veranda

• “They called the area the “White Highlands”; it later became notorious for the decadent lifestyle of some of its titled veranda farmers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Ancestral Passions

• “Their laughing voices charged with excitement beat against the glassed-in veranda like birds and a strange, saltish smell came from the basket.”

  Bliss, and Other Stories

• “Mrs Gildea had settled early to her morning's work in what she called the veranda-study of her cottage in Leichardt's Town.”

  Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

• “She cam now along the veranda from the Old Humpey with the light, rather hurried tread he remembered, talking rapidly when she joined him.”

  Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

• “Conjuring an image of a turn-of-the-century gentleman sitting on his veranda is a bentwood and cane armchair produced around 1900 by German manufacturer Thonet (estimate: £800-£1,200).”

  The Wall Street Journal: Contemporary Styles

• “With its worn herringbone-patterned wooden floors, white columns connected by arched latticework, and old-fashioned ceiling fan that whirred like a large dragonfly, the veranda was the place where everyone gravitated to read or nap or daydream—and to watch the vividly hued sunsets with their backdrop of the graceful Blue Ridge.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Merlot Murders

• “Outside the window was a balcony, too small to call a veranda, but just right for drying laundry.”

  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

• “The disapproval on the faces of those assembled by the steps to the veranda was a tangible force that cooled the warmth of the sunlight.”

  Journey Into Love

• “The principal rooms are on the first floor and open directly from a covered veranda, which is reached by an open staircase from the court.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “It's just right over the river, and there's a bit of what they used to call a veranda when I was in Bombay, sir.”

  In Direst Peril

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