He crossed two patios on brick walks roofed with Spanish tile and swamped with early foliage and blooms, and gained his wing of the house, still breathing from the fun, to find, in the office, his secretary awaiting him.
There werepatios and pergolas in proportion, and all the walls, with their many right-angled juts and recessions, arose out of a bed of greenery and bloom.
It has two patios above one of which is a grape trellis from which, when I saw it, dangled bunches of fruit, blue, red, and green.
The rooms opened onto the patios and were kept scrupulously clean, excepting the privy, and even that was much cleaner than in most rural South American towns.
They have marble-paved, glass-roofed patios onto which open the doors of the parlor, dining room, and living rooms.
In the center of one of the myrtle-carpeted patiosat the hotel is a fountain encircled by an ivy-covered wall.
The rest leapt to destruction from windows and roofs, or went down, grimly clenching their hot rifles, in barricaded patios and on slippery stairways.
The entrance to the two patiosthat give entrance to the Cathedral cloister is immediately opposite to the door of the school of the Sisters of the True Faith.
They cross the Calle de la Dormitaleria and go through the two patios into the cloisters and enter the Cathedral by the cloister door.
There were twenty rooms and two patios in the hacienda, and the cypress were the stage props for the drama that had occurred there for almost three hundred years.
The market-place itself is divided into two large patios surrounded and crossed by corridors.
The two patios are superb, and the general effect of the building is imposing.
In the meanwhile the patios gave me an inexhaustible pleasure.
It was tradition, more than moonlight, that steeped the patios with kindled obscure romantic longings.
The patios of Havana, turned so uncompromisingly from the street, were, perhaps for that reason, even more engaging than the balconies.
One is told that in cities like Fez and Marrakech the Hebrew quarter conceals flowery patios and gilded rooms with the heavy European furniture that rich Jews delight in.
Yet in them sat well-dressed señoritas waiting for the lovers who "play the bear" to late hours of the night, and over their shoulders the passerby caught many a glimpse of richly furnished rooms and flowery patios beyond.
Scattered through the building were several small patios with patches of sun, in which many prisoners were engaged in making ingenious little knickknacks which they were permitted to sell for their own benefit.
Its large patios were literally packed with peon prisoners.
Two of the four patios are quaintly carved, and probably amuse the convalescents of the modern hospital lodged now in the building.
Wandering through the network of streets north of the Sierpes, I paused to look into the spotless patios distant as they ever seem from the fret of life.
Spanish cemeteries are truly silent cities, with streets upon streets enclosed between these solemn walls, which open out, at intervals, now for the ornamented patios of the rich, now for the dreary squares peopled by the poor.
Through the tangle of flowers and shrubbery that chokes the patios gleam the rims of alabaster urns and basins of jasper fountains.
It is this spirit, perhaps, which prevails in the patios of the Alhambra and amid the orange trees of the Generalife Gardens.
A walk along the promenade precedes the evening gathering in the patios of the houses of the upper and middle classes, when to the sound of guitar and the rattle of castanets, young and old dance together.
Through windows deep set in adobe casement and flush with the street, you catch glimpses of inner patios where oleanders and roses are still in bloom.
Blossoms filled churches and chapels with fragrance, they crisscrossed patios on wires, they brightened roadside shrines.
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.
There is still one other feature of great importance in Spain, the magnificent galleries of the patios or courts found in all the important buildings.
The earliest Renaissance example of these patios (1525) is in the Irish college at Salamanca; it was carved by Berruguete, Alonso de Covarrubias being the architect.
Detail from a Doorway in the Upper Floor of one of the Patios of the House of Pilate PLATE LVI.
The building, of which the main block of the facade shown in my sketch, is about one hundred feet long, by about sixty-five feet high, contains no less than three Patios of different styles.
Not particularly attractive from without, internally the extent, fine proportions, and simplicity of its greatPatios are very striking.
View in the Upper Story of one of the Patios of the Casa de Pilatus PLATE LV.
IN several previous notices, I have described the uses of the Patios in olden times, and on a large scale, and the degree to which they have been made, as architectural contrivances, to fall in with popular manners and customs.
The late Plateresque details of its double Patios arrested my attention, and I was pleased to observe in them a more than usual elegance of moulding, and originality, with propriety of style.
The householders in Sorata began storing water in ollas in their patios and rifles and cartridges tripled in price.
Beyond rose the dull, volcanic slopes of Misti in an immense cone, while best of all, in the one story hotel of rambling patios in that city of earthquakes we were once more able to collect sufficient water at one time to accomplish a bath.
The patios of the better class of houses are ornamented with flowering plants, and pets of all sorts, especially birds, are numerous, the favorite species being the mocking-bird.
Clouds of them roost upon the eaves of the houses, the church belfries, and all exposed balconies, and would invade the patios of the dwellings were they not vigorously driven away and thus taught better manners.
It was pleasant to look through them into the interior, where the column-surrounded patios with cool, sparkling fountains in their centres, and shrubs and flowers of every hue, were indeed most refreshing to the senses.
Every house is a square, with one or more patios in the centre, their only roof the bright blue sky.
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