| 单词 | parterre |
| 例句 | The “pigeon house” stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z The “pigeon-house” stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As she shepherded us from terrace to parterre, urn to fountain, travertine steps to herbaceous border, Ms. Holtz sprinkled forth equal parts history, botany, garden design and family gossip. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z The heart of this space is the parterre garden, a Victorian-style confection of annuals and lawn that connects the south side of the Castle to Independence Avenue. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z The difficulty lay in the fact that parterres should be symmetrical but the overall area was asymmetrical. Get Impact with Containers 2010-04-07T17:52:00Z The formal parterre garden — inspired by an Aubusson rug — has symmetrical flower beds planted with peonies and roses, interspersed with Virginia bluebells, Johnny-jump-ups and other perennials. Public Gardens Turn on the Charm 2011-06-17T01:45:45Z It has to be 50 acres and it’s all parterres with vegetables and flowers. Ina Garten Delights in Hitchcock Thrillers and Her Mini Cooper 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z True, premium parterre box seats at the Met go for more than $400. Critic's Notebook: Balcony Seats Can Help Economic Inequalities in Arts 2011-12-29T18:00:01Z The parterre garden is flanked by two other gardens shaped by entirely different places, periods and styles. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Property Values: Elegantly landscaped, with a whimsically tiered lawn, a sunken parterre garden, and a formal allée, the five-acre property also includes a guesthouse. Extraordinary Homes for Sale Around the World 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Hvorostovsky returned the eager waves of Florence Illi, his wife, and their two young children, Maxim and Nina, who were sitting in a parterre box not far from Renée Fleming, a close colleague. Review: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of Life, Love and Sadness at Carnegie Hall 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Outside, the acres of lawns and flower parterres are glorious, but for me the loveliest part was the grassy moat garden surrounding the house. Designer Brian Sawyer Visits England's Stately Homes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z There are remnants of terraced boxwood parterres and early brick orangeries. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z The parterre is made much more narrow and reformed as a sort of boxwood knot garden. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z To Flinders, its corals were a “new creation” with shapes “excelling in grandeur the most favourite parterre of the curious florist”. A world in water 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Fooling the Eye One major curve Celeste threw Linda was a request for parterres―formal garden beds that are separated by walks or paths. Get Impact with Containers 2010-04-07T17:52:00Z The second spacious property is 2½ acres of cultivated garden inspired by English perennial beds and French parterres. Woodinville garden tour full of beautiful ideas 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Sound advice until you learn that her idea of a garden included sunny bowling greens, majestic parterres and stylish orchards. From the horticultural greats, garden guidance for all of us 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Every scrap of land was covered in vines, and at every turn there was another pompous chateau trumpeting its existence with tall gates, formal parterres or Palladian columns. Médoc, From Grand Cru to Country Cooking 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The parterre garden is a full-throated serenade to its Victorian progenitors. Review | The Haupt Garden demands constant work, and isn’t worth it 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z A parterre filled with echinacea, echinops, persicaria and campanula, inspired by Sissinghurst, was supposed to be all white; I am now rather pleased it is not. 'A gardening career was not what was expected of me': one man's journey from law to lawn 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z After dinner she went down to her parterre box, running into Mr. Muhly, the composer. Tippi Hedren, Hitchcock’s ‘Marnie,’ Loves the Met’s Opera 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z On the northern side of the property, an idyllic parterre overflows with roses and citrus. Patricia Heaton 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z Designed by acclaimed landscape architect Anthony “Tony” Holmes of Philadelphia, the grounds are divided into parterres or “rooms,” featuring an array of shrubs, perennials, annuals, herbs, heirloom roses, vines and specimen trees. Albert Small’s Bethesda, Md., estate offered at $11 million 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The proscenium has been removed entirely and the stage brought forward 25 feet, fitted with flexible risers and parterre seating. With new David Geffen Hall, the NYPhil returns on an optimistic note 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Like many poets before him, he had a keen sense of how memory could repose in objects, whether “dungy sticks / In a jackdaw’s nest” or “a marble bust commanding the parterre.” May I Disinherit My Right-Wing Daughters? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Four boxwood parterres in the Linhares garden are now a meadow of California poppies and Cosmos bipinnatus in fluorescent shades of tangerine and yellow that bloom from May through October. In a Fading Portuguese Village, the Gardens Bloom Again 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “It’s this little diamond shape with a zigzag little parterre and it’s infilled with plants _ many of which are roses.” ‘Keep plants out of politics’: A gardening historian on Melania Trump’s Rose Garden renovation 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z “It’s this little diamond shape with a zigzag little parterre and it’s infilled with plants — many of which are roses.” ‘Keep plants out of politics": A gardening historian on why Melania Trump's Rose Garden is just that 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The result is 13 acres of formal gardens, including a colorful, shaded lunar lawn, a Japanese-style garden and a whimsical French parterre. 6 pretty places to have a picnic around the D.C. area 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z A 1906 chamber-music hall, painted pale yellow and lined with parterre boxes, it is just two blocks from the presidential palace. The Right-Wing Pundit ‘Hashtag Triggering’ France 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z With observations like “the parking lot is the parterre of the asphalt landscape”, it proved instantly controversial. Robert Venturi obituary 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Highlights include an ivy-covered wall enclosing a formal rose parterre, gardens complementing the C.F. It's garden tour season: Dozens of gorgeous SoCal landscapes are on display 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z The parts that in photographs looked rather mad—that boulevard paved with marble blossoms, bridges lined with mosaic portraits of Madrileños, the brilliantly planted parterres—provide opportunities to pause and delight in a sprawling composition. Rise of the Superpark 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The restoration of the first garden room, nearest the house, will be the most formal in appearance, with a parterre and beds of flowers and vegetables. At the Jay Heritage Center in Rye: Young Americans 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z "Paula was ready for a different approach, so I suggested a parterre, the kind of formal garden originally used in 15th century France," Exter says. See how this Los Feliz yard was transformed into a low-water oasis where it's fun to garden again 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z A collection of saucer and star magnolias flank the parterre, with their fuzzy buds expected to burst within the week if the weather remains warm. Washington’s flowers are blooming, if you know where to look 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Not a straw was out of its place in the thatch, and every flower-bed of the little parterre was trimmed exactly with the same scrupulous care. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z The effect of such a variety of colors was as if parterres of flowers were laid out on the smooth shaven lawn. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z From the island of shade under the old cypress tree they looked out across a flat expanse of lawn, in which the parterres of flowers shone with a metallic brilliance. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z The park and gardens are extensive, occupying nearly 200 acres; they are beautifully arranged, and contain an extremely fine collection of flowers and other plants, occupying parterres separated by broad gravel-walks. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z A parterre of pianists, indeed, some in New York because of the war, while Paderewski and Rosenthal were conspicuous by their absence. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z These garden knots were not flower beds edged with Box or Rosemary, with narrow walks between the edgings, as were the parterres of our later formal gardens. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z As the houses stand well back from the shore, the space between is laid out in bright-hued parterres, that look like Persian carpets spread on the well-kept lawns. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Ladies of highest rank rustled up and curtseyed, then formed into a parterre of shot silks and waving plumes behind my Lady Camden. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Marble basins with fountains, and marble walks between the parterres, suggest coolness, and walnuts, apples, and apricots give shade. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z We delight in devising twisted alleys, scroll-work parterres, and shrubs formed into tufts; the largest lots are divided into little lots. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z A part only of the original parterre remains, but the more modern flower borders, through the unusual perspective and contour of the garden, do not clash with the old Box-edged beds. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z In Spring the parterres of tulips and hyacinths and wallflowers and other blossoms suggest the dreams of all the great pottery decorators of every age come to life in flowers. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z At E. 32, Death standing in the middle of a parterre of flowers, holding in one hand a branch of laurel, in the other a palm branch, the motto, “Ante mortem nullus beatus est.” The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z I was looking down the terraces across the parterres to the brown figure moving away, but I did not see that. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z I think there are as many kinds of gardening as poetry; your makers of parterres and flower-gardens are epigrammatists and sonneteers in this art; contrivers of bowers and grottoes, treillages, and cascades, are Romance writers. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The design of the parterre is so satisfactory that I give three views of it in order to show it fully. