What is "courtyards"

Usage examples of "courtyards".

An air of long abandonment hung about it, roofs gone except for a few stretches of dark tile clinging to bits of rafter, most of the once-white plaster fallen to bare the dark, weathered brick beneath, walls fallen to show courtyards and decaying chambers inside.

It was not a big room, and its windows, a pair of tall, narrow arrowslits looking down on one of the inner courtyards, did nothing to make it seem larger.

Sprawling and complex, it had been enlarged haphazardly at intervals over a century, and was attractive to owners because of its maze of unexpected little courtyards, with eight or ten boxes in each, and holly bushes in red-painted tubs.

He says his dog was very alert and whining softly for a good half hour, and that they patrolled the courtyards twice.

The Edwardian castles were large, with spacious inner courtyards and pleasant quarters for the lord.

The monastery was there - a geometric arrangement of courtyards, covered passageways, and cloisters, all built of beige stone, surrounded by a high stone wall.

Your garrison is cramped in the small courtyards, and your men not easily maneuverable.

Men running for the courtyards with swords in hand, never looking at him.

The light of the growing dawn colored the alabaster stone a rosy hue along the tops of the towers and walls, though the courtyards and passages were still enshrouded in twilight.

The pace of travel slowed, less, Gena thought, because the streets were crowded than because the people lining the streets here appeared to be a better class of denizen than those choking the avenues and courtyards outside the third ring.

Recessed doorways, open balconies, and hints of interior courtyards marked this as a more affluent section of the city, and I would have been willing to bet that we were the first free-Men to ride down the streets since its construction.

First, it was going to be a lovely evening: not a leaf was stirring, from the courtyards came the scent of April roses, the gutters were moist and the earth was fragrant.

From the courtyards came the scent of rain-wet honeysuckle, marjoram and basil.

All Christians stood on tiptoe hi the courtyards and at their windows and waited.