The generous veranda of this house is a distinctive feature.
And what a comfortable lounging place the side veranda furnishes!
The overhanging roof with rafters exposed underneath, the brackets supporting the front, the broad veranda with its stately columns, the placing of the windows and door--all give fine dignity to this home.
The roominess of the wideveranda is a harmonizing part of the generous proportions of the whole.
To the passerby, this home appears as a rather large and substantial place, the veranda and the main roof gable each lending to this effect.
One night a noise outside his door on the veranda roused him.
They established themselves comfortably in the veranda seat; Father Brown, against his common habit, accepted a good cigar and smoked it steadily in silence, while the rain shrieked and rattled on the roof of the veranda.
The only big dinner table was the celebrated terrace table, which stood open to the air on a sort of veranda overlooking one of the most exquisite old gardens in London.
The novelist knocked the ashes from his pipe by tapping it on the veranda railing.
I thought everybody had gone to bed, but they are out there on the veranda talking.
Kermode had been unloading rails all day, and he was standing on the veranda one evening when a supply train from the east was due.
In front of the hotel ran a veranda supported on wooden pillars, and a row of chairs was set out on the match-strewn sidewalk beneath it.
Everything had happened with startling suddenness, and the scene under the veranda was an impressive one.
Odd groups of loungers indulged in scurrilous jests; hoarse laughter and an occasional angry uproar issued from the hotels, and shabby men with hard faces slouched about the veranda of one.
Facing the track, stood a row of wooden buildings varying in size and style: they included a double-storied hotel with a veranda in front of it, and several untidy shacks.
In the distance a band of cattle were being driven forward by two mounted men; nearer at hand a few wagons stood outside a livery stable; and in the foreground three or four figures occupied the veranda of a frame hotel.
We found her in a little faded green house, whose veranda was broken through in many places.
He stood on the veranda holding the dog in his arms.
He sat on the veranda one day luxuriously ensconced in a wicker chair, smoking a cigarette whose blue wreaths of smoke he blew gayly from him.
In single file we passed around the veranda and, keeping well under cover of the various barns and garages in the rear, came presently to the main road, just across which are the row of tin garages in one of which Hamish kept his car.
We found Hattie May on the veranda at Wildwood Lodge, waiting, she told us, for Hamish to come out of the barber shop of the hotel next door.
When he reached the veranda she was talking to Mrs. Jefferson, and nobody else was about.
He was talking to Harry on the veranda and I was in the room behind.
A veranda ran along the front, and Kit saw a group of people in basket chairs.
At one end of the veranda a lamp stood on a bronze pillar, and bright beams shone out from the rooms behind, but Kit's corner was in the gloom and he was satisfied, since he rather doubted the fit of Jefferson's clothes.
She had meant to make an experiment and satisfy her curiosity, for Kit had not come to the veranda much since his return and she had missed him when he was away.
The verandawas wide and Mrs. Austin used it for a drawing-room.
By and by Wolf entered the veranda and she saw a plan.
On the voyage he had begun to see his haunting Mrs. Austin's veranda was rash, but as he got nearer Las Palmas his good resolutions melted.
Betty in white by the bougainvillea, Olivia on the veranda in her black and gold.
Wolf went to the verandaand talked to Mrs. Austin until some others arrived; then he crossed the floor.
He was further described as ungentlemanly by a brace of spinsters who had been within earshot on the veranda the morning he had abused the Asquith roads, but their evidence was not looked upon as damning.
I dined alone, and afterwards I was strolling up and down one end of the long veranda when I caught sight of a lonely figure in a corner, with chair tilted back and feet on the rail.
Through the small square pillars of the veranda she could see, as in a frame, old Kano standing in the garden beside the fish-pond.
When the physical tremor was over he arose, took up her round metal mirror, and went to the veranda to see by strong light whether any trace of the spirit touch remained.
He seated himself at the edge of the narrow, railless veranda along which the growing plants were ranged.
She went out on the front veranda just as Mr. Marks drove up with her trunks in his wagon.
Although he walked quietly up the veranda steps, he used no especial caution in opening the front window.
