belvidere

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “His room was shaped like a belvidere, and was a delicious habitation in summer, but from October to April a perfect little Kamschatka.”

  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

• “Tremlet had been shown in by the servant to a small apartment, built like a belvidere over the garden, half boudoir in its character, yet intended as a supper-room, and at the long window”

  Romance of Travel

• “And Violante, thus absorbed in revery, forgot to keep watch on the belvidere.”

  My Novel — Volume 08

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