Titania says, "The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud, And the quaint mazes in the wanton green For lack of tread are indistinguishable.
But probably few who have not looked somewhat into the matter, have any idea of the number of such mazes which still exist, or of the yet greater number of which we have authentic records.
No one who has had the opportunity of comparing the designs of the English and the foreign mazes can fail to be struck with the great similarity between them; suggesting, at least, a common origin and purpose.
A word or two may be added in conclusion on mazes of the more modern sort, formed for amusement rather than for use, as a curious feature in a scheme of landscape gardening.
These mazes consisted either of a series of connected caverns, as it has been supposed was the case in Crete; or, as in the other instances, were formed of courts enclosed by walls and colonnades.
The Marchioness de Fleury betrayed neither surprise, disappointment, nor emotion of any kind, except by gently tapping the ground with the exquisitely gaitered little foot that peeped from the mazes of her ample drapery.
After struggling for what seemed a lifetime through mazes of darkness and terror, he awoke.
They had left their hats and coats in the check-room, and were following the lawyer's lead instinctively, as men will in the mazes of a crowded place.
In either case it sneaks along the ground for a considerable distance, threading the mazes of the grass so artfully that the human eye can follow with difficulty or not at all.
No junk dealer knows the alleys of the metropolis better than this crafty bird knows the byways of his log-heaps and the intricatemazes of fire-weed and fern.
At favorite seasons the birds cross and recross each other's paths in lawless mazes and fill the air with their strident creakings, while here and there couples and even trios sail about in great stiff curves with wings held aloft.
He seemed, Sir Walter Scott wrote, 'born to trace and detect the variousmazes through which Sterne carried on his depredations upon ancient and dusty authors.
The storm that rose at sunset shrieked about the inn, and the hollow groaning in the mazes of the huge chimney consorted in fitting harmonies with the old man's eerie tunes.
Dim aisles struck into an ever-deepening mystery of shadow, as into the dark mazes of a dream.
She looked into the vast mazes of the woods, shuddered in thought, and was silent.
The rebels were storming the stairway; they came up and up like a rising tide in the mazes of a cavern.
But to return, it mazes me much to think what time hath passed since my encounter with the robbers.
It was with all a girl's fresh delight that Anne escaped at last to her own chamber, where she found Sibyll; and, with her guidance, she threaded the gloomy mazes of the Tower.
Down thro Florida keys, Thro mazes on mazes Of ripple-encircled keys, Where sun and wind play as they please!
There are hours of delightful strolling amid the mazes of the picturesque heath, with its alternations of heathered hills and flower-decked dales, its pretty pools, its braes of brambled gorse and pine, its tangle of countless paths.
But in vain are the rules remembered which were thought to apply to all such buildings; they are of little help in unravelling the mazes of Karnak or Luxor, and at each new ruin explored the visitor's perplexities begin anew.
The tomb, therefore, had its snares and narrow passages, its gaping depths and the mazes of its intersecting and twisting corridors.
That's as it may be," rejoined Merry well; "a man with money in his pocket may see as much Real Life in London within these walls as those who ramble at large through the mazes of what is termed liberty.
I had indeed escaped the mazes of the forest by the inundation--an event in which the hand of Providence was conspicuous; for had not the flood-gates of the firmament been opened, I might still have remained in my forest prison.
It then occurred to me that I had not exerted myself as I ought to have done, to free myself from the intricate mazes of the forest.
Then follow Bacchic or Panic figures, some conversing, some drinking together, some moving apparently in the mazes of the dance.
With a farewell glance toward his beloved Korak he turned and followed the she ape into the labyrinthine mazes of the wood.
Thus they journeyed by easy stages for two days, what time they came out from the mazes of the forest and into an open plain where they beheld a fair priory of the forest set in the midst of fair and fertile fields of corn and of rye.
For all he cared for at that time was to escape out of the thick mazes of the forest in which he knew himself to be entangled.
Fish, bright as butterflies and far more alert, flash in and out of mazes more bewildering than that in which Rosamond's bower was secluded.
Nothing further was said on the subject; but conversing on indifferent topics, we again threaded the mazes of rock and underwood we had passed at an early hour, and finally gained the town in which we were quartered.
Meanwhile, Captain de Haldimar and his guide trod the mazes of the forest, with an expedition that proved the latter to be well acquainted with its bearings.
As the path was by no means a straight one, Peveril could not but admire the intimate acquaintance with the mazes which his singular companion displayed, as well as the boldness with which she traversed them.
For the moment, Seguis seemed utterly lost in the mazes of his own thoughts and memories.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mazes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
