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Many an ailing Catholic who is helped to the $500,000 church at its top, passing 14 grottoed Stations of the Cross on the way, claims miraculous relief from his ills.

From Time Magazine Archive

The snowbird mendicant Intones the antiphon— Et laboremus nos; And all the grottoed aisles along, Where servitors rejoice, The chorused echoes run— Oremus nos.

From Ballads of Peace in War by Earls, Michael

The shores rise above the sea in wild, bold precipices, grottoed into fantastic caverns by the action of the waves, and presenting every moment some new variety of outline.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 by Various

The brook, that mirrors skies and trees, And echoes in a grottoed place, Hath held a fairer thing than these,— The brook, that mirrors skies and trees,— The image of her face.

From The Garden of Dreams by Cawein, Madison J.

What voices would you hear in the wind sighing through the olive groves, and dying in many a soft cadence along the grottoed shore?

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Lever, Charles James