At the farther end it opened on a little cortile, where gnarled rose-bushes were in bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories] Reference
After occupying various localities these mosaic works were finally settled in a cortile of the Vatican in 1825. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Vannucci turned back into the house and closed the door; but I stayed in the cortile pretending a trouble with my spurs. From Wordnik.com. [Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett] Reference
Michelozzo, made in 1450, and covered with stucco decoration in the sixteenth century, form the cortile in which, over the fountain of. From Wordnik.com. [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference
At the west end of the cortile stands a domed chapel with a belfry, used formerly as a mortuary chapel, since dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
A pretentious iron gate led from the cortile to the farm, where the running vines stretched from olive-stump to trellis, weaving a mat of undulating green. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories] Reference
Durazzo-Pallavicini, is the Palazzo Balbi, which possesses the loveliest cortile in Genoa, with an orange garden, and in the Great Hall a fine gallery of pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference
Duca accompagnatala sempre a piedi; ma con tanto seguito e frequenza di gente, che tutta la Città pareva ridotta nel giro del cortile del Lovero e nelle strade vicine. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07] Reference
But it is not urged as a necessity, when they say it cannot be, that the flame passes over to the heart through their room (stanza e cortile) and courtyard leaving so many waters behind, for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the Second An Ethical Poem] Reference
After the shaving he took me into the dormitory, which extends all along one side of the cloister on the first floor with windows looking on the grass and flowers of the cortile on one side and over the sea on the other -- very fresh and healthy. From Wordnik.com. [Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions] Reference
Over head an inextricable confusion of rugged shutters, and iron balconies and chimney flues pushed out on brackets to save room, and arched windows with projecting sills of Istrian stone, and gleams of green leaves here and there where a fig-tree branch escapes over a lower wall from some inner cortile, leading the eye up to the narrow stream of blue sky high over all. From Wordnik.com. [Stones of Venice [introductions]] Reference
Over-head, an inextricable confusion of rugged shutters, and iron balconies and chimney flues, pushed out on brackets to save room, and arched windows with projecting sills of Istrian stone, and gleams of green leaves here and there where a fig-tree branch escapes over a lower wall from some inner cortile, leading the eye up to the narrow stream of blue sky high over all. From Wordnik.com. [Selections From the Works of John Ruskin] Reference
Milan: 2001; Il segreto della casa sul cortile. From Wordnik.com. [Lia Levi.] Reference
One day we may walk on the galleries round and over the inner court of the Doges 'Palace at Venice; and read, on tablets against the wall, how such an one was banished for an' enormous dig (intacco) into the public treasure '” another for ... what you are not to know because his friends have got chisels and chipped away the record of it ” underneath the' giants 'on their stands, and in the midst of the cortile the bronze fountains whence the girls draw water. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]
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