Into the house they had not ventured and even on the verandas the family had felt secure from intrusion until now; but now one had actually jumped into the rear veranda and stolen a piece of cake from Marjory's hand.
Toward tea-time all had gathered on theverandas and the lawn in front of the house.
Most of our friends are at present on the verandas or the lawn; shall we go out and join them?
A grand dinner followed in due season, after which they sat on the verandas or under the trees or wandered slowly through the wood and the shaded alleys.
The verandas and grounds were made gay with flags and Chinese lanterns.
All of these things were found in the catalogues and the magazine advertisements; and in addition to the rooms mentioned, there were halls, a nursery, playroom, and pleasant verandas fitted up with hammocks and porch furniture.
The Maynard house was a large square affair, with verandas all around.
Across the front, which faces east, are spacious verandas or galleries that protect the rooms from the summer heat and afford pleasant places to sun oneself on chill winter days.
Families were sitting on door-steps and verandas breathing in the night air as it came up from the city's baking streets, hoping for a refreshing ocean breeze.
I whisked her out quickly onto one of those verandasas wide as a room.
The decks of the steamer are like broad verandas and are covered with comfortable chairs, in which the owners lounge about all day.
It was a pretentious stone building, with a superb portico and massive walls, and protected by deep verandas of stone.
These verandas are full of flowers, and overhung with ivy or other luxuriant creepers.
Verandas in front of every window reach nearly half-way overhead; they are closely barred, and sometimes glazed, so that no impertinent eye can penetrate their recesses.
She went out to the back veranda, which was connected by steps with the verandas of the other two wings.
The three verandas and garden plot made a kind of amphitheatre; and now, into the arena, came the actors in the little tragedy.
Out on the broad verandasof the hotel, men and women, in cool white, sipped iced drinks and kept their circulation down.
The cool guests on the verandasneeded clean linen.
From the bay we saw Beira as a long crescent of red-roofed houses, many of them of four stories with verandas running around each story, like those of the summer hotels along the Jersey coast.
Smaller than most of the houses, it was a bungalow, with wideverandas extending round the entire structure.
Screened windows opened on to verandas on three sides.
Wide verandas surrounded the rambling building on three sides, and the cream stucco walls contrasted pleasingly with the dark green of its tile roof.
Although it was December, the air was warm and balmy, tree and fruit and flower were in the glory of endless summer, and the ladies seated on verandas or swinging in hammocks wore white dresses.
The large whitewashed brick house, two stories and a half high, with wide verandas around three sides, looks toward the sea.
As the day advanced the excitement over the financial crisis increased at Hymettus, until, in spite of its remote and peaceful isolation, it seemed to throb through all its verandas and corridors with some pulsation from the outer world.
For all its broad verandas and glaring terraces, its long ranges of windows and glittering crest of cupola and tower, it gradually succumbed to the more potent influences around it, and became their sport and playground.
So breathless was the night that over on the verandas the imperative thumping could be distinctly heard, and everyone ceased talk and listened.
Over on the shaded verandas other women met and murmured in the soft, sympathetic drawl appropriate to funereal occasion, and men nodded silently to each other.
There were large verandas and huge fireplaces, in which, during cold weather, cheerful wood-fires blazed.
The more pretentious mansions are surrounded by broad verandas and fine gardens, and scattered here and there among the houses of the better class are those of the poor people.
Around two sides of the garden ran the verandas of the hotel, and the diners could sit on these verandas or out in the open, as they preferred.
It was a very happy company that congregated on the verandas the next morning to complete the preparations for the reunion of the afternoon.
Our brother Frank had come to us about the noontide, and together we had gone over the lovely house, had stood upon the broadverandas and eaten of the heavenly fruit.
The verandas and steps of the homes we passed were full of their happy inmates; glad voices could be constantly heard, and merry shouts of laughter came from the throngs of little children playing everywhere upon the flowery lawns.
Its broadverandas almost overhung the waters of the lake, the wide low steps running on one side of the house quite to the water's edge.
Some are distinguished by heavy stone colonnades, others by verandas of fret-work, with large gothic windows standing in bold outline.
It is a small cottage surrounded with verandas and trellis-work, over which are creeping numerous woodbines and multafloras, spreading their fragrant blossoms, giving it an air of sequestered beauty.
After such a night and dawn, I have seen the shade thermometer in the cool verandas of the Melbourne Club standing at 95 deg.
Defying the sun, I started off to the banks of the Murray River, not without some regret at the absence of the continuous street verandas which in Melbourne form a first step toward the Italian piazza.
On those retained for use additions had been built, verandas added, windows enlarged, and many conveniences planned within doors.
What business had he to live where fresh paint and large windows and broad verandas should mock at the poverty and squalor of all the other houses?
The rooms of the Eyrie and its well-screened verandas were in a cool twilight, though the September sun was hot.
From its windows and verandas and balconies could be seen the panorama of Saint Christopher.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verandas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