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The guests filed past him into the parterre, Heidegger remained. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z We had a delightful visit with you, dear F. G. and H. M. I miss you both, and miss the lovely panorama of the hills, and the beauteous flower parterres. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The soldiers were scattered over the parterre, and then of a sudden I saw something which doubled my fears. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z A large gallery, divided like the parterre, ran round three sides of the house and was reached from an outside balcony. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z The semicircular driveway swept up to the front door, dividing off Box-edged parterres like those of the day of Queen Anne. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The inch of blue satin petticoat took her departure from the parterre. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z To-day how sweetly breathes the temperate air, The rains have newly laved the parched parterre; And Bulbuls cry in notes of ecstasy, �Thou too, O pallid rose, our wine must share!� The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z We met the mist at the line where the parterre borders on the Wilderness, and walked through it knee-deep until the trees grew dense. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z It had been a trim garden, With parterres of fringed pinks and gillyflowers, and smooth-raked walks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The parterre succeeded the knot, and has been used in gardens till the present day. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z It is a curious thing that Wilde's affections seemed to alternate between the unordered simplicity of English woods and meadows and the trim artificial parterres and bouquets of Versailles or Sans Souci. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Southward it has smooth, new-made lawns, dotted with clumps of firs and parterres of flowers, shielded by curves of flowering bushes. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z I could see the spray of a fountain sparkling in the sun, and on the level below the first terrace, a great white grotto and an embroidered parterre like a fine lady's petticoat. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z The plain is a parterre of wide grain fields, and meadows of rife grass, divided by straight white roads, with their trains of picturesque mule teams and waggons, and their rows of tall, straight trees. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z This last-named parterre differed from a knot solely in having the paths among the beds. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Here, under the shade of luxuriant trees, amid handsome fountains, and by parterres decked richly with many flowers, the people of the city stroll upon summer evenings after the great heat of the day. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z It is said that at the end of the first representation a wag of the parterre cried out, “It is question here of bankruptcy; I am in it for twenty sous.” Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z From the bottom of these steps the parterre spread out, and beyond the parterre was a space of meadow-land, fringed by a grove of trees which they called the wilderness. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Part of it, before the door, a scanty bit we allow, was laid a little parterre of flowers, and behind the dwelling was a small bowling-green surrounded by cherry-trees. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z In all these flower beds Box was the favorite edging, but many other trim edgings have been used in parterres and borders by those who love not Box. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Delicious emblem of the mind Whose fancy rules this bright parterre, Ever 'mid sweetest flowers I find The depths of heaven reflected there. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z The surprise of himself and his friends was extreme, for Beaumarchais instead of applause received the hisses of the parterre. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z The majestic simplicity of Shakespeare's plan is injured by thus doubling his characters; and his wild landscape is converted into a formal parterre, where "each alley has its brother." Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z In a great majority of cases too, the pelargoniums so commonly met with in greenhouses and summer parterres are of shrubby or sub-shrubby habit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Its length was originally broken halfway up the hill and crowned at the top of the hill by some formal parterres of careful design, but these now are removed. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z I am pleased with the Emperor and every one here.—Which included what he had promised Talma for his audience—a parterre of kings. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Vanardy recognized the vague sense of depression and foreboding he experienced as he walked down the path that wound in and out among flower beds and parterres of shrubbery. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z We had passed the glowing parterre, and were just turning into the cool Fountain Court. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z A parterre of marguerites was laid out close to the terrace. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z A desert pleased them less than an inhabited country, a wild landscape less than sunny collections of cultivated fields and orchards symmetrically planted, recalling "the agreeable variety of parterres made by the ingenuity of man." Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z On the contrary, the beauty of woman, like that of flowers in a parterre, is then most attractive and irresistible when they are arrayed in their fullest pomp and magnificence. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Sometimes these roofs resembled parterres of flowers, so thickly were they covered with them, but more frequently these were cultivated in broad terraced gardens, laid out between the edifices. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z As soon as the performances are over, the parterre is laid down with boards, and in a few minutes metamorphosed into a gambling saloon. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z It was open at an illuminated page, and the sunlight fell upon the gold and vermilion, the rouge-de-fer and powder-blue, so that it gleamed like a little parterre of jewels. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z One might have said, "a parterre of flowers, bearing the royal demand," related the young Queen, becoming poetical for the first and last time in her life. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z The shrubberies, parterres, and young plantations, were either torn up by the cattle, or converted into ploughed fields. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z The silent parterre would be gay with a giddy, chattering mob of Society people before long, Vera hurriedly explained. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z Hence you will find the rarest and most curious foreign plants and flowers, not arranged as if merely brought hither for show, but growing in artificial parterres as if on their native soil. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z The good-natured Captain gladly followed the children out of the great parterre into the familiar house, and his astonishment at all signs of Fenk's return ceased only with the rushing in of the Doctor himself. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Bushy thickets; orchards covered with flowers and fruits; enamelled meads, watered by murmuring streams; parterres planted with the rarest and most variegated flowers, every where met the eye. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z At this end of the lawn would be the brilliant parterre of bedded plants, seen both from the shaded lawn and from the terrace, which at this end forms part of its design. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z The happy priest walks up and down through the parterres. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z It was that of a railed parterre that fronted the dwelling. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Light footsteps soon shall tread these gay parterres, And sighs, but not like these, shall mingle bliss With bliss. Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z The very keeping these parterres in order was a thing of no mean cost. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z It was a parterre that formed part of the garden in one of the fine old places in the Midland counties. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Umbrageous walks, open parterres, and cool porticos, displayed their various attractions. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z Exotics from various countries blended with the splendid plants indigenous to Andalusia, making the parterres one flush of brilliant hues. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z “What the deuce can she be doing out at this hour?” inquired Scarthe of himself, as he strode nervously across the parterre. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The large square centre-table was laid out in parterres of books never opened. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z Others may best like wide lawns with large trees, or wild gardening, or a quite formal garden, with trim hedge and walk, and terrace, and brilliant parterre, or a combination of several ways of gardening. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z We were seated near the edge of the little opening where we had encamped, a pretty parterre, fragrant with the perfume of a thousand flowers. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Inez then hurriedly proceeded to the patio, and took, from a recess in which she kept her few garden utensils, a spud with which she was wont to weed her parterre. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z Her happiness did not hinder her from once more returning to the window; but too late to see the cavalier as he passed across the parterre. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The finest artificial garden in the world sinks into insignificance when compared with this parterre of nature’s own planting. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z The wind faintly stirred, barely enough to shake the bells of the pink and darkly blue hyacinths standing tall and full in the parterre at one side of the house. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z And with this catch pealing from her lips, she passed across the parterre, entered the verandah, and disappeared within the doorway. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z "Truth," says Wordsworth, "has her pleasure-grounds, Her haunts of ease And easy contemplation;—gay parterres And labyrinthine walks; her sunny glades And shady groves for recreation framed." The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z In front was a space appropriated to the purposes of parterre and shrubbery; while to the rearward extended the stables and other offices—enclosing an extensive courtyard between them and the dwelling. