But the most striking feature of antiquity met thus far on our journey were curious stone terraces built across the small gullies.
The formation of the land may even oblige him to buildterraces to obtain space enough for his religious dances.
People who do not know the Indians would consider this too small a result to favour the theory that these terraces were erected for agricultural purposes.
They were peepholes in the walls of her prison; and at night she often charmed herself to sleep with remembered visions of wide, empty, treeshaded terraces reserved for kings.
Terraces made shady by trellises of vines and fig-trees hung over the Bosphorus, and to every pretty view the falling waters of streams and fountains added their pleasant music to aid the soothing influence of the scene.
The gardens and terraces make the delight of the place.
A series of broad terraces descend from the house half way down to the sea; beautiful gardens, full of rare shrubs and flowers, lie on each side of the house, and the woods and park stretch away for miles along the cliffs.
The gentle sloping hills are covered with dwelling-houses and kiosks, while the terraces and gardens of stately palaces line the shore.
Canada Creek passes out of the lower end of the gorge, where the limestone layers are exhausted, and their edges fall off interraces sharply to the lower level, and almost down to the surface of the stream.
As may be imagined, this grand fortress is magnificent to look at from the water approach, while the outlook from the ramparts and terraces on top of the cliff is one of the finest sights over town and rivers, hills and woods, in the world.
At the end of one of the terraces a band of the 103d Bengal Infantry was playing, and when they ceased a band of native musicians, at the opposite end of the terrace, took up the strains.
The wondrous fertility of that series of terraces which, on the Andes, unite the fruits of the torrid zone with the lichens of the icy North, had no value in the estimation of men who acknowledged but one wealth, and recognized but one idol.
It was a gorgeous morning; the sun glittered on the bright roofs, and lit up the gayterraces of the houses, where creepers of every tint and foliage were tastefully entwined and festooned, as these people knew so well to dispose.
She was fain to own that the place was pretty: and she fancied how well she might have loved it, if she had been born here, and had never been familiar with the broad terraces and verdant slopes of Arden Court.
On every height towns and villages crown the crests and sweep in winding terraces around the hillsides.
Just as the Pensione Caterina with its rose walks and terracesslipped into the sea in December of 1899, when two guests and several fishermen lost their lives, so the ancient Amalfi fell, its cliffs swallowed up in the waters below.
The arches and walls sustained a succession of terraces, rising one above another, with broad flights of steps for ascending to them, and on these terraces the gardens were made.
The terraces almost join, and though all was so overgrown that it was difficult to make out the plan and juxtaposition, the probability is that they formed two sides of a grand rectangular area.
The necessary terraces round houses like Haddon may be and are as beautiful as any garden ever made by man.
All end houses of terraces have been specially treated, and in some cases having rather more accommodation than houses immediately adjoining, a slightly increased rental is required.
But the most striking feature in it is the ring, which is composed inside the crater of magnificent terraces divided by deep ravines.
Similar terraces are on the slope below the southern end of the east wall.
Ledges and terraces within the ancient crater may contain graves, but lava flows and ash deposits have obliterated all traces of such if they ever existed.
The outer faces of the walls vary from 3 to 20 feet in height; and except at the lowest parts there are terraces or steps all around, about 5 feet in height and of differing width.
But suddenly, a great transformation took place; the shelves became terraces for the noblest trees, with flowers and fruit; heavy clusters of grapes hung amongst leafy vines, and there was life and movement all around.
The broad walks are covered with gravel, and rise in short terraces between the sunlit greensward: it is charming, delightful here, but by no means imposing.
Gardens would become wildernesses, terraces and fountains crumble and be overgrown, walls that were to-day leaning would fall with time.
To Agassiz, these parallel terraces explained themselves as the shores of a glacial lake, held back in its bed for a time by neighboring glaciers descending from more sheltered valleys.
The terraces marked the successively lower levels at which the water stood, as these barriers yielded, and allowed its gradual escape.
Day after day, I hung about the terraces under his windows, watching for the glimpse that hardly ever came.
We went down the terraces and slopes; and in and out of the flower-beds, now gaudy with Spring flowers; and on to the great central point whence the three avenues diverged.
Most of the glacier lakes are in gorges or on terraces between the altitudes of eleven thousand and twelve thousand feet.
There was a large pond at the bottom, and one or two small ponds, or water-filled basins, dotted each of the five terraces which rose above.
In the middle of the eighteenth century the fineterraces were yet perfect.
The river forms a long narrow lake similar to that of Tombets, and at the back of it are terraces and high lands, but no very high mountains.
Its shores are surrounded with thickly-wooded hills, which have grassy terracesat a certain altitude, extending especially towards the north-western shores of the lake.
Where the island is narrower there are some low terraceswith scrub bamboo and stunted trees.
The terraces surrounding the Saru valley are mostly wooded with oak, and the swampy region between the Mukawa and Sarubuto has many patches of green grass, and a thick growth of high swamp reeds.
These terraces are wooded mostly with alder, Yezo fir, and beech.
Such terraces are generally so contrived as to give you an outlook too varied to allow of concentration on the essentials of the city; the background to these terraces is generally some little building where the waiter lurks for orders.
Again, there are terraces where you can get beer and other refreshment.
Prague offers considerable variety in terraces suitable to every conceivable outlook on life.
There are terraces and terraces, each one with its own definable point of view, and it is this quality which should influence the traveller's choice.
The more regular terraces winding round the motte are generally found where the motte has become part of a pleasure-ground in later times.
Narrow terraces of this kind are found in several mottes, such as Mere, in Wilts.
The terraces probably date from the time when the modern house on top was built.
As far as the writer's experience goes, terraces are only found on mottes which have at some time been incorporated in private gardens or grounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terraces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
