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    1. Maggie with her paradise hair, the darling of the bar, restless, moving around the terrace like chiffon in a breeze casually peeling off the layers and layering them over a chair


    2. I climbed up to the terrace


    3. We stood up and walked over to the watertank on the terrace


    4. We switched on the terrace bulb


    5. greeted as I shut the terrace door


    6. They never climb up to the terrace


    7. the terrace if she asked me to


    8. We came outside as the moon lit up the terrace


    9. 'I love you,' she said from behind as I opened the terrace door


    10. Jock Cascarino’s silver Lexus is parked by the kerb outside a Victorian villa at the foot of Old Sticklepath Hill, an old terrace that has seen better days

    11. conditioning, laundry, dining room and a small terrace, we


    12. came across a tiny terrace with a table and a couple of


    13. We once had a party on the terrace of that place


    14. The terrace was usually reserved for parties and called for a


    15. It was a terrace and idyllic – no roof on the top, just the


    16. The rest of the terrace was outlined with beautiful


    17. ” She spoke in a whisper, as we walked through the terrace doors and down the stairs


    18. The terrace beside the garden was covered in roses that climbed the walls


    19. Just as the Elf was starting to wonder how deep they were descending, they reached an ancient ledge, an immense terrace or balcony, wrought from the living stone of the planet


    20. That was only taken as a glimpse, what filled her eyes to the point of weeping was the sight from the terrace: the living heart of Sheranara, Beloved and Betrothed of the Enthilesté

    21. After how long, she had no clue---time simply did not matter---she was once more standing beside GingerKat on the terrace and gazing out over the burning heart of Sheranara


    22. might have been called a terrace if they hadn't


    23. quickly from the crowded room onto the terrace


    24. Georgian terrace had a garden that bordered this


    25. second nearest were on Duncan Terrace, close to


    26. “Let’s go out on the terrace,” he whispered


    27. The terrace overlooked the ocean and the lights of Back


    28. The beautiful stone stables of La Hacienda commanded a panoramic view from a wide terrace on the steep skirt of a long-dormant volcano


    29. He made eye contact with a group on a lower terrace


    30. The Gasthaus Weisse Hirsch was located on the side of a hill, and a walled flagstone terrace had been built to provide a view of a small glen and low, forested hills beyond

    31. There was no outside dining provided during the winter, but the smiling innkeeper seated Colling and Elizabeth at a table next to a window overlooking the deserted terrace


    32. Five doors down the terrace


    33. The thought sent warmth throughout her body and she left the terrace with a smile


    34. Behind him, Calras, Merdo, and Varwo came out on the terrace


    35. When she after a long time opened her eyes, she saw Laino and his men standing on the terrace along with Calras, Varwo, and Merdo and others of the eldest


    36. She walked straight past the men on the terrace without dignifying them with a single glance


    37. By the houses, she let herself drop down onto a chair of braided reeds sitting on the terrace


    38. He took the stairs down from the terrace in one leap and swung both arms around Ebira, who in shock, but sobbing, fell into his embrace


    39. She pulled off her boots again and threw them onto the terrace of the large house as they passed there, and then continued barefooted through the wet grass


    40. When she neared the large house, she saw father standing on the terrace with Ilmal, Merdo, and Laino

    41. Some hours later, she was sitting on the terrace in front of the house


    42. Behind him came the last ones onto the terrace now


    43. They halted and blinked at the sharp sunlight and smiled at the two who sat on the terrace


    44. She looked out over the meadows until she out of the corner of her eyes saw that one had remained on the terrace


    45. She had eaten her dinner with Elior and then gone to the terrace when he fell asleep


    46. When completed, it would be a picture of her and Nik sitting arm-in-arm on a terrace in Puerto Rico, with palm trees rising up behind them


    47. He was particularly pleased with a high terrace on top of the palace where he loved to study the stars just as his father did


    48. There were four bronze horses on a terrace above the main entrance


    49. In reality, a pirate of that name who “killed his spouses and buried them in the terrace”, never existed


    50. Men would sleep on the terrace in the open air














































    1. broke the dreaming spire, the cathedral, terraced high and lofty,


    2. At last they came to a very down at heel street, where most of the back-to-back terraced houses were either boarded up or bare boned skeletons


    3. I tried staring into my surroundings without focusing on anything in particular and that helped a distant crumbling ruin to emerge from its orange terraced soil but the stillness made me feel I was being monitored or that something nasty was about to happen


    4. The only inheritance was the small terraced house that they had grown up in and a few personal possessions


    5. He ploughed through the streets followed at some distance by his sister until, with the front door of their modest terraced home shut firmly on the outside world, Danny disappeared into his bedroom to play electronic games


    6. of a row of terraced houses by a thousand pound bomb


    7. a small Victorian terraced house, except for the fact that the walls


    8. ‘The first one was a complete wash-out – I got the general feeling what he’s looking for is a terraced house in Oldfield Park


