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Example sentences for "pergola"

Lexicographically close words:
perfuming; perfunctorily; perfunctory; perfyte; pergne; pergolas; perhaps; perhibent; peri; periagua
  1. A pergola ran down the middle, and through denuded grape-vines he caught a glimpse, at the far end, of sculptured figures and curving marble benches surrounding a pool.

  2. And he entered, as into another world, the circular arbour in which the pergola ended, so complete in contrast was its atmosphere to that of the house.

  3. From the vine-covered pergola where they lunched they beheld the distant sea like a lavender haze across the flats.

  4. The lines remain the same but have been extended by the introduction of the pergola at one side and a porch which are very attractive features in themselves.

  5. He did not smoke, he whistled to the canary, who knew him, and got angry when master picked a rose from his pergola and put it in his buttonhole.

  6. In one corner was a baby pergola with another climber embracing it, and at the top of the pergola a tiny little bird-box, out of which frequently stepped a wee yellow canary.

  7. She is sitting under that pergola yonder, looking out to sea, and I'm afraid she's crying her eyes out for something she wants.

  8. We had dejeuner under a pergola at the inn right over one of these waterfalls, where, far below us, birds flew to and fro in the mist of the spray.

  9. We had a frugal colazione under the pergola of an Appian Way-side inn, watched by half a dozen hungry cats, that unattractive, wild, malignant kind of cat peculiar to Italy.

  10. She thought, though, that by knocking the walls out and altering the roof and building a pergola on to it, it would make an ideal summer house in which to serve tea and from which to view the peaceful landscape of afternoons.

  11. We argued this back and forth at some length, each conceding something to the other's views; and finally we decided to knock out the walls and alter the roof and have a summer house with a pergola in connection.

  12. In August, 1905, I was walking pensively under the pergola of our house at Egreville, when suddenly an automobile horn woke the echoes of that peaceful country.

  13. It was while we paced under the pergola of which I have spoken, in the delightfully fresh, thick shade of the vines whose leaves formed a verdant network that we settled on the cast.

  14. Nancy chanced to have seen Grace and some of her satellites sitting in a pergola on a mound not far away.

  15. Flying down from the pergola came Grace, with Cora close behind her.

  16. As I entered the orchard a man made a hurried exit from a vine-wreathed pergola where my wife often sat to read, cast one look at me, cleared the orchard fence, and made off through the woods, disappearing at once among the boles of the trees.

  17. I turned toward the pergola and met--my wife!

  18. It was the face of--of the man who ran from the pergola and vaulted over the orchard wall into the woods that summer night a year earlier; the man whom I had not, for the moment, recognized.

  19. How inviting this home is--and how picturesque with that pergola porch, when in summer, flowering vines have wound their way around and over it.

  20. The broken roof lines, hooded entrance and pergola porch are the attractive exterior features.

  21. Fenella led the way through a little iron gate to a queer miniature garden, a lawn brilliant with flower-beds, ending in a pergola of roses.

  22. He walked away down the pergola without even waiting for her.

  23. We'll have to go to a certain vine-clad pergola by devious routes to avoid three wise children and one suspicious and formidable foreman.

  24. By much circumambulation the two girls reached the pergola unseen.

  25. Go to the pergola and receive a note from me.

  26. To our surprise, the Count joined in Ludovico's song, in a rich bass voice that resounded through the little pergola and brought a crowd of urchins to our retreat with their hands full of grilli in cages.

  27. This broad pergola shades the sunny street leading to the Pincio, or "Hill of Gardens," as the ancients called it.

  28. The trees were close together, and Pergola was close to St. Petersburg!

  29. I had gone to Pergola to spend the day, and had with me M.

  30. I very often went to the Lake of Pergola alone with my Russian man-servant to take what I called an air-bath.

  31. Just before half-past twelve Rose came slowly up through the pergola and between the camellias ranged on either side of the old stone steps.

  32. Fortunately he was near the top, and Francesca came down the pergola to pilot him indoors, and having shown him where he could wash she put him in the empty drawing-room to cool himself by the crackling wood fire.

  33. It was Perona, standing by the pergola preening his effeminate mustache.

  34. They moved away from the pergola and sat by the fountain, speaking too low for her to hear.

  35. If the pergola itself is built during the summer, you can sit under it, and by going over your list and colour scheme locate each rose finally before its arrival.

  36. The pergola can be made of rough cedar posts with the bark left on.

  37. You need only begin with one-half of Evan's plan, letting the pergola enclose the walk back of the house, and later on you can add the other wing.

  38. This you must have as well as some of its kin, the Penzance hybrid-sweetbriers, either against the pergola or trained to the corner pillars, where you will become more intimate with them.

  39. I now for the first time fully understand the uses of the pergola in landscape gardening, the open sides of which form a series of vine-draped frames.

  40. The pergola has two openings out of it on the right, and one on the left.

  41. I much enjoy the pergola at the end of the sunny path.

  42. The climbers I find best for covering the pergola are Vines, Jasmine, Aristolochia, Virginia Creeper, and Wistaria.

  43. For a pergola of moderate size the piers should stand in pairs across the path, with eight feet clear between.

  44. The best house-agents say that a riverside cottage lets better if it has a pergola and no dining-room than if it has a dining-room and no pergola.

  45. My pergola is built of rustic wood creosoted, which costs very little.

  46. Verdi had just completed his opera of "Trovatore," which was performed at the Pergola in Florence, and the poets found it "very passionate and dramatic.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pergola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alcove; arbor; arcade; bower; cloister; colonnade; conservatory; corridor; gallery; gazebo; glasshouse; greenhouse; hall; kiosk; passage; passageway; pergola; retreat; summerhouse