grotto

• “In one marvellous passage he defines the word "grotesque" from the word grotto, a small cave and goes on to sing the praises of the "modern master printers who think like the scribes of our old Icelandic languages" and decorate their texts with impossible creatures –"a centaur here, an old woman with birds' feet there, a three-headed dog".”

  The Guardian: From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón - review

• “They had what they called a grotto — a show you'd go to.”

  Oral History Interview with Ethel Marshall Faucette, November 16, 1978, and January 4, 1979. Interview H-0020. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

• “A little past the grotto is another small piece of water, springing from the centre of which is a rockery tastefully covered with ferns, and forming the pedestal to two statues of children, a boy and girl, the boy holding an umbrella over the girl's head; the trees around cover them with a deep shadow, and the tout ensemble is very pretty and shows great taste.”

  Three Months in the Soudan

• “In a little water in front of the grotto is the lotus-flower, a regular Indian plant; while in the shade of some of the petrified wood are several beautiful English ferns.”

  Three Months in the Soudan

• “The child opened the heavy door for him, and he looked into a poor mountain grotto, with bare stone walls.”

  The Girl from the Marsh Croft

• “The word grotto now wants exploring so, as your etymological spelunker I'll tell you that English got grotto from Italian.”

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• “There was a kind of grotto in the church, under the high altar; and in the grotto was a full-sized figure of a dead man, carved and painted -- and covered with wounds; and round that figure half the women and girls of the town were collected, stroking, kissing ...”

  Bertram Cope's Year

• “The grotto is the essence of the resort, which emphasizes healing, relaxing and rejuvenation; "out of the silence emerges the sound of your life," is one of the resort taglines.”

  The Huffington Post: Andrea R. Vaucher: Along for the Ride: Two Bunch Palms Resort & Spa

• “Intended as a site for diversions, a refuge from the rigid protocols of the royal court, the grotto was also one of the stops on her way to the guillotine.”

  Prunings XL

• “They only referred to a grotto, but I did some research on the Internet.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Viognier Vendetta

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