Starting thence we follow the Fountain up a very little distance, then turn to the left along the face of the first hill, then to the right, and so winding our way for two miles we reach the vicinity of the Grotto in Cascade Canyon.
The time of year had now come when barren Lapland shone with light both day and night; but the grotto was dark.
At midnight the door of the grotto was noiselessly opened and in walked the Lapp woman, Pimpedora, with a jar in her hand, followed by Pimpepanturi carrying a burning torch and some smoked reindeer meat.
Drippings from this waterfall fell into the grotto in the form of a delicious honey-dew, which served the starving one as refreshing meat and drink.
And I stole the key of the grotto while Father slept, but I dare not let you out, for if I did Father would change me into a wolverine.
There were thousands and thousands and thousands of them, and they filled the grotto like a thick cloud of smoke.
A literally grotesque thing in these plantations is the opening of a grotto in the hillside, cut in the form of a huge Greek comic mask.
At the foot of this grotto a stream of water ran along the walk, so that its level path had trees and water on one side, and a wild rough precipice on the other.
A fragment of Pope's celebrated grotto still remains; the house is destroyed.
After a few minutes' hesitation his friend imitated his example, and the grotto became calm and silent as on the day of the creation.
After kneeling on the ground of the grotto Father Seraphin laid himself on his bed of leaves, crossed his arms on his chest, and fell into that childlike sleep which only the just enjoy.
When it was finished the missionary placed the poor holy vessels in the bag he constantly carried with him, and they returned to the grotto for breakfast.
Then, in the immeasurable depths of these cavernous halls, at times formidable sounds arose, which, returned by the echoes, rolled along the sides of the grotto like peals of thunder.
Curumilla had lighted a large fire in the firstgrotto of the cavern.
I am leading you to a natural grotto which I discovered a short time back.
Inside the grottowere two or three feet of made earth mixed with human and a few animal bones of extinct and recent species.
He studied in Rome, but so early as his fifteenth year he fled from the corrupt society of his fellow students, and spent three years in seclusion in a dark, narrow, and almost inaccessible grotto at Subiaco.
The grotto party are making headway into the ice for our larder, but it is slow and very arduous work.
The grotto has been much enlarged and is, in fact, now big enough to hold all our mutton and a considerable quantity of seal and penguin.
I found our larder in the grotto completed and stored with mutton and penguins--the temperature inside has never been above 27°, so that it ought to be a fine place for our winter store.
The hut and grotto parties will continue, and the arrangements for the depot journey will be commenced.
I have seen the ruins of the grotto of the famous Cumæan sybil; it is a hideous rock, suspended in the Avernian lake.
The approach to it is over a bridge of rocks; and there is a natural grotto under the rocks, which gives them the appearance of a rustic bridge.
Into this grotto the rays of the sun never penetrate.
This evening, exhausted with fatigue, he lies down in a grotto at the foot of the mountain, where he passes a night full of agitation and anxiety.
The goat killed, he threw it on his shoulders, and, almost as swiftly as before, regained the cavernous grotto or leafy tree, in the shelter of which he could this day eat and sleep.
This grotto he has enlarged, quarried out with his hatchet, to make room for himself, his furniture, and provisions.
At nightfall, after an entire day of walks and explorations, Selkirk is returning to his grotto on the shore, when he sees a stone fall at his feet, then another.
All three paths terminate in the grotto which Selkirk continues to make his residence.
The brigan' tore himself from the hands of the carabiniere and without the doubts he conceal himself in some of those grotto near Sorrento and searchment is being execute'.
The soldiers think he hide in a grotto under the cliff!
When the sea is stormy, the boats do not go, as it is impossible to enter the grotto when there is the least swell upon the water.
Below the battlemented castle terrace, a shady grotto has been built—a cool retreat in hot weather, perhaps too cool to be safe.
Hardly a grotto that has been explored does not reveal that these men had lived there.
In the neighbourhood of Foix is the Grotto de l’Herme, that has yielded notable finds of prehistoric man.
But it is not the castle that now attracts visitors to Lourdes, but the Grotto of Massabiel, the story of which must be told briefly.
The gentleman who made this experiment wrote to the superior of the Fathers of the Grotto to inform him of the test he had applied.
The discovery of this grottois due to a series of ghastly crimes committed just ten years before the outbreak of the French Revolution.
The Fathers of Garaison are no longer nominally in charge of the grotto and all its belongings, but this is nominally only.
This grotto is traversed by a stream which may be crossed by a bridge of wood to where, in the depth of the cave, it leaps down out of a fissure in the wall in a cascade.
As the train sweeps into the station at Lourdes, on the right side, a few feet above the Gave, may be seen the twinkling lights of the Grotto of Massabielle, about which presently.
The French Government should insist before extending its patronage to the gambling hell at Monte Carlo and to the grotto of Lourdes to have the proceedings in both thoroughly and impartially investigated.
There was a church at the Grotto of the Agony (perhaps built by S.
At the south-west corner of the buildings surrounding the Church of the Ascension is the Grotto or Tomb of S.
