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    esplanade


    1. “We will spending the night under canvas at a camp on the esplanade at the top of the town and a train will be here tomorrow to take us and other troops further on so we wont have long to wait


    2. Now the water lapped at the edge of a wide stone-paved esplanade that ran the length of the City where it came down to the river


    3. Those closest to the esplanade appeared more richly appointed than the ones in the distance


    4. As they glided along, some palms appeared to be growing out of the water a short way out into the river from the edge of the esplanade


    5. Aligned with the steps, on the city-side of the esplanade were low buildings of marble or granite whose function Moshe guessed, by the different cartouches, that their individual identities were of a priestly nature


    6. Youssaf, still standing beside Moshe and anticipating more questions, offered with a grin, “There are two levels of this esplanade; the lower one matches the normal river height


    7. This is where Pharaoh’s share of everything that’s made and grown in the kingdom is unloaded and carried up to the counting houses, there across the esplanade from the stairs


    8. See what we’re coming up to now? That extra wide set of steps that end where the wide avenue begins? See how it cuts across the esplanade and continues up the rise to the largest of those big buildings, behind where the obelisk stands? That’s Pharaoh’s palace


    9. “The esplanade that you came by before you arrived at the port? Quite a bit of debris was thrown up on it, and the water even went partway up Pharaoh’s avenue because of the bend in that part of the river, we were told


    10. “I am Youssaf, courier to Pharaoh! I am in charge of this assembly! What business do you have with me?” He smiled inwardly as he remembered Moses’ challenge to the foot patrol only yesterday on the esplanade as they went to see that monarch

    11. How could this be? As the sun peeked up over the eastern horizon, the river could be seen to have returned to its traditional limitations, leaving a narrow esplanade that the strangers had taken advantage of


    12. Now the water lapped at the edge of a wide stone-paved esplanade that


    13. closest to the esplanade appeared more richly appointed than the ones in the distance


    14. the river from the edge of the esplanade


    15. Aligned with the steps, on the city-side of the esplanade


    16. end where the wide avenue begins? See how it cuts across the esplanade and continues up


    17. The esplanade had


    18. the esplanade shrank to no more than a wide walkway


    19. “The esplanade that you came by before you arrived at the port? Quite a bit of debris was


    20. walk that they traversed at the rear of those buildings joined the wider part of the esplanade as

    21. yesterday on the esplanade as they went to see that monarch


    22. seen to have returned to its traditional limitations, leaving a narrow esplanade that the


    23. He was moving faster than I"d expected and by the time I"d rounded the corner was already a block away, crossing the Esplanade


    24. Those remaining excrescences on the Esplanade have gone


    25. I"d imagined that with the Esplanade buildings gone we would be left to enjoy our solitary splendour


    26. No one mourned the passing of fast-food outlets, the busy road that had usurped the once peaceful Esplanade, the high-rise apartments, or the canals


    27. That evening, rather than mope alone in the motel, Constable Green swapped his uniform for jeans and an expensive T-shirt his wife had bought as a going away present, then strutted along the Esplanade


    28. As there was nothing she needed at the motel they immediately drove down to the Esplanade in case Violet took it into her head to come round to Amanda’s and demand to join them


    29. From the view she now had from her window, she could clearly see the imposing mass of the Palace of Supreme Harmony, sitting on top of its steps, as her plane flew down towards the esplanade facing it


    30. the esplanade one weekend, hundreds of middle-aged women would have torn off their corsets, men dropped their pants,

    31. Lovers on the esplanade; young children at play;


    32. The most eye-catching kite on the esplanade


    33. He was sitting on a seat upon the esplanade,


    34. Cairns Esplanade, which was once a vast green park, now marks a world-class capacity including an outside arena, a big grimy swimming pond, green picnic regions, walking paths, free civic barbeques, kids playing field, shops and cafés, an ecological explanation center and a Grand Barrier Reef Cruise leaving workstation


    35. They advanced about thirty paces, and then stopped at a small esplanade surrounded with rocks, in which seats had been cut, not unlike sentry-boxes


    36. A scheme to enclose the peninsular delta of the North Bull at Dollymount and erect on the space of the foreland, used for golf links and rifle ranges, an asphalted esplanade with casinos, booths, shooting galleries, hotels, boardinghouses, readingrooms, establishments for mixed bathing


