water-garden

Every turn in the path brought something new: a huge tree trunk with a spiraling stair; boughs loaded with ekele; a tiny, private pool; a miniature water-garden complete with waterfall, lilies, and a colorful fish or two; a sculpture in stone or wood; a living sculpture in plants and flowers.

Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

I laid her on a couch under the barrazza in the water-garden, and she closed her eyes and rested for a while.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

At the jetty I set up a shadoof to lift from the river a constant flow of water that I led through ceramic pipes to our own water-garden with lily-ponds dnd fish-pools.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

'Taita, you must build me a water-garden and a barrazza just like this? only much bigger, and whilst you are about it, you can make a water-stool for me as well.'

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

I had the weavers plait tiny arks of reeds on which I floated coloured glass lamps and set them adrift on the ponds of our water-garden.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

While my mistress waited for her quarters in the new palace that I was building across the river to be - completed, she had moved from the harem into a wing of the grand vizier's palace that overlooked the water-garden I had built for her father.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

I drove from Thebes to Elephantine in two days and two nights, and when I reached the palace, I barely had the strength left to stagger into the water-garden where my mistress lay, and throw myself down beside her couch.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

I was in sight of the gate to the water-garden before I regained my sanity.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

I was the first member of my lord's entourage awaiting his arrival in the water-garden where he held his assize every morning.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

I knew that at this time of the morning Intef would be in his water-garden.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993