Further along the stoep there was a dim warmish glow through the red curtains of the study and a leak of faint light under the closed front door.
Below him the stone stoep ran to right and left like a gray path, and a little way along it the light in the hall, issuing from the open door, cut across it and showed the head of the wide steps.
When next he appeared it would be as a member of the upper classes, armored and equipped, treading the stoep in a five-minutes' constitutional in a manner that at once dignified and lightened it.
A sound of coughing recalled her from her contemplation of it, and she walked along the stoep towards it.
On the stoep she paused to listen to them following after her and heard a portion of Mrs. Jakes' excuses to her husband.
Steps, undisguised and clear, passed from the grass to the stone steps of the house and ascended, crossed the stoep and were lost to hearing in the doorway.
Soon after breakfast, when the stoep was still uninhabitable and the drawing-room unthinkable and the hall uncongenial, Margaret came downstairs, unfamiliar in clothes which the Sanatorium had not seen before.
But he did not come, and she went unopposed out to the stoep under the metallic rustle of its dead vines.
The tall horses leaned and started, and thestoep and its occupants, and the Kafir and Mr. Samson, slid back.
Mr. Samson, breathless in the front door and backing from the splashes of wet that leaped on the railing of the stoep and drove inwards.
And comforted by this resolve, she retired along the stone stoep and betook herself once more to her functions indoors.
Here," ejaculated Ford, gazing at the empty stoep where the shadow-show had been, with an accent of dismay in his thoughts.
Some blurred fragments of a dream still clung to her and dulled her wits; she had watched again the passing before the stoep of Van Zyl's captives and seen their dragging feet lift the dust and the hopelessness of their white eyes.
They halted at the door of the one-storied hotel where her room was and here again the shaded stoep was full of ears and eyes and Christian had to struggle with words to make his meaning clear to her and keep it obscure to every one else.
The stranger drew up a chair on the stoep without invitation and seated himself.
He was followed to the boat with the imprecations of two pyjamaed figures that stood on the stoep and watched his lank body melt in the darkness.
She led him captive to the stoep and deposited him in the easiest chair she could find.
Somehow, the watchers on the stoep knew that he was staring--there was something so fixed, so tense in his attitude.
She looked up at Sanders, who was idly pacing the stoep of the Residency.
Sanders stood by the rail of the stoep and looked down upon the spokesman.
I went home later on and sat on the stoep and talked to my host.
Julian sat on his stoephalf an hour before dinner, smoking and pondering.
I saw him on the hospitalstoep (baraza, did they call it in that alien part of Africa?
Afterwards, when I went out and sat on the sunny stoep with him, he showed me the place.
He might be expected to have my scribble handed to him on the hospital stoep about three days after.
They smoked their pipes and had coffee on thestoep together.
One Sunday morning my friend was enjoying a smoke on his back stoep when feeding time came round.
STOEP (pronounced stoop) (d), a raised promenade or paved verandah in front or at sides of a house.
As they advanced side by side towards the open gate, something leapt the stoep and rushed through it.
On the stoep she found her father and mother sitting in the sun and drinking coffee, after the South African fashion.
So Rachel walked down the steps of the stoep in front of them, holding her head high, leaving behind her the house of Ramah and its dead.
So it proved to be, indeed, for on the stoep or verandah they found Mr. Dove walking up and down evidently much disturbed in mind.
A moment later she became aware that the stoep was swarming with men who seemed to arise out of the shadows.
It came when the dinner was over and the party adjourned to the big stoep facing the sea.
He did not answer this question until they were sitting on the stoep of the National, where a light luncheon was awaiting them.
He sat by her side on the chair on the stoep of the Dutch cottage and put his arm about her.
TO these four exiles from Erin sitting out on thestoep of the Dutch cottage after dinner very sweet it was to dream of fatherland.
He could almost see the African stoep as he looked at it, feel the heat of the African sun, hear the occasional chirping of the grasshoppers.
Josephus lapped, greedily, thirstily, till the empty saucer circled on the stoep under the onslaughts of his small pink tongue.
Riffle reappeared on the stoep bearing a tea-tray.
On the stoep a group of men and boys were smoking, peeping in at the windows, and cracking coarse jokes.
On the stoep of an hotel at which he stayed the night in a certain little village, there walked a gentleman, grave and kindly-looking.
For another two hours, the three sat together on the stoepat the back of the house, discussing the situation.
Sitting in the shade of the stoepwas old Jan Terblans, now turned seventy, and, from fevers and privations of early days, long past work.
When we had finished we went on to the stoep to smoke, leaving Savage to eat his dinner, and I asked Lord Ragnall where his luggage was.