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z It was the Lady Amabel, who in all the purity of beautiful and innocent sixteen, suddenly appeared—the lily of the dazzling parterre. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Every where else the dazzlingly lighted spaces and tiers of boxes, with their rich parterres of ladies, offered a brilliant and variegated picture. Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:40.700Z To the west of this house was a well-remembered little parterre, always at the proper season gay with flowers. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z I know myself, that since I have taken to the habit of getting out of the carriage at the wells, and walking twice round the parterre, I feel myself braced and better for the day. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Even the trimly kept parterres were beginning to show signs of neglect, and tangled flowers fell across the gravel. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z Pomegranate, fig, and lemon trees, shrubs, plants and exotics of every clime and variety, were dispersed in profusion over this charming parterre. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z A whole parterre of flowers adorned her hair, and on her neck and arms sparkled the diamonds which Raven's generosity had rescued from the wreck of the Harder fortunes. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z At the moment that she raised her eyes her glance met that of a young man who stood at the back of the parterre, pallid with emotion; it was Francis Monday! Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Fashioned in Box-edged parterres after the old-time plan and dear to the heart of Americans is such a place as the sunny Box garden at The Appletrees, so charmingly portrayed in this chapter. Beautiful Gardens in America 2011-01-11T03:00:36.140Z A profusion of wild flowers bloomed in little parterres among the rocks, and among others, I plucked the geranium, in several varieties. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Fronting this station are no stores, but several elegant private dwellings, constructed after the combined French and Spanish style of architecture, almost embowered in dark, evergreen foliage, and surrounded by parterres. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z The spacious square resembled an immense parterre variegated with the most stately tulips of the East.* Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z Standing in a corner of the parterre, Frank had experienced those devouring sensations which have disturbed twenty-year-old hearts ever since the world began. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z This charming Box-edged parterre, with its fine surroundings and associations, is possibly the best-known in the South. Beautiful Gardens in America 2011-01-11T03:00:36.140Z “But I have a fancy for examining some of these quaint old parterres and carven trees, so we’ll turn down here.” A Double Knot The Arabesque roof was borne on Byzantine arches, which gave free access on three sides from a delightful parterre. The Great Mogul Maffei was to represent a Grecian story: surely the Athenians were as competent judges of Grecian manners and of the propriety of introducing them, as the parterre of Paris. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z There are two Baraccas or parterres in connection with the line of fortifications surrounding Valletta, which form favorite promenades of the citizens. The Story of Malta This girl was no longer the most brilliant rose of the parterre. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 The wandering companies became better and more numerous, the number of theatres greater; the best place was the parterre, in which officers, students, or young officials, who were frequently at variance, gave the tone. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. Who was that standing motionless by the garden fence, with his eyes fixed on the bright parterre window? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. BOXWOOD, the wood obtained from the genus Buxus, the principal species being the well-known tree or shrub, B. sempervirens, the common box, in general use for borders of garden walks, ornamental parterres, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" I want that olive wood, too, all stubbed up, and the ground laid out in handsome parterres. The Fortunes Of Glencore But already a scene of uproar and confusion had arisen in the parterre around Cashel, whose interruption of the piece called down universal reprobation; and cries of "Out with him!" Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) The place selected for the trial was a neat little parterre outside one of the small drawing-rooms. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) A gigantic Sunflower reared his many-headed stem very far above all the other plants in the parterre, and affected not a little to despise their lowly condition and insignificance. The Squirrels and other animals Illustrations of the habits and instincts of many of the smaller British quadrupeds An American friend of mine sent me a magnificent parterre of wax flowers which were so perfectly made that I couldn’t tell them from the real. Mr. Munchausen Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder It is a room curiously built, being a complete oval, with two French windows opening to the ground, and a glass door between them—partly stained—that leads to the parterre outside. Faith and Unfaith Wherever the eye turned, from the dark parterre below, to the highest boxes above, seemed filled with people. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) The trees in Gunther's garden were decked with green and the parterre was filled with lovely flowers. On the Heights A Novel Where its depths had been were parterres of gems, slopes of asphodel, the gleam and brilliance of the gates of paradise. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident Before him was a flower more radiant than any parterre had ever produced. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes Such, without dwelling more minutely, was he who now strolled along through shrubbery and parterre, half listless as to the way, but very happy withal, and very light-hearted. One Of Them Below his eyes spread a parterre of perfect purple heliotropes. Fairfax and His Pride It is built round two courts, one of which is divided into planted parterres, intersected with brick-paved walks. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. Fresh parterres of flowers were planted beneath the windows; fountains long dried up were taught to play, and jets of many a fantastic kind threw their sportive showers on the grass. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The stars are as lilies set in parterres of indigo. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes They were the parterre on which gallantry grew. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The parterres of flowers which were scattered through the entire grove suffered, it is true, from a certain monotony. The Scarlet Banner Slight and trivial as was the incident, it was instantly caught up by the parterre. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The contented bather may then leave the court by a postern in the gallery, which opens into a beautiful garden, with mazy walks and blooming parterres, redolent with roses and violets. Oriental Women She had gone out to take the air with her daughter in the Dauphin's small parterre at the extreme end of the Tuileries, close to the Place Louis XV. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty The banks were handsomely walled up, and laid out in parterres, prettily planted with shrubbery, all bearing the impress of great care and beauty. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Such ladies bright May reign unrivalled in their proud parterres! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 The cutting up of a portrait with balustrades, pillars, and gay parterres is fatal to the effect of the figure, which should be the only object to strike the eye. Maids Wives and Bachelors The same moment everybody in the parterre and the boxes turned toward me and applauded to bring the roof down. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun I. On a sheet of silver the morning-star lay Fresh, white as a baby child, And laughed and leaped in his lissome way, On my parterre of flowers smiled. Blooms of the Berry "My patrol is, to watch the parterres from the pavilion to the all�e yonder; and, if you please, we 'll take up our quarters on this bench." Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I I have been taught that flowers flourish far better in the cultivated parterre, than in the wild woods. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion This morning I noticed a quantity of rare and very superb lilies clustered in a corner of the parterre.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part This civil bick'ring and debate The goddess chanced to hear, And flew to save, ere yet too late, The pride of the parterre. Language of Flowers I was to have neither arbor nor trellis,—no sweet-scented honeysuckle clustering over an elaborate framework,—no parterre of beautiful flowers, glorious to behold, but producing no profit,—not even marigold or lady's-slipper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 Sometimes these roofs seemed parterres of flowers ... broad terraced gardens laid out between the buildings. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West Broad green lawns, shaded by forest trees, surrounded the house, fountains sparkled and gleamed amid the shrubberies, and gay parterres of flowers added their beauty to the scene. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. The children are decidedly pretty; and as they sit in rows, with glittering, many-colored dresses, and caps and jewels, they look like a gay parterre of flowers. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Gardeners of great experience and skill were constantly employed in cultivating the parterres, pruning the fruit-trees and the vines, preserving the walks, and introducing new varieties of vegetation. Cyrus the Great Makers of History Where now the French habitant sits chattering with his confrères and smoking his pipe filled with home-grown tabac were once the shady walks and stiff parterres of the ancient garden. Famous Firesides of French Canada Hence the French name parterre for the pit—par terre, upon the ground. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 His perfections are those of a prig and an egoist, and he passes like the sun itself over his parterre of adoring worshippers. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 And these gay rivals of parterre and field May freely drink the sunshine and the dew, But only unto thee does heaven yield The pure reflection of her cloudless blue. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 After drinking a parting glass I shook his hand heartily, bade him cheer up, and said that study would soon put him in the parterre of pianists. Melomaniacs Take a stroll through his parterres and greenhouses, where side by side he shows you pansies of myriad tints and the modest little wild violets of kindred to the pansies' ancestral stock. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer The heat was stifling, and the incessant fluttering of fans gave the women in the parterre and in the crowded boxes a look of unrest that was belied by their placid, expressionless faces. Olive in Italy A sweet breath came from its parterres of mingled hyacinths and jonquils that hid themselves every moment in black shadows of lagustrums and laurestines. Dr. Sevier A holly tree, in the adjoining parterre, caught my eye. