Grotto Sentence Examples

The grotto itself, which is about 150 ft.

The grotto, situated in the southern face of the isle, is 2 27 ft.

There are also hot springs and a sacred grotto of Apollo.

The Franz-JosephElisabeth grotto, the largest of the four, and the farthest from the entrance, is 665 ft.

Half way up the cliff, but some distance south of the citadel, is the grotto of Montfat, alleged to be the site of Diana's shrine.

The connexion with the Ottokar grotto was established in 1890.

A few feet further, in a dry grotto scooped out from the main walkway, something glinted in Dean's flashlight.

The bullet had caught him full in the chest, driving him backward into the scooped out grotto where his uncle had lain for more than half a century.

Very little was done in 1913-4; the " temple of Apollo Clarius " was found to be an exedra and a propylaea, and an oracular grotto of the god was discovered in the hills.

Passing from pride to humility he added "servant of the apostle," and "servant of Jesus Christ" to the imperial title, spent a fortnight in prayer in the grotto of St Clement and did penance in various Italian monasteries.

The most remarkable of these rivers is the Laibach, which rises in the Karst region under the name of Poik, takes afterwards a subterranean course and traverses the Adelsberg grotto, and appears again on the surface near Planina under the name of Unz.

Borlase was well acquainted with most of the leading literary men of the time, particularly with Alexander Pope, with whom he kept up a long correspondence, and for whose grotto at Twickenham he furnished the greater part of the fossils and minerals.

The famous Blue Grotto, the most celebrated of the many caves in the rocky shores of the island, was known in Roman times, but lost until 1826, when it was rediscovered.

Another beautiful grotto has green instead of blue refractions; the effect in both cases is due to the light entering by a small entrance.

The Blue Grotto is in the Tithonian limestones; it shows indications of recent changes of level.

Leake, whom Frazer follows, assumed the Pelasgicum to be a fortified space at the western end of the Acropolis; this view necessitates the assumption that the nine gates were built one within the other, but early antiquity furnishes no instance of such a construction; DOrpfeld believes it to have extended from the grotto of Pan to the sacred precinct of Asclepius.

Not far distant, on a conspicuous position close by the banks of the Doon, stands the Grecian monument to Burns, in the grounds of which is the grotto containing Thom's figures of Tam o' Shanter and Souter Johnnie.

Seeking out Nonnus, she overcame his canonical scruples by her tears of genuine penitence, was baptized, and, disguising herself in the garb of a male penitent, retired to a grotto on the Mount of Olives, where she died after three years of strict penance.

The Camoens grotto, where the exiled poet found leisure to celebrate the achievements of his ungrateful country, lies in a secluded spot to the north of the town, which has been partly left in its native wildness strewn with huge granite boulders and partly transformed into a fine botanical garden.

The old quarter is united with the new town by a bridge which is continued in an esplanade leading to the basilica, the church of the Rosary and the Grotto, with its spring of healing water.

The present fame of Lourdes is entirely associated with this grotto, where the Virgin Mary is believed in the Roman Catholic world to have revealed herself repeatedly to a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.

A statue of the Virgin stands on a rock projecting above the grotto, the walls of which are covered with crutches atld other votive offerings; the spot, which is resorted to by multitudes of pilgrims from all quarters of the world, is marked by a basilica built above the grotto and consecrated in 1876.

The traditional scene of the Nativity, a grotto on the eastern part of the ridge, is alleged to have been desecrated during the reign of Hadrian by a temple of Adonis.

Beside the grotto of the Nativity other traditional sites are shown within the church, such as the Altar of the Magi, the Tomb of Eusebius, the cave wherein Jerome made his translation of the Bible, &c.

In 1850 a dispute arose between France and Russia, in the name of the Latin and Greek Churches respectively, concerning the possession of the key of the chief door of the basilica, and concerning the right to place a silver star, with the arms of France, in the grotto of the Nativity.

Here is a grotto in the natural rock, containing a beautiful coloured mosaic pavement, representing a sea-scene---- a temple of Poseidon on the shore, with various fish swimming in the sea.

In the rock beneath the city there are some remarkable catacombs in part of pre-Christian origin, but containing evidence of early Christian burial; and a grotto, reputed to have given shelter to the apostle, is pointed out below the church of San Paolo.

A pit called the "Maelstrom," in Croghan's Hall, is the spot most remote from the mouth of Gerta's Grotto Creighton's Dome Index Hovey's Cathedral 0' Martel Nelson's Domes p a e t a j-?l . ?Einbigler Dome Edna's Dome Galloway's Dome Chief City Violet.

There are some fine stalactites near this pit, and others in the Fairy Grotto and in Pensico Avenue; but, considering the magnitude of Mammoth Cave, its poverty of stalactitic ornamentation is remarkable.

In the neighbourhood is a fine stalactite grotto, which often served as a place of refuge to the inhabitants in war time.

