grades

Example Sentences

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Nothing can be more exact than the preservation of the gradines; not a block has sunk from its place, and whatever trifling injuries they may have received have been carefully repaired. 

From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by Beckford, William

But there was nothing faked in the dishevelled grass of the little stadium, with its gradines around the sides, and the game of tennis which some young girls were playing in it.

From Roman Holidays, and Others by Howells, William Dean

A smooth turf covers its surface, from which a spacious row of gradines rises to a majestic elevation. 

From Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents by Beckford, William

An unusual and very effective ornamentation crowns both stages of the tower, consisting of a series of gradines at top with square machicolations below.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

Many of the patterns most affected are markedly Assyrian in character, as the rosette, the palm-head, the intertwined ribbons, and the rows of gradines which occur so frequently.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George