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI Unable to repress a grin of happiness, Pinchas stumbled through the dim parterre, barking his shins at almost every step. Ghetto Comedies The garden, compared to the great, sweeping lawns and lovely parterres of Meredith Manor, was insignificant. The School Queens I know a respectable German charwoman who earns 41 marks a month, and pays 25 marks a month for her parterre flat in the Hof. Home Life in Germany She was going to have a parterre of her own, according to a plan she had been secretly maturing. The Golden House Forests of oak and pine cover the rolling background, and beautiful villas, with parterres and blooming gardens, peep from every glen. The Land of Thor The parterre, or pit, is a mere promenade or standing place, in which the few seats are let at a higher price than the rest of the space. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France The rocky wall of some deep tidal pool, thickly studded with the long and slender stems of Tubularia, surmounted by the bright rose-coloured heads, is like the gay parterre of a garden. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In It will be a parterre or a fourth-floor room, rather gloomy and rather shabby, but a possible room for a student who happens to be hard up. Home Life in Germany They are never more glorious than in May and early June, when the long parterres glow with the tall, late-flowering tulips. Highways and Byways in Surrey These gardens, of small extent, confront the dark walls with their brilliant parterres and, covering the gradual slope of the hill, form, as it were, the fourth side of the court. A Little Tour of France Even the forest that bordered and enclosed this little parterre was a forest of flowering-trees. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Here the windows open upon a lawn with turf as green and velvety as that of England, and parterres of flowers laid out in all manner of geometrical figures. In Château Land In the garden there should be a whirling swing and a common swing, as also a bower of creepers covered with flowers, in which a raised parterre should be made for sitting. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks In front of the house was a parterre, most tastefully arranged with flowers which surrounded an immense fuschia, five feet in height and covering an area of about fifty square feet. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story The flowers themselves seemed to have vanished from the parterres, or, like the Cereus, bloomed only at night, plainly visible under the luminous sky, when the nightingales vied with the viols of the serenaders. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope and nod on the parterre. Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Unlike many of the châteaux, Vaux-le-Vicomte is still the home of people who love its beautiful lawns and parterres and keep them green and blooming. In Château Land She was just hastening to a parterre, gay with roses, to rifle some of its sweets, when the old gentleman came panting hard upon her track. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life She left them to themselves and was proceeding towards her parterre when her father called out to her. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story He pointed out that this would give "a parterre to the river, a better access to the walks, and a more beautiful disposal of the whole ground." St. John's College, Cambridge The parterre alone constantly admired and applauded him. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 The Peyrou is now pleasantly laid out in terraced walks and shady groves, with gay parterres of flowers—the upper platform being surrounded with a handsome stone balustrade. The Huguenots in France Then the wretched pauper was a young girl—a lovely pale hyacinth in the noble flower parterre. The Sand-Hills of Jutland She had been sewing for a time, and now, feeling a want of relaxation, she went to her parterre. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story On either side of the central channel was a row of chenars and a paved pathway for pedestrians, then occurred a succession of open parterres, usually planted or sown. The Arts of Persia & Other Countries of Islam Ten minutes were allowed after dinner in the parterre, and these could only be spent under the laurel hedge; the sun was far too hot everywhere else. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster A parterre of flowers immediately adjoined the palace and rudimentary alleys and avenues stretched off towards the wood. Royal Palaces and Parks of France His English Gardner, in 4to. with cuts, came out in 1683; the ninth edition came out in 1699, 4to.; it contains several clearly pointed plates of knots, or parterres. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions As we look at the blaze of full summer in the brilliantly conventional parterres we easily credit the tale of the 40,000 plants it takes to fill the beds. Picture and Text 1893 A host of gardeners laboured at the wood round the Châteaux Joyeux, turning the rough ground into a series of gracious flowering parterres. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The window looked out into a square parterre, shut in with p. 107tall laurel hedges, and filled with the gayest and sweetest blossoms. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster The parterre, extending before the main building, is of an ampleness scarcely conceivable until once viewed. Royal Palaces and Parks of France What these are, I know not; unless they are the cuts of parterres, which were omitted in the first edition. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions First one pair of opera glasses in the parterre, then another, then practically all were levelled at Mrs. Oglethorpe's box. Black Oxen The flowering parterre was untended, but the lilacs and the redthorn-trees made the garden fair. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Beside the houses, to the spectator's left, was a large garden extending to the river, with fountains and parterres. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Modifications were rapid, and from 1664 the parterres and the greensward took on entirely new forms and effects. Royal Palaces and Parks of France New Principles of Gardening, or the laying out and planting parterres, groves, wildernesses, labyrinths, avenues, parks, &c. cuts, 1728, 4to. On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Here they opened a new path through the forest; here they spanned a stream with a beautiful rustic bridge; upon a gentle eminence a pavilion rose; and new parterres of flowers gladdened the eye. Hortense Makers of History Series In the dying sunlight lay the great palace of Ludwigsburg, the rounded roofs, the terraces, and the Château Joyeux of La Favorite in the midst of flowering parterres. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg His house was surrounded by gardens so contrived as to seem of considerable extent, having many a shady tuft, trellised alley, and mysterious alcove, interspersed among their bright parterres. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Boyceau traced the original parterres with a central basin at a crossroads of two wide avenues. Royal Palaces and Parks of France Old Raphael had gained leave to clear a parterre in the garden which was to be wholly hers, and where he would rear such flowers as she particularly admired. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Then came my mother's clear, high-bred voice, just outside the door, descanting on the beauty of the Count's parterres and orangery. The King's Mirror I don't know any greatest treat As sit him in a gay parterre, And sniff one up the perfume sweet Of every roses buttoning there. The Book of Humorous Verse He recalled, too, the going forth of love towards his supposed executioners which he had experienced, his reverence for, and yearning towards, the dull-coloured working-bees of the parterre. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Parterres now became of two sorts, parterres à compartiments and parterres de broderies, names sufficiently explicit not to need further comment. Royal Palaces and Parks of France Red, green, violet, and azure elephants, antelopes, zebras, and pigs processed along the carpet, guided by an orange-coloured Noah in a purple top-hat, and a perfect parterre of sons and wives. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 Who hath woven them into these pictured parterres? The Scalp Hunters In summer time the parterres were overgrown into a wilderness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Down there upon the parterre, in the close-packed ranks of students, of men and women of the middle-class, soberly attired in walking costume, he recognised the working bees of this giant hive. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance His idea was to develop the simple parquet into the elaborate parterre. Royal Palaces and Parks of France With the parterres of twinkling star-flowers and the expanses of verdant lawns. The Servant Problem Here is a parterre of the purple monarda, there the euphorbia sheds its silver leaf. The Scalp Hunters She had already reached the open parterre, and was crossing it, when the barking of the dog caused her to stop, and the moment after Carlos came up. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Therefore the smart world talked more loudly than before, while the democratic occupants of the parterre, jealous for the reputation of their fellow-citizen, broke forth into stormy protest. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Like the hanging gardens of Babylon, they overlook a lower level of parterres, gravelled walks and ornamental waters. Royal Palaces and Parks of France Orchestra, balcony, galleries, amphitheatres, lobbies and parterre were packed; every portion of the vast edifice, in short, was thronged except a few of the loges and baignoires, into which every moment brilliant companies were entering. Edmond Dantès It is about the size of the Lyceum; arranged after the French fashion, having stalls, a parterre, and balcon below; and above, two circles of private boxes, the property of subscribers. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. There was a space of open ground—a green parterre—between it and the flowerbeds. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico And again the working bees, down in the parterre, attracted his attention. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Now came in the ornamental garden as distinct from the verger, and the preau became a greensward accessory, at once practical and decorative, the precursor of the pelouse and the parterre of Le Notre. Royal Palaces and Parks of France His evenings were largely spent in the parterre of the opera. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette Eight o'clock P.M.—A narrower selvage round the vast area of our parterre. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. There was a parterre and a wide gallery, in which we got back seats; the audience were all men and well-dressed, and laughed heartily at the points. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah The parterre—its somewhat comfortless seats, rising as on iron stilts, as they recede, row by row, from the proscenium—was packed. