The shelled reptile's measured, oblivious promenade is representative of the world in which we are being immersed. |
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She had the same dark blonde hair, and blue eyes, and the same blue shift dress as she had the day before when I saw her on the promenade. |
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The promenade runs for miles, initially beside elegant shops, trattorias, occasional street fairs selling antiques and then by the sandy beach. |
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And though it is still clogged with scaffolding, shipwrights, and a half-dozen cherry pickers, the promenade is already expansively dramatic. |
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A tree-lined promenade extends south to Battery Park, with its view to the Statue of Liberty. |
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Once inside the ground floor, one can promenade through either by a ramp or a curving staircase. |
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Whole books have been written about how young people promenade but there really ought to be a simple, one-line description. |
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It was originally used for ladies to promenade in when they didn't want to go outside. |
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After the beach promenade, which was an absolute blast, it was the last full day of school. |
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There's an unmarked route between the front bar and the back bar which is like a seaside promenade. |
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The walk along the promenade to the more genteel Frinton-on-Sea is lined with beach huts, and the weather was good for taking photos. |
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This was the place for promenade concerts, for art galleries and elegant teas, as well as providing Glaswegians with the best in retail therapy. |
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Over at Blue Anchor bay the tar on the road was melting and walking along the promenade was a hot-foot experience. |
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Before a mere man has time to rub his eyes the promenade is deserted by the fair. |
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A grieving daughter wants action after her elderly mother died when her mobility scooter toppled off a seafront promenade. |
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We walked slowly along the promenade eating our ice creams and the sun was just disappearing over the horizon. |
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On the main promenade there is a bazaar where you can haggle for leather goods and jewellery. |
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Colourful two-storey waterfront buildings overlook the main promenade, which curves gently around a small harbour. |
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He called not only for proper car parking facilities for visitors to the beach but for a promenade to be built along Clonea Strand. |
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Bill and I walked along the promenade toward the atrium of the Financial Center. |
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Built-up areas will be complemented by amenity space, parkland and a riverside promenade. |
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It's little things like wanting to walk along the promenade at Scarborough which I can no longer do. |
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The foundations for the new pedestrian promenade, a relaxation area and public car park are being constructed. |
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Fashionable Victorians flocked to promenade through this new underwater marvel, an amazing twin-bore arched corridor lit by flickering gaslight. |
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Not quite a hotel lobby, not quite a plaza, not quite a galleria, the promenade has been a difficult space to perfect. |
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She continued her promenade down the hallway, greeting those that she knew with a smile and a curt nod. |
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A seawall had been erected with a broad flagged walk in front and a row of seats extending the length of the promenade. |
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This promenade for fashionable men and women was now home to ragged wanderers. |
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This encompasses securing the site perimeter, demolition and site clearance, flood defences, sheet piling, public riverside promenade and plaza. |
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The promenade is two miles long and still has old favourites such as swingboats and crazy golf. |
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The promenade was often crowded with gentlemen and ladies, shaded from the summer sun by parasols, and children scurrying on the beach. |
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There is a picnic area by the Martello tower and a stepped access to the lower promenade. |
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The verandas attached to the midship Helios Deck cabins interrupt what could have been a continuous wrap-around open promenade. |
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I must decline the offer of spending a day on the busy promenade with a landau as I would find the experience far too upsetting. |
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Organization of the teaching pavilions which oversail the lakeside promenade is similarly direct. |
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It throws light on a fantastic plan to animate the promenade of the resort by building a series of four giant follies. |
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Police closed the promenade in Blackpool to motorists as waves dozens of feet high pounded the seafront. |
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Eventually, he came to the riverside promenade where a strip of parkland bordered the River Ana. |
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They built a promenade, bandstand, open-air swimming pool and all the other trappings of a genteel seaside resort. |
