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Example sentences for "pavilion"

Lexicographically close words:
paved; pavement; pavements; paven; paves; pavilions; pavillion; paving; pavor; paw
  1. The pavilion in which he had sought repose was of stained ivory, inlaid with gold.

  2. In this street, or rather lane, there is a garden, and in this garden a pavilion that also communicates with the two streets that I mentioned.

  3. As we got near the pavilion we heard shots not very far off--evidently the shooters were getting hungry and coming our way.

  4. We joined the gentlemen for lunch in another pavilion farther away and rather more open than the one of the other day.

  5. So he sat down again on his couch in the pavilion and made her sit as before.

  6. So next morning, he sent the carpet- layer to the pavilion in the garden and bade him furnish it.

  7. Then she turned up the face whereon was figured a pavilion and tapping it, said, 'Let a pavilion be pitched in this valley.

  8. If it is warm let us breakfast in the pavilion to-morrow.

  9. Beyond the dazzling, black-and-white chequer of the terrace and balustrade, they rested on the cool green of the formal garden, the glistering dome and slender columns of the pavilion set in the angle of the terminal wall.

  10. Silently he slipped down from his chair, stood a moment, supporting himself with one hand on the edge of the table, and then moved forward to that side of the pavilion which gave upon the garden.

  11. The approach to the pavilion from the lower level of the garden was by a carefully graded slope of Roman brick, set edgewise.

  12. This pavilion contained a billiard-room and a spacious gallery in which my brother practised fencing and pistol shooting with his masters and friends.

  13. Several times, already, in compliance with Arthur's urgent entreaties, I had met him at night time in a little pavilion in our garden.

  14. She went in, and seeing a man standing at the door of an elegant pavilion on the right-hand side of a large courtyard, she approached him, and asked for his employer.

  15. The great audience pavilion stood alone, one end facing the east, as any erection intended for the use of two Princes of the Church should stand.

  16. Approach to the royal pavilion was only possible down a long avenue composed of mounted men, who sat impassive in two extended lines under the hot sun.

  17. For the time being, that pavilion was the capital of the land.

  18. In the center of the huge camp was a long and high pavilion of red silk, with the silver lilies of the King at one end of it, and the golden oriflamme, the battle-flag of old France, at the other.

  19. There is one Pavilion at Monblaisir which Aurelius Victor XV had arranged--a great Prince but too fond of pleasure--and which I am told is a perfect wonder of licentious elegance.

  20. In a curve of the wall some steps led up to a crumbling pavilion with openings choked with ivy.

  21. He was to meet her in the brown sitting-room at ten, and they were to walk down to the river and talk over their future in the little pavilion abutting on the wall of the park.

  22. To the right of the drive, under a clump of trees, a little stucco pavilion crowned by a balustrade rose on arches of mouldering brick over a flight of steps that led down to a spring.

  23. On the border of the wood is a pavilion which holds the collections of Colonial curiosities.

  24. Part of this is the main channel of the river, the other portion being the narrow way behind the eyot; on approaching which the pavilion is again lost to view, hidden by a tope of tall trees.

  25. But on reaching the place from which the pavilion can be again sighted, he turns round on the thwart and looks back.

  26. How unlike the lovers in the painted pavilion at Llangorren!

  27. During the earlier stages of the dinner, as already said, they converse about ordinary subjects, like the lovers in the pavilion silent upon that paramount in their minds.

  28. It is simply a summer-house, of the kiosk or pavilion pattern, standing in the ornamental grounds of a gentleman's residence.

  29. Captain Ryecroft's start at seeing a woman within the pavilion was less from surprise than an emotion due to memory.

  30. All the doors of the pavilion we were in were bolted behind us when we left it.

  31. He requested us to wait in the other pavilion until he should call us.

  32. We resolved to sup in an open pavilion of the garden, where the marquis had, without our knowledge, arranged a little concert, which was quite first-rate.

  33. We hastened to the other pavilion and put on our clothes as quickly as possible.

  34. She stood at the entrance to the pavilion and waved a tennis-racquet impatiently.

  35. I was deceived myself, and when I afterwards went to the Bellevue insane pavilion to make some inquiries I found that he had long since been discharged as cured.

  36. To build up, independent of the towers, A durable pavilion o'er the turf, Had issued in disaster.

  37. And you will live in the pavilion in all your glory, won't you?

  38. He hauled out from under the porch of the main pavilion the logs which had been saved from the fire that had all but devastated the camp during its first season, and saved himself much labor thereby.

  39. I strolled back to the pavilion just as a burst of applause announced a fine drive by Doe.

  40. Radley took a deck-chair in front of the pavilion next to Dr.

  41. All that Doe did then was to direct the ball with perfect ease between Point and Short Slip and to glance quickly towards the pavilion to see if the stroke had been noticed.

  42. The Masters had won the toss, and the two, who were to open the batting, left the pavilion amid applause, and assumed their places at the wicket.

  43. On both sides of the gravel path leading to the pavilion there was a hedge, so thickly grown that, to the great disgust of the gardener, young ladies used to seat themselves on its top.

  44. At the back of the pavilion there was a secret door in the panelling, the key of which the Consul always carried in his pocket.

  45. The pavilion by the pond lay to the west of the mansion, and although only a few paces distant; it was looked upon in old times as a sort of Trianon.

  46. The Consul was now more lonely than ever; absorbed in melancholy, he often paced up and down in the broad gravel paths by the pavilion in the garden.

  47. To turn the Pavilion into a pretty little church would spoil nothing, Miss Flora, as it seems to me.

  48. And the Pavilion stands in a good place near the road.

  49. How would the Pavilion do, for a skeleton of the church?

  50. Footnote 74: "His pavilion round about him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies," Psa.

  51. In them hath he set a pavilion for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, And rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

  52. For security she had a house or pavilion erected in which to take refuge should the officers of the law come for her.

  53. The pavilion still stands, but has been converted into a barn, and all the internal arrangements have been altered.

  54. Sometimes people unable to hear the music glanced up at the pavilion and were reassured upon beholding the distant leader still gesticulating and bobbing, and the other members of the band with their lips glued to their instruments.

  55. It carried the noise of the band in the pavilion in gusts.

  56. So I entered and, seeing a light in the distance, made towards it and reaching it, came to a great pavilion vaulted over with a dome of ivory and ebony, and the lamp hung from the midst of the dome.

  57. I went up into the pavilion and smelt the odour of the viands and my spirit lusted after them; but I possessed my soul in patience for a while, till at last I could no longer withstand temptation.

  58. So, full of joy I left her and repairing to the garden, went up into the pavilion where, being satiated with food, I sat down and watched till a fourth part of the dark hours was past.

  59. Then the Caliph went up to the door of the pavilion and knocked a gentle knock, whereupon said Nur al-Din, "O Shaykh Ibrahim, some one taps at the door.

  60. So I left her and repaired to the garden and went up into that same pavilion where I occupied myself in holding my eyelids open with my fingers and nodding my head as the night darkened on me.

  61. So they walked towards the Tigris pondering the matter, and presently came upon a fisherman who stood fishing under the pavilion windows.

  62. So I sat down in the pavilion to await the coming of the beloved of my heart; but the first hour of the night passed by, and the second hour, and the third hour, and still she came not.

  63. Above a cornice of gilded balls, the ceiling rose in pavilion style until it broke into a shallow dome set with hundreds of panes of violet mica, permitting a flood of light deliciously reposeful.


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