Pope's Villa was replaced by another building after his death, but the tunnel which connected his garden and house beneath a road, and was ornamented by him as a grotto, remains.

From a grotto in this glacier bursts tumultuously the Katun river.

The old man sat crumpled in the grotto where Martha's bones had rested.

The average grotto held from fifty to a hundred persons.

Here too in a grotto near the town he for the first time celebrated the communion in the Evangelical Church of France, using a piece of the rock as a table.

Caleb knelt in a grotto of the tunnel, and at first she thought he had fallen, too.

The approach to the grotto lay through a portico on the level with and fronting the street, and a pronaos, in communication with which was a kind of sacristy.

A scenic lazy river that includes passage through a secluded tropical fish grotto.

Among the principal examples are " Roman Triumphs " (not the same compositions as the Hampton Court pictures), " A Bacchanal Festival," " Hercules and Antaeus," " Marine Gods," " Judith with the Head of Holophernes," the " Deposition from the Cross," the " Entombment," the " Resurrection," the " Man of Sorrows," the " Virgin in a Grotto."

To the east a much deeper and hitherto unknown cavern has been revealed, which Kavvadias identifies with the grotto of Pan.

Among the best is the relief from the Capitoline grotto, now in the Louvre.

Of his astronomical studies he left a proof in the "heliotropion," a cave at Syros which served to determine the annual turning-point of the sun, like the grotto of Posillipo (Posilipo, Posilippo) at Naples, and was one of the sights of the island.

In the Kaiser-Ferdinand grotto, the third of the chain, a great ball is annually held on Whit-Monday, when the chamber is brilliantly illuminated.

Below the town is the massive tomb chamber (originally subterranean, but now lacking the mound of the earth which covered it) known as the Grotta di Pitagora (grotto of Pythagoras).

It is a regular constituent of the atmosphere, and is found in many spring waters and in volcanic gases; it also occurs in the uncombined condition at the Grotto del Cane (Naples) and in the Poison Valley (Java).

Not far from the grotto are several other caves, where prehistoric remains have been found.

Two entrances give access to the grotto, an old one extremely narrow, and a new one, made in 1890, through which the exploration of the cavern can be made in about 8 hours, half the time it took before.

It lies at the edge of the volcanic Euganean Hills, and is noted for its warm saline springs and natural vapour grotto.

Right at the Junction leads via a squeeze past a fallen slab to a finely decorated grotto.

The first thing he saw as he entered the grotto was the train on the tracks above his head.

The demolished parts were taken to build the grotto.

For fancy dress items that are sure to make you stand out, visit this couture grotto.

Features include an 18th century-style grotto, secret gardens and a traditional labyrinth at the heart of the garden designed for all ages.

Those who labored to construct the grotto were regularly rewarded with a glass of gin.

Why not take this opportunity to take your children, under 5's included, to the underground grotto for their special gift.

Come along for a one hour magical cruise and keep you r eyes open for Santa magical grotto.

A little beyond York House stood Alexander Pope's villa, his garden and his famous grotto.

In the wall of the chamber at this point, a glimpse can be had of a really beautiful grotto.

At the Great Alps Falls the stream drops 21 meters into a lovely natural grotto.

The end pitch drops 14m to a passage heading west to a 7m pitch and a small grotto with no draft or way on.

As it is below ground level, you feel as tho you are descending into a lush, fairy grotto.

There is also a Thermal Suite comprising herb sauna, crystal steam room and salt grotto.

The shell grotto at one end will provide a sheltered meeting place.

The date of the stone grotto with terracotta figures which is also to be found in the grounds is not known.

The Lion Grotto " We're just plodding on.

The is even a secluded grotto which has been faithfully preserved at the western end of the Estate.

There is also an octagonal summerhouse on the hill above the grotto.

The so-called Grotto of the Cumaean Sibyl, on the south side, is a rock-cut passage, ventilated by vertical apertures, possibly a part of the works connected with the naval harbour.

The Magdalene grotto, about an hour's walk to the north, is celebrated for the extraordinary subterranean amphibian, the proteus anguinus, first discovered there.

A theory has been proposed by Professor DSrpfeld that Leucas is the island described in the Odyssey under the name of Ithaca; in support of this theory he quotes the fact that the Homeric description of the island and its position, and also the identification of such sites as the palace of Odysseus, the harbour of Phorcys, the grotto of the Nymphs and the island Asteris,.

Even include a wall fountain for a grotto look.

Located in a quiet residential area, the grounds of the Resurrection Retirement facility provide residents with a secure, beautiful and serene setting with gardens and a grotto.

If you have time for a relaxing, sit down meal your kids will love, try Ariel's Grotto, which features visits from all of the Disney princesses while you eat, and a complimentary plate of cotton candy with every meal.

Wild Bear Falls also boasts another indoor hot tub in an area dubbed Grotto Falls.

A boat ride to the Fern Grotto where large ferns drape the landscape, can be very romantic.