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The architects have labored to create a sense of openness about the promenade. |
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The sea receded gradually from the promenade, which then looked out over acres of smelly tidal mud. |
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Shoppers stroll through the bookstalls, cafes and flower marts that line the Ramblas, the promenade near the medieval quarter of Barrio Gotico. |
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The two are linked by a three-kilometre promenade, perfectly suited to an afternoon stroll with the pushchair. |
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Heathrow Air traffic controllers altered the approach run to coincide with the beginning of a promenade concert at Chiswick House. |
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Back on the promenade, I saw a man and a boy trying to fly a kite down on the beach. |
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Visitors flocked in steamers from Glasgow's Broomielaw to promenade under waving palms. |
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He took my hand and we started to promenade as I mentally blinked in the fact that we were openly holding hands. |
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I nodded, and we walked away from the pier, heading back along the promenade. |
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The old, washed-out white tents began to dot the promenade like the annoying blight on my ixora plants. |
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A few moments to preen and promenade for the cameras following months of planning and fitting, hours of hair and makeup. |
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The fumes of the city stung harshly in my nose as I inched towards the Ramblas, one among twenty thousand making for Barcelona's famous promenade. |
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In a covered promenade which backdrops the memorial and its fountains are displayed the crests of multi-national defence elements such as squadrons, brigades and divisions. |
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In addition to the landscaping of the promenade to improve access, the sea wall will be rebuilt and there are plans to build a plaza beside the Newcastle Centre. |
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The sea wall protecting the wide promenade is blasted open at points. |
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Nestling on the beach, with unbeatable views out to sea, the restaurant is only a short step from the main promenade, but is mostly hidden until you get up close. |
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The resort will also consist of apartments and villas surrounding a marina, and with restaurants, shops, casino, swimming pool complex and promenade. |
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The highlight for many of us in Southern Jerusalem will be the post-Kol Nidre Emek Refaim promenade. |
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The Hollywood-style promenade displays the handprints and footprints of stars from Jon Bon Jovi and Cliff Richard to Shirley Bassey and Tina Turner. |
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The beach and the promenade, with its chip shop, ice-cream parlour and amusement arcade, offered a place of refuge, romance and belonging for the young Vettriano. |
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Some flooding occurred in the Salthill area when the tide was coming in and the only people to be seen walking on the promenade during the day were some photographers. |
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A ramped promenade flows continuously up into the two-story museum. |
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Morecambe, Lancaster and the North West will benefit in the long term from a full-blooded commitment to a rich array of leisure and tourist features on the central promenade. |
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Soldiers in their various uniforms strolled along the promenade, mingling with Greeks from the mountains in their long white pleated skirts they call the fustanella. |
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By 10 am, a source at the Ministry of National Security was saying that detectives had recovered a mysterious black box in a garbage bin on the promenade. |
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Access to the river will be opened by a waterfront promenade. |
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I was outside, having returned fifteen minutes ago from the morning promenade with Ally, dressed in my work clothes and doing maintenance on the flower beds. |
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Outside market hours, the island serves as a park with trees and green banks round the edge, while bridges at both ends allow a promenade across it. |
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There is plenty of space here to promenade or sit on the floor. |
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These were copied from the promenade concerts and waltz nights of Johann Strauss, who was performing three times a night in Vienna by 1830 and then toured Europe. |
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Properties on the adjoining promenade were then evacuated for the next five days, including 250 students from the University. |
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Other parks include Cwmdonkin Park, where Dylan Thomas played as a child, and Victoria Park which is close to the promenade on the seafront. |
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Like other small North Sea coastal resorts Hornsea has a promenade, laid out gardens, hotels, fish and chip shops, gift shops and so on. |
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The Ambassador's bangalo stood at the base of a mountain covered with jungle, of which he had a portion cleared to provide a promenade. |
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Structures of note with the parish include the medieval parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Folly, Hornsea Mere and the sea front promenade. |
