Hanging Garden

I made it a point to study the proportions and hearken to the disclosures of such a one, and if he carried his stomach in a hanging-garden effect, with terraces rippling down and flying buttresses and all; and if he had a pasty, unhealthy complexion or an apoplectic tint to his skin I said to myself that thenceforth I should apply the reverse English to his favorite matutinal prescription. ❋ Tony Sarg (1910)

The view is an inspiring one from the base, but it gives no idea that this mountain array is a magnificent wild hanging-garden. ❋ Enos Abijah Mills (1896)

She seldom penetrated the crowded centre of the growing city; her rare excursions were confined to the old ranch at Petaluma, whence she brought flowers and plants, and even extemporized a hanging-garden on the quarter-deck. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

"What is the princess dreaming about up there in her hanging-garden?" added Dr. Alec as she flung back a morning-glory. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)

Through and through this vibrating verdure, bright birds flitted and sang; the scented and variegated thatch seemed a hanging-garden; and between it and the Palm tops, was leaf-hung an arbor in the air. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

While, within, zone above zone, thrice zoned in belts of bloom, all the isle, as a hanging-garden soars; its tapering cone blending aloft, with heaven's own blue. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Half a cocoa-nut shell, suspended, will hold earth or water for plants and make a pretty hanging-garden. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

From this we strolled through the hanging-garden of the ❋ Tyrone Power (1818)