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Example sentences for "gardens"

Lexicographically close words:
gardener; gardeners; gardenia; gardenias; gardening; garder; gardez; gardian; gardien; gardiens
  1. The public schools are charged with being bear-gardens of brutal strength, and are liked by the people for that cause.

  2. I regret that I had but a single day wherein to see King's College Chapel, the beautiful lawns and gardens of the colleges, and a few of its gownsmen.

  3. The tender green of vegetation upon the slopes reminds those long familiar with them that grass is already invading what were lately gardens and cultivated fields.

  4. They studied its elaboration, conjecturing how many gardens along the Bosphorus, and out in the Isles of the Princes, had been laid under contribution for the accomplishment of the splendor.

  5. In the gardens and protected spots on the European side white and yellow winged butterflies now and then appeared without lighting, for as yet there was nothing attractive enough to keep them.

  6. It was long since said: 'My beloved has gone down into her garden to the bed of spices, to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.

  7. And is it not wonderful to think that many of these gray-stone buildings and dwellings were here in the sixteen hundreds, and that gray nuns walked in these same green gardens two centuries ago?

  8. The gardens of the Minneapolis park board, in Loring Park, at Lyndale Farmstead, and near the Parade and Armory, give the horticultural public much valuable information.

  9. The city entertained them with an inspection trip, throughout Cook County and later a party of them went to Racine and visited the experimental gardens operated by Prof.

  10. The most really lovely gardens I have seen in the East and West have not been filled with plants bought at fancy prices.

  11. While most kinds of plants will do well in any good garden soil, most gardens need more or less fertilizer to make the ground good garden soil.

  12. If you will tell your friends who have gardens what we are doing, you will have no difficulty in helping us add to our membership.

  13. I think one of the best ways is to visit gardens and especially those that use labels.

  14. We have furnished many gardens in this way all about us and thus added to the beauty of the surrounding country and made ourselves and others happy.

  15. Benjamin in establishing the fine, modern home, the large orchard and small fruit and flower gardens and well stocked farm, all of which he had tended with loving hands.

  16. The place of torture was among gardens in a certain field on the road which leads from Constance to the castle of Gottlieben.

  17. Arnold Arboretum: is near the western edge of Boston; one of the most celebrated gardens of trees in the world.

  18. Already in the town most of the leaves had fallen, and were lying in dirty heaps by the roadside, and the scraps of gardens in front of the houses were sodden and empty of flowers.

  19. Then she showed them their bedrooms, which were at the top of the house, looking out to sea over the esplanade; and they found that they could talk to each other out of the windows and watch the people in the gardens below.

  20. It is now, however, so rare that it seems to feed chiefly upon wild cruciferous plants and is more likely to be found along the borders of open woods than in gardens and fields.

  21. This butterfly is of particular interest because it is one of the comparatively few species that habitually occur in gardens and cultivated fields.

  22. The bell-boys having sought about quickly in every direction of the hotel and gardens returned, one by one, with the reply that Miss Elizabeth Dalken failed to respond to their calls.

  23. Having ended this visit, the tourists returned to the White Crest and sailed away, but to stop at Hope Gardens--the Botanical Gardens and a show-place of Jamaica.

  24. Quite characteristic was an encounter of recent date, in which an American gentleman accosted one whom he found walking in the palace gardens with the inquiry as to what hour would be the best for seeing the royal children.

  25. The gardens are numerous and run riot with roses, iris, and hundreds of other fragrant and lovely blossoms.

  26. The gardens and grounds which are destined to be places of public resort and amusement, are here, and I think rightly, laid out in a totally different style from the gardens and parks of private gentlemen.

  27. The gardens appear to me peculiarly charming, so admirably interwoven with the buildings and so varied that it is difficult to describe them adequately.

  28. The gardens of the neighbourhood are now in full bloom, the weather is fine, and my ride this morning brought me about thirty miles from town.

  29. On the other hand, the flower-gardens are magnificent.

  30. An open part of the gardens is the theatre, surrounded by venerable horse-chesnuts mingled with shrubs.

  31. The only large trees I have seen in the neighbourhood are in the gardens of this Palace.

  32. Mr. Nash, however, adheres to a very different principle, and the new gardens of Buckingham Palace are models to all planters.

  33. There was a curious old picture--a faithful portrait of the house and gardens as they existed two hundred years ago.

  34. As the balloon sinks, town and gardens gradually rise again.

  35. Cranley Gardens run into Gloucester Road, which formerly bore the much less aristocratic title of Hogmore Lane.

  36. Very different was that crowd from that which had promenaded in the Gardens in the reigns of the Georges.

  37. The Horticultural Gardens, which the Imperial Institute superseded, were taken by the Society in 1861, in addition to its then existing gardens at Chiswick.

  38. Snipe were shot in the marshes of Brompton, and nursery gardens spread themselves over the area now devoted to the museums and institute.

  39. The Gardens were not always open to the public, but partly belonged to the palace of time-soiled bricks to which the public is now also admitted.

  40. In her gardens the fair Queen walked with her bevy of maids of honour, that bevy which has always been renowned for its beauty, herself the fairest of all.

