What is "grottos"

Usage examples of "grottos".

He ascended into grottos paved with emeralds, with panels of rubies, and the roof glowing with diamond stalactites.

He then endeavored to re-enter the marvellous grottos, but they had suddenly receded, and now the path became a labyrinth, and then the entrance vanished, and in vain did he tax his memory for the magic and mysterious word which opened the splendid caverns of Ali Baba to the Arabian fisherman.

Meanwhile, by a cleft between two walls of rock, following a path worn by a torrent, and which, in all human probability, human foot had never before trod, Dantes approached the spot where he supposed the grottos must have existed.

His eyes were red and fierce, and even in the dim light of the grottos he could see that his mouth looked like a festering wound with a few snag-gled white teeth in it.

Covered by a glitter of mushrooms that snapped at his touch, a snarl of thick roots obviously swept the whole starboard side, providing grottos for several dozen more statues and a perfect blockade against trespassers.