    37. old I made the scones of course I had everything all to myself then a girl Hester we used to compare our hair mine was thicker than hers she showed me how to settle it at the back when I put it up and whats this else how to make a knot on a thread with the one hand we were like cousins what age was I then the night of the storm I slept in her bed she had her arms round me then we were fighting in the morning with the pillow what fun he was watching me whenever he got an opportunity at the band on the Alameda esplanade when I was with father and captain Grove I looked up at the church first and then at the windows then down and our eyes met I felt something go through me like all needles my eyes were dancing I remember after when I looked at myself in the glass hardly recognised myself the change he was attractive to a girl in spite of his being a little bald intelligent looking disappointed and gay at the same time he was like Thomas in the shadow of Ashlydyat I had a splendid skin from the sun and the excitement like a rose I didnt get a wink of sleep it wouldnt have been nice on account of her but I could have stopped it in time she gave me the Moonstone to read that was the first I read of Wilkie Collins East Lynne I read and the shadow of Ashlydyat Mrs Henry Wood Henry Dunbar by that other woman I lent him afterwards with Mulveys photo in it so as he see I wasnt without and Lord Lytton Eugene Aram Molly bawn she gave me by Mrs Hungerford on account of the name I dont like books with a Molly in them like that one he brought me about the one from Flanders a whore always shoplifting anything she could cloth and stuff and yards of it O this blanket is too heavy on me thats better I havent even one decent nightdress this thing gets all rolled under me besides him and his fooling thats better I used to be weltering then in the heat my shift drenched with the sweat stuck in the cheeks of my bottom on the chair when I stood up they were so fattish and firm when I got up on the sofa cushions to see with my clothes up and the bugs tons of them at night and the mosquito nets I couldnt read a line Lord how long ago it seems centuries of course they never came back and she didnt put her address right on it either she may have noticed her wogger people were always going away and we never I remember that day with the waves and the boats with their high heads rocking and the smell of ship those Officers uniforms on shore leave made me seasick he didnt say anything he was very serious I had the high buttoned boots on and my skirt was blowing she kissed me six or seven times didnt I cry yes I believe I did or near it my lips were taittering when I said goodbye she had a Gorgeous wrap of some special kind of blue colour on her for the voyage made very peculiarly to one side like and it was extremely pretty it got as dull as the devil after they went I was almost planning to run away mad out of it somewhere were never easy where we are father or aunt or marriage waiting always waiting to guiiiide him toooo me waiting nor speeeed his flying feet their damn guns bursting and booming all over the shop especially the Queens birthday and throwing everything down in all directions if you didnt open the windows when general Ulysses Grant whoever he was or did supposed to be some great fellow landed off the ship and old Sprague the consul that was there from before the flood dressed up poor man and he in mourning for the son then the same old bugles for reveille in the morning and drums rolling and the unfortunate poor devils of soldiers walking about with messtins smelling the place more than the old longbearded jews in their jellibees and levites assembly and sound clear and


    38. This woman flung herself on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, three stories high and entirely of cut stone


    39. There he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the Observatoire


    40. The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz

    41. The crowd, surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread out over the Quai Bourdon, covered the Bastille, and was prolonged on the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin


    42. "In the Esplanade des Invalides, amidst exotic and colonial buildings, one structure of a more severe style rises in the picturesque bazaar; all these representatives of the terrestrial globe adjoin the Palace of War


    43. "On the Esplanade des Invalides, the center of exotic and colonial structures, a building of a more severe order stands out from the midst of the picturesque bazaar; these various fragments of our terrestrial globe adjoin the palace of war


    44. "On the Esplanade des Invalides, among the exotic and colonial encampments, a building in a more severe style overawes the picturesque bazaar; all these fragments of the globe have come to gather round the Palace of War, and in turn our guests mount guard submissively before the mother building, but for whom they would not be here


    45. Wrightson, an English engineer, concludes that the two arches or bridges formed part of a continuous system of parallel arches which occupied, between the two east and west walls, the sub-structure of the entire southern part of the esplanade of the temple


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    Synonyms for "esplanade"

    esplanade common plaza grounds park green boulevard

    "esplanade" definitions

    a long stretch of open level ground (paved or grassy) for walking beside the seashore