garden path

Example Sentences

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While I stood there some one advanced along the garden-path, looked up, saw me and beckoned.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various

M. de Rueille was walking along with his eyes fixed on the gravel of the garden-path.

From Bijou by Gyp

The baker's cart drew up at the gate, and the man, springing lightly down, came up the garden-path with a basket of loaves.

From Better than Play by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

Wilhelmine walked away down the garden-path, desiring apparently to commune with herself.

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

The movement of your hands is the long, golden running of light from a rising sun; It is the hopping of birds upon a garden-path.

From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various