carriage-drive

This conversation had passed as they stood upon the terrace, from which a flight of stone steps led to the carriage-drive.

A short carriage-drive led upto it from the road, and beautiful gardens extended behind the house for some acres.

It was his intention to skirt the carriage-drive, as it might contain elements of danger for them.

The others pass down the carriage-drive.

It had a wide carriage-drive sweeping round the block with neatly spaced flower-beds at strategic positions in the grass.

Hi, that's the wrong window, Poirot,' I cried as he made for the one overlooking the carriage-drive. '

The carriage-drive was bordered for a considerable distance with a symmetrical parterre of flowers, and an extensive conservatory formed an exterior wing to the mansion-house.

Next day there was no Muhammad Din at the head of the carriage-drive, and no "Talaam, Tahib" to welcome my return.

An elegant residence set on an elevation in a large garden with boundary plantings, tennis court and a sweeping carriage-drive, Tor has a high level of aesthetic significance.

The library was a magnificent room, running from back to front of the whole building, with a window at either end one giving on the front carriage-drive, and the other on the garden.

The Toad, who had hopped lightly out of bed as soon as he heard the key turned in the lock, watched him eagerly from the window till he disappeared down the carriage-drive.

Around the fountain ran a walk, paved with a mosaic of pebbles, laid in various fanciful patterns; and this, again, was surrounded by turf, smooth as green velvet, while a carriage-drive enclosed the whole.

The lady appeared to find some pleasure in my conversation, for she invited me to take a carriage-drive with her on the morrow to visit the grotto of Posilippo and the tomb of Virgil.

Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air.

A little girl, to whom Mr. Dodgson had given a copy of the "Snark," managed to get the whole poem off by heart, and insisted on reciting, it from beginning to end during a long carriage-drive.

They reached the carriage-drive of Toad Hall to find, as the Badger had anticipated, a shiny new motor-car, of great size, painted a bright red (Toad's favourite colour), standing in front of the house.

A lodge at the entrance to the estate supplied a medieval sense of challenge to the outside world, and the beautifully kept hedges at the side of the mile-long carriage-drive gave that feeling of retirement and emancipation from the world so much desired by tranquil minds.

The main road in this direction, called on the Enclosure map the Kedleston Road, ran from the Ecclesburn bridge along Tamworth Street as far as the first bend, and then across Duffield Park - again mainly in the direction of what is now a carriage-drive.

A thick clump of trees and shrubs rose in the centre, and masked a portion of the front; around this shrubbery two alleys, like two arms, extended right and left, and formed a carriage-drive from the iron gates to a double portico, on every step of which stood a porcelain vase.