It had a dirt roof and iron-barred windows and in the rear there was a long rectangular patio with a fountain and a flower garden.
At eleven o'clock Sam Singer appeared in the patio to announce his willingness to trundle Bob up to San Pasqual on the same trackwalker's velocipede upon which Bob had arrived at the Hat Ranch.
Donna brought out another chair and the trio sat in the secluded patio and talked generalities for ten minutes.
Never having known real happiness before, she was, for the present at least, incapable of imagining a more profound joy than walking arm in arm in the moonlit patio with the man she loved.
Bob was arrayed in his new habiliments, and paraded up and down the patio for the inspection of Donna and the nurse.
He then goes on to describe the sacred 'cenote as follows:-- "There runs from the patio in front of these theatres a beautiful broad causeway to a pool about two stone throws off.
Just as we were ready to ride out of the Patio our landlord approached me, carrying in his hand a hideous toy parrot, sitting in a swing, with staring red eyes and scanty green feathers glued on its back.
Here in contrast to the brilliant sunlight of the patiowas a dusky coolness.
Drew rode off, out of the patio gate, giving Shiloh his daily workout, trying to guess what Johnny Shannon had against him.
There is no lamp in the first patio but another hangs in the vaulted arch leading from one patio to the other.
He rose and went towards the archway leading from the inner patio to the cloisters.
Evasio Mon, cloaked to the eyes against the autumn night, hurried down the Calle San Gregorio and turned into an open doorway that led into the patio of a great four-sided house.
They gained the large patio where the grass grew thickly, and the iron-work of the well in the centre was hidden by the trailing ropes of last year's clematis.
The patio was enclosed by a narrow, interior veranda, and the veranda held deep cane chairs, one of which Alvarez took, waving Braxton Wyatt to another.
The patio was large, with little beds of flowers in the corners, and a pool of pure, fresh water in the center.
Past the patio lay the courtyard, all one large garden, with tiled walks and red-gold oranges and heavy foliage set against the blue sky.
True, the little patio embodied the Moorish conception of al-fresco seclusion, and a depth of shadow lay in the inner rooms within the thin shell of the white walls.
Through an avenue of pillars the rooms all round the patio look out upon the fountain and the orange-trees.
There had been so little sound that the orderly at the farther end of the patio could have heard nothing.
The next room was in darkness, but the French window was open, and from the patio beyond came the muffled hum of voices.
Another lay fast asleep on the floor at the patio door of Machado's room.
To reach it from the back of the house one had either to go along the patio until one came to the door, or to enter from the bedroom adjoining.
The rooms opened on to the patio within, and several had doors of communication between them.
Out in the patio the pool rippled ceaselessly; the fountain threw its silver ribbon of spray, and Beatriz waited, listening, with her eyes turned to the room she had left.
At the moment Tisdale discovered her, she was absorbed in a photograph she held in her hands, but at the sound of his step in the patio she turned and rose to meet him.
I thought I heard some one running into thepatio from the other end.
Like one stricken blind, she stood an instant; then, with her hands at her breast, she walked straight across the patio into the dark, open door of her room.
At eight o'clock the house and porch and patio were ablaze with lights.
Then, just to see how far she would go, perhaps desperately hoping she would make me hate her, I followed her shamelessly from patio to parlor, porch to court, even to the waltz.
When I burst into the patio it was not one single instant too soon.
And so," Grant concluded, "Colonel Urgo found a dead man come to life when he saw me in the patio to-day.
He guessed she had told Don Padraic of the incident in the patioand that what had passed between father and daughter thereafter had been a drain on the emotions of both.
She whirled and ran out of the patioto call aid in the servants' quarters.
The same impulse had prompted him to strip the bandage of ignorance from Benicia's eyes during that interview in the patio without the least compunction.
Slowly--slowly he forced the little Spaniard out of the patio and down the long corridor toward the front door of the house.
He blundered into Bim coming back to the patio from his excursion at the head of servants beyond the great front door and told him what had happened; of the dagger dropped through the window and the murder.
Now the hot fire from his wound was spreading across Grant's back and down his fighting arm as he swayed across the patio half supported on the Spaniard's back.
With a slight bow to Urgo Benicia arose and crossed the patio to disappear in the shadows of the arcade.
Benicia paused to give the parchment cheeks a kiss, then she danced down a flagged hall to the flare of green marking the patio garden in the centre of the house.
