Our excellent attendants put forth all the resources of art in the shape of ice and preparations of limes and cocktails; but the temperature would not be baffled.
These were exhibited in the form of a beautiful bouquet for Lady Green, baskets of limes and oranges, and great bunches of grapes.
Lime-Bath An excellent addition to the water is the juice of limesor lemons, and less of the first (lime) than the last is required, because of the superior strength of the one to the other.
The palace at Antioch was built on the plan of the Roman limes camp.
The second or outer limes cannot be much later in date, and in all probability it belonged to the time which saw the fortification of the road from Palmyra to Damascus.
Neither were Qaṣr-i-Shîrîn and its offspring in the Syrian desert derived from the limes camp.
The camp lived on in the city and made a far deeper impression through the city than through the limes fortresses.
Thus in the earliest camp of the Arabian limes we encounter a developed system of flanking towers which is completely absent in Europe.
By the time of Diocletian the transition upon the Arabian limes from camp to fortress had been completed.
Bshair is no longer a Roman limes fortress, it is a military caravanserai.
On this inner limesone great camp stands in ruins, the camp of Odhruḥ.
On the Arabian limes the builders were brought into contact with a strong Asiatic tradition; they were probably themselves local workmen, and they orientalized the Roman scheme.
This mansion derived its name from a grove of limes through which the road to the house formerly led; and it was here in 1737 that Edward Gibbon, the historian, was born.
A shady avenue of young limes leads up to the church.
The king bad that into his halle At Souper time he schal be broght; And he cam thanne and lefte it noght, Withoute compaignie al one: Was non so semlich of persone, Of visage and of limes bothe, If that he hadde what to clothe.
The god of schuldres and of armes Was Hercules; for he in armes The myhtieste was to fihte, To him tho Limes they behihte.
O messager, fulfild of dronkenesse, Strong is thy breeth, thy limes faltren ay, And thou biwreyest alle secreenesse.
For god be thanked, I dar make avaunt, I fele my limes stark and suffisaunt To do al that a man bilongeth to; I woot my-selven best what I may do.
For goddes love, drink more attemprely; Wyn maketh man to lesen wrecchedly His minde, and eek hislimes everichon.
So, then, I lay in thought, hearing a fountain play somewhere without my windows, and the rustle of the wind in the limes that stood along the Privy Garden.
The sunlight streamed into the Great Chamber, and past the yews into the parlour; and upon the lawns outside; and the noise of the bees in the limes was as if an organ played softly; and it was all to me as if I had known it a hundred years.
These limes must be of seven different kinds, and you will require three of each kind.
These limes are then squeezed (di-ramaskan) into another large bowl containing water, and the washing repeated.
The seven sorts of limes are at the same time to be squeezed into a bowl and divided into three portions.
To learn that the walk under the close limes, if limes they indeed were, was known as the Nun's Walk, was no surprise.
One could almost have guessed from the high walls, the fish-ponds, and a cool green walk shaded by dense green trees, limes unless memory plays a trick, that this had been once the home of an ecclesiastical community.
Soak for four or five hours; then drain off the water, and throw the limes into boiling water.
Then pour off the syrup, and boil it to sixteen degrees, pour it over the limes again, leaving it for twelve hours.
Remove from the fire, and allow to stand until cold; when the limes will have resumed their natural color.
Drain off the liquid and let the limes soak in fresh water for about fourteen hours, changing the water frequently.
To turn the limes green again put two gallons of water in a copper pan, add two large handfuls of cooking salt, one cup of vinegar, and several handfuls of fresh spinach.
Prepare a fifteen degree syrup, testing with a syrup gauge or cooking thermometer; and when boiling throw the limesinto this, boil up, and then put into a vessel and leave for twelve hours.
Put the pan on the fire and boil for a few minutes, then put the limes in the pan, and boil up several times.
Remove the cores from the limes with a small tin tube made for the purpose.
Since Catharine had been at the Limes she had read some of it, incited by Mr. Cardew, for he was an enthusiast for Milton.
Mr. Cardew took tea at the Limes about once a fortnight with Mrs. Cardew.
There were Dorcas meetings and meetings of all kinds at which the young women at the Limes were expected to assist.
Recently an historical inquiry has appeared in an article by Chick, Hume and Skelton as to the antiscorbutic virtue of limes and lemons.
Chestnuts and limes were yet in full leaf; the garden was gay with flowers untouched by a breath of frost.
We passed to the fane of Holy Trinity between two rows of limes in fullest leaf.
Oranges and sweet limes were yellow in her orchards, the long-leaved banana trees were swelling with bunches of fruit, the guavas were ready for cream and the boiling.
He took great interest in his cane-fields and mills, and in the culture of limes and pine-apples; but in spite of his outdoor life his temper soured and he became irritable and exacting.
A golden flood of limes washed about in the lee-scuppers.
Occasionally we rode under wild limes and oranges--great trees which had survived the wilderness longer than the motes of humans who had cultivated them.
Vn-welde woren and in win, Here owen limes hem wið-in.
Vn-welde woren and in win Here owen limeshem wið-in.
In the delicate green shadow of the limes were Canterbury-bells, frail bubbles, purple and white, making in the shade a soft radiance, as though they held light within them.
An avenue of limes led from the road to the house, which was built of ancient stone, the roof tiled with the same.
The limes in the narrow avenue leading to the west door of the great church of St. Mary stood breathless and still.
His thirst was excessive; and he had no means of allaying it, unless he proceeded either to the Valley of Limes or the spring of water.
Philip raised his head, and supported it on his bosom, while he held to his lips a shell full of the juice of limes and grapes.
Lord Robert now rapidly improved in health, and was soon enabled, with the assistance of Philip's arm, to walk in the Valley of Limes in the cool of the morning.
The Place de Rouen has a shady avenue of limes leading straight down to a great house in a garden beyond which rise wooded hills.
Towards the river runs another avenue of limes trimmed squarely on top.
Long use has accustomed us to the smoke-blackened elms and limes of London, but there is something peculiarly pathetic in the sight of a grimy, sooty palm tree.
The house, with a splendid avenue of limes leading up to it, stood in a large old-world garden, where vast cedar trees spread themselves duskily over shaven lawns round a splashing fountain, and where scarlet geraniums blazed.
Now Mr. Davis had declared limes a contraband article, and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first person who was found breaking the law.
Amy rose to comply with outward composure, but a secret fear oppressed her, for the limes weighed upon her conscience.
Bring with you the limes you have in your desk," was the unexpected command which arrested her before she got out of her seat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
