Open courtyard

Usage examples of atrium.

Reaching the atrium, Wethis led Alec into a long gallery lined with statuary of every size and description.

Revived by the bath and fresh clothes, Seregil had Alec help him across the atrium to the opposite archway.

He was repeating it for a third time when the black mesh curtain which divided the right-hand apse from the atrium was struck aside.

The air in the courtyard smelled of stale ale and urine, and at the far end of the atrium stood a begrimed building that might once have been white.

Modern reptiles have three-chambered hearts: two atria, one for oxygenated blood coming from the lungs and the other to receive deoxygenated blood from the rest of the body, and a ventricle in which both streams of blood are mixed to be pumped forth again.

The atrium connected the two older buildings that comprised the high school and led to the entrance of the gymnasium.

I dressed in the sheerest of gauzes and lay beneath a linen shade by the fountain in the atrium, Hylas panting by my side.

The decor was Oriental, stark interiors in which were displayed works of art that Peter knew from his previous visit were of incalculable value antique Japanese brush paintings on silk panels, carvings in jade and ivory, a display of tiny netsuke and in an atrium through which they passed was a miniature forest of Bonsai trees in their shallow ceramic bowls, the frozen contortions of their trunks and branches a sign of their great age.

Drusa instructed a servant to bring her a wrap, swaddled herself in it, and walked through the atrium onto the loggia, where no one would think to look for her and she could enjoy an hour of peace.

Maldetto Vomito marble lobby atrium, containing six floors of the finest shops and boutiques, attracted thousands of shoppers.

Scarcely wasting a glance upon the great glass-panelled roof, the shops, the paste-jewelled carts and bedizened vendors, the tame songbirds and costumed monkeys, or even the jugglers and acrobats performing about the fountain in the vast atrium, she hurried after her cousin, who in turn chased Bayelle vo Clari vaux.

Lord of the Titans and King of the Gods, stood just inside the doorway as Metis reached the atrium.

Metella took one look at their faces as the band streamed into the atrium and decided to absent herself, which left Pompey to hand his client Nonius to the steward with a request that he be well treated.

Cornelia Metella took one look at their faces as the band streamed into the atrium and decided to absent herself, which left Pompey to hand his client Nonius to the steward with a request that he be well treated.

Ornate tile topped with the Shield of Quartal climbed a third of the way up its inner walls and ambled through the arched alcoves that flanked its domed atrium.