First she gave the solo, Depuis le Jour, from some opera Grant vaguely recalled; it was a mad thing, wherein the great instrument thundered to the far recesses of the patio garden.
The hours following the scene in the patio and the sudden gust of action concluding the visit of Hamilcar Urgo had been trying ones for Grant.
The dawn reddened and still the two men in the patiofruitlessly pursued speculation.
Open to the sky and with cloistered dimness of the four sides of the house all about, the patio was a tiny jungle of climbing things, all green and riotous blossoms.
Dashing his fingers through the red stream on his forehead, he ran for the window, smashed through the sash into the patio and found Sassoon's horse trembling at the fusillade.
The left end, as they faced the bar, was brought around to escape a small window opening on a court or patio to the rear of the room.
Mildume went in his hopping step across thepatio to a huge tarpaulin that covered something square and bulky.
A shed-roof covered one side of the patio and under it were racks of equipment.
Mildume directed them immediately to a walled-in patio in the rear of the place.
At recess, the children drank from the patio fountain or cattle trough.
The floor of the extensive patio between these buildings is paved with flagstone carved with Mayan glyphs and designs, appropriated from nearby ruins on the property.
The walled patiowas enormous and paved with stone.
The main house has thirty rooms, two tiled patios with a fountain in each; in the main patio there are fourteen fresco panels painted in 1910 of seascapes, landscapes, and scenes of women in the eighteenth century.
Dancers performed in front of the big house or danced in a patio or on the tiles of the church plaza.
The grilled patio gate bears the renovation date 1910 and the hacienda brand and family monogram.
She did not return to her apartment, but crossing the patio hastily entered the zaguan.
Had her steps been quicker, she might have seen some one rush across thepatio and enter this door.
Every cuarto has been cleared of its inmates, who lie in bleeding heaps over the patio and by the doors.
The patio itself is paved with painted bricks--a tessellated pavement.
With a lingering look through the vestibule into the beautiful patio beyond, the Englishman quitted the place.
Lucius caught a glimpse of a youthful form hurrying across the patio with a rapidity very unusual in the movements of a lady of Spain.
Inez had her little garden in the patio to tend, and the maiden delighted in flowers.
As Lucius quitted the patio on the one side, it was entered on the other by Teresa, who caught sight of the visitor's form ere it disappeared under the archway.
Chico, who had been attracted to the patio by the slight but unusual noise made by Inez when digging out the earth.
The senora entered the patiowith the stately grace peculiar to Spanish ladies.
The maiden hastened back into the patio without giving herself time for reflection.
The mob caught up the words, and re-echoed the shout; the patio resounded with "Viva la Spagna!
Inez found the patio empty; Teresa was in attendance on her mistress in a different part of the mansion.
From this archway a vestibule led into an inner court, from which it was divided by an ornamental grating; this grating also being open at the time, nothing impeded the view into the marble-paved patio beyond.
It was with a curious recognition of this latter fact that Judge Peyton watched his wife crossing the patio or courtyard with her arm around the neck of her adopted daughter "Suzette.
As he crossed the patio and stepped upon the corridor he fancied he already detected in the internal arrangements the subtle influence of Mrs. Peyton's taste and the indefinable domination of the mistress.
As he stared, she spat into the dust of the patio in a most unladylike fashion before turning and running toward her room.
After coffee, they stood under the stars for a few minutes on a patio looking toward the great black hole in Window Rock.
He lighted a pipe and leaned against the patio railing where he could watch the changing evening light as it stole over the desert.
After a silent meal, the guests gathered on the patio to watch the stars come out.
They found Mr. Hall, dressed as usual in faded levis and denim shirt, sitting with several other guests of the motel on a widepatio facing the setting sun.
In the big patio the usual bi-weekly dance was taking place, and a crowd of people disported themselves to the strains of a ragtime band.
She would have passed through the patio without coming within his vision, except that something about the smooth black head was familiar.
It was now about three in the afternoon, an hour when the patio was practically deserted.
It seemed almost incredible to be dining in the patio with Benito and Alice against a background of fragrant honeysuckle and early roses.
The Senorita Inez' head was high that afternoon when McTurpin came upon her suddenly in the patio of the Windham hacienda.
The Trio in the rose arbor of the patio were silent under the spell of its beauty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patio" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
