A long drive followed luncheon, first to the wonderful Bund, here called Praia Granda, which is semi-circular like the harbor, and the street fronting the water is lined with homes or business houses.
Illustration: Entrance to Prakeo, the Royal Temple] Fronting the royal palace are the artillery and royal body-guard barracks and the Hall of the Ambassadors, where distinguished visitors are entertained during their stay.
At one end there is a statue fully fifteen feet high in a niche fronting the entrance, and near by is one twelve feet high.
Fronting this building on the opposite side of a half square stand several small buildings of a pleasing style.
The vessel was anchored close to the dock on which is a low embarkation shed, fronting on a wide passage-way, which was now filled with a motley group.
The Bund is broad, fronting the water, and is a popular thoroughfare.
For at least four years the blackened and roofless ruins stood, fronting Knightrider Street, and then they were removed, to make way for warehouses.
He was “the Squire” to the very nth degree, with so extraordinary an idea of his own importance that here, on the lawn fronting Holnest Lodge, he caused to be erected in his own lifetime a memorial to himself.
O would that I were fronting wolf or pard But by thy side this moment!
He carried a watering-pot wherewith he was about to minister to some straggling flowers in the windows fronting the Grand Canal.
She satfronting the entrance, her head insolently thrown back, knees crossed, a cigarette poised in the plump and dimpled hand.
And as Kitty stood fronting the Adriatic waves, she had dreamed that somewhere, beyond the farther coast, were those Bosnian mountains in which Geoffrey had passed the winter.
Nearly fronting the fireplace was a recess, in which stood an exquisitely carved black ebony cabinet, inlaid with white and red ivory.
Twas a spacious and lofty room, well calculated for the splendid instrument which occupied the large recessfronting the door.
Daun stands fronting southward along these Siptitz Heights, looking towards Schilda and his dangerous neighbor; heights, woods, ponds and inaccessibilities environing his Position and him.
Near the centre, and fronting the east, stands an unpainted wood cabin of the humblest appearance, the shape and size of which is an oblong of some thirty by fifteen feet.
The lieutenant now ranged the press--gang against the wall fronting the door, and stepping into the middle of the room, drew his pistol and cocked it.
A large open balcony ran round the whole house on the outside; and fronting us there was a clumsy wooden porch supported on pillars, with the open door yawning behind it.
We left the room, and, turning to the right, landed in the lower piazza of the house, fronting the north.
But we carried on until we came to a large open space fronting a beautiful piece of water, which I was told was the Alster.
Clinch, on the other hand, stood fronting him, with the whole breadth of his chest; holding his weapon awkwardly across his body, with both hands.
We hauled it along the whole length of the pond, thereby driving the fish into an enclosure, about twenty feet square, with a sluice towards the pond, and another fronting the dull ditch that flowed past beyond it.
Fronting them across the dim chasm of the valley was the embodied Force whose wrath must be appeased.
A reassuring hand was given to each of us, and he was hurrying across the gardenfronting the arcade.
With true instinct Christopher went straight to what we had been seeking,--the opening in the forest on the top of the wall fronting the Face.
In the dim light of a nut-oil lamp I saw Rawley's face blanch, and I wondered how he would bear the ordeal fronting him outside the valley.
It was love that faced the flames, as in Felicitas and Perpetua, fronting the dungeon and not shrinking, fronting the sword and not blanching.
Then she would venture through an archway dividing a house fronting the Rue Raynouard, and trip down the seven flights of broad steps, in which lay the bed of a pebbly stream occupying half of the narrow way.
The drawing-room was now filling rapidly; the rows of chairs fronting the red curtain were almost all occupied, and a hubbub of children's voices was rising.
In 1831, he was offered, in the course of his operations, a strip of land fronting on Superior street and running back to the canal, with a comfortable frame house thereon, for one thousand dollars.
The country fronting the present Grand-Pré is broadly open to the Basin of Minas.
North and west, as far as Pereau, under the North Mountain, the rich Acadian country of Canard lay upon the banks of the four rivers, fronting always the meadows of marsh that spread away from the swift tidal streams.
He turned sharply, looked at Jack for an instant, and dropped into the revolving chair fronting his desk.
In the foreground, to the left, is the figure of Minerva, fronting a reclining female figure holding a vessel full of ears of corn (Isis?
From the slight remains found, it seems that three of its sides were formed by deep apses, the fourth side fronting towards the Via Sacra, and entered by a portico.
Here by this lakeside, fronting the glacier's floating edge and staring up at the jagged top in front and on either side, one comprehends at last.
There are ten mountains in the eastern group; the three fronting Bar Harbor have been renamed, for historic reasons, Cadillac Mountain, the Flying Squadron, and Champlain Mountain.
The ridge on which our forces are posted, bend outward and backward, so that the line is in the form of a half circle, frontingfrom the center, while the rebels were forced to occupy an exterior line facing towards the center.
With great caution and silence preparations were made for a desperate attack upon that part of the enemy's line fronting this position.
A break in the icy monotony came with a short tract of islets fronting a background of dark rocky coastline similar to that at Cape Denison but more extensive.
On the northern faces of the ridges, fronting the ice-foot, large, yellowish patches mark the sites of penguin rookeries.
This led him to look along the cliffs fronting the east coast, and on the following morning he found several nests and caught two birds, both of which were taken by hand while on the nest.
The old high-backed arm-chair, so richly carved, in which the farmer smokes his pipe after the labours of the day are over, is always placed fronting that picture.
The sun had sunk behind the common fronting them, which formed a steep ridge against the horizon; and seemed to separate them from the rest of the world.
Fifteen years prior to the commencement of our story, Dorothy had been found by farmer Rushmere on the wild common fronting them.
The ground-floor has no windows, and the rooms fronting the streets are usually occupied as shops, the proprietors living up-stairs.
Twice a week, at train time, the National Band plays in the plaza fronting the station, to entertain the people who are waiting.
This was done with great ceremony, and they were buried in the cathedral fronting Plaza Bolivar, upon which his equestrian statue stands.
Fronting the Alameda are the finest palaces in the city, magnificent dwellings of carved sandstone often one or two hundred feet square, with the invariable patio and its fountains and flowers in the centre.
At day-break he formed his army in order of battle: part of it fronting the corps of general Wangenheim at Dodenhausen, and part of it facing Hille; the two wings consisting of infantry, and the cavalry being stationed in the centre.
Some of them lay close in the harbours of the channel, fronting the coast of England, and darted out occasionally on the trading ships of this nation, as they received intelligence from boats employed for that purpose.
The sharp intelligence fronting him understood, that this compassionate ejaculation was the point where she, too, must cry halt.
Seventeen houses of the terrace fronting the park led to the funereal one: and the bell was tolled in the breast of each of the couple advancing with an air of calmness to the inevitable black door.
Fronting on the Premane Ground are the not unimposing stuccoed buildings which house the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture and War.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fronting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
