Grots

I heard a sound of woe, a mournful wail, the voice of one crying aloud in her anguish; yea, such a cry of woe as Naiad nymph might send ringing o'er the hills, while to her cry the depths of rocky grots re-echo her screams at the violence of ❋ Unknown (2008)

And the moon dances up the sky: Ye nymphs, that lead to grots your frolic train, ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is beyond all expression what grots, gardens, walks, and aqueducts there are there, and what curious fountains in the upper cloisters, for there be two stages of cloisters. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The hospitable sprites of the grots surely hovered round my pillow; and, if I awoke, it was to listen to the melodious whispering of the wind amongst them, or to feel the mild breath of morn. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The grots and rocky walls were already starred with saxifrages and stonecrops. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

The groves of ancient trees, the grots, the plants ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

Francis I. when he built his palace at Fontainbleau, introduced into its gardens, much of what he had seen in those of Italy, and when he completed St. Germains, its style of grandeur may be guessed at from its rocks, cascades, terraces and subterraneous grots. ❋ Samuel Felton (N/A)

It was the time when those first dwellers in every land, the fairies, were said to come out from their grots and lurking-places; and in the darkness of the forests and the shadows of old ruins, witches and goblins gathered. ❋ Various (N/A)

His themes shall be rather the feast and the mimic battles of revelling youths and maidens, the making of love in the grots of Venus. ❋ Grant Showerman (N/A)

Even in subterranean grots there was nothing drawn but ❋ Various (N/A)

After we had climbed some distance up a gully aunt Helen called out that she and Harold would rest while I did the honours of the fern grots to my companion. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)

Sibylline grots, where resound the most extraordinary questions about everything that can interest the spirit of man, but even those who really do prosecute their researches with the old inevitable method of internal observation, have been unable to free themselves from the illusion that they are, on the contrary, employing _the method of the natural sciences_. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, 435 ❋ Unknown (1909)

Darkness was not permitted anywhere; and the singing, the laughter, the shouting, were incessant, and in compound like the roar of waters dashing through hollow grots, confused by a multitude of echoes. ❋ Unknown (1901)

A noise of trickling waters prevailed, that had almost lulled me to sleep as I rested myself on the celandine which carpets the floor; but curiosity urging me forward, I gained the upper air; walked amongst woods a few minutes, and then into grots and dismal excavations (prisons they call them), which began to weary me. ❋ Beckford, William (1891)

Now I turned my eyes to the ridge of precipices, in whose grots and caverns Saturn and his people passed their life; then to the distant ocean. ❋ Beckford, William (1891)

Accordingly while the Miltonic group of last-century poets went in search of dark things -- grots, caverns, horrid shades, and twilight vales; ❋ Unknown (1886)