Through room after room he led us, the light fading as we went, till we reached a tiny garden and a woodwork cloister that ran round it.
It stands on the hillside overlooking the whole town of Kioto, and its garden is veritable Japanese.
The copper-smith sang in the garden and the early wasp hummed low down by the door-handle, and they prophesied of the hot weather to come.
The pony wandered into a garden studded with lovely little lakes which, again, were studded with islands, and there were sahibs in flannels in the boats.
Our last visit was paid to the largest establishment in Kioto, where boys made gold inlay on iron, sitting in camphor-wood verandahs overlooking a garden lovelier than any that had gone before.
The last garden gate shut with a click that travelled far down the street, and the lights of the comfortable families began to shine in the confidingly uncurtained windows.
The warden unlocked more doors and led the Englishman still higher, but into a garden--a heavily timbered garden with a tank for gold fish in the midst.
In the old days, when the land was fresh and there was plenty of it and it cropped like the garden of Eden, he did not mind paying.
In an inner enclosure, where lay the prettiest garden of all, was a golden tablet ten or twelve feet high, against which stood in high relief of hammered bronze the figure of a goddess in flowing robes.
But before he had crossed the garden the Englishman heard, deep down in the bowels of the Palace, a woman's voice singing, and the voice rang as do voices in caves.
He was the only real thing in it, for on waking the garden slipped back into the water, but the cuckoo remained and called and called for all the world as though he had been a veritable English cuckoo.
Why you see, sir, I have planted part of my garden with Indian corn, and I am putting sticks down to mark the places where I have planted them.
All you want is 'to go a-head,' and you may take my word for it that this will be the garden of Canada yet.
Nothing, indeed, but industry and enterprise is needed to change the waste and solitary places of Upper Canada into a garden of Eden, which it is designed by the Supreme Architect to become.
It was specially enacted that his land and garden and house were in no case to be sold in order to pay for his ransom.
Outside in the sunlight cedars and other rare trees cast a pleasant shade, and birds flew about among the flowers and bushes in the outer courts and on the garden terraces.
He might plant it and tend it for four years, and in the fifth year of his tenancy the original owner of the field took half of the garden in payment, while the other half the planter of the garden kept for himself.
Within the temple precincts he planted a sacred garden which was like a mountain covered with vines; and on the terrace he built a great reservoir, or tank, lined with lead, in addition to the great stone reservoir within the temple itself.
He constructed a special dwelling-place for the sacred doves, and among the flowers of the temple garden and under the shade of the great trees the birds of heaven flew about unmolested.
If a bare patch had been left in thegarden it was to be reckoned in the planter's half.
It was removed to the garden of the governor-general's palace at Khartum, where it now stands.
Your garden will be clean, pleasant, and fruitful--a credit and comfort to you all your days.
In the centre of the garden was built a summer house all covered over with grape vine.
Around it is a trim little garden with pleasant flower borders under the low windows.
Now the children's voices blend with the song of the wood birds, and they have a garden there of dandelions, daisies, and flowers.
A naughty boy who saw them hanging on the tree, had climbed over the garden wall and stolen them.
It seemed a long time for him to wait; but the birthday came at last, and in the morning as soon as he was dressed he ran into his garden to gather his apples; but lo!
Little Arthur had a garden of his own, and in it grew an apple tree, which was then very small, but to his great joy had upon it two fine rosy-cheeked apples, the first ones it had produced.
Happy are you, dear children, if you are working earnestly in the garden of your hearts.
Young children like to have a small piece of land for a garden which they can call their own.
Our five birthdays were each signalized by simple presents and evening parties, in the garden or the house, as the season permitted.
Every thing seems to say--"How idle the owner of this garden is.
Joseph and William, Jane and little Susan, are out in the garden playing "hide and seek," around the summer house.
A few summers ago I was sitting on a garden seat, beneath a fruit tree, where the works of nature looked very beautiful.
Mother was the sunshine of our little garden of love; her talents and energy gave her influence; and united to a man like father, she was all that is loveable in the character of woman.
One summer day little William was sitting in the garden chair beside his mother, under the shade of a large cherry tree which stood on the grass plot in front of the house.
The house was covered all over with honeysuckles and jessamines; and there was the flower garden in which I used to work, and which made me so hale and strong, and aunt Montague used to say I was worth a whole bundle of fine ladies.