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The parterre beneath the famous colonnade was their burial place, though a decade later the bodies were exhumed and again interred under the Colonne de Juillet in the Place de la Bastille. Royal Palaces and Parks of France They were flowers which he had gathered for her, one by one, from the plants growing in the various balconies, and in little parterres in the courtyards, which they passed in going about the castle. Rollo on the Rhine In front of the house was an immense stretch of sward, bordered with box and relieved by a wonderful parterre and by walks and drives lined with blue hydrangeas. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport On each side of this walk were parterres of shrubbery and flowers. Rollo in Switzerland Nor were the dull-coloured occupants of the parterre alone in their attack. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The rebuilt monumental stairway connects directly with a passage leading to the entrance portico which opens on the garden terrace before the parterre. Royal Palaces and Parks of France He delighted in ‘hyacinthine curls’ and ‘lustrous locks,’ in ‘smiling parterres’ and ‘stately terraces.’ Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation And now on the green sward they danced and they sang, In their holiday gowns, a pretty parterre, With oft sounding echoes the castle walls rang, To the joy of the Count of Gruyère. The Counts of Gruyère These last, more fortunate than those of Babylon and Nineveh, have maintained their existence to our day, the aquatic cultivator rowing among his parterres and gathering his melons over the gunwale. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 You passed through beautiful parterres and alleys, formed of fragrant shrubs, to the spot Where grew the turf in many a mouldering heap. Olive A Novel Before the windows flashed a bright parterre, begirt with a thick hedge of salvias, above which the exquisite humming-bird for ever hovered. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 The drops of heaven which freshen the earth, are each of equal value, whether they fall in the lowland meadow, or the princely parterre. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School Then, suddenly as a tempest gathering across the sun pours quick destruction over a parterre of flowers, black horror swallowed up Gruyère. The Counts of Gruyère Some carried gay iron railings, and quite a parterre of flower-pots. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) I thought her lovely in the evening, but she appeared still more so now, looking as fresh and bright as the gay flowers which adorned the parterres. Paddy Finn A brace of pea-fowl stalked over the parterre in all the pride of their rainbow plumage. The Rifle Rangers His lessons may be read on the parterre, in the flowers of the purple magnolia, the deodar, the rhododendron. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" After again crossing the railway, we pass the trim, restored turrets of the famous château of Sillery, with its gateways, moats, and drawbridges, flanked by trees and floral parterres. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines They passed the tennis-courts and the rose parterre, and ran down the steps into the herbarium. For the Sake of the School By the time we had reached the parterre I called to her— "Miss Sharp"— She advanced and kept beside me—. Man and Maid Which it was, and no one could look upon it without keen delight, unless he were a horticultural pedant in whom the appreciation of nature had been killed by parterres. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers The nurseries of Tottenham Court Road, the parterres of Chelsea, and the stoves of the Yew Gardens were luxuriant witnesses of what the enterprising gardener might do. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Some of them were occupied in forming the shapeless stone into graceful embellishments for elegant houses, and others in disposing, with botanic taste, the fragrant parterre. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. Then as he crouched he heard quick voices, and then three mounted figures rode across the parterres to the gate. Orrain A Romance She is the brilliant dahlia, the pride of the gay parterre; but my Edith is the modest daisy blooming in some sheltered nook. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Not that these bright flowers often bloomed alone; a blossom not less brilliant generally shared with them the same parterre. The Young Duke The violets perfumed the air for us with the same rich profusion as in the carefully tended parterre of the wealthiest citizen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 The women, of whom there might have been a dozen, were ranged, like a neglected parterre, along the opposite side of the room. Recollections of Europe Meanwhile, in each wide arch of the Customs shed, parterres of joyous faces grew momentarily more distinct. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York Whole parterres of brilliant flowers loaded the air with fragrance, and nightingales sang among the boughs of the lindens that waved against the wrought-iron palings of the terraces. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems We cultivate it freely in our parterres as a brilliant, yellow, showy flower. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure The area around is laid out in parterres, planted with flowers, blossoming shrubs, and cypresses, interlaced by rows of bubbling fountains, and avenues paved with freestone slabs. The Friendships of Women The well-turned legs, and the ankles, with such a chaussure as at once marks a Parisienne, were exposed to the admiration of a parterre of some hundreds of idle wayfarers. Recollections of Europe The trim parterres have no beauty or fragrance for one that has lingered in more glorious gardens and plucked redder roses. Sword and Gown A Novel I envied then the favored breeze That dallied with your flowing hair, Begrudged the songsters in the trees And longed to be a flow'ret fair— Some favorite blossom like heartease— Within your miniature parterre. Poems Vol. IV Athos went toward the house; but he had hardly reached the parterre, when the entrance gate appeared in a blaze; all the flambeaux stopped and appeared to enflame the road. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Few things can be planted with such desirable effect as this shrub; it puts a stamp on the landscape, parterre and shrubland, and when well grown forms a landmark in the most extensive garden. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. There is also a very low broad terrace, immediately beneath the windows of the palace, which separates the buildings from the parterres. Recollections of Europe Spanning the invisible roads and river is the broad Pont d'I�na, and then comes a repetition of the garden, the sward dotted with parterres and buildings. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 The foliage is agreeably disposed, and there are shrubbery walks, flowers, vases, and parterres, all arranged in the best taste. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 "My dear Fleda! if my eyes cannot rest upon that development of elegance, the parterre is become a wilderness to me!" Queechy, Volume II It was disappointing only to see the dark remains of what must have been such a rich parterre of flowers. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Oh! if the mountain heather pined amidst the heaven’s own dew, Think ye the parterre’s wasting heat its freshness could renew? The Poetry of Wales You half dislike the independence of the robin, who is equally at home in the parterre or the forest, on the gravel-walk or in the upper air. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Passing between them had the effect of going through the curtains into a parterre box. My Second Year of the War The peacocks, deeply wounded in their tenderest feelings, instantly took wing, and went sailing away majestically over the crimson and gold parterre of flowers below. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance In this enclosure, comprising many acres, were the most beautiful designs of parterres, borders, walks, galleries, cabinets, pavilions, porticoes, and many more intricate inventions of landscape gardening. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton The front part was divided into several reception rooms, without front walls; and adjoining these, bloomed bright and gaily-ordered parterres of flowers and shrubs. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Your description of the old garden, with its rippling fountains and quaint parterres, reminds me of the days of my youth, when my mother gave her receptions there. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence Oh, Dame aux Camellias! you are but single dandelions in a parterre of heliotropes! Trifles for the Christmas Holidays There are none of our parterres in them; but they are planted with high trees, which give an agreeable shade, and, to my fancy, a pleasing view. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe It had as many ramifications as the Cretan labyrinth, as many fluctuations as the Northern Lights, as much colour as a parterre in June, and was as crowded with figures as a coronation. The Return of the Native The chorus in which that opera abounds gives the parterre frequent opportunities of joining in concert with the stage. Great Italian and French Composers The path to the house lay through a small parterre planted with box and other shrubs, and beyond stretched the playgrounds. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Sir Trevor was addressing an assemblage of authorities—a parterre of kings in the empire of botany—or he might have enlarged upon this text. About Orchids A Chat Holding it in his hand, he mounted above the parterre boxes and the grand-tier boxes, to the highest and cheapest of the galleries where silence and an almost awed concentration reigned. Destiny In the centre of the parterre is a figure with a trident, which represents the Morava, the national river of Servia, and is in reality a Roman statue found near Grotzka. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Five years of good Government would make it one of the most beautiful parterres in nature. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II These were enclosed by high walls, intersected by canals, and cut into parterres by sandy walks. Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir The parterre’s flowers have all bloomed forth, the roses, sweetly smiling, shine; On every side lorn nightingales, in plaintive notes discerning, pine. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers Could he, on the contrary, produce, amidst its magnificent wilds, one of those antiquated parterres, with its canals and fountains, whose precision he has learned to despise, his work would create admiration and delight. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The finest artificial garden in the world would sink into insignificance when compared with this parterre of nature's own planting. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 But in spite of its ridiculous excesses, and the barbarism of the methods by which the parterre expressed its opinions, that quarrel is not without interest. Musicians of To-Day He glanced at the river below, threading its way through the pasture land; at the billowy masses of trees; at the gay parterre, bright with summer flowers. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century But what took my fancy most was the old-fashioned garden, full of old shrubs and new flowers, with its formal parterres in the shape of the family arms, and its clipped yew and box trees. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Raising Verbenas from seed has restored this plant to the list of easily grown and thoroughly useful flowers for the parterre. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition I have him at this moment before my eyes, as he walked with his hands behind his bent back in the little parterre of Sans Souci. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 The island, with its groves, shrubberies, parterres, arbors, terraces, statues, was decorated with flags and banners, innumerable colored lamps and floral mottoes and devices. The Lost Lady of Lone And the stiff parterres, terraces, and alleys of Le Notre are equally out of place in such a scene. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 It took my breath away to look at the far-reaching parterre of nodding glories, moved by the breath of the south-wind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Above her head branches of tender green were tossing merrily in the March wind, at her feet lay a parterre bright with spring buds and flowers. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Oh, of all the flowers that swing their golden censers in the parterre of the human heart, none so rich, so rare, as this one flower of Faith. The Seeker The grass parterre round the house, however, was smooth as velvet, and interspersed with gay flower-beds. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town A great many of the older exotic plants have become domesticated; and the goodwife has a flaming parterre at her door,—but not valued one half so much as her bed of marjoram and thyme. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 The young gentlemen in their holiday suits were sauntering lazily about among the parterres and shrubberies. Ishmael Or, In the Depths It was now the end of August, and the parterres, beds, and bits of lawn were dry, disfigured, and almost ugly, from the effects of a long drought. The Claverings Oh, of all the flowers that swing their golden censers in the parterre of the human heart, none so rich, so rare, as this one flower of Truth. The Seeker Outside, terraces and parterres were wonders of late summer brilliancy of bloom, and the sunshine glowed over all. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Indeed, the oriental imitations in earth, stone, water and verdure, have a language and suggestion far beyond what the usual parterres and walks, borders and lines, fountains and statuary of a western garden teach. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji The gardens were laid out in the taste of the time, with trim alleys and parterres, terraces and steps, stone statues, and clipped yews. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest The whole area is laid out in square parterres, planted with flowers and shrubs in the centre, and with fine trees, chiefly the cypress, all round the borders, forming an avenue to every road. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Oh, of all the flowers that have swung their golden censers in the parterre of the human heart, none so rich, so rare as this one flower of charity. The Seeker When all the beauties of Flora's court Smile on the gay parterre, What glorious color, what exquisite form, And dainty scents are there! Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry On the site of the park a great terrace was bordered by a parterre in the shape of a half-moon, where a waterfall was later installed. The Story of Versailles Across the avenue of teak which had been the Nubian's bulwarks he saw the Dutchman's galley, now a summer-house set in parterres of tulips. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Rivulets of water, skillfully led in along tiny grooves, serpentined among the parterres, half hidden in rare and brilliant flowers. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees The eyes of that gentleman were no longer for the gay parterre. Audrey The grounds were adorned with fountains, lakes, parterres, and promenades, and were equipped with every facility for family and popular recreation, not overlooking, by any means, the amusement of the children. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Once more the fountains of the north parterre were illuminated, but this time with electric bulbs instead of oil lanterns. The Story of Versailles Here was the trim and smoothly shaven lawn—there the blooming parterre—beyond the early flowering shrubs not a twig, not a leaf injured. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Agriculture; and Horticultural Hall and its parterres, to VII. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 The garden surrounding it occupies a beautiful promontory, its borders washed by the sea, the walks shaded by trees imported from Europe, and the whole parterre redolent with tropical beauty and fragrance. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 For them alone the thickets of roses put forth their blossoms, and the parterre exhaled its soft perfume, which lulled them to sleep as they lay at night with their windows open. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The parterres, the courts, even the salons of the palace swarmed with ruffians that had marched out from Paris to menace Versailles. The Story of Versailles And in five minutes I can get through this Bible parterre and find you fifty bright, sparkling fountains bubbling up into eternal life. New Tabernacle Sermons At last one wild night the flood rose so high as to completely cover the garden terraces, working havoc in the parterres, and covering the lawns with a thick coat of mud. The Lost Stradivarius When one approaches Boulogne from the sea the beach looks like a parterre of flowers. Chateau and Country Life in France He went past the mulberry tree, as far as the edge of the terrace, where a wide flight of broken steps descended to the flowery parterre. Abbe Mouret's Transgression It was a perfect day, and the beautiful toilets of the ladies made the lawn look like a parterre of living flowers. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 Within there was, however, a vast garden diversified with winding paths, flowery parterres, hillocks, and grottos. The Amulet "He was walking beside the hedge which borders the parterre—you can see the hedge from your windows—and was making toward the conservatories." The Forty-Five Guardsmen However, in spite of the driving rain, we caught glimpses through the windows of splendid parterres of salvias and cannas, making great spots of colour in a beautiful bit of smooth green lawn. Chateau and Country Life in France When they crossed the parterre, flights of butterflies arose to delight their eyes, to fan them with quivering wings, and to follow in their train like living sunbeams or flying blossoms. Abbe Mouret's Transgression For this garden was not at all like an ordinary garden, still less like a prim English parterre. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 On life's broad plain the ploughman's conquering share Upturned the fallow lands of truth anew, And o'er the formal garden's trim parterre The peasant's team a ruthless furrow drew. The Poems of William Watson What joyous sounds of mirth come from each group—the clear voices ringing pleasantly on the ear, from creatures fair and blooming as the flowers of the rich parterres among which they wander! The Idler in France On this upper ground we observed several tombs, all enclosed within parterres of the same boat-like shape first seen by us on the day we traced the Lachlan into the basin of the Murrumbidgee. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 But she resumed: 'Would you like to go into the flower-garden, the parterre? Abbe Mouret's Transgression Nothing but a great parterre of glengarries, perched upon the mud in long parallel rows, each glengarry flanked on the left-hand side by the muzzle of a rifle at the slope. The First Hundred Thousand Only there was no mistake about this—the Italian parterre; and a sudden tightness grew round her heart, and she thought of Mirko and the day she had last seen him. The Reason Why I like these old gardens, with their formal walks and prim parterres; I like also the company by which they are chiefly frequented, consisting of old people and young children. The Idler in France On the rising ground near our camp were several graves, all inclosed in separate parterres of exactly the same remarkable double or triple ridges as those first seen on the lower part of the Lachlan. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 They set off, going straight through the parterre without stopping to watch the awakening of the flowers which were all dripping after their dewy bath. Abbe Mouret's Transgression There the blossoming parterres, the lavish perfume from geranium-bed and acacia-blossom, and the mad singing of the little birds up among the boughs, set me longing for a holiday. In the Days of My Youth One of a statue of Pan and his pipe, making the center of a star in the Italian parterre, pleased him most. The Reason Why The Privy Gardens are beautifully laid out in broad terrace walks, with dainty parterres, each having a statue in the midst, while there is a fountain in the centre of the inclosure. The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance There were three of these parterres all lying due east and west. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 And, suddenly, just as she was reaching the parterre, she came upon death, amidst all the evening fragrance. Abbe Mouret's Transgression A butterfly or a humming-bird could not have talked more cheerily about flying over a parterre of flowers than he about traversing the North American desert. Overland But all the way back in the train she saw the picture of the Italian parterre at Wrayth with the statue of Pan, in the center of the star, playing his pipes. The Reason Why But what true judgment would be enchanted with weeds and wildness in the small parterre. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden On the Murrumbidgee and Murray the graves are covered with well thatched huts containing dried grass for bedding and enclosed by a parterre of a particular shape, like the inside of a whale-boat.**** Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 From the parterre, from the orchard, from the meadow-lands, from the forest, from the great rocks, from the spreading heavens, came back a ripple of voluptuous joy. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The windows looked over a neglected Dutch garden, which was so rankly overgrown that the box hedges scarce rose above the wilderness of parterres. The Castle Inn The next morning we proceeded along a very pretty road, flanked by green hedgerows full of wild flowers, and varied occasionally near the houses with parterres of roses of exquisite fragrance. A Peep into Toorkisthhan As before mentioned, Rose trees look well in a parterre by themselves, but a few may be dispersed along the borders of the garden. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden In this wasted solitude you meet, all of a sudden, the most smiling parterre. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 In days gone by the parterre, tended by a master passionately fond of flowers, had displayed in its trim beds and borders a wondrous wealth of choice blossoms. