It was surrounded by woods in all directions save to the southeast, where a break in the leafy wall revealed a vista of low, green meadows, picturesque with wooded islands and jutting capes of upland.
Battle of Buena Vista was a sore blow to one who was always a fond father.
She paused where the chasm opened out its deep vistaupon the waters.
To Clegg Hall, or rather what was once the site of that ancient house, tradition points through the dim vista of past ages as the scene of an unnatural and cruel tragedy.
At last she thought she had found her own door; she judged it to be her own because it was partly open and she saw, through the vista of the three rooms, the little coal fire that burned dimly in the last one.
As Katie peered in, she saw through the vistaof three rooms into the dressing room, which was the last of the suite.
The northern arm of the lake, wider and more regular than the others, opens up a long vista of headlands and bays and red-roofed villages as far as where Domaso peeps out from a grove of giant elms.
The scene selected by the royal artist is one of those forest-fringed lakes of Dalecarlia, with a lovely and enticingvista of green valley and distant waterfall.
By thousands and tens of thousands, they flew past me, as my dazzling barge sped down the magnificent arcade; yet the vista still stretched as far as ever before me.
Thus the staircase vista from the front end of the hall is framed by an architectural setting of rare beauty.
The columns are spaced so as to form a wide central archway flanked by two narrow ones, the effect being a staircase vista unexcelled in the domestic architecture of Philadelphia.
Sometimes they framed the staircase vista at the head or foot of the flight, where they became one of the most charming features of the best Colonial interiors.
Radiating from the plaza, extending for several miles in any direction the gaze was focused, there appeared the vista of the barracks of the troops together with the sectional Y.
Yet there are two short words whose potent spell Shall burst with thunder-crash these gates of hell, Open a vista to celestial light, Lead us to peace through the eternal Right.
But who would grudge his tribute to the enterprise that opened this narrow vista through toward the Hyperboreans, and planted these once not crumbling sleepers and once not rickety rails, to save the passenger a portage?
Where the old rotten summer-houses once had stood, palaces now reared their heads, and granite columns of gigantic girth opened a vista to the railway world beyond.
The rocks on each side, which, joining with the side of this cave, formed the vista of the brook, were chequered with three diminutive waterfalls, or rather courses of water.
They sat on the coolest corner in Port Said, their table commanding both the cross-way of Chareh Sultan el Osman, and the short, glaring vista of desert dust and starved young acacias which led to the black hulks of shipping in the Canal.
The place was so screened in as to leave no vista anywhere, hiding the mountains on all sides.
She was not thinking, only looking, seeing into the past and down the long vista of her future.
In the longvista of the streets there was no shop open.
Ashamed that we had been guilty of so gross an oversight, I would make a note, "Vista through," on a scratch pad which I kept for that very purpose.
Next to giving a vista through, cutting out the hall is the principal idea I had in mind.
Because no matter what else you do or do not have, you must have a vista through.
Before he had finished with this alteration and taken up with the next one we were made to understand that a house without a vista through was substantially the same as no house at all.
At the front was a rolling vista undulating gently away to where above the tree-tops there rose the spires of a typical New England village full of old line Republicans and characters suitable for putting into short stories.
By chopping it out that gives us a chance to put the dining room here in this place and give a vista through into the living room.
I'd switch it over there right next to the living room and give a vista through.
Pursuing this line of study, a wonderful vista of perpetual revealment was opened to me.
Long long ago, in centuries that had proved like mere days down the vista of time, the Soul in those blue eyes had looked love into mine!
When after this strange walk, they came to a wide square and saw cafes lighted up and chairs and tables in the open air before the doors, Michael felt that life was opening out on a vista of hitherto unimagined possibilities.
The wind that bore her voice down the stupendous vista fled back into the caverns whence it came.
Oblivious of my presence, though she actually touched my dressing-gown with the hand that pulled the cords, she resumed her dreadful, solemn march, disappearing at length down the long vista of the corridor like a shadow.
It seemed I followed her down an interminable vista of remembrance till I was happy with her among the flowers and fields of our earliest pre-existence.
As he stands there, something in the outline of the vista stirs the retentive tablets of his mind: it was on this spot that he first encountered Hia, and from that involvement began the cycle of his unending ill.
If such a state of things could be assured for the future, the vista would stretch like a sunlit glade before his feet.
There has thus arisen what may be regarded as a new vista of eventualities, and this frees us from the bondage of our spoken word.
Here, moreover, is a shutter through which thevista doubtless lengthens.
Through the bright vista of the future Columbus saw the cheering vision of a new world.
The British yoke had been thrown off--the Gallic chain had been broken--the increasing millions of his countrymen could look through the vista of the future with cheering hope and exquisite pleasure.
Through the bright vista of the future they contemplated the millennium of Freedom in America.
It is a vista of white huts, silvery trees, a red church, and dew-bespangled earth.
Together she and I seem to be drifting towards a vista which is coming to look, as it sloughs the shadow of night, ever clearer and clearer.
