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Example sentences for "groves"

Lexicographically close words:
grovel; groveled; groveling; grovelled; grovelling; grow; growe; growed; growen; grower
  1. To the same shogun Yedo owes the cherry and plum groves of Asuka-yama, of the Sumida-gawa, and of Koganei.

  2. Some of them, to hide their nudity, plunged into the stream, and some entered the groves hard by, and some quickly took up their clothes, at beholding the Rishi.

  3. The righteous-souled Suka then beheld from a high region the celestial stream Mandakini of great beauty, running below through a region adorned by many flowering groves and woods.

  4. This alludes to the sports of Krishna in the groves of Vrinda with the rustic children who were his companions.

  5. It had been an old Indian settlement, and from its groves we had a view of the distant woodlands clothed in richest foliage.

  6. And the Men of the Mountains walk no mountain-paths beyond the peak of Zut; nor have we ever dangled our ropes into the Ummuz-groves of Tishnar.

  7. The woods and groves are searched through and through, and no doubt the privacy of many a squirrel and many a wood-mouse is intruded upon.

  8. They planted groves and walks of Platanes," where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air.

  9. Another system still survives among the inhabitants of the southern coast lands where the Arabian Sea beats against the palm groves of Malabar.

  10. They should have fires of cloves and cinnamon; We would cut down whole groves to honour them, And be at cost to burn them nobly.

  11. From this service we followed, in mournful procession, to the resting-place which he had selected for himself and his family, amidst the beautiful groves of Mount Auburn.

  12. Come, man, undo me the secret entrance which combines these magical ruins with groves that are fashioned rather like those of Cytheros or Naxos.

  13. The wylde thorough the woods went, On every side shear; Grehounds thorough the groves glent, For to kill thir deer.

  14. The sound of music wafted through the coral groves and crystal grottoes reached her ear.

  15. Floating slowly through the air, she directed her course to the pine groves that fringe the strand near Cape Miwo.

  16. I see the grand mansion of the planter, with its orange-groves and gardens, its green Venetians, cool verandahs, and pretty palings.

  17. It is embowered in groves of orange and lemon-trees, whose frondage of yellowish green glistens gaily in the distance.

  18. He takes leave of his people with bitter words, and goes out "To the cool regions of the groves he loved.

  19. The squirrel was seen to play on nimble feet through oak and chestnut groves gathering in his winter store.

  20. The quantity of light reflected from the bent needles was so great as to make whole groves appear as if covered with snow, while the black shadows beneath the trees greatly enhanced the effect of the silvery splendor.

  21. How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

  22. The generic terms minster and monastery may be assigned to the ministers of Minos originally congregating in cells or trous or in groves under and around the oaks or other similarly sacred trees.

  23. Near Birmingham is Selly Oak, which may be connoted with allon, the Hebrew for oak, and with the fact that the oak groves of the selli at Dodona were universally renowned.

  24. The murmuring of the wind in the oak groves of Dodona was held to be the voice of Zeus, and the will of the All Father was there further deduced by means of a three-chained whip hanging over a metal basin from the hand of the statue of a boy.

  25. In this Fairyland of happy souls he supposed the virtuous and brave to roam among fields covered with sweet flowers, and amid groves laden with delicious fruits.

  26. It is supposed that Etruria derived much from the prehistoric Greeks who dwelt in Albania and worshipped Father Zeus in the sacred derrys or oak-groves of Dodona.

  27. As North America has no mountain barriers across the pathway of polar winds, they sweep southward even to the Gulf of Mexico and have twice destroyed Florida's orange groves within a decade.

  28. Evander said, "These extensive groves were once inhabited by fauns and nymphs, and a rude race of men who sprang from the trees themselves, and had neither laws nor social culture.

  29. They passed through a middle tract of darkness, and came upon the Elysian fields, the groves where the happy reside.

  30. That mortal was Arachne, a maiden who had attained such skill in the arts of weaving and embroidery that the nymphs themselves would leave their groves and fountains to come and gaze upon her work.

  31. Like those Hesperian gardens famed of old, Fortunate fields and groves and flowery vales, Thrice happy isles.

  32. Next were situated the regions of sadness, divided off into retired paths, leading through groves of myrtle.

  33. And hosts of glad-voiced angels sing In the rippling groves of spring.

  34. Forever through the groves and glades Kind thoughts went softly to and fro, And memories like white-footed maids With gentle tread would come and go Among the ever-garrulous trees.

  35. Men mutter runes in language dead, By night, with rumbling drum, In quaking groves where the woodland spirits are hailed.

  36. From groves where sacrificing throngs Called you by some fair Grecian name, With ritual meet and choric songs, Strange, that to this dark hill you came To seek, unmindful of their loss, A refuge underneath the cross.

  37. These groves are walled, and among them this semi-decayed and ruinous town is situated, miserably shrunk from its former proportions.

  38. From the top of the next slope there was a view of Khannikin, a considerable-looking town among groves of palms and other trees.

  39. In his youthful days he paced the fields and groves of lovely Italy, writing sonnets to his beloved Beatrice.

  40. Its terraces covered with palms; its orange groves and oliveyards; its massive hotels of marble; its azure sky and ever blue Mediterranean sparkling at its foot.

  41. In the groves around the children are swarming, shouting, and playing.

  42. Ah, what sweet joys in the banana groves of Waiakeakua, where the lovers saw naught so beautiful as themselves!

  43. He shouts the name of his lost love in the groves of Kumoku, and throughout the forest of Mahana.

  44. They passed through the groves of Kalulu and Kumoku, and then the man swerved from the path leading to Mahana and turned his face again seaward.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.