    9. the back-to-back terraced houses were either boarded up or bare


    10. 'I've got one of those terraced houses on the right as you go up the hill

    11. only inheritance was the small terraced house that they had grown


    12. their modest terraced home shut firmly on the outside world,


    13. The area was tessellated with terraced houses and cobbled streets


    14. After a few turns they came to a small Victorian terraced cottage


    15. It was surrounded by terraced gardens dating to about the 42nd century, with the acre and a half keda field and a tiny beach a few steps below that


    16. We changed trams I town and caught one up to Higherscrop we both looked out the window at the dull grey smoke grimed terraced mill houses that permeated the district


    17. ” The terraced house we stood in front of was just like the others only cleaner and a red pair of curtains gave the greyness of it a much needed lift


    18. Jimmy entered the small terraced house, imagined himself collapsing on his comfortable chair


    19. General Linares had made preparation to vigorously oppose a landing here, and two almost perpendicular cliffs were terraced with trenches carefully masked from top to bottom


    20. It consisted of a terraced pyramid built on a hill in such a way that it was hard to tell where the hill ended and the shrine began

    21. Farther north, outside of the city was a village near terraced mountains just green with young crops (it was now early spring here)


    22. The fleeing Inka and the pursuing Mongols had ruined their terraced fields


    23. I stopped over what looked like a huge city with a very high terraced mound and many lower ones, most topped with houses with thatched roofs


    24. The large, terraced mound was at the northern end


    25. suitably shaped rocks and building the walls for the terraced fields


    26. to the terraced area


    27. past, as the banks were terraced and bare, except for new


    28. The theatre was intimate, circular with terraced seating encircling the acting area except for a narrow passageway on one side for the actors to enter through curtains


    29. Two streets later they entered a park of mainly terraced houses that stood on the perimeter of the town


    30. It was a terraced dwelling entered by an archway

    31. The Brosnan’s lived near the very centre of the town in an older tall terraced house that was across the street from the main Post Office and practically in the shadow of Saint John’s church


    32. It was an old three story terraced building constructed out of bricks that had a yellowish colour in them


    33. The base of this dome was a gigantic pedestal of marble rising from what had once been a terraced eminence on the banks of the ancient river


    34. Terry’s parents were true cockneys born within the sound of Bow Bells and they had lived in the small terraced house in Whitechapel since 1942 when their house in Bow was hit by a German bomb


    35. Vicky Brannan’s home and office was a three up two down terraced house in a quiet suburban street


    36. DS Burrows owned a flat in an old Victorian terraced house


    37. eucalyptus trees, outbuildings, mesh-covered plant-houses and terraced pasture


    38. ‘Daddy, Daddy, I’m having fun on this trampoline,’ cries Tracey who Watkin has collected for the weekend from her mother, who is installed in a terraced flat in Dunvant with her new lover


    39. Just two hundred yards away from where we had been sitting, we found an open door leading into a thin terraced house with three buzzers outside


    40. “Well, he shouldn’t have, that’s all,” replied Stan “He’s not long out of University, has a widowed mother - just widowed, I think - living in an old Victorian terraced house in Highgate

    41. Darren had been over to his small terraced house to


    42. him, and looked down into the Mews and the row of long thin gardens behind the terraced


    43. They had only recently upgraded from a one bedroom flat to a modest two bedroom terraced house with a little garden out the back


    44. The sapphire sea stretched out in front of me far to either side and miles across to where it was caught by a rim of terraced hills


    45. Nearest him were four terraced with a gap and then two more


    46. The terraced streets west of Brockley Road were more mixed, comfortable and poor


    47. cleverly placed stones so that its course curved through a terraced


    48. Mark could not see the second person clearly, as shadows obscured their faces but just as Mark was about to step out fully into the terraced area, the two men turned and walked briskly back towards the club


    49. crops on terraced highland slopes and to irrigate them


    50. of the tops of the terraced houses










    1. Others were out of the question because of the terraces


    2. checked once to see if the other terraces were empty


    3. As they passed through into the garden they spied the red brick house surrounded on all sides by a vast array of plants shrubs and huge old trees with a patchwork of lawns and terraces


    4. We stared down the hills at the terraces where men would soon harvest their crops


    5. Sculpted by water, sand and gravel, he saw flat terraces with water in the middle, but it looked like better going on each side


    6. Stairways leading to houses, plateaus, terraces, and balconies


    7. 11 And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord, and to the


    8. It was eerie passing through lifeless towns, villages, and cities with untended crops in the fields and terraces surrounding them


    9. The rooftops had terraces and many chimneys


    10. It had been a long time since water had danced over the gravel terraces that cascaded down the old riverbed only to disappear beneath where great dunes now lined the shore

    11. Finally, he was able to see Yigal and Naaman, his rearguard, as they came through the broken face of the rocky obstruction and hurried down the terraces toward the spilled loads


    12. It had been a long time since water had danced over the gravel terraces that cascaded


    13. five that had led the rest of the way through with him slowly down the gravel terraces of the old


    14. It was slower going as they now walked across one of the gravel terraces, but soon they were


    15. overloaded carts over the roughness of the gravel terraces and the rock-strewn ground of the


    16. face of the rocky obstruction and hurried down the terraces toward the spilled loads


