Shelby had gone on her visit, and Eliza stood in the verandah, rather dejectedly looking after the retreating carriage, when a hand was laid on her shoulder.
Saying this, she drew him into a neat little apartment opening on the verandah, where she generally sat at her sewing, within call of her mistress.
Often, leaning upon the column in the verandah, he had watched the English ships with English schoolmasters for pursers steaming into the bay.
In the circular piece of ground in front of the verandah were two cracked vases, from which red flowers drooped, with a stone fountain between them, now parched in the sun.
Number Thirteen reached the verandah of the house and peered through the window into the living room, where an oil lamp, turned low, dimly lighted the interior, which he saw was unoccupied.
As Number Thirteen arose to continue his search for Professor Maxon his quick ear caught the shuffling of bare feet upon the verandah. As he paused to listen there broke suddenly upon the still night the hideous war cries of the Dyaks, and the screams and shrieks of their frightened victims in the campong without.
Carlier ran out and met Kayerts on the
verandah. They were both startled.
The Officers' Home was a large bungalow with a wide
verandah and a curiously suburban-looking little garden of bushes and a few trees between it and the street.
Then I waited a moment, knelt down with my hands to support me, and so crept to my position, under the protection of the low wall between the bottom of the lighted window and the
verandah roof.
There was no furniture except the mats they used as beds, and a rocking-chair, which stood on the
verandah. Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
Half way between the edge of the cliff and the square wooden house (which was also chocolate-coloured, but with the tin roof of the
verandah striped in yellow and brown to represent an awning) two large targets had been placed against a background of shrubbery.
"Vixen, if you do that again you'll be put into the
verandah. Now, remember!"
verandah - a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)