A narrow passage leads from the Court of the Myrtles to the Court of the Lions.
The Court of the Myrtles (Patio de las Arrayanes, or de la Alberca) is the first entered by the visitor.
He examines the trees; they are myrtles of various heights; but among their glossy branches, he in vain seeks traces of the pruning-knife or shears; nature alone has thus disposed in spheroids or umbels the extremities of this rich vegetation.
He already sees the principal part of his frame; the myrtles will remain in their places, their roots serving as a foundation.
It is Selkirk; and this hammock is his sail, attached to his tall myrtlesby strips of goat-skin.
Four of these myrtles formed an irregular square; the fifth arose in the midst, or nearly so; but our architect is not very particular.
What myrtles of unity hath the soil of their hearts produced!
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtlesround your ruined shed?
What could an austere republican, a Puritanic Liberal, who scorned the vision of roses and myrtles and sugar-plums all round, say to this?
Thus Fatima complained to the valiant Raduan, Where underneath the myrtles Alhambra's fountains ran.
Yet fresh the myrtles there; the springs Gush brightly as of yore; Flowers blossom from the dust of kings, As many an age before.
There are no myrtlesfor me on earth; perchance I may yet be permitted to gather its laurels.
She forgot in him the man who had placed a bloody crown upon her head, she saw but the paramour who had wreathed her brow with the myrtles and roses of requited love.
He saw Venuses lying under shady myrtles and the Danae exposing their charming sides to the golden rain.
Evening was hanging its purple folds from the arches of the cloisters and in a voice of emotion I was murmuring the verses which describe how Dido, the Phoenician queen, wanders with her ever-bleeding wound beneath the myrtles of hell.
They could hear bird calling bird far within, among the myrtles and laurel hedges.
He broke into a gay battle-song of Theroulde's; then the others took it up, and they made the myrtles and oleanders quiver with their chorus as they rode along.
May I stop a little on the way, and pick some cyclamen and myrtles and daisies for her shrine?
A lake there was, with shelving banks around, 15 Whose verdant summit fragrant myrtles crowned.
The doves that round the infant poet spread 230 Myrtles and bays, hung hov'ring o'er his head.
The Court of the Lions, which communicates with the Court of the Myrtles by means of a short passage, is rectangular in form, and is surrounded by galleries and pavilions supported by columns of white marble.
There were also my old friends the myrtles scattered about among the other trees.
We passed through neb'k trees and stunted oaks, some karoobah trees and sumach about twenty feet high, with their red berries, besides myrtles almost as lofty.
The laurels with the winter strive; The crocus burnishes alive Upon the snow-clad earth: For Adoration myrtles stay To keep the garden from dismay, And bless the sight from dearth.
She dreamed that she was walking alongside an endless canal, the banks of which were bordered with tall orange-trees and myrtles in flower.
At length she came to the long canal with the oranges and myrtles in the shade of which she had first seen him approach.
Laurels and myrtles surrounded it; a red fir, also, from the far north, lent its shade.
Thus preaches Hesperia, and he who wreathes himself with its wildly growing myrtles does not remember the myrtle of German hot-houses, with which the bride adorns herself for life.
Queen of the lyre, in thy retreat The fairest flowers of Pindus glow; The vine aspires to crown thy seat, And myrtles round thy laurel grow.
It was not far; so after a short time those in the chamber saw among the myrtles of the garden Miriam leading Lygia by the hand.
The three outside had finished playing ball, and for some time had been walking along the sand of the garden, appearing against the dark background of myrtles and cypresses like three white statues.
As I beneath yon Myrtles lay, Down by Diana's Springs, Amyntas stole my Bow away, And Pinion'd both my Wings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "myrtles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