    17. Just above the stony terraces that the flood had made were


    18. Clinging to the mountainside were dozens of multileveled palaces-a city of mansions-all with white-columned porticos, gilded terraces, and bronze braziers glowing with a thousand fires


    19. The railway line down the middle cuts off the old town from the newer, elegant Georgian terraces, parks and gardens


    20. terraces and, far below, the rolling Indian plains; or in flowing robes of

    21. This valley was flanked by low, rolling but steep hills, and the floor pitched upward in a series of irregular natural terraces


    22. On the uppermost of these terraces Conan's army held its position, awaiting the attack


    23. He could see the gleaming wedge of steel drawn up at the head of the terraces, the burganets of the archers glinting among the rocks and bushes, the silent knights motionless on their steeds, their pennons flowing above their helmets, their lances rising in a bristling thicket


    24. Horses scrambling up the grassy terraces reared and plunged backward, bearing their riders with them


    25. On the terraces between the hosts the sweat-soaked horse reared and plunged, and his wild rider yelled and brandished the thing in his hands like one demented


    26. The gringos, who later on brought their languid wives in muslin dresses and large veiled hats, built a separate town across the railroad tracks with streets lined with palm trees, houses with screened win-dows, small white tables on the terraces, and fans mounted on the ceilings, and extensive blue lawns with peacocks and quails


    27. She did not see the white houses of the gringos or their gardens, dried out by dust and heat, or the women in shorts and blue-striped shirts playing cards on the terraces


    28. The wooden houses, the cool terraces for breezy card-playing afternoons, seemed to have been blown away in an anticipation of the prophetic wind that years later would wipe Macondo off the face of the earth


    29. And here they were at Engaruka; Mycenean structures he recognised immediately as terraces and shelters for the protection of domesticated plants and animals


    30. The high ceiling of the Promenade, ten meters above the floor, helped to enhance its impression of vastness, while the inner side of the track actually bordered an inner ring of patios and terraces five meter wide

    31. He then noticed a bit late that the fair-sized crowd circulating on the Promenade or sitting at tables on terraces and patios was now staring at his group with intense curiosity, with many whispering excited comments between themselves


    32. The house was like a labyrinth winding this way and that across terraces and up and down ladders finally to the lab


    33. terraces where, once a year, people stood to watch the ‘Oxbridge’ Boat Race


    34. On the terraces below, giant clams nestled between huge brain corals


    35. outsides of which were made up of larger and smaller terraces


    36. terraces had trees growing on them


    37. It really is the only place, for I don't see how Johanna and I, gifted and resourceful as we undoubtedly are, can make terraces with no tools but a spade and a watering-pot; but it will do away with our only path, and it does seem necessary to have a path up to one's front door


    38. They were sitting at the moment, resting after the climb up, on one of the terraces of the Château of Amboise, with a view across the Loire of an immense horizon, and Wemyss had been comparing it, to its disadvantage, when he recovered his breath, with the view from his bedroom window at The Willows


    39. Alcoves, terraces, and bed chambers were off limits, of course, but what about a tree in the middle of nowhere? Garret, as the son of an Earl, would be expected to uphold certain standards, but what were those standards? “If we stay too long together, alone, wouldn’t that be bad for my reputation?”


    40. our ancestors to build stone terraces to control the earth

    41. Along a tangle of ill-assorted buildings where light and shadow played hide and seek on the walls of yards and terraces


    42. up, columned buildings and terraces gazed out at the surrounding terrain with fine views


    43. It has been converted into one of the most picturesque of pleasure-grounds; fountains, cascades, waterfalls, delightful arbors, fine terraces, and statues adorn what was before a barren mountain-side


    44. Trifling on, Letchard passes the palaces and terraces, the non-sobriety stalls and the fun and variety halls


    45. Trifling on, Listern passes the palaces and terraces, the non-sobriety stalls and the fun and variety halls


    46. Then, there were gardens, courtyards, terraces, fountains, green banks, more King and Queen, more Bull's Eye, more lords and ladies, more Long live they all! until he absolutely wept with sentiment


    47. At noon, while the chief officer was taking the sun's altitude, I spotted the summits of the Arfak Mountains, rising in terraces and ending in sharp peaks


    48. I spotted the rounded domes of its mosques, the elegant tips of its minarets, and its fresh, leafy terraces


    49. Many of the houses on the hilly terraces of Karshat, Shahpur and Barkana had been taken by mudslides


    50. "The festa was magnificent; not only was the villa brilliantly illuminated, but thousands of colored lanterns were suspended from the trees in the garden; and very soon the palace overflowed to the terraces, and the terraces to the garden-walks























    1. Watkin’s next job involved work at Newport stadium where the stand was rather primitive, with seating to the rear and terracing to the front


    2. It didn’t run the full length of the pitch and had a portion of open terracing on one side


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    Synonyms for "terrace"

    patio terrace bench terrasse promenade garden lawn balcony

    "terrace" definitions

    usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence


    a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)


    a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)


    provide (a house) with a terrace


    make into terraces as for cultivation