Throwing open the blinds, she saw that the window opened on a veranda roof, and swinging herself over the sill, she stood delightedly gazing at the spring beauty of Primrose Farm.
Gathering up her dog, she stepped through the window and ran along the veranda roof to her own room.
The lady was standing on the veranda leaning against a pillar.
They happened to be standing on theveranda of an old factory used as a schoolhouse and dwelling, and Mr. Hume was greatly annoyed by the witch-doctor's visit.
The veranda was approached by a double staircase which mounted from each side and met at a small landing, whence half a dozen steps led to the level of the upper floor.
They would be less visible beneath the veranda than on it.
There was his home's veranda with bunches of bananas hanging in the shade, and a basket of cocoa-nuts below.
After breakfast, Comale, still feeling very angry, had gone into the veranda that each one-story house possesses.
One day I found him on the veranda of the Marine Hotel and asked him for a match, making a return compliment of a cigarette.
One night we were sitting on the Casino veranda overlooking the wonderful Harbor of Port Arthur.
Irene thought not, as she stood on her veranda next morning and gazed across the blue bay to where Vesuvius was sending a thin column of smoke into the cloudless sky.
But the two in the lighted doorway opening on the veranda heard and suspected nothing.
He was standing on that verandawhen Simpson recognized him by the light of the gas behind, and a girl was bidding him good night--a very pretty girl, too, Simpson said.
Where the plantation ended stood a low, two-storied house of medium size, with a veranda stretching its full length in front.
She had made no preparations for retiring, and by the frock she wore Dunn recognized her as the girl he had seen on the veranda bidding good-bye to John Clive.
For a minute or two longer they lingered, chatting together as they stood in the gas-light on the veranda and from his hiding-place Dunn watched them intently.
Cane and grain fields were on either side of the path, and presently they approached a large house of only one story, built of wood, and surrounded by a wide veranda supported with posts at regular intervals.
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.
They all sat down on the veranda and talked, and I lay at Miss Laura's feet and looked at Mr. Harry.
She hurried into her room, and I lay on theveranda till I heard her step.
They hurried across the veranda and over the lawn, talking and laughing, and enjoying themselves as only happy young people can, and with not a trace of their seriousness of a few moments before on their faces.
It opened on the veranda by a glass door, and the door stood ajar.
We turned in at the gate, and drove between rows of trees up to a long, low, red house, with a veranda all round it.
We lie on the veranda in the sunshine, and listen to the Morrises talking about old days, and sometimes it makes us feel quite young again.
As soon as they were comfortably seated on the veranda Mr. Harrison began his tale of woe.
Anne, tired as she was, made one more effort for the public weal that night, slipping over the fields to interview Mr. Harrison, who was as usual smoking his pipe on the veranda with Ginger beside him.
Just as minister number one was in the very middle of saying grace, Ginger, who was on the veranda outside the dining room window, lifted up HIS voice.
I left him with Harry and Johnston presently because one of the guests brought word that Alice desired to see me, and I found her on the veranda of the best house the citizens could place at the strangers' disposal.
I could ask no questions, and it was Grace who explained matters as I stood under the veranda holding the bridle of Ormond's hunter.
We were outside now, but the pistol blazed before the blade came down, and a man beside me caught at a veranda pillar with a cry just as the door banged to.
At another time a leopard crossed the veranda at night, and brushed over the face of a native woman sleeping with her child in her arms.
A mile or so from the top we turned aside at the house of a gentleman who was a famous hunter, and who had a large collection of living birds, pheasants and manauls, while the veranda was covered with tiger and leopard skins.
Sometimes this interesting member of the family was stretched out on the veranda to bask in the sun--a pleasant object to any stranger who might be invited to accept hospitality.
The number of skins on the veranda told of their skill and success.
The better class of houses are built of this, and being raised on upright posts, with an open story beneath, and a broad veranda above, they look more like Swiss chalets than like the common Eastern bungalows.
Another room or two and a rude veranda had been added to the original structure.
Blooming plants at the open windows leaned their bold, pretty faces to the sun; a table on the veranda held magazines and books, and a woman's shawl was thrown over the back of a rustic chair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veranda" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
