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The term terrace is skillfully used to evoke a space that is simultaneously open and intimate, serving as a setting for both bustling communal activity and moments of quiet introspection. In one narrative, a lively procession surges across the terrace toward a door, capturing the energetic pulse of the scene [1]. In another, a beautiful but secluded garden terrace, complete with wild roses and ancient stone benches, provides a reflective atmosphere that frames personal thought and emotion [2]. At times, the terrace is a threshold between the public and the private, where characters climb or stand to survey the world around them, as when one character ascends in the dead of night to listen to mysterious sounds [3]. In yet another passage, the terrace symbolizes a wellspring of aesthetic delight, a source from which beauty radiates and nourishes the soul [4].
  1. Here a throng of Muscovites came streaming across the terrace to the door, shouting ‘Hurrah!’
    — from Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
  2. It had a narrow garden, in the manner of a terrace, productive chiefly of tangles of wild roses and other old stone benches, mossy and sun-warmed.
    — from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
  3. Fear broke my slumbers; I no longer stay, But mount the terrace, thence the town survey, And hearken what the frightful sounds convey.
    — from The Aeneid by Virgil
  4. But never again were they in such profusion; this terrace was the well-head, the primal source whence beauty gushed out to water the earth.
    — from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

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