What is "pavings"

Usage examples of "pavings".

Darkness advanced, flowed along the channels of the pavings, spread soft grays from its harsher dominion over the deep, curtained corners of the hall.

Its walls were stone unplastered in its upper courses, and its floor pavings smoothed more by age than art.

His hands flew up to fend it off, and his next view of it was from the pavings looking up at its looming shadow.

He saw, in the gaps of a screen of tourists, a man lying on the pavings out in the rain, and at the same remove, atevi figures coming from the lawn to the circular drive, near the cannon, mere shadows through the veils of rain.

The rafters aloft had caught a great deal of rain, and puddles stood on the stone pavings and on the benches.

The man left running as an arrow hit the pavings and almost clipped his heels.

The same as most rooms of the Zeide, its windows had only a small vent, and if the earl and his men damaged them to get out that way, they were on the second floor above pavings and the courtyards occupied by king’s men.

She lay on the pavings and the besha that bore the dead old man walked sedately past her defenseless arm, scarcely missing her, stepping delicately over her.

The gates stood lastingly ajar on a heap of rubble, and the Ila’s Mercy spilled out a flood that wet the cracked pavings and seeped into the thirsty sand.

The staff made walking easier on the broken pavings, and he did not give it up, caring little whether Jhirun needed it or no.