Word: grottos
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Better than Birds. When he awoke at dawn, the grotto was loud with big & little squeaks, the air thick with circling bats. The mother bats had returned, full of insects and milk. Some hung themselves up by their heels and squeaked for their youngsters to come. Some picked the little ones off the ceiling or scooped them off the floor...
Three days later (it took time to soothe his mother), Dubkin spent the night in his "grotto." He arrived just before dark. The grown bats were away hunting insects, but the young ones were at home, hanging like furry grapes on the roof or taxiing on the musky-smelling floor. Lulled by their squeaks, he slept...
...during summer and early fall, Dubkin visited the grotto, sometimes as often as three times a week. He watched the young bats at their games (they were as playful as kittens); he watched them learn to fly. Bats fly much better than birds, says Dubkin, and the young ones need no teaching. After a few trial flaps, they drop themselves into the air and perform from the first attempt with full adult virtuosity...
Gaudi's largest and most fantastic work is Barcelona's awesome stone, iron and cement Church of the Holy Family. He spent 40 years on its honeycombed towers and the weird, grotto-like encrustations of its walls, but it was still unfinished when he died...
...Turkish baths, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and an outdoor swimming pool. It will also have a 130-ft. indoor swimming pool with a cascade of water 30 ft. wide and 21 ft. high at one end. By swimming through his waterfall, Baby will find himself in a grotto equipped with bar, bath...