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Courtyard in sentence

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Overall, there were roughly 50 customers (who paid nothing) in a set of six cramped rooms, plus a courtyard in the back with another six sheds.
Zhao was not killed, but allowed to live in an old Beijing courtyard house with his family.
The event was videotaped, to be aired to an astonished nation the next day, but in the rush the cameraman’s power cable was yanked from the wall as the convicted couple was dragged out to an open-air courtyard.
They drove into a gravelled courtyard surrounded by flowers, where two men were making a border of rough porous stones round a well-forked flower-bed and stopped beneath a roofed portico.
'I like the courtyard in front of the portico very much.
'If you had only seen that courtyard in spring!'
But as soon as he entered the semi-circular courtyard, got out of his sledge and entered the porch, where he was met by a hall-porter with a shoulder-belt who noiselessly opened the door and bowed to him; as soon as he saw in the hall the coats and goloshes of those of the members who realized that it was easier to take off their goloshes downstairs than to go up in them; and as soon as he heard the mysterious ring of the bell that announced his ascent; and while mounting the shallow steps of the carpeted stairs perceived the statue on the landing, and saw upstairs the third hall-porter in club livery – whom he recognized, though the man had aged – who opened the door for him without haste or delay, gazing at the new arrival directly he saw all this, Levin was enveloped in the old familiar atmosphere of the place, an atmosphere of repose, ease, and propriety.
Only for the first few moments, while they were leaving the courtyard of the club, did Levin retain that sense of club calm, pleasure, and undoubted decorum in his surroundings; but as soon as the carriage had passed out into the street and he felt it jolting on the uneven road, heard the angry shouts of an izvoshchik they met, saw in the ill-lit street the red signboards of a vodka dealer and of a small shop, that sense was dissipated, and he began to consider his actions and to ask himself whether he was doing right in going to see Anna.
But you'll see her.'The carriage drove into the courtyard, and Oblonsky rang loudly at the front door, before which a sledge was standing.
The little lad, slipping through a hole in the hedge, disappeared; then he came back to the end of a courtyard to open the gate.
The courtyard sloped upwards, planted with trees set out symmetrically, and the chattering noise of a flock of geese was heard near the pond.
He liked going into the courtyard, and noticing the gate turn against his shoulder, the cock crow on the wall, the lads run to meet him.
In her white frock and open prunella shoes she had a pretty way, and when she went back to her seat, the gentlemen bent over her to congratulate her; the courtyard was full of carriages; farewells were called to her through their windows; the music master with his violin case bowed in passing by.
At last, bored and weary, Rodolphe took back the box to the cupboard, saying to himself, "What a lot of rubbish!"Which summed up his opinion; for pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.
"Take care!" cried a voice issuing from the gate of a courtyard that was thrown open.
Charles as he passed recognised each courtyard.
He was walking with him in the courtyard, listening submissively to idiocies that sent him to sleep as he walked.
On leaving his classroom, M. Castanede stopped in the courtyard.
Seated by the side of a woman whom he adored, clasping her almost in his arms, in this room in which he had been so happy, plunged in a black darkness, perfectly well aware that for the last minute she had been crying, feeling, from the movement of her bosom, that she was convulsed with sobs, he unfortunately became a frigid politician, almost as calculating and as frigid as when, in the courtyard of the Seminary, he saw himself made the butt of some malicious joke by one of his companions stronger than himself.
'I am going to jump down into the courtyard from the window of the closet, and escape through the garden, the dogs know me.
They had driven into the courtyard of the posthouse in the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The gravity of the porter and above all the cleanness of the courtyard had filled him with admiration.
KANTJulien stopped in confusion in the middle of the courtyard.
The Chevalier de Beauvoisis's carriage was waiting for him in the courtyard, in front of the steps; as it happened, Julien raised his eyes and recognised his man of the previous day in the coachman.
The courtyard was covered with an immense crimson awning patterned with golden stars: nothing could have been more elegant.
In the carriage, on their way to the ball, Norbert had been happy, and he had seen everything in dark colours; as soon as they entered the courtyard their moods were reversed.
Often, at night, as he crossed the vast courtyard of the Hotel de Fervaques, it was only by force of character and reason that he succeeded in keeping himself from sinking into despair.
A pair of post-horses arrived in the courtyard drawing a dilapidated chaise, hired at the nearest post.
Through a narrow gap between two walls on the farther side of a deep courtyard, there was a glimpse of a superb view.
The following morning at nine o'clock, when Julien came down from his prison to enter the great hall of the Law Courts, it was with the utmost difficulty that the gendarmes succeeded in clearing a passage through the immense crowd that packed the courtyard.
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