In the neighbourhood is the celebrated Aggtelek or Baradla cavern, one of the largest and most remarkable stalactite grottosin Europe.
He is always associated with his brother Trophonius as a wonderful architect, the constructor of underground shrines and grottos for the reception of hidden treasure.
On this spot Elsie paused a moment, and called back after Agnes, who had disappeared into one of those deep grottos with which the sides of the gorge are perforated, and which are almost entirely veiled by the pendent ivy-wreaths.
Period of the close of the Acheulean culture; some of the flint workers seeking the shelter of cliffs and approaching the entrances to the grottos during the cold season of the year.
It certainly appears that a cold moist climate accompanying the Buehl advance influenced all the Cro-Magnon peoples of this region just north of the Alpine glaciers and compelled them to seek the grottos and shelters.
On account of this shelter from the weather and wild beasts the grottos and the larger openings of the caverns were certainly crowded with the Mousterian flint workers during the inclement seasons of the year.
Engravings of this period are also found in the grottos of Altamira in Spain, and of Font-de-Gaume in Dordogne, and to this stage belongs the group of does at Altamira, distinguished by the peculiar lines of the hair covering the face.
In Spain is the station of San Isidro, near the headwaters of the Tagus, and the beautifully situated grottos of Castillo and Hornos de la Pena, on the northern slopes of the Cantabrian Mountains.
It appears that in all the numerous burials of these grottos of Aurignacian age and industry of the Cro-Magnon race we have the burial standards which prevailed in western Europe at this time.
It is perfectly true, however, that the many grottos and caves which are found among the rocks of Judea were formerly used for the reception of cattle.
I have myself seen grottos appropriated to this purpose.
Perhaps it was the hermits' way of living in grottos from the fifth or sixth century downward, that has brought them ever since to be in so great reputation.
Certainly grottos were anciently held in great esteem, or else they could never have been assigned, in spite of all probability, for the places in which were done so many various actions.
Being got about two-thirds of the way up, we came to certain grottos cut with intricate windings and caverns under ground; these are called the sepulchres of the prophets.
The sepulchral grottosof El-Bercheh possess bas-reliefs dating from the twelfth dynasty, and the quality of their workmanship may be seen in our Fig.
In the oldest works of the kind in Egypt, the funerary grottos of Memphis, "these piers (we are told) owe their existence to the natural desire to cause the light from without to penetrate to a second or even to a third chamber.
For the most part they inhabit the dolmens and the grottos and caverns on the coast.
On the shores of the Channel are numerous grottos or caverns which the Bretons call houles, and these are supposed to harbour a distinct class of fairy.
AF] There are also large caverns and beautiful grottos under the mountains of Mendip, in Wales; mines of lead are found near these caverns, and whole oaks at fifteen fathoms deep.
In grottos and cavities of rocks, which may be looked upon as the basons of perpendicular clefts, the diverted direction of the streams of water, give different forms to the concretion which result therefrom.
The bishop came up to see what they were, and discovered a small image of the Virgin in one of the numerousgrottos that are found in the mountain.
The women teased the surgeon to enter their grottos in order to get the fee.
They visited the thirteen hermitages, and explored the grottos till they had had enough of this sort of thing.
It also seems as though the deposits on the floors of those grottos which have been the principal subjects of investigation had in no instance remained undisturbed.
If in an obscure spot, for instance, in the grottos of the cataracts formed by superincumbent blocks of granite, you direct your eyes towards the opening enlightened by the sun, you see clouds of mosquitoes more or less thick.
Our first object was to see the Caves of Brando, wonderful grottos of limestone formation, in the hillside close by the seashore, about seven miles from Bastia.
And, lo, In all its grottos be there wind and air-- For wind is made when air hath been uproused By violent agitation.
And grottos from the sea pass in below Even to the bottom of the mountain's throat.
If in an obscure spot, for instance in the grottosof the cataracts formed by superincumbent blocks of granite, you direct your eyes toward the opening enlightened by the sun, you see clouds of mosquitos more or less thick.
Negroes were employed in this cultivation, and their descendants still inhabit the grottos of Tiraxana, in the Great Canary.
Things that appear to be parts of the rocky or sandy bed of the grottos startle one by moving about, and thus discovering themselves as living creatures, simulating their environment for purposes of protection.
No light comes to you except through the grottosabout you--grottos haunted by weird forms of the deep, from graceful to grotesque, from almost colorless to gaudy-hued.
To add to the effect, one sees all about him, near the walls of the cavern, weird forms of moving creatures, which seem to be floating about lazily in the air, in grottos which glow with a dim light or sparkle with varied colors.
He ascended intogrottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.
There are several other grottos beneath the church, and all of them are of a sacred character.
The rock is a soft limestone, not difficult to quarry, and quite possibly when these grottos were made, the stone may have been softer than now.
Champollion was the first to appreciate the importance of the grottos of Beni-Hassan.
Some of these sepulchral grottos declare their extreme antiquity by their imitations of wooden architecture;[174] others by their inscriptions dating from the fourth and fifth dynasties.
It was not however in this chamber, but in small lateral grottos that several sarcophagi in granite, basalt, white quartz, &c.
So, too, had that of the speos or rock-cut tomb; but the Memphite architects have left nothing which at all resembles the grottos in the mountain sides of Beni-Hassan and Siout.
The grottos in which they lived were dry, and formed undoubtedly very safe and not uncomfortable dwellings.
Yes, but why do people give you money; what do grottos commemorate, don't you know?
There were at least sixgrottos in that street when I got there on the appointed day.
I gave him a shilling, but he did not speak; to all the other children who had built grottos I gave threepence each, and there was joy in that corner of Bethnal Green.
Who has not seen the London grottoshe who knows them not, knows nothing of the London poor.
The custom of building grottos on St. James's Day spread to many countries besides Spain.
Above Fursul is a plain called Habis, in which are a number of grottos excavated in the rock, apparently tombs; but I did not visit them.
Whether the Koppenburg contains anygrottos I am unable to say.
My sole hope had been to reach the grottos before any of the detached parties should arrive, and, by a timely flight across the desert, rescue, at least, Alethe from their fury.
With the first glimpse of light I was again at my study, and, notwithstanding the distraction both of my thoughts and looks towards the half-seen grottos of the Anchoret, pursued it perseveringly through the day.
Accordingly, some found a shelter in the grottosof Elethya;--others, among the royal tombs of the Thebaid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grottos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
