The rare times it rained, we retreated to the glass-enclosed veranda, done up with copper pots and crystal chandeliers.
The veranda fills up and people talk about the war as little lights twinkle on the lake, night fishermen in their canoes.
I learned to keep prized possessions hidden away after Pater spotted my beloved lead soldiers on the veranda, scooped up the Duke of Wellington and pressed him into the grubby hands of our cook-woman's grandson.
His children, an 8-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, cried bitterly at being forced out, he said, and the family watched in sadness as their two-room home with a small veranda went up in smoke.
A swimming pool and spa and a covered veranda make up the grounds.
The following Sunday morning, on our first weekend together, as we passed sections of Next to each other in the quiet of that veranda, he looked up at the sky and said, "There's a magpie.
Using profits from the folio edition of "Birds of America," Audubon built a large white frame house with veranda, backing it up against the river bluff, and enclosures for the wild animals he studied.
And a hanging lantern in the veranda far up the hillside still waits to cast its golden glow on some beguiling señorita -- or señor -- in the window.
No veranda but I go up on roof.
On a bitterly cold night earlier this year, 35-year-old Daniel Gauntlett left his borrowed tent and sought respite from the frozen ground on the veranda of a boarded-up bungalow in the Kent village of Aylesford.