The entrance to this grotto is on the eastern side, and the whole of the exterior is covered with choice marble, the apex being adorned with gold, and supporting a golden cross of considerable size.
The grotto of Lourdes, where the Holy Virgin is said to have appeared to a girl of the country, is in the Pyrenees; while Paray-le-Monial is nearly three hundred miles southeast from Paris.
With sunset the grottolost all semblance of light.
It was not till a late hour on the following day, that Catiline awoke from the heavy and half lethargic slumber, which had fallen upon him after the severe and stunning blow he received in the grotto of Egeria.
The soft green mosses and dark tendrils of the waving ivy, which drooped down from the rock and curtained well nigh half the opening, rendered the grotto very dark within.
But the poetical riches centre in the grotto of Héloïse, a sort of natural dolmen on the bank of the Sèvre.
It was here, the day before, that we had discovered the grotto we admired so much.
It is evident that Horace Walpole spoke of the upper chamber as the grotto itself; and so it was mainly.
An example of wasted labour and misapplied ingenuity, the grotto constructed in the eighteenth century by an Italian and his two sons for Henry Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, may be cited as one of the questionable glories of modern Oatlands.
This grotto resounds the whole time with the chant of the monks on the divans, which rises and falls in rhythmical waves, like the roar of the billows and the lapping of ripples on a strand.
One of the monks of the monastery goes daily to the grotto with tea, water, and tsamba, and pushes these provisions through the opening, but he may not speak to the prisoner or the charm would be broken.
In the wall of the grotto is an opening a span in diameter.
No sooner has he left his grotto than another is ready to enter the darkness and undergo the same test.
This is the Centennial Gallery, and leaving it with reluctance we passed on into the Blue Grotto to find it finer still.
Just to the left is a very pretty littlegrotto of box work.
Chopin's Nocturne is a small grotto in the right hand wall named by the famous violinist, Edouard Remenji.
The wonderful beauty of this Blue Grotto necessarily stands beyond comparison because in all the known world there is nothing like it.
He settled his affairs, and gave himself up to his sorrow in the great palace of his fathers; where that fatal grotto and every well-known room only harast his mind with the liveliest images of his own and his parents misfortunes.
In thatgrotto your father in earlier days sat time after time with his first wife; there at their betrothal he first swore eternal love to her.
He escapes from prison, scales the garden-wall, and in the grotto thrusts his dagger into my father's breast.
In that grotto too the second spouse would often slumber beside the cool fountain; and again the husband would lie there at her feet.
But the pool on the brink of which we stood, surrounded by the most fanciful mouldings, in a substance resembling white marble, and distinguished by the depth and purity of its waters, might have been the bathing grotto of a naiad.
When they purchased the land at the Grotto they signed an agreement by which they undertook not to engage in any business there.
It was before the wild primitive Grotto that she returned to kneel, amongst the bushy eglantine, as in the days when the Gave was not walled in by a monumental quay.
I say about theGrotto is not because it troubles me much in reality, and, besides, everyone must live.
A photographer's windows were crammed with views of the Grottoand the Basilica, and portraits of Bishops and reverend Fathers of all Orders, mixed up with views of famous sites in the neighbouring mountains.
Had he feared that the Grotto might keep Marie, that she might never come away from it again?
So, while the father ran to the Grotto to fetch his daughter, he waited there beneath the trees.
In the Rue St. Joseph, on perceiving the panorama, where the former Grotto was depicted, with Bernadette kneeling down before it on the day of the miracle of the candle, the idea occurred to Pierre to go in.
The painting represented the seventeenth apparition of the Blessed Virgin to Bernadette, on the day when, kneeling before the Grotto during her vision, she had heedlessly left her hand on the flame of the candle without burning it.
As the Grotto irritates you and rends your heart; as it's a cause of continual warfare, injustice, and corruption.
The Grotto was enclosed like a chancel by an iron railing.
Diocesan missionaries of the house of Garaison have been stationed by the bishop near the grotto and the church, to distribute to the pilgrims the apostolic word, the sacraments, and the body of our Lord.
He wanted to return on foot to the Grotto to give thanks for his deliverance, and actually did so.
At the words “the Grotto of Lourdes,” this stern countenance became tender, and a dear remembrance softened its rigid lines.
He has near the Grotto a house to which he sometimes retires, to meditate in this spot, beloved by the Virgin, on the great duties and the grave responsibilities of a Christian bishop who has received so wonderful a grace in his diocese.
Send me to the Grotto of Lourdes, and you will see that I shall be cured.
Even from the midst of far America, pious Christians have set out, and crossed the ocean to come to the Grotto of Lourdes, to kneel before these sacred rocks, which the Mother of God has sanctified by her touch.
While thousands go to the Grotto to contribute to the splendid church, Bernadette’s father has remained a poor miller, subsisting with difficulty by manual labor.
This statue, made of fine Carrara marble, of life-size, was presented to the Grotto of Lourdes by two noble and pious sisters of the diocese of Lyons, Mesdames de Lacour.
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