The pleached walks and parterres were in all the freshness of June.
Seen through the black arch of the arbour the moonlight lay like snow on parterres and statues.
In the wood the primroses were appearing in great clusters, and the parterres under the terrace were gay with the same.
The garden is quite extensive, and is beautifully laid out with walks beneath shady groves, rustic bridges over ponds and streams, gorgeous plats, and parterres of flowers.
Parterres of beautiful flowers charm the eye, the elegant groves tempt the pedestrian, and greensward, of thick and velvety texture and emerald hue, stretches itself out like an artificial carpet.
Though a farmhouse, the garden is laid out in the style so often seen around detached villas, with a lawn for tennis and croquet, parterres bright with summer flowers, and seats under the pleasant shade of the trees.
The Cardinal's shrewd eyes wandered restlessly over the parterres and bosquets, vainly endeavouring to spy the silhouettes of two young people, whom his diplomacy had brought together and whom his shrewd wit would have to part again.
Villario can no more; Tired of the scene parterres and fountains yield, He finds at last he better likes a field.
The gardens, independent of their zoological attractions, are a delightful promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterresboasting a beautiful display of flowers.
Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the mall, or principal walk, and some few were not incuriously lingering about the enclosed parterres of the garden, whose beauties would soon be transported to a milder atmosphere.
On each side of the large middle avenue, gay parterres vie with one another in brilliance.
The house is invested with roses, and parterres of the red geraniums which the master loved are ranged upon every side.
All about it lie terraced lawns, with parterres of flowers, noble trees, and banks of shrubbery: lovely grounds slope away from the house and command an enchanting view which must often have delighted the vision of the fair Annie.
And Nero's terraces desert their walls: The vast parterres a thousand hands shall make, Lo!
Unlike many of the châteaux, Vaux-le-Vicomte is still the home of people who love its beautiful lawns and parterres and keep them green and blooming.
Here the windows open upon a lawn with turf as green and velvety as that of England, and parterres of flowers laid out in all manner of geometrical figures.
The field, the waste, the moor, the mountain, the trim garden with its parterres and terraces, are one Nature.
The parterres of flowers were no longer watched by the quiet and simple friends under whose auspices they had been planted, and much of the ornament of the domain had been neglected or destroyed to increase its productive value.
Your makers of parterres and flower-gardens are epigrammatists and sonneteers in this art; contrivers of bowers and grottoes, treillages and cascades, are romance writers.
The window of the room, overlooking the parterres in front of the house, was opposite the door.
The greensward and the trampled parterres were strewn with prostrate forms.
Their number is quite astonishing: from Amsterdam to Utrecht, full thirty miles, we beheld no other objects than endless avenues and stiff parterres scrawled and flourished in patterns like the embroidery of an old maid's work-bag.
The palace, courts, and fountains are almost in ruins, the parterres of myrtle have shot up into wild bushes covered with blossoms, and the statues are half concealed by jasmine.
Parterres now became of two sorts, parterres à compartiments and parterres de broderies, names sufficiently explicit not to need further comment.
The gardens of the Renaissance readily divided themselves into two classes, those of the parterres à compartiments and those of the parterres de broderies.
In the wet walks and over the parterres cold winds played with each other, and mercilessly tore pretty, delicate flowers to pieces, and upset tall beanpoles, and swept up the trees to shake the branches, and make an infinite ado.
Then as he crouched he heard quick voices, and then three mounted figures rode across the parterres to the gate.
He avoided passing near the ruined summer-house for fear of the ambush that might be within, and then, finding the hedges close in upon the road, boldly took his beasts along the neglected parterres until at last he reached the stables.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parterres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
