Word: grottos
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...looking for firewood with her sister Marie and a friend named Jeanne. When they reached the icy river Gave de Pau the other two waded in but Bernadette fearfully hung back. Then, she recounted later, she heard a terrific rumbling, a rushing as of wind. In a nearby grotto she beheld a golden cloud in which appeared a "beautiful lady," in a blue-sashed white gown, a rosary and gold crucifix hanging from her arm. The "lady" smiled, said nothing, disappeared. Bernadette called to her companions but they only laughed, said they had heard and seen nothing...
...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...
...Pope first appears blessing a throng at the Vatican upon his election in 1922. In later shots he seems more mellow, friendly, self-assured. He receives Boy Scouts in his favorite spot in the Vatican Gardens, the garish reproduction of the Grotto of Lourdes. The King & Queen of Italy visit him; black missionaries kiss his finger. The Pope speaks once, in his soft, old-man's voice, at the opening of his radio station...
...west of Naples. Therein, "hidden far from sight within her sanctuary dark and drear, dwelt the dread Sibyl, whom the Delian seer inspired with soul and wisdom to unfold the things to come"* Complaisant with the Romans' plea the Sibyl would shuffle inscribed leaves, deal them upon her grotto floor, to be construed there by her votaries...
...great sum the Sibyl demanded. She destroyed six of the sacred nine. When he paid the original price for the remaining three and took them to Rome, Romans no longer had to make a long journey to learn what they wanted to do. The Cumaean Sibyl and her grotto lapsed into a legend—until last week...