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Example sentences for "pavilions"

Lexicographically close words:
pavement; pavements; paven; paves; pavilion; pavillion; paving; pavor; paw; pawed
  1. One of the pavilions of the royal residence at Compiegne served as the apartment of Ghisele, the daughter of Charles the Simple, King of the Franks.

  2. But for those who fear their Lord are storied pavilions beneath which shall the rivers flow: it is the promise of God, and God will not fail in his promise.

  3. Blessed be He who if he please can give thee better than that of which they speak-Gardens, 'neath which the rivers flow: and pavilions will He assign thee.

  4. Derived from the root sanima, to be high: this water being conveyed to the highest apartments in the Pavilions of Paradise.

  5. Blessed be He who if he please can give thee better than that of which they speakĀ–Gardens, 'neath which the rivers flow: and pavilions will He assign thee.

  6. How greatly the interiors of George Sand's pavilions in the Rue Pigalle differed from those of Senor Gomez's villa and the cells in the monastery of Valdemosa, may be gathered from Gutmann's description of two of the apartments.

  7. Let us see if we cannot get some glimpses of the life in the pavilions of the Rue Pigalle, No.

  8. There are at present three main central entrances, the pavilions of the angle also contain one each with Ionic pillars.

  9. For the east front he designed a magnificent Corinthian colonnade nearly 600 feet long, with coupled columns upon a plain high basement, and with a central pediment and terminal pavilions (Fig.

  10. Externally, rusticated orders recall the garden front of the Pitti at Florence; but the scale is smaller, and the projecting pavilions and high roofs give it a grace and picturesqueness wanting in the Florentine model.

  11. These colonnades, which form the decorative fronts for blocks of houses, deserve praise for the beauty of their proportions, as well as for the excellent treatment of the arcade on which they rest, and of the pavilions at the ends.

  12. It was bounded on the east by the beautiful facade of the Casino, which presented a decidedly Venetian aspect; its nine pavilions being in communication both by gondolas and bridges.

  13. In temples and pavilions of ineffable gorgeousness were exhibits of gems and precious metals of dazzling beauty.

  14. The question next arises, is it better to have pavilions of two or more storeys high, or to have single-storeyed huts or cottages scattered more widely?

  15. The pavilions may be arranged in various ways; they may be joined at one end by a corridor, or may be divided by a central corridor at right angles to them.

  16. If the pavilions are two or more storeys high, it is advisable to use fire-proof material as much as possible, but single-storeyed huts may be of wood.

  17. Should the proposal to institute a Hospital City ultimately prevail, then it is probable that the majority of the pavilions will be single-storeyed.

  18. Each of the pavilions is raised above the ground level, so that air can circulate freely underneath.

  19. The Knight of the Cloven Heart drew rein in the long grass and pointed Pelleas to these white pavilions under the near umbrage of the oaks.

  20. Almost all the twenty-one foreign pavilions at the Exposition are characteristic of the architecture of the nations that built them.

  21. The state buildings stand along two avenues on the north side of the section; the foreign pavilions occupy its southern half.

  22. Within the three government pavilions are magnificent carvings, vases and lacquered furniture, old prints and paintings on silk.

  23. Bolivia has erected one of the most essentially national pavilions at the Exposition, an admirable building that expresses equally the two elements of its population, the Spanish and the Indian.

  24. Guatemala, Honduras and Panama have each erected pavilions characteristic of Central American architecture.

  25. At the main entrance to the court were pavilions used by the musketeers as guard-houses.

  26. Long wings terminated by pavilions bordered it.

  27. From some pavilions were heard the noises of drunken revelry, from others the curses of gamblers.

  28. Lewis the Fourteenth had been born there, had, when a young man, held his court there, had added several stately pavilions to the mansion of Francis, and had completed the terrace of Henry.

  29. Pavilions and baths, grottoes and fish-ponds, set in the tangled verdure of a neglected garden, surround the arcaded parapets of a colossal tower.

  30. These streams issue from a chasm in the cliff, surrounded by cypresses, which conceal by their thick branches some pavilions with baths.

  31. At both tilts and tournaments the lists were superbly decorated, surrounded by the pavilions of the champions, and ornamented with their coats and banners.

  32. At the two ends are pavilions decorated with four Doric pillars.

  33. From a tall iron spindle, placed on the pinnacle of each of the three principal pavilions is now seen floating a horizontal tri-coloured streamer.

  34. The two piles of building, which come next, as well as the two pavilions of the wings, are of a Composite order with fluted pillars.

  35. The two adjoining pavilions are also ornamented with Ionic pillars; but fluted, and embellished with foliage, from the third of their height to the summit.

  36. The second order of these two pavilions is Corinthian.

  37. At first, it consisted only of the large square pavilion in the centre of the two piles of building, which have each a terrace towards the garden, and of the two pavilions by which they are terminated.

  38. The stone-built theatrical pavilions usually face northwards, towards the gateway of the temple with which they are connected.

  39. But earthly Eden boasts No terraced palaces, No rich pavilions bright with woven[113] gold.

  40. Surrounded by a formidable bodyguard, appeared the Commander of the true faithful, whose pavilion was pitched at the foot of the hill on which Omeyya stood, in the midst of the minor pavilions of His Majesty's ministers.

  41. And in every stroke of the bow fierce lightnings leaped down from their dark pavilions of cloud, and, like armed angels of light, flashed their trenchant blades among the phantom squadrons marshalling for battle on the field of the deep.

  42. He dwells in the dark pavilions of every storm cloud.

  43. The towers and pavilions were smoking ruins; the canals and water-courses were discolored with blood and choked with the bodies of the slain.

  44. A single wintry storm from our mountains would wash away his canvas city and sweep off those gay pavilions like wreaths of snow before the blast.

  45. The sumptuous pavilions of the king, with the holy standard of the cross and the royal banners of Castile and Aragon, dominated the encampment.

  46. Their tents were gay pavilions of various colors, fitted up with silken hangings and decorated with fluttering pennons.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pavilions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.