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34 examples of Veranda in a sentence

When I was 15, I came home from school one day, and she was standing on a long veranda outside of our kitchen, holding a giant stack of plates.
The Face of EvilNEW YORK – Standing with Slobodan Milosevic 13 years ago on the veranda of a government hunting lodge outside Belgrade, I saw two men in the distance.
The Sheriffs had a house; that is, they lived in a structure with projecting eaves, windows that could be raised or lowered, and a veranda.
They were undressed excessively; they were lying in the veranda in long chairs, and between each chair was a well-worn bullock trunk.
He stepped into the veranda, rubbing his smarting"Good evening, gentlemen," he said.
The men in the veranda, though they seemed idle, were no fools, Tarvin perceived after a time.
A voice in the veranda, a little louder than the others, said, "He's probably come prospecting for gold or boring for oil, and won't tell."
He was confronted in the veranda by a grizzled, bearded, booted native soldier on a camel, who handed down to him a greasy little brown book, bearing the legend, Please write "seen."
Estes invited him out upon the veranda to smoke a cigar with him; his wife brought her sewing and sat with them; and as they smoked Tarvin asked him his questions about the Naulahka.
In the splendor of a yellow-and- violet morning, ten days after his arrival, he was roused from his sleep by a small, shrill voice in the veranda demanding the immediate attendance of the new Englishman.
In spite of a sleepless night she was looking very fresh and pretty in the white muslin frock which had replaced her travelling-dress, and when he found himself alone with her after breakfast on the veranda (Mrs.
"I didn't take it," returned Tarvin, smiling, and spreading a seat for her in the hammock, while he took one of the deep veranda chairs himself.
The Maharaj Kunwar found him that evening pacing up and down the veranda of the rest-house, almost sorry that he had not shot the Maharajah for bringing that look into Kate's eyes.
Kate was in the veranda when they arrived, and her face brightened a little at sight of the child.
The idle talk of the commercial travellers in the veranda of the rest-house flashed through Tarvin's mind.
Talks in the veranda, and sentinel-like prowlings about her path when she went to the palace, were pleasant enough, but he had not come to Rhatore to tell her that he loved her.
It had been a comfort to him to note all the tricks of all the men he had ever traded horses with faithfully reproduced in the lean, swarthy Cabuli trader who had led his kicking, plunging horse up to the veranda one idle evening; and it had been a greater comfort to battle with them as he had battled in the old days.
Mr. and Mrs. Estes came out upon the veranda with Kate and watched the exhibition, and the missionary pursued it with applause and requests for a repetition, which, having been duly given, Mrs. Estes asked Tarvin if he would not stay to dinner with them since he was there.
After dinner, as they sat on the veranda in the starlight,"Do you really mind?" he asked.
Sometimes she would let him draw her out upon the veranda, under the sumptuous Indian night nights when the heat-lightning played like a drawn sword on the horizon, and the heavens hovered near the earth, and the earth was very still.
Kate was very tired, and her heart was troubled with misgivings for the welfare of the little Prince, which she communicated to Tarvin when he drew her out upon the veranda after breakfast.
Tarvin was tying at rest in the veranda of the rest-house, smoking a cheroot and wondering how far he had bettered the case of the Maharaj Kunwar by appealing to the Maharajah.
The figure was in the veranda at his side, almost whispering in his ear.
He buttoned his coat tightly across his chest, and patted the resting-place of the Naulahka fondly, as he strode up the path to the missionary's veranda, when he had tethered Fibby outside.
The Maharajah disengaged himself gently, and as gently went out into the veranda.
Kate and Mrs. Estes half helped and half carried the child into it, though he strove to stand on his feet in the veranda and acknowledge the salute of his escort as befitted a man.
The burning desert wind blew through the open veranda as remorselessly as Sitabhai's hate.
Tarvin stepped out casually from the veranda, and saw, as soon as he was fairly in the open, that the sleeper rolled round to the other side of his beast.
The lounging escort at the door was suddenly scattered by a trooper from without, who flung his horse desperately through their ranks, shouting, "A letter for Tarvin Sahib!"Tarvin stepped into the veranda, took a crumpled half-sheet of paper from the outstretched hand, and read these words, traced painfully and laboriously in an unformed round hand:DEAR MR.
After the heat of these warm summer days, in the evening when their work was finished and the sea-breeze began to blow, they liked to sit on the edge of Prospect Heights, in a sort of veranda, covered with creepers, which Neb had made with his own hands.