1.   All the rooms faced an open inner courtyard, which wicked up and amplified the slightest sound from the lobby bar-lounge.

2.   Drink a pina colada under a tree in the open courtyard of the hotel.

3.   His son was born in First Houses, and before long his two children were playing hide-and-seek in the open courtyard and scaling the tall trees.

4.   In the Middle Ages, the monasteries and convents that housed the sick often had open courtyards that were divided into four squares that echoed the Garden of Eden.

5.   Inside, around an open courtyard, walls are decorated with bamboo and stones.

6.   It is a massive stone edifice in the center of town, built around an open courtyard in which a small, handsome mosque stands above an aquamarine fountain.

7.   Last weekend, they approached the bars at the end of the corridor to the open courtyard to talk to their guards and to journalists.

8.   Standing in an open courtyard, her cheeks had become rosy from the morning cold.

9.   Tables were artfully placed around the open candlelighted courtyard spread with bright rugs.

10.   The family owned a haveli, a large home built around an open courtyard.