The hour was just before sunrise, a couple of mornings after our visit to Kuliso, and the two of us were standing on the stoep drinking our early cup of coffee.
Beryl and her father, who were sitting on the stoep when we arrived, came out to meet us.
She rose and paced the stoep up and down, then descended the steps and stood looking out into the night.
I breakfast at nine, sit on the stoep again till the sun comes round, and then retreat behind closed shutters from the stinging sun.
I got up and sat in the verandah over the stoep (a kind of terrace in front of every house here).
Here was the courtyard with the chief buildings facing north; on the right, the long stoep showing remains of the curved, rounded steps.
As they came near to the house they saw Mr Ziederman sitting on a chair on the stoep of the house, staring after the manner of a Dutch boer into the far distance at nothing at all.
When I reached the station, however, I was glad that it had not done so, as I found my father sitting on the stoep reading a letter that had been brought by a mounted Hottentot.
I sat on the stoep and listened to all the talk in the sitkammer.
Upon the stoep of the Hospital, where the long rows of convalescents were airing, every patient appeared plunged in perusal.
The Chief moved to the front of the stoep where the Staff had congregated.
She was at that moment being kissed on the stoep of the Du Taine homestead near Johannesburg, by a young officer of Staats Artillery, to whom she had agreed to be clandestinely engaged, though Papa Du Taine had other views.
VI One afternoon when the Kid was quite as tall as the broom she swept the stoep with she had gone to the drift for water.
His horse was being led up and down before the stoep by his native servant.
Well what does the young lady do but climb down and sit on it as if she was in an armchair on the stoep at home.
I watched for a few minutes the scene in the Market Square, paying particular attention to Colonel Baden-Powell and his staff officers, who had congregated beyond the stoep of the Headquarters office.
Thus it came that I was visiting the hospital, chatting with the physicians upon the stoep of the building.
Men were standing about the regimental headquarters, some were scurrying, many were sitting upon the stoep facing the town.
Tall straggling gum trees, with their bare untidy trunks and ill-shaped limbs, towered above the one-storied building and shaded the Dutch stoep built on to the front of the house.
The Colonel was seated on the stoepwhen his visitor arrived.
Lawless bowed to her and moved away, making a slow progress along the stoep against the stream of dancers, pouring forth from the ball-room in quest of air.
I saw to it when I took this seat that no one, unless he stood on the stoep and stared deliberately in at the window, could see me sitting here.
He dismissed the taxi, and walking up the path to the stoep made for a window where a light was burning, and tapped upon the glass.
Lawless, having handed Miss Weeber over, retired to the stoep to smoke.
I've followed him up to the stoep of the bungalow and heard him greet the old man, unconscious of a listener.
Because, until I set out to look for you, I was seated on his stoep with him, smoking.
Colonel Grey sat alone on his stoep in the darkness and listened, as once before he had listened, to the quick, measured step of the man whose claim upon his consideration had rested solely on a reputation for valour.
When the new-comer stepped into the patch of light below the stoep he recognised him for the man Simmonds had spoken of by the scar on the left side of his face.
He and a small son of the house harnessed the horse, while Lawless looked on, and Tottie waited in the shade of the stoep where the farmer's wife sewed, and eyed her askance, responding distantly to her tentatives towards conversation.
Mrs Lawless stood on the stoepin the fading light and watched her friend drive away.
At length one evening, when we were sitting on the stoep after supper, we descried a rider approaching on a very tired horse.
A fierce fusillade first began from the east, and when I opened the door on to the stoep the din was terrific, while swish, swish, came the bullets just beyond the canvas blinds, nailed to the edge of the verandah to keep off the sun.
A new development came, however, and it was after they had all got up from the table, and some, at any rate, had gone out on to the stoep to see the moon rise.
Thus reflecting, he was pacing thestoep smoking an after-breakfast pipe.
The two were standing on the stoep together, about an hour after their return.
He entered the dining-room, drank off a glass of whisky, and poured himself out a second, which he carried with him on to the stoep and placed in the armhole of his chair.
She had waited until Pamela returned home, not caring to pass Arnott, for some inexplicable reason, and fully alive to the fact that he was seated on the stoep near the door.
She leaned against the rail of the stoep near his chair, and gave an account of her afternoon's doings, which had been fairly dull on the whole.
He held her for a few minutes in conversation; then, quite pleasantly excited, he went downstairs, and sat on the stoep and smoked until Pamela returned.
He dismissed the taxi at the gate and carried his luggage himself up the path and dumped it down on the stoep for one of the servants to take inside.
The light from the stoep shone on her face and showed it very fair and pale and pure.
She played accompaniments for Pamela part of the time; and he sat alone on the stoep and smoked and watched them through the French windows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
