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Example sentences for "promenade"

Lexicographically close words:
prolonge; prolonged; prolonging; prolongs; promeis; promenaded; promenaders; promenades; promenading; promesse
  1. However, Pierre's favourite promenade soon became the new quay of the Tiber beyond the Palazzo Boccanera.

  2. It was not a fashionable promenade but a pleasant retreat for people who sometimes took their work or books and sat on the seats placed here and there among the shrubs and flowers.

  3. When the audience went out between acts to promenade in the corridors, he might go also and there might be a chance to pass near to him in the crowd.

  4. La grande promenade, all eight (or more) couples promenade all round the figure back to places.

  5. At the bottom, lady gives left hand to her partner, and they promenade back to places at the top of the line.

  6. All promenade to places, and turn partners.

  7. It was at first customary to promenade your partner round the room, doing a kind of balancez to each other in the Polka step before commencing the valse figure.

  8. First lady leads off, turning sharply round to the right; first gentleman does the same to the left, meeting at the bottom of the quadrille, and promenade back to places.

  9. Top and opposite couples hands across; then back again; balancez and turn partners; chaine des dames; half promenade across; half right and left to places.

  10. Light and inexpensive materials are fittest for morning wear; dark silk dresses for the promenade or carriage; and low dresses of rich or transparent stuffs for the dinner and ball.

  11. First couple promenade inside figure, returning to places with their backs turned to opposite couple.

  12. All he could do was to keep his agitation and irritation down by that hurried promenade about the room, listening as little as he could, and answering not at all.

  13. The man turned out again to the Promenade des Anglais.

  14. And the girl reading the letter let it drop in her lap, and looked out through her window across the dazzling whiteness of the Promenade des Anglais to the purple Mediterranean.

  15. As for Hilbert, he said to Rollo that he was not afraid of the lee scuppers or any other scuppers, and he was going up on the promenade deck.

  16. They walked forward upon the promenade deck till they came to the short flight of stairs, with the green rope balustrade, which led down to the deck below.

  17. Accordingly, as soon as the tug was made fast, he came up the ladder, and immediately made his way to the promenade deck, to the place where Hilbert was standing.

  18. As Rollo and Jennie were, at that time, seated near the after part of the promenade deck, he came and sat down near them.

  19. I'm going up on the promenade deck," said Hilbert.

  20. In order to go up upon the promenade deck, it was necessary to go out at one of these doors, and then ascend the promenade deck stairway.

  21. They were on what was called the promenade deck.

  22. The same is the case with the waves of the sea, when seen from the promenade deck of one of these vast steamers.

  23. He accordingly walked forward, too; and he reached a part of the promenade deck that was near the smoke pipe, where he could look down upon the place where the woman was sitting.

  24. The children had, however, no time to attend to these things, for Mr. George led them rapidly along to that part of the promenade deck which was opposite to the long plank, where the people were coming up from the pier.

  25. Crowds of people were passing daily, men, women, children, even Portuguese taking their customary promenade on foot or on horseback, without any person giving himself the least trouble to remove the shocking spectacle.

  26. For in Manila there are neither theatres nor concert-rooms, and the public promenade is therefore the only rendezvous of the "beau monde.

  27. The men, when the incident I am about to describe happened, were at work on the port rails of the promenade deck.

  28. On the second day out, and during my watch below, I was talking to the purser in his cabin, when the fourth officer appeared to inform me that the captain wished to see me on the promenade deck.

  29. Strangely enough this proved to be the case, for I had no sooner set foot on the promenade deck, before a well-known voice hailed me.

  30. Calzada, the, or public promenade of Manila, ii.

  31. The obscene Tahitian dances on the Sundays in Government gardens had been resuscitated five months before, and for this reason Pre Catalan, the only public promenade in Tahiti, is avoided by the Europeans resident in Papeete.

  32. I hope Professor Schmidt's ladies do not describe my promenade with the basket too graphically in Vienna!

  33. Between two and three o'clock he usually made his appearance on the promenade by the side of the river.

  34. Then there are our nurses and the children, whose daily promenade is embittered by the sight and often the attacks of some Snarleyow.

  35. Its great pier, constructed of granite blocks of incredible size, afforded at once dwelling-places and hostelries for the sailors and a splendid columned promenade for the wealthy citizens.

  36. Escorting to the ever-varying promenade of fashion, the Hon.

  37. It forms a crowded promenade in summer, and at such times is an interesting spot.

  38. St. James's Park was the frequent promenade of King Charles II.

  39. It was an armed promenade and not a war; but how many events were connected with the occupation of that country!

  40. He walked for about a quarter of an hour on the high road, and it was after that promenade that he sent Caulaincourt to Paris.

  41. At St. Cloud, on the contrary, Bonaparte could walk out from his cabinet and prolong his promenade without being annoyed by petitioners.

  42. One day, at the hour in which the fashionable world is accustomed to promenade up and down the avenue, I stood as usual before the deserted house, lost in thought.

  43. Will you be easily tempted after this to promenade on the Lido or at Fusina with your beauty?

  44. Then followed a short conversation, by no means overflowing with cleverness, on the weather, and a few indifferent questions on Oswald's part about the promenade of last night, with short answers by Helen.

  45. From time to time a few couples would come out and promenade in the balsamic night air.

  46. The promenade was less than nine feet--in fact, it was only two full paces--and barely twelve inches in width.

  47. It was divided from other boxes and from the stalls and from the jostling promenade by white partitions scarcely as high as a walking-stick.

  48. Do you know what happened to us yesterday when we went for a drive in the Promenade de Longchamps?

  49. In the forenoon of the nineteenth of March, Fualdes and Grammont were walking up and down the promenade of Rodez.

  50. I leaned indolently across the rails of the promenade while she bent and chattered in his ear, and her attendant cousin and cavalier chewed vexation in the form of a young mustachio's curl.

  51. His spouse took a brief promenade with him: p66.

  52. His spouse took a brief promenade with him.

  53. It seemed to damp his fire and smother the words on his lips, and he had to take another promenade to the window to recover himself.

  54. Rising abruptly, he went down to the promenade and passed slowly along the courting-box, scanning the occupants as if in search of some one.

  55. He might have done it, too, had not the promenade happened to land Dr.

  56. Alec, who was "planking the deck," as he called his daily promenade up and down the hall.

  57. The promenade of Crassipes has been washed away, pleasure grounds, a great number of shops.

  58. A fair-sized bedroom and a lofty winter one I admired very much, for they were both spacious and well-situated--on the side of the promenade nearest to the bath.


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