  41. Airlie Gardens is a reminiscence of the interlude.

  42. It was succeeded by the gardens of the Horticultural Society, and the Imperial Institute now stands on the site.

  43. The gibbet stood at the end of the present Redcliffe Gardens for very many years.

  44. On the laying-out of the recreation grounds and gardens between one and two thousand pounds has been spent.

  45. Cromwell House was further westward, near where the present Queen's Gate is, and the site is now covered by the gardens of the Natural History Museum.

  46. Thus Kensington Palace was built, and its walls and its park like gardens were to be as closely associated with the Hanoverian Sovereigns as the building and park of St. James's had been associated with the Stuarts whom William had supplanted.

  47. The flower-gardens were drawn symmetrically about the house and were set with blue flower-vases in which there were red geraniums.

  48. Real flower gardens were not developed until the next century.

  49. In the square thus formed by the four buildings there was a bowling green, and gardens interspersed with oyster-shell walks.

  50. There were other ordinaries in the village, comfortable homes with gardens and Leeds Church.

  51. There are roof-gardens and outdoor vaudeville, open-air concerts, etc.

  52. At a church wedding in the country the bride's friends must come to the rescue, and their gardens be robbed to beautify church and home.

  53. There was a scent of wet gardens in the air, entirely silent except for the clatter of their feet on the cobbles.

  54. They were passing little villas with gardens on the road where yellow and pale-purple crocuses bloomed.

  55. In front of some of the houses were little gardens full of crocuses and hyacinths where box-bushes shone a very dark green in the rain.

  56. Through half-open doors Andrews got glimpses of neatly-cultivated kitchen-gardens and orchards where silver-leaved boughs swayed against the sky.

  57. Above them, towering over gardens full of pear trees in bloom, the apse of the cathedral bulged against the pale sky.

  58. On the Formation of Gardens and Construction of Garden Edifices.

  59. Handy Book of the Flower-Garden: being Practical Directions for the Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in Flower-Gardens all the year round.

  60. The guinguettes are low gardens, answering to the English tea-gardens of the humblest class, with a difference in the drinkables and other fare.

  61. Footnote 4: Tuileries is derived from Tuile, or tile; the site of the present gardens having been a tile-yard.

  62. We went through this exceedingly pretty house and its gardens with melancholy interest.

  63. The celebrated garden contains two or three hundred acres of land, besides the ground that is included in the gardens of the two Trianons.

  64. The walls that separate it from the square and the adjoining gardens are twelve or fourteen feet high, and once within them, the world is completely excluded.

  65. Of the gardens and the jets d'eau, so renowned, I shall say little.

  66. And in those gardens we shall sleep and play For ever and for ever and a day.

  67. But, by the very God, we know, we know That somewhere still, beyond the Northern snow Waiting for us the red-rose gardens blow.

  68. Covent Garden, dearer to me than any gardens of Alcinous, where we are morally sure of the earliest peas and 'sparagus.

  69. He showed me lilies for my hair, And blushing roses for my brow; He led me through his gardens fair Where all his golden pleasures grow.

  70. No, the gardens do not float, but a visit to them fully repays one for their disappointment in finding that they are stationary.

  71. Of course, everybody has heard of the famous floating gardens of Mexico, and naturally when one reaches this lovely clime their first desire is to go up to La Viga.

  72. Without doubt the plant is rare and there may be no more than a dozen, if that many, in the world; but I have seen in the gardens of two different gentlemen the very same tree.

  73. But either our respect for the truth or a desire to do just the opposite to what others wish, has made us tell just what the floating gardens really are.

  74. Electric lights enable the players to keep the game up all night, and unique torches furnish just enough light in the gardens to show the way and fascinate the sentimental.

  75. Pretty little homes, lovely gardens and sugar factories had ceased to be of interest, so we settled down to rest until the Frenchman stretched out his arm and ejaculated "Jalapa!

  76. On some gardens were cattle and horses, sheep and pigs, all of them tied to trees to save them from falling into the water.

  77. Undoubtedly many years ago these same gardens did really float.

  78. One of the finest gardens in Mexico bounds the other side.

  79. Joaquin Miller said: "Now, Nellie, the gardens do not float, but please do not spoil the pretty belief by telling the truth about them.

  80. The Aztecs had not only their gardens on them, but their little homes, and they poled them around whenever they wished.

  81. Several very pretty little gardens brighten up the town with their green, velvety grasses and tropical plants and trees.

  82. In blocks of fifteen by thirty feet nestle the gardens surrounded by water and rising two feet above its surface.

  83. One remarkable thing is, that the men who own the fine gardens surrounding the village do not live near them, as one would suppose, but inhabit stuffy little houses in the midst of the town.

  84. These reached her as did the bleating of sheep and the tinkle of their bells, the barking of dogs, and occasionally the fierce, hoarse, thrilling growl or roar of some disturbed or impatient animal in the Zooelogical Gardens near at hand.

  85. How's this," said Trimalchio: "When were those gardens bought for me?

  86. We cannot all have our gardens now, nor our pleasant fields to meditate in at eventide.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gardens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.