Unseen by PIKE, she pulls up the awning for a better view, and drops lace curtains inside of window so as to screen herself from observation.
The top of the pergola is an awning formed by a skeleton of green-painted wooden strips thickly covered by entwining lemon branches bearing ripening lemons.
When they reached the awning a very big black person, who looked as if he were Saturday who had suddenly grown immense, rose from a chair and made a low bow.
At one end there was a gay blue and white awning spread, and under it was a table which looked as if it were piled with the kind of good things you have at a tea party.
The girl, with nimble fingers, released theawning ropes.
In half a minute the heavy awning dropped over the walk and shut out the hot rays of the sun.
The little shop has a soft gray awning for the hot days and a wide-eyed competent stove for cold ones.
Every time he turned on his beat beneath the dirty, weather-worn awning he paused to dart a suspicious, expectant glance at the double hatchway which led to the crew's quarters, forward.
It was not very long, however, before the regular plash of oars reached her ears where she was standing within the companion-hatch, under cover from the dew that the awning dripped.
Their shipmates did their best for them, and rigged an awning with the boats' sails, under which they were placed.
They had needles and a good supply of twine, so they set to work and neatly sewed them together till they had manufactured an awning sufficiently large to cover a good part of the deck.
They made an awning with the boats' sails, and were all glad to lie down and get some rest after the fatigues of the day, the necessary guards having been placed to give notice of the approach of an enemy.
He was placed in the shade under an awning on deck.
He found the Emperor represented by a crimson velvet chair under an awning in the Diwan Khas, but the Shah was actually in one of the private rooms with three of his sons.
A tattered awning had been raised over the entrance to the famous Diwan-i-Khas, and underneath, on a mockery of a throne, was seated the descendant of Akbar and of Aurangzeb.
Numbers of Chinese boats, from the smallest cloth-awning sampan propelled by one man with a paddle to the large junk with fifteen masts, and sentences painted along the bends, were cruising in every direction.
I ran off as fast as my legs could carry me, and was thankful to find that Ellen and Maria were sitting under the awning in the canoe, while Domingos was cooking at the fire, assisted by Arthur.
Sometimes we slept under the awning in the montaria; sometimes we built huts, according to our usual custom, on the shore.
Over the centre was an awning of palm-leaves, under which was seated Ellen, with her black and brown attendants and her numerous pets, surrounded by our goods and chattels.
Sailors were busy forward, and a striped awning was over the after-deck.
As we drew near, a woman stood up under the awning and came over to the rail; she had some knitting in her hands.
Ulswater, the Commodore, Captain Jansen, and I sat down under the awning in the upholstered chairs, together with Mrs. Mink.
Lieutenant Gibbs, with great pluck and presence of mind, instantly climbed upon the awning and extinguished the flames with his hands, which were severely burned.
Until then, it was thought that the only damage consisted of a hole through her awning and the smashing of a boat.
Awning stanchions of the same size were fitted to both ships; and when the awning was rigged in the larger vessel, the stanchions came home.
About an hour before the King came on board, the awning over the quarter-deck caught fire, owing to a short circuit of the electric light.
Once or twice there was a vista down a broader space, with an awning over it, where selling and buying were going on, always of some single species of merchandise.
But the rude litter roughly spread With war-cloaks is her homely bed, And shawl and sash on javelins hung For awning o'er her head are flung.
When they met the smooth swell at the harbor mouth the sea blazed with reflected light, and Dick was glad to fix his eyes upon the little compass in the shade of the awning astern.
She was, however, sitting outside the tent, from which an awning extended so as to convert its front into a covered veranda, and Dick was half surprised when she gave him a smile of recognition that warranted his taking off his hat.
The launch rolled and lurched as the foam-tipped combers hove her up and the awning flapped savagely in the whistling breeze.
The voyage was pleasant while we were protected from the sun by the awning overhead, but became scarcely agreeable when the sun had descended so low as to shine in our faces or on our backs.
Civil officers loll on chairs in the shade, perhaps with an awning over their heads.
In sunny weather a great awning is spread over the whole court, across from the upper stories of the house.
A short time after this, just after I had identified the two smokers in the wicker lounging chairs under the afterdeck awning as Ingerson and Madeleine Barclay's father, the last truck-load of trunks came.
The masts were shipped in a wooden case, between the foremost and the next section, and the mode of setting the lug sails and awning will, we trust, be made sufficiently plain by the engraving.
She moved a few steps forward from under the awning to look up at the brilliant stars twinkling overhead.
A big awningstretched before it, supported on lances.
He went out under the awningand clapped his hands, and a servant answered the summons almost immediately.
She shrank back under the awning and into the coolness of the tent, raging against the mastering fear that she could not overcome.
She guessed his intention before he reached the colt, and she moved forward from under the awning and joined Gaston, who was wrapping his handkerchief round a torn hand.
Diana leaned against one of the lances that supported the awning and watched the scene with growing interest.
It was rather absurd to put up that awningat all, I suppose.
I wish I could recollect," he pursued, "whether I left the porch awning up or down.
But when you can't afford a roof to your piazza, and compromise on an awning instead, you naturally want to see how it is going to look, and you rush it up.
In some sixty seconds the taxi stopped in front of the tremendous glass awning of the Stuyvesant.
Before he could gather together his forces it had arrived beneath the awning of the Buckingham Palace Hotel.
Emboldened by Francesca's modest rank, Rodolphe had anawning fitted to his boat and cushions in the stern.
A piece of wood, by which the legs of the crow-foot to an awning are extended.
A number of small lines rove through the uvrou to suspend an awning by.
If you must know, I wanted to be under the awning because of my freckled nose," and I blushed until it hurt.
I can't help feeling kind of happy, though, that it was the awning you were loath to leave and not some one of those boys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blind; canopy; cover; curtain; drape; drapery; parasol; screen; shade; shadow; sunshade; umbrella; veil