If the days are long and it is suitable weather, he may perhaps dine in the garden at the back of the peristyle.
There are landscapes, from a pretty realistic garden scene to a fantastic stretch of sea and land diversified with woods, rocks, figures, and buildings.
Some dining-rooms had what we should call French windows on three sides, permitting the diners to enjoy the view of the garden or the shrubbery outside.
Water could hardly be permitted to spout in a peristyle orgarden without doing so from some charming statuette, animal figure, or decorative mask or head.
Coming back from the garden into the court, we might explore other passages, leading to the kitchen or to the bathrooms of hot, warm, and cold water.
The extensive garden would be absent, and the height of the building increased by a second or even a third storey.
Wee have mixed mirth with councell, and discipline 25 with delight, thinking it not amisse in the same garden to sow pot-hearbes that wee set flowers.
Hereat all the other gardeners rushed up and seized him, together with the cage, and carried him before the King, the owner of that garden and lord of that city.
Then he designed to leave thegarden when suddenly a keeper met him face to face at the door crying aloud, "A thief!
But the Prince after slaying the Lion left the body and walked into the garden whose door had been left open and therein he found that all the trees were of precious metal bearing clusters like grapes of diamonds and emeralds.
Accordingly the youth informed him of the city of the Camphor Islands and of the garden containing the fowls which he fared to seek, and of his design in wayfaring thither to bring some of them away with him.
FN#415] This girl grew up till she reached the age of four years and she could distinguish between her mother and her father who, whenever he went to the royal garden would take her with him.
It was to serve them that the Reverend William Cooper had been appointed to the living by the Bishop of the Diocese, and the house and the garden and the glebe and the substantial income were to be the reward of his service.
The Bishop had a lovely garden of his own, in which he could taste the sweets of retirement.
They went over the house andgarden and outbuildings together, the Vicar talking most of the time, and Prescott's face gradually lengthening as he did so.
From the bad eminence of the garden palisade he was devouring the new-comer with his eyes.
The useless rocky patch she had taken as a herb garden blossomed like the rose, bringing forth all manner of spicy things.
But it turned out to be only a fine old mansion, standing by itself in a garden with a small grey lodge to it, far out on the road to the Dean.
The Man is seen standing in a garden lighted by the moon.
The window of the house standing in the gardenis opened.
Next morning, though the sun shone brilliantly, she did not appear in the garden before breakfast.
A blind, half-drawn on the open window, broke the warm western rays; upon a tree near by, a garden warbler was piping evensong.
Now they would never be able to walk in the garden without a suspicion that he was observing them.
But no book could hold him, for he had already looked from the window, and in the garden below had seen Irene.
The wide-open window offered a view over the garden at the back of the house, and on the lawn he saw a little group of ladies.
Through the afternoon Piers Otway sat in the garden with the ladies.
Piers stood at the window, watching; and at length he had his reward; the cousins came out and walked along the garden paths, conversing intimately.
In the highest spirits he went down into the garden to talk with Mrs. Hannaford and Olga.
I saw you first from my window; you were standing in the garden at Ewell; I heard your voice.
After having vainly racked my brain for the reason of this change, I mentioned it to her; this she had expected and immediately proposed a walk to ourgarden the next day.
Her principal project at the time I am now speaking of was that of establishing a Royal Physical Garden at Chambery, with a Demonstrator attached to it; it will be unnecessary to add for whom this office was designed.
Our little garden was exactly at the end of the suburb by which the troops entered, so that I could fully satisfy my curiosity in seeing them pass, and I became as anxious for the success of the war as if it had nearly concerned me.
Once again the age of gallantry smiles; the setting sun of the Grand Monarque seems to shine once more on the fading tints in the garden of Versailles.
On the first morning of their arrival, before introducing her friend at Wahnfried, Malwida took him into the garden to see the master's grave.
Illustration: To be really satisfying the flower garden must have that air of permanence that is given it by the perennials] Making a Garden of Perennials By W.
These last act as reinforcements in rounding out the garden scheme.
Attach to wire pegs ten inches long and force down near the plant, recording its number in your "Garden Book" with a description of the flower.
We bring them into our garden and grow them all under one climatic influence and in the one kind of soil we happen to possess.
All of our garden perennial forms, including grandiflora, are varieties of G.
A dead old gentleman robs the cabbages of his own garden in the shape of a large rabbit.
Many years ago a woman vanished suddenly from a Sligo garden where she was walking with her husband.
