There was a pretty little grotto off the main room of the cavern. From LearnThat.org.
They had what they called a grotto — a show you'd go to. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Ethel Marshall Faucette, November 16, 1978, and January 4, 1979. Interview H-0020. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The word grotto now wants exploring so, as your etymological spelunker I'll tell you that English got grotto from Italian. From Wordnik.com. [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference
The grotto is a decent replia of the one at Lourdes. From Wordnik.com. [Well, I'm not going back there again.] Reference
They only referred to a grotto, but I did some research on the Internet. From Wordnik.com. [The Viognier Vendetta] Reference
The guide who furnished the light and showed us the grotto is the widow of a Polish officer. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Mercury brought the message to her, and found her in her grotto, which is thus described by Homer. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of Fable] Reference
He has fallen asleep near a grotto, which is the abode of nymphs; beside him lie the gifts of the Phaeaces. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Caucasus region - a compound where the entire floor of a grotto is the glass ceiling of a massive aquarium. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The gaping mouth of this grotto, which is from 15 to 18 feet square, is in part closed by a breastwork of stone. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
We supped in the grotto, which is as proper to this climate as a sea-coal fire would be in the dog-days at Tivoli. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
Inside the grotto is a large hole full of toads and serpents, by which you descend to a small cellar containing the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Bo-Peep Story Books] Reference
Now the grotto was a natural excavation in a high rock, which stood precipitously upright over the establishment of the baths. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
The grotto, which is irregular in form, is, in round numbers, 56 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 12 feet high in its largest dimentions. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Next above the grotto is a small room hewn out of the rock, with sofas and pillows on each side the fireplace hewn out of the same rock. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference
We sauntered after dinner in Sir Alexander's garden, and saw his little grotto, which is hung with pieces of poetry written in a fair hand. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson]
Oh, and last one to the grotto is a rotten egg …. From Wordnik.com. [Do I get to go to the mansion? « BuzzMachine] Reference
2. The grotto is a landscaped part of his Zed Defence bunker which is rated to “once in a millenia” flood levels. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » Another day of arse.] Reference
The group followed it, and soon arrived at the threshold of a kind of grotto, somewhat larger than the other subterranean cells. From Wordnik.com. [Herodias] Reference
The grotto is there too .. in all its glory. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
It was only as we left from the rear of the "grotto" that the day changed. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
He entered that grotto which is the witness of the most beautiful love-story chronicled even in the soft south. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
Must be the big, fancy house, the famous cool "grotto" and all the money floating around, I guess ... can't be Huey himself!. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Sentinel] Reference
Just above the bridge was a magnificent waterfall, by the left side of which we found a kind of grotto hollowed out under a rock. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forbidden Land] Reference
A little kind of grotto, where the high cliffs shut out the rays of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
“Was it Andy Warhol who had a grotto in his studio?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Palisades] Reference
One of his favorite places was a tiny grotto known as Blombos Cave. From Wordnik.com. [Did Early Humans Think?] Reference
Not long after lunch we pass a grotto of small size in the hill-side. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
“Did you know that when I was a kid, I wanted a grotto of my own?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Palisades] Reference
Two noble palm-trees which grew near the grotto, added greatly to its beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
“Then in the middle of the house, then, right there in the middle, a grotto.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Palisades] Reference
It includes an upper grotto and a lower grotto with a boat ride through the caves. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering Beirut's Charms] Reference
But the message at every grotto and ruin is that Xinjiang joined China much earlier. From Wordnik.com. [The Uses Of The Past] Reference
There is a glass-enclosed lanai with a swimming pool, grotto, waterslide and a waterfall. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Brenoff: Cool Pads: Jesse James, the Man America Loves to Hate, Lists His Home] Reference
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