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  • A large pond stood in the centre of the garden, filled with gold fish, and an old-fashioned pavilion, heavy and gloomy, terminated the principal garden-walk.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • But they following Wilson, who told them they were just landed, that was his word, he led them up a long garden-walk, by a back way.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • He would have thrown himself in my way once more: but I hurried up to my prison, in my return from my garden-walk, to avoid him.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • At the end of the principal garden-walk, in a little house, once the bath-house, lived a decrepit old steward.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • In the next place, I besought her to favour me, after dinner, with another garden-walk.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • After a few minutes, the figure of a gentleman became visible, at the point where the shrubbery path joined the winding garden-walk which led to the house.

    No Name 2003

  • His companion stopped in the garden-walk, fixing on him perhaps the very gaze that unnerved him.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

  • In a minute he was following Gloria down a garden-walk between tall rose-bushes, her parasol brushing gently the June-blooming leaves.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • He knows how to move you and make you palpitate from the first, simply in depicting a garden-walk, a dining-room, a piece of furniture.

    Balzac 2003

  • Thus in Savoy a road, smooth as a garden-walk, superseded the dangerous ascents and descents of the wood of Bramant; thus was the passage of Mont Cenis a pleasant promenade at almost every season of the year; thus did the Simplon bow his head, and Bonaparte might have said,

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

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