The wife was often seen by those still alive out in the garden praying at the bush I have spoken of, for the shade of the dead man appeared there at times.
He was out in the garden one day, and he took a look at the well, and what did he see but the water at the top was blood, and what was underneath was honey.
Presently the garden door opened, and a well-known step ascended to the verandah.
Before noon, the gardenand terrace of the Casino came in sight.
In these gardens, as well as in all other public gardens in the Dominion, there is a bandstand where a band plays frequently, and here in the summer the citizens hold garden fetes.
On each shrub in each garden were authentic green buds: trustworthy promises that some day or other another spring was really coming.
After bargaining together for the garden stuff the Indians left their bows and arrows with the sailors while they ran to pluck "many sorts of dainty fruits and roots," such as the garden yielded.
They anchored "right over against the goodly Garden Island," where the fruit was a sore temptation to the seamen, who longed to rob the trees.
A notice "To let," stared out from a board beside the front door, and the once cosy little front garden was weed-grown and run to seed.
Select School for Little Boys," inscribed on a board in the front gardenof a small, old- fashioned house in Ebor Road.
At night he wandered restlessly about in the narrow streets picking up an early morning job at Covent Garden or in the omnibus stables.
Not so a garden shed, by the back of which he passed, and whence proceeded the glimmer of a light, and the sound of boys' voices.
The sounds of an immortal host seemed to rush past us on the air--mingled strangely with the memory of hot July days in an English garden far away, when the news of the great advance came thundering in hour by hour.
He took little Joan into the garden to see the rabbits.
Together they hurried down the stairs, and John found himself suddenly alone at the end of his garden in an old mackintosh, bemused and incredulous.
He was proud of the thick ivy and creeper all over it and the green untidy garden below it, and the pretty view of the dining-room, where the light was on, a lonely island of gold in the dusk, seen delightfully through matted ropes of creeper.
They had known that it must happen in that breathless moment at the garden wall.
John went up into his garden and into his house and sat for a long time in a leather chair thinking and wondering.
He went out into the garden and into the boat, and paddled gently upstream with the tide, under the bank.
He had helped Joan to feed her rabbits and swept thegarden and tidied things in the summer-house.
The Tarrants' house, like his own, was on the river side of the road, and their garden ran down to a low wall over the water.
In the garden a cat was wailing--horribly like a child in pain.
And Stephen, waiting in the garden for his descent, gazing moodily through a thin drizzle at the grey rising river, had seen unmistakably fifty yards from the bank a semi-submerged object drifting rapidly past, wrapped up in sacking.
Stephen Byrne stood at the end of his garden and regarded contentedly the River Thames.
Now, you look down upon all the country within a radius of twenty miles, as you would gaze into your garden from your own house-top.
Where should he place the Gardenof Eden but in the tropics?
It leads through the Fourth or Lafayette District--more like a gardenthan a city--containing the most delightful metropolitan residences in America.
I think," said Mrs. Comstock, "that we will ask Wesley to move that box over here back of the garden for you.
She followed the gardenpath to the gate and walked toward the swamp a short distance when reaction overtook her.
While the mixture cooled, he and Elnora walked through the vegetable garden behind the cabin and strayed from there into the woods.
She went down the back walk, looking intently in all directions, left the garden and followed the swamp path.
Elnora sprang up and ran down the road, but when she approached the cabin she climbed the fence, crossed the open woods pasture diagonally and entered at the back garden gate.
Occasionally she laid down her work to straighten some flower which needed attention or to search the garden for a bug for the grosbeak.
Her hair shook down, her clothing became disarranged, in the heat the perspiration streamed, but stroke fell on stroke until the tree crashed over, grazing a corner of the milk house and smashing the garden fence on the east.
When she had nothing more to do, she hoed in the garden although the earth was hard and dry and there were no plants that really needed attention.
Henderson saw Edith arise, follow the garden path next the woods and stand waiting under the willow which Elnora would pass on her return.
Philip set his load at the back door, returning to hold open the garden gate for Elnora and Mrs. Comstock.
She searched the bushes and low trees behind the garden and all around the edge of the woods on their land, and having little success, at last came to the road.
At the sound Elnora sprang to her feet and came running down the garden walk.
She opened the kitchen door, crossed the garden and ran back to the swamp.
He seized a net from the table and raced across the gardenafter a butterfly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garden" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
