fruit-walls

Updated: May 24, 2025

This agreeable mansion lacked a large garden. I felt a sensible regret for this, especially for the sake of my inmates; but there was a little open space furnished with vines and fruit-walls, and one of the largest courtyards in the whole of the Faubourg Saint Germain.

marquise de Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan - Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete

This agreeable mansion lacked a large garden. I felt a sensible regret for this, especially for the sake of my inmates; but there was a little open space furnished with vines and fruit-walls, and one of the largest courtyards in the whole of the Faubourg Saint Germain.

marquise de Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart Montespan - Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 5

This agreeable mansion lacked a large garden. I felt a sensible regret for this, especially for the sake of my inmates; but there was a little open space furnished with vines and fruit-walls, and one of the largest courtyards in the whole of the Faubourg Saint Germain.

Various - Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

They are all tapestried with vines and made to serve as sunny fruit-walls grim old defence as they once were; now giving nothing but a splendid buttressed privacy. The sculptures in the little Casino are few, but there are two great ones the beautiful sitting Mars and the head of the great Juno, the latter thrust into a corner behind a shutter.

Henry James - Italian Hours