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This continued until 1946, when they returned to work on the promenade service. |
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A pair of bronze figures on the promenade by the pier depicts the idea of families welcoming back the fishermen from sea. |
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On the other side of the promenade, in the La Buffa area, is the Musee Massena. |
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During the Illuminations, decorated trams carry passengers on the promenade along the illuminated area, running from Pleasure Beach to Bispham. |
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In fact this tradition has been revived in parks and stately homes around the UK at promenade concerts such as the Battle Proms. |
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In the 16th century, there was a brook there which the nobles used to promenade in their boats. |
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Out I plunge...into the Ready Salted afternoon, froggering between the traffic to the promenade. |
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The wet sand is as dark and more yieldingly solid than fudge and waking across a panful is a promenade in the Kingdom of Sweets. |
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This has left the disused and decaying tramway pier between the railway and promenade piers. |
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Blackpool catered for workers from across industrial Northern England, who packed its beaches and promenade. |
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Fire crews praised the actions of a passer-by who threw in a life ring after spotting the 28-year-old woman in the water near the promenade. |
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Gatti's series of promenade concerts closed on Saturnight with a special performance for their benefit. |
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This atrium was the exercise ground for the young men, or perhaps served as a promenade for visitors to the baths. |
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The Llandudno Lifeboat is normally on display on the promenade every Sunday and bank holiday Monday from May until October. |
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They run along the illuminated part of the promenade, from Starr Gate to Bispham, during the Illuminations. |
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Running behind the promenade is Mostyn Street leading to Mostyn Broadway and then Mostyn Avenue. |
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For most of the length of Llandudno's North Shore there is a wide curving Victorian promenade. |
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Projects include the Drift Park development on the promenade and the reopening of the town's miniature railway around the Marine Lake. |
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Phil Lewis, from Wallasey, was on his daily walk along New Brighton promenade with his seven-year-old King Charles spaniel, Oscar, when the animal ran onto a slipway. |
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They mostly wore the skirts and hats of Paris, and if the scene of the fountain was Arabically oriental the promenade was almost Americanly occidental. |
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From August 2010 to March 2011, Ryde Pier was closed to vehicles to allow structural repairs underneath the promenade pier, which had failed a regular inspection by Trant. |
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A prominent feature of the resort was the promenade and the pleasure piers, where an eclectic variety of performances vied for the people's attention. |
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Penzance promenade has been destroyed in parts several times by storms. |
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A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine. |
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The quiet weekend programme gets underway tonight with the Chocoholic 5k in Newtown, and tomorrow sees another new event, a 5k Easter Dash on Llandudno promenade. |
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Where promenade, axial path and swimming pool come together, there is a cluster of palapas, traditional grass roofed shelters covering partly open-air restaurants. |
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The coastal suburb of Portobello is characterised by Georgian villas, Victorian tenements, a popular beach and promenade and cafes, bars, restaurants and independent shops. |
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The town has two beaches, the first being South Beach, which is mainly shingle and stretches from Gimblet Rock across the promenade then around towards Llanbedrog. |
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For the Smithsons the deck access promenade of the overall strategic plan was understood as some capacious carpet, in which their building forms a tassle at the extremity. |
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In 1904, the manager of the Queen's Hall, Robert Newman and the conductor of his promenade concerts, Henry Wood, agreed that they could no longer tolerate the deputy system. |
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In addition to high ceilings characteristic of prewar buildings, solid oak floors and crown molding, it is situated along a tree-line promenade, facing Jackie Robinson Park. |
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The event is held on the seafront gardens and promenade at Barry Island and includes a lantern parade, flaming sculptures, fire shows, Viking ship, shadow play and music. |
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Weather conditions caused fallen trees and damage to properties, while the public were warned to stay away from New Brighton promenade as waves crashed against the sea wall. |
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The beachfront is the venue for top boardsailing championships and features a long promenade and pier with a chance of seeing pods of dolphins at play. |
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The air display headquarters will be based on the Swansea Bay promenade. |
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