There's a peacock in the courtyard.

There's a cockfight in the courtyard.

'I like the courtyard in front of the portico very much.

There s the old courtyard, the always open door, the creaky staircase.

In this case a new playground has been added to the communal courtyard.

In 2004, a Holocaust memorial was dedicated in the Decebal Street Synagogue's courtyard.

An elderly couple spending their afternoon in the communal courtyard of a Soviet housing block.

The state courtyard was built in the city on the bank of the Vologda River.

At the center of the courtyard stand two well heads dating from the mid 16th century.

Zhao was not killed, but allowed to live in an old Beijing courtyard house with his family.

The pipe explosion in the courtyard of the apartment building on Izmailovsky prospeсt occurred on September 28.

The age of the oriental planes that grow in the courtyard of Derbent's Juma mosque equals several centuries.

Sometime around 1970, my father met a family from Murmansk in the courtyard a father, mother, and two children.

After the Sakharov Prize, many women were celebrating in the hospital courtyard to express their support to the physician

A closer look at the mosque's magnificent courtyard in 2009. Photo by Arian Zwegers via Flickr. CC BY 2.0

'Oh no!' he replied, and his face lit up with pleasure. 'If you had only seen that courtyard in spring!'

The carriage drove into the courtyard, and Oblonsky rang loudly at the front door, before which a sledge was standing.

Our client wants to build a house with an internal courtyard in order to avoid unwelcome gazes from the outside.

And there it is. And I think this is a typical picture of what it was like in a courtyard then.

They say splurging on the entrance fee into the house is not really necessary, as seeing the balcony from the courtyard is enough.

In the Palais Bahia, we saw a dozen cats gathered together in the courtyard clearly they were the true rulers of the place.

In the quiet courtyard at the Women's Vocational Training Center in Chiang Mai, the women sweeping and cleaning don t look like hardened criminals.

The Umayyad mosque shares many characteristics with its sister mosque in Damascus, ranging from the marble courtyard to the location on a Roman Byzantine site.

The poor teacher went round the courtyard with the boys looking for a place which already had some sunshine to sit and teach those boys coughing and freezing from the cold.

The most famous event in the town's history took place on May 15, 1591 when the 10 year old boy was found dead with his throat cut in the palace courtyard.

They drove into a gravelled courtyard surrounded by flowers, where two men were making a border of rough porous stones round a well forked flower bed and stopped beneath a roofed portico.

Earlier this week Salman vowed to reveal what caused the crane to topple into a courtyard of the Grand Mosque, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims have converged ahead of the hajj pilgrimage later this month.

According to UNITAR s assessment, the mosque has sustained severe damage to its eastern outer wall, the southern part of the eastern gallery, the marble tiled courtyard, the garden, and the entrance to the souq from the eastern gallery.

The event was videotaped, to be aired to an astonished nation the next day, but in the rush the cameraman s power cable was yanked from the wall as the convicted couple was dragged out to an open air courtyard.

It was established that they had entered the courtyard and stolen the property. They had planned to pawn the cable, which was about 30 meters long, for scrap, but they had not managed to do so before they were caught.

Five years ago, the case of Aromal, a young child who was chained in the courtyard of his home and forced to share food with a dog, shocked the society still lingers in the minds of people as to the extent of the cruelty parents are capable of to their own children.