"Pergola" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of talk—none whatever!" said Folliot. "Here!—we'll sit down on that bench, amongst the roses. Quite private here—nobody about. And now," he continued, as Glassdale accompanied him to a rustic bench set beneath a pergola of rambler roses, "who are you, like? I read a queer account in this morning's local paper of what happened in the Cathedral grounds yonder last night, and there was a person of your name mentioned. ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... were sitting in the corner of one of the villa's terraced walks, amid a scented wilderness of flowers. Above them was a canopy of purple and yellow—rose and wistaria; while through the arches of the pergola which ran along the walk gleamed all those various blues which make the spell of Como—the blue and white of the clouds, the purple of the mountains, ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... winter held the hills, wild deer came down and gingerly picked their way close to the sundials and marble basins of the sunken gardens. Foxes, too, stole on cushioned feet across the terraces at the end of the pergola. ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck
... three days, and dreamed away the hours under the white pergola. Merrihew was loath to leave; but Hillard was for going on to Sorrento, for which ...
— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath
... visit the churches of Florence with M. Dumas? No, we are not in the vein. Shall we go with him to the theatres—to the opera—to the Pergola? Yes, but not to discuss the music or the dancing. Every body knows that at the great theatres of Italy the fashionable part of the audience pay very little attention to the music, unless it be a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various
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