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  • Glyndon's sleeping apartment communicated with a kind of belvidere or terrace that commanded prospects of unrivalled beauty and extent, and was separated, on the other side, by a long gallery and a flight of ten or a dozen stairs, from the private chambers of the mystic.

    Zicci — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Here, placed on a rough grass mound, some former proprietor, of a social temperament, had built a kind of belvidere, so as to command a cheerful view of the high road below.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Here, placed on a rough grass mound, some former proprietor, of a social temperament, had built a kind of belvidere, so as to command a cheerful view of the high road below.

    Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Glyndon's sleeping apartment communicated with a kind of belvidere or terrace that commanded prospects of unrivalled beauty and extent, and was separated, on the other side, by a long gallery and a flight of ten or a dozen stairs, from the private chambers of the mystic.

    Zicci — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • A narrow staircase, now walled up, led up to a delightful belvidere, originally a mirador of the Moorish sultanas, communicating with the harem; but which was fitted up as a boudoir for the fair

    The Alhambra 2002

  • A narrow staircase, now walled up, led up to a delightful belvidere, originally a mirador of the Moorish sultanas, communicating with the harem; but which was fitted up as a boudoir for the fair

    The Alhambra 2002

  • And at length Camilla said she would get a cloak and follow them to the belvidere.

    Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

  • We there find, what is so rare in that country, a garden, artificial clumps of trees, and on the border of the water, upon a rock of gneiss, a pavilion with a mirador, or belvidere.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • There was a _mirador_ or belvidere upon the roof -- the same beside which Colonel Miranda and his American guest, just twelve months before, had stood smoking cigars.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • It was January, and the thermometer, which indicated twelve degrees below freezing point on the Spectacle Quay, would have stood two or three lower if moved to the belvidere, which Rodolphe called indifferently Mount St. Bernard, Spitzenberg, and Siberia.

    Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841

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