Lexicographical Neighbors of Gradines
Literary usage of Gradines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1834)
"Nothing can be more exact than the preservation of the gradines; not a block has
sunk ... How long 1 remained shut in by endless gradines on every side, ..."
2. Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia by Sir Austen Henry Layard, Austin Henry Layard (1853)
"These gradines had fallen, and some of them were discovered in the rubbish.§ The
stones in this structure were carefully fitted together, though not united ..."
3. Literature and life: Studies by William Dean Howells (1902)
"... not half so large, say, as the rim of a lady's hat in front of you at the
play; and on the gradines of the ancient amphitheatre we were all such a great ..."
4. The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, Or, The History by George Rawlinson (1862)
"considerably, and finished at the top with a row of gradines. At one side of this
main building Is a small chapel or oratory, also finished with ..."
5. Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief by Wdward Edwards (1884)
"It was part of an obelisk seven feet high, lying about ten feet below the surface.
Its top was cut into three gradines, covered with wedge-shaped ..."
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