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Example sentences for "esplanade"

Lexicographically close words:
espied; espies; espieth; espinette; espionage; esplanades; esplendor; espoir; esposa; esposo
  1. After I had breakfasted I walked down to the esplanade to view the Janet as she lay snug in her house.

  2. The dark line of the broad esplanade went winding round with the trend of shore to the distance of about a mile.

  3. The buildings and the chapel seen between the Clock Tower and the esplanade belong to an old Dominican convent built in the nineteenth century.

  4. Suddenly the print swam before his eyes, and the great esplanade seemed to rise.

  5. The main entrance rises above the high steps to a little esplanade with heavy railing, on the level of a higher embankment.

  6. Sir Stamford Raffles, the man from whom it took its name, rests in Westminster Abbey, and a heroic-sized bronze statue of him graces the centre of the beautiful ocean esplanade of Singapore, the city he founded.

  7. In the centre of the beautiful esplanade or playground rose the heroic statue of Sir Stamford Raffles, the English governor who made Singapore possible.

  8. Thousands of lights from running rickshas and bullock carts were dancing along the wide esplanade that separates the city of Singapore from the sea.

  9. The esplanade on which we looked down was crowded with horsemen, footmen, and carriages.

  10. The Shanghai bund and esplanade on a fine afternoon was amusing enough, and we whiled away many a pleasant half-hour watching the motley crowd that assemble there for a ride or drive in the cool of the evening.

  11. If they live near here, very likely the Esplanade is their daily walk, and they will be passing back again in a few minutes," said my mother, entering into my fancy.

  12. From the Esplanade omnibus runs to Castelnau.

  13. This is a most enjoyable walk or drive by the beautiful esplanade fronting the sea.

  14. The esplanade or terrace on the west side connects the house with the new Executive Offices and Cabinet Room.

  15. In the fine French Quarter the chief promenades are Esplanade Avenue, Rampart Street and Bourbon, Toulouse, Conti and Royal Streets.

  16. A little farther on, at the foot of Esplanade Avenue, is the United States Branch Mint, a large building in the Ionic style.

  17. And lastly, the original contract for the esplanade was negotiated by the late Ald.

  18. Gowan, I told the Mayor that I considered him morally responsible for all the ill-feeling that had caused the cancellation of the first Esplanade contract, and for the loss to the city which followed.

  19. I heartily wish that my reminiscences of the Esplanade contract could end here.

  20. A great explosion, followed by a conflagration, occurred at half-past 12 at the Staff Quarters near the Esplanade of the Invalides.

  21. The wide esplanade of the École Militaire, almost immediately underneath it, is nearly covered with armed men, cannon, and horses.

  22. Four stairways, in a ruinous condition, 25 feet wide, lead up to an esplanade within 6 feet of the top, which is reached by a smaller stairway.

  23. At the right of the esplanade before it is a “high range of ruined structures overgrown with trees, with an immense back wall on the outer line of the esplanade perpendicular to the bottom of the terrace.

  24. The wall of the esplanade was a continued series of pointed arches, with a handsome frieze above it.

  25. Near the esplanade they found the finest shops, and the ladies went into some of them to see the goods.

  26. There does not seem to be any aristocratic section, unless that by the esplanade is such.

  27. By half-past six the party were on The Strand, as the road in the esplanade bordering the river is called.

  28. We have to pass through the Esplanade again to reach the Black Town, as it is called, where most of the natives reside; but we will go by a different road.

  29. This mosque is a fine one, mounted on a marble esplanade or platform, like most buildings of this description.

  30. They walked around the esplanade under the arches of the colonnade, or cloisters as some call them, and finally entered the mosque itself.

  31. And in the centre of the esplanade there only remained Silvere kneeling beside Miette's body.

  32. It was on this esplanade that the insurgents encamped.

  33. Forgetting all discipline, they rushed forward to the end of the esplanade in order to see the soldiers.

  34. In the centre of the esplanade is Foley's bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson, sent from London in 1875 by a number of his English admirers as a gift to the State of Virginia.

  35. On the esplanade north of the Capitol is Crawford's bronze equestrian statue of Washington upon a massive granite pedestal, one of the most attractive and elaborate bronzes ever made.

  36. Though the sea wall protecting the town of St. Helier's rose twenty-five feet above the sands, the rollers were breaking beyond the wall on the esplanade itself, the white foam even running up some of the side streets.

  37. The train came to a stand on the esplanade of St. Helier's.

  38. The esplanade must lie at our left," said Win.

  39. But as it was now time for His Serene Highness to make his appearance the carriages containing his wives drove off into the palace grounds, which were inclosed by a high wall, leaving the Esplanade wholly unencumbered except by the soldiers.

  40. However, the Grand Vizier brought me many messages of welcome, and arranged that I should be permitted to see and salute his Serene Highness on the Esplanade as he rode by on horseback to the mosque.

  41. But this we could not do if we would, for the Esplanade throughout its entire length was lined with soldiers, put there especially to guard the harem first, and later, the Sultan on his pilgrimage to the mosque.

  42. As soon as the bridge is crossed, there lies before us a level space designed for military parades, an esplanade large enough for manoeuvring two or three thousand troops.

  43. On the opposite side of this esplanade is the main guard house of the garrison, also an establishment known as the Casino, a popular resort of the merchants and the public generally.

  44. About this neighbourhood centred the life of the city; there was a broad esplanade near where the Church of St. Lazarus stood, down by the Sea of Marmora, its site probably not far from the foot of the Seraglio kitchens.

  45. This esplanade was called the Atrium of Justinian the Great, for it was his creation.

  46. In the middle of the esplanade rose the Castle of Milan,--a gloomy and majestic pile, of irregular form, but of great strength.

  47. The soft green of the esplanade was pleasantly dotted by white groupes in the Austrian uniform, who loitered at the gates, or played games on the sward.

  48. There is also a fine esplanade for promenading, which in the season is well patronised.

  49. The new Pier and Esplanade from an attractive feature at Cowes.

  50. Within one and a half miles of Ryde the wall is a continuation of the Esplanade in the direction of Spring Vale and Sea View.

  51. The esplanade shown in the picture has been destroyed by the breakers.

  52. The faint moonlight shewed an ample tract of deck, invisible in most parts under rolled beds of putrid seaweed, and no bodies, and nothing but a concave, large esplanade of seaweed.


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