of the grotto, knapsack in her lap.†
p. 419.3
- 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.†
p. 422.8
- 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.†
p. 446.8
- 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.†
p. 476.0
- Did Werner let himself back into the grotto to retrieve it?†
p. 515.9
Definition:
a small cave -- usually with attractive features