That was how the fausty old grotto train came to be full that day, and how its fausty old owner on the till got woken up. |
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Dozens of families boarded a vintage steam train and went the short distance up the track to see Santa in his grotto. |
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It's hardly a grotto at all, merely a kink in the shadowy, soot-darkened stone passageway. |
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The grotto will be rebuilt as it is and reset in the entrance wall to the housing estate with a plaque to state the reason for its existence. |
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Vines and flowers climbed the trellis, turning our nook into a subtle and intriguing grotto. |
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They line up for hours to pray at the grotto, drink the water, light candles and take photographs. |
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This year's grotto opens on the lower arcade in Canal Walk in the Brunel Centre at 11 am on Saturday. |
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Whenever I try to arrive in the church early to avoid the crowds, there is an Armenian ceremony going on in the grotto. |
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You enter a plush lounge bar on street level packed with hip scenesters, and take a steel stairwell to a basement grotto ringed by a moat. |
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The grotto occupies the basements of two former bodegas on a dimly lit stretch of Ludlow Street, just above Delancey Street. |
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The opening scene of the ballet is a landscape of stark blue sky and ochreous sun-baked hills with Pan's grotto in the foreground. |
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Down a narrow flight of stairs, underneath the high altar, is the tiny grotto in which Christ is said to have been born. |
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At the shrine he was hoisted onto a kneeler, where he prayed before the ivy-covered grotto. |
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In about two hours, when the sun was just peeking over the horizon, the group met in the grotto. |
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The grotto guide is a brilliantly jaded girl whose patience is obviously waning come November. |
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But the letters from animal rights activists, the e-mails, even the odd picket outside the grotto, were wearing him down. |
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Schools of grunts, coneys and tangs marked the entrance to the grotto, an ancient lava flow that cooled to a black tortured cavity. |
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His grotto is decorated with rooftop snow and festive lights and inside the chalet the floor is littered with presents. |
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When I was but a young boy I saved up my pocket money to buy all my own decorations for my room, creating in essence my own personal grotto. |
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The grotto will be restored to its original form and repairs will be carried out on the walls surrounding the demesne. |
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The adaptation of this decorative style came to be known as grotesque, based on the word grotto. |
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A grandad from Trowbridge has transformed his garden into a magical grotto for children to enjoy. |
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The present grotto commemorating Our Lady's apparitions at Lourdes will be moved to another location in the garden. |
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At 11 am there will be a May procession to bless the new grotto to Our Lady in the garden in Spring Gardens. |
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During the week, youngsters tried their hand at pumpkin carving and visited a haunted house grotto. |
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More than 30,000 children and adults had visited his grotto the year before. |
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Rolling over to find sweet relief from his side, he stared blankly at the ceiling, a grubby grotto of sepia walls. |
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A portion of the wall shifted and moved under her hand, and then the grotto was filled with the loud grinding sound of stone against stone and something more. |
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At one end of the square stands the town's main mosque, at the other the Church of the Nativity, in which a subterranean grotto marks the place of Christ's birth. |
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Other highlights include the cascade, grotto, pinetum and arboretum. |
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In a Mexican grotto on 14th Street, kitsch provides the kick, but it's shrimp tostadas and earthy enchiladas that keep the crowds returning to El Rey del Sol. |
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The first programme revisited the tragic story of Ann Lovett, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who died giving birth to a baby boy at a Marian grotto in Granard, Co Longford. |
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The sudden cold snap following recent torrential rain turned a section of the Horton to Pewsey road at Allington, near Devizes, into a magical ice grotto last week. |
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When local peasants try to remove the crystal from its grotto, believing that this would rescue them from a life of poverty, the crystal loses its magic powers. |
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The bombination of a thousand mumbled prayers met them before they actually came upon the dense horde jammed into and spilling out of the grotto mouth. |
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The railings around the grotto were erected at a later date. |
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A dray and shire horses were used to ferry Father Christmas across the brewery town centre to his grotto in the Boys' Sunday School, next to the church. |
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In a grotto below an ancient church lies the tomb of Alexander Griboyedov, the author of Woe from Wit and the inventor of the original angry young man, the unhappy Chatsky. |
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Residents in the area have been pushing for the building of a grotto in the green area of the park and the building of a wall around the park over the last 12 months. |
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It's a sparkling fe stive event with a magic al Santa's grotto on Churchill Way. |
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The columbarium in the form of a grotto is the centerpiece of the Elks plot. |
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He arrived on his yacht Hirondelle, and visited the furna da caldeira, the noted hot springs grotto. |
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It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window. |
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The Batley Business Association will be hosting a Christmas Fayre, and Santa's grotto in Batley Town Hall, followed by the Christmas Lights Variety Show from 7pm onwards. |
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It was a native Gaulish tomb that was at the same time a funeral grotto representing an Entrance to the Underworld which symbolised Return to the Womb of the Creatrix. |
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If I could only get back to the inscription or the grotto I felt the rest would be easy to accomplish, but the more I rambled the more utterly befogged I got. |
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An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association. |
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Historically speaking, some of the flint tools found in the grotto point to inhabitants from the Middle Palaeolithic age, also known as the Mousterian culture. |
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The money made from his translation of Homer allowed Pope to move in 1719 to a villa at Twickenham, where he created his now famous grotto and gardens. |
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A number of closely associated small ditches or depressions provide the source waters, with an artificial grotto laid out to highlight and contain a deemed main source. |
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The grotto includes a statue of a nymph, a dog, and a dragon. |
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Kids can look out for Arctic foxes, ringed seals and even polar bears as they travel to the cold and icy north to get to Father Christmas's magical grotto. |
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Booking has begun for the Northwest region all-weather Santatown and Santa Village Grotto at the Sligo Folk Park, Riverstown. |
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A recent Thursday night at the Grotto in San Marco found the place full of attractive, unattached single women. |
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A wife's quest to honour her husband's memory came to fruition on Friday evening when an impressive new Grotto was unveiled in Bangor. |
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Beginning snorkelers may opt to get their feet wet in Grotto Beach's tranquil waters. |
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The Grotto of St Paul, below the adjoining Chapel of St Publius, is the main point of interest. |
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The Village Grotto is home to Rudolf, the reindeers and Santa's elves. |
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Visitors can meet Father Christmas in his Antarctic Grotto that's situated alongside the attraction's coolest residents, the charming and cheeky Gentoo penguin colony. |
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