terraces

The old cypresses stood round the graves that lay, green and dark with creepers and violets, set in terraces from the ivy-clad wall of the town.

Jenny: A Novel 1921

The garden on the front of the house is organized in terraces and parterres, forming a decorative outline surrounded by a surface covered with white gravel.

Stylish Pozuelo House in Madrid 2010

Sweeping leaves off paths and terraces is all you need to keep the garden looking cared for and covers for a wealth of disorder in the beds.

Gardening jobs for November Dan Pearson 2010

Throughout the area four main terraces were cut by this wave action.

The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico 2006

Throughout the area four main terraces were cut by this wave action.

The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico 2006

Throughout the area four main terraces were cut by this wave action.

The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico 2006

These rice fields also go in terraces up the sides of the mountains, and all of them are tilled by hand.

The Fabulous Orient 1960

The ground behind these flaming things dropped away in terraces to the sea, each terrace a little orchard, where among the olives grew vines on trellises, and fig-trees, and peach-trees, and cherry-trees.

The Enchanted April 1922

They ran down the long corridor, on to which opened both the tapestry room and Jeanne's room at the other end, through a small sort of anteroom, and then – for though they were upstairs, the garden being built in terraces was at this part of the house on a level with the first floor – then straight out into what little Jeanne called "the tonnelle."

The Tapestry Room: A Child's Romance 1893

They are excavated in terraces at a great height above the river, and they were made for the great feudal princes who governed this province under the Pharaohs of the Twelfth Dynasty.

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891