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Over his head the roses twine round the pillars of the verandah, and there is a parterre of brilliant flowers not far from his feet. Hodge and His Masters Before the doors there are small parterres, planted with rose-trees, and other fragrant shrubs. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America For ten years the new anemone from the East was to be seen no where in Europe but in Monsieur Bachelier's parterre. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Alike commercially and socially they meant parterres, walks, bowers in her great back-garden. Kincaid's Battery And as they returned through the parterre, the very flowers bore themselves discreetly, as though they were glad to see their childishness, and would do nothing that might corrupt them. Abbe Mouret's Transgression Then there were the experimental plots—something like the little parterres seen at the edge of lawns. Hodge and His Masters The planters' and merchants' villas immediately in the vicinity are extremely tasteful, and are surrounded by large parterres filled with plantain, banana, palm, orange, and rose trees. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America But the provinces of the landscape gardener and the parterre gardener are perfectly distinct. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden From this, marble steps led down to a beautiful parterre, below which the Fountain of Latona played in the white moonlight. Calvert of Strathore She made him turn and led him from the narrow paths to the centre of the parterre, where, once upon a time, great basins had been hollowed out. Abbe Mouret's Transgression The grounds are tastefully laid out in gravel-walks, lawns, and parterres, and form a public promenade, to which a fine pool in front of the buildings adds considerable beauty. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 The old stone turrets that towered above the blazing parterres gleamed in the hot sunlight—a mediaeval castle of romance. The Obstacle Race Here is a poetical petitioner against a needless destruction of the little tenants of the parterre. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Elinor left her chair and went to the window, which looked down on the sanatorium, the ornate parterre, and the crescent driveway. The Grafters The area covered by the entrenchments was about fourteen acres and the garden must have been a place of beauty before the litter of the siege marred the trim walks and parterres. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The gardens, independent of their zoological attractions, are a delightful promenade, being laid out with great taste, and the parterres boasting a beautiful display of flowers. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 I had drawn up the golden grille, by which the occupants of a baignoire may screen themselves from the curiosity of the parterre. Sacred and Profane Love They were always eager to exhibit to visitors the beauty of their parterres. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden On again ascending, you catch a fine view of Box Hill, and the amphitheatrical range of opposite hills, with one of the most magnificent parterres in nature. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 A broad terrace more than five hundred yards long, with a balustrade in red granite, and decked with parterres of flowers, becomes a delightful walk in autumn. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Crowds of elegantly-dressed company were promenading the mall, or principal walk, and some few were not incuriously lingering about the enclosed parterres of the garden, whose beauties would soon be transported to a milder atmosphere. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 "A parterre box costs a hundred and twenty-five dollars a night," said Mr. Spragg, transferring a toothpick to his waistcoat pocket. The Custom of the Country What are the gay parterre, the chequered shade, The morning bower, the evening colonnade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh unheard in to the passing winds? Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Had the whole parterre cried out, Place aux dames, with one voice, it would not have conveyed the sentiment of a deference for the sex with half the effect. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy They skim away from one flower in the parterre of literature to another, like the bee, without, like the bee, gathering sweetness from each, to increase the public stock, and enrich the magazine of thought. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author When the curtain fell several people came into the box, and he went to make a few calls round the parterre. The Grain of Dust "A parterre box," Undine corrected, ignoring the exclamation, and continuing to address herself to her father. The Custom of the Country In a small parterre we either trace with pleasure the marks of the gardener's attention or are disgusted with his negligence. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Though you stand, as in the parterre, you pay the same price as in the orchestra. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy A laughing, many-colored throng early invaded the arena, the women’s gay toilets lending it some resemblance to a parterre of fantastic flowers. The Ways of Men She then discerned, by the aid of the dusky departing light, a figure, whose sex was undistinguishable, walking down the gravelled path by the parterre towards the river. A Pair of Blue Eyes They stopped at a large white house, flanked with melancholy hemlocks, and passed through a little front garden, paved with moss-coated bricks and ornamented with parterres bordered with high box hedges. Roderick Hudson It was the favorite flower of the Empress Josephine, who caused her own name to be traced in the parterres at Malmaison with a plantation of the rarest roses. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Have you sufficiently observed the wonders it covers, its fishes, its zoophytes, its parterres of sponges, and its forests of coral? Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Although an imposing and sufficiently attentive throng, it would be difficult to find a less discriminating public than that which gathers nightly in the Metropolitan parterre. The Ways of Men The "pigeon house" stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories The casket was soon open before them, and the various jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table. Middlemarch It had as many ramifications as the Cretan labyrinth, as many fluctuations as the northern lights, as much colour as a parterre in June, and was as crowded with figures as a coronation. The Return of the Native As she went down through the parterres of flowers she was as straight as a delphinium and fresh-colored as a rose. The Faery Tales of Weir No parterres, no fountains, no statues, embellished this little garden. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Simply regard those yew-hedges, and parterres, and grassy amphitheatres, and palisades, and statues, and cascades, and everything—everything that goes to make a formal garden the most delectable sight in the world! The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Designs 13 and 14 are, in character, somewhat in the style of a parterre; but instead of the intervening spaces in the bed being ordinary walks they are of grass. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) I cannot live parterre, nor in the attic, and I should not like to look out upon a churchyard. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The plaza was crowded, and the ladies in their boxes looked like a parterre of different-coloured flowers. Life in Mexico Fatigued with the crowded assembly and the fluttering parterre, I sought relief in solitude. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian The villages are adorned with houses built in a magnificent taste, having parterres ornamented with arbours covered with flowers. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing They were all delighted with this airy parlour, lined with the softest, thickest moss; natural seats with backs, a delightful peep of the house, gay parterres and groves. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 A fine old iron gate opened upon a broad gravel drive, which made the circuit of a well-kept parterre, where the flowers grew as they only grow for those who love them dearly. The Golden Calf One box looked a veritable parterre of flowers. Life in Mexico The grand alley, as well as the end of the parterre on each side and the edges of the basins, was illuminated in a style equally tasteful and splendid. Paris as It Was and as It Is Accordingly the Catholic vagabonds seated themselves on the ground, a fuliginous parterre to look upon, and called upon G—— for a song. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 At the drooping ends of these, were lamps shaped and coloured to imitate the most beauteous flowers of the parterre. A Love Story "But what has become of him?" said Constance with her comic impatience.—"My dear Fleda! if my eyes cannot rest upon that development of elegance the parterre is become a wilderness to me!" Queechy The monk Neret informs us, that in his time it was covered with tulips, the variety of whose colours formed a lovely parterre. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time In the alley in front of the parterre, in coming from the terrace next the river: 1. Paris as It Was and as It Is As far as I have sought any, not the best laid out garden or parterre has been my model—but Nature has been. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy As a limit to the grounds were groves of tall thick trees encircling all the well-kept parterre within. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense To the east of the parterre and the town is the park, which has no beauty, but harmonizes well with the château. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 As we entered the room, methought I was slowly sinking in some reluctant, sedgy sea; so thick and elastic the Persian carpeting, mimicking parterres of tulips, and roses, and jonquils, like a bower in Babylon. Redburn. His First Voyage An amateur in the parterre reproved her, in a very gentle manner, for a wrong emphasis. Paris as It Was and as It Is Late that afternoon Cope chanced upon Randolph among the fantastic basins and floral parterres of the court in front of the Botany building: Randolph had had a small matter for one of the deans. Bertram Cope's Year Meanwhile, our guide was peering with quick, excited gaze, through the thick foliage of the park; his fine black eyes were sweeping the parterre and terrace. In and out of Three Normady Inns Skirting the villa, he went on unhesitatingly, as one to whom the way was very familiar, following a straight, formal path which led between parterres of flowers, ablaze with colour. The Vision of Desire Why," rejoined Cibber, with an air of mock sanctity, "Heaven be praised, I have pulled out some of the weeds from our theatrical parterre—" "Hear you that, Count? Devereux — Complete In front of the south fa�ade is to be a tasteful parterre, with an oblong piece of water in its centre. Paris as It Was and as It Is Why," rejoined Cibber, with an air of mock sanctity, "Heaven be praised, I have pulled out some of the weeds from our theatrical /parterre/—" "Hear you that, Count? Devereux — Volume 02 The park was as green and as still as a convent garden; a pink brick mansion, with closed window-blinds, was standing, surrounded by a terrace on one side, and by glittering parterres on the other. In and out of Three Normady Inns No end of little children were skipping and playing in the sunshiny walks, with dresses as bright and cheeks as red as the flowers and roses in the parterres. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Now and then they came to a villa with weather-beaten statues strutting about its parterres. Indian Summer Science, with her fair sister Art, unite With nature, to form parterres rare and bright, Preside at buffets of refreshment pure, To make enjoyment in the whole more sure. Home Lyrics Two large marble basins, with jet-d’eaux seventy feet in height, divide the parterres; from the extremity of which rises a rude cliff, shaded with firs and ilex, and cut into terraces. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Gardens had also been laid out; the parterres were as gravely watered as if they were to remain in the middle of a bustling high street in perpetuity. In and out of Three Normady Inns But our view at length extending and becoming more comprehensive, we begin to see parterres balancing each other, trees, statues, and arbours placed symmetrically, and that the whole is an assemblage of parts mutually reflective. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation The sky blossomed in parterres of roses, frailer and brighter than the rose of the briar, and melted beneath them into lagoons greener and paler than the veins of a young beech-leaf. Gone to Earth The whole parterre of flowers was festooned with lanterns and little colored lamps, making this fairy scene as bright as day. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters From the windows you look into the garden, not flourished with parterres, but divided into plats of fragrant herbs and flowers, with here and there a little marble table, or basin of the purest water. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents In rear of these parterres a granite rockery, festooned with ferns, wild violets, &c., raises its green gritty, rugged outline. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present The boxes are generally let to the nobility and the parterre is open to every body on payment. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 Molière was popular with the ordinary parterre of his day: yet his plays have endured for over two centuries, and the end of their vitality does not seem to be in sight. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Many of these mansions are surrounded by exquisitely kept grounds and beautiful parterres, which are in themselves well worth a long journey to see. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young And he pointed to the walls, on which bloomed the fantastic parterre of the old pastels, flowers not of the earth, grown in the soil of paradise. Doctor Pascal Several embellishments have been added to it by this gentleman and his lady; at present, the views, groves, parterres of Westfield during the summer months are more attractive than ever. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present There is a peculiarity in all the theatres at Vienna, which is, that in the parterre you must sit in the place the number of which is marked on your ticket. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 The analogy can scarcely hold farther than in a parterre; and even there very imperfectly. Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives The very doors were converted into mimic entrances to caves and parterres, and the general effect was entrancing as well as sentimental. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young While Damon examined with an eager eye the gay parterre of beauty that appeared before him, a general whisper was excited upon his account. Damon and Delia A Tale Kate cried, as the flaming sun sent banners of gold, mingled in a rainbow baldric with the blooming parterres of roses. The Iron Game A Tale of the War The theatre was completely filled and the price of admission to the boxes and parterre a ducat. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 When the carriage drew up at the entrance of the great parterre, she stepped out to select them. Thaddeus of Warsaw "Why do you remain there," said the Queen, "as if you were rooted to the parterre?" The Abbot The Turkey carpet that covered the floor was a perfect parterre of brilliant flowers wrought in their natural colors; and its texture was so fine and thick that it yielded like moss to the footstep. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths In front of the arbor was a parterre of rounded box-bushes edging beds where disorderly roses hung in clusters of pink and purple and apricot-color. Three Soldiers A vast and deep arena lies between the parterre and the orchestra and fills up the space between the audience and the proscenium. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 I have never seen these untended parterres in such lovely exuberance; the sturdiest pedestrian becomes a lingering idler if he allows them to catch his eye. Italian Hours A creek runs near the house, and on its banks, sloping to the sun, lies a lovely garden, as trim as any English parterre, and a mass of fruit and flowers. Station Life in New Zealand Under the magic silvery whiteness the lost "parterres and cabinets and lozenges" with their paths and borders stood out as clearly in the moonlight as the day when Madame Prudence's workmen had charted them there. Little Miss By-The-Day The parterre was entered from the first balcony, a circumstance which redeemed it from its old plebeian association as "the pit," in which it would have been indecorous for ladies to sit. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time It has a roof like a modern theatre, and the seats in the parterre are arranged like the seats in an ancient Greek theatre. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 The place has become the shabbiest farm-house, with muddy water in the old pièces d'eau and dunghills on the old parterres. Italian Hours It is plaited up, close to the head, partings between the plaits making elaborate parterres. Travels in West Africa We mean no other by this word than certain hollow sinking and slopes of turf which are practised in the middle of a parterre. Little Miss By-The-Day The seats in the parterre were mahogany chairs upholstered in blue damask. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time The parterre and the whole house was full. After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 The night arrived; the theatre was full from parterre to gallery; the boxes presented a truly brilliant spectacle. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca For now a most variegated garden parterre met my sight. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life There were vivid parterres of flowers, begonia and geranium. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box On Mr. Fuller's grounds I saw what might be fittingly termed a small parterre of dwarf evergreens, some of which were twenty-five years old. The Home Acre Here and there, instead of the exquisite parterre, there should be some miserable patches of potatoes and beans, and some squalid clothes hung out to dry. The Recreations of a Country Parson Below us was a wide parterre whose flower-beds, laid out by a celebrated landscape-gardener in the days of the Stuarts, were filled with vegetables. A Traveller in War-Time They had crossed the parterre by this time, and were almost at the window. Magnum Bonum There is morning freshness in its hue and scent, and, when it bursts, a parterre of roses. Chopin : the Man and His Music "That I do," replied George, taking another seat, and coolly turning his back on the parterre, and gazing mildly into Susan's eyes. It Is Never Too Late to Mend Honey-trees, as they were called, were very abundant in Texas The prairies were almost boundless parterres of the richest flowers, from which the bees made large quantities of the most delicious honey. David Crockett His Life and Adventures The pleached walks and parterres were in all the freshness of June. The Valley of Decision From his place in the parterre a subordinate of the 64th regiment of the line sang, in honor of the Princess, some couplets expressing the sentiments of his comrades. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X There was some rivalry in this parterre of pianists. Chopin : the Man and His Music The light widened as I drew near, and an exclamation of relief and pleasure escaped me as I suddenly found myself in a picturesque quadrangle, divided into fair green lawns and parterres of flowers. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance The undulating prairie, waving with flowers, lay spread out before them, more beautiful under nature's bountiful adornings than the most artistic parterre, park or lawn which the hand of man ever reared. David Crockett His Life and Adventures Seen through the black arch of the arbour the moonlight lay like snow on parterres and statues. The Valley of Decision When the Academy pressed its complaint to the very throne to prevent the acceptance of the play, the King replied wittily that he claimed no right in the matter beyond his place in the parterre. The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X Dr. Hartwell leaned his head against the window, and glanced down at the parterre he had so fondly fostered. Beulah A vague noise," says she, "began to spread from the parterre to the orchestra, and from the amphitheatre to the boxes. Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon The parterre was given up almost entirely to the students, upon whose countenances was plainly seen their deep interest in the evening's entertainment. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends In the broad open space extending from the front of the chateau to the parterre lay a huge pile of all kinds of clothing, linen, plate, and furniture. The Honor of the Name "Good, good!" cried the listeners, "the emperor is indeed a wonderful—" Just then the bell for the curtain was heard, and the crowd pressed into the parterre. Joseph II. and His Court Guy takes inordinate pride in his parterre, arranges and overlooks all the flowers himself. Beulah "There is Mademoiselle D.," remarked Indiman, as his glass swept the semicircle of the parterre. The Gates of Chance The second tier and the parterre were occupied by the burghers, merchants, and their wives and daughters, who were waiting with joyful impatience for the commencement of the performance. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends The child was delighted with it; and every morning, when his study-hours were over, the dauphin hastened to his little parterre, to dig and to water his flowers. Marie Antoinette and Her Son No sooner had Gluck appeared in the orchestra, than, from boxes as well as parterre, a thousand voices pealed forth his welcome: "Long live Gluck! long live the great maestro!" Joseph II. and His Court The whole place seemed one huge parterre of bloomery; even traders set bouquets in every shop and stall, and the scented air was heavy with perfume. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 Then she walked about the parterres till she came to a pavilion, high builded of base and wide of space, never espied mortal nor heard of a grander than it. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] |
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