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  • There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself.†   (source)
  • Do you see those two men over there under the colonnade?†   (source)
  • At the north end, the beech roots formed a kind of irregular colonnade.†   (source)
  • The outside of the long, low house wore a fresh coat of white, with a pale blue colonnade and shutters to add a bit of color to the tidy porch.†   (source)
  • "All right" They sat behind a huge, sweating stone colonnade, out of sight of the kitchen, and gobbled their pie with their fingers.†   (source)
  • I ran around the pond alongside a massive marble colonnade.†   (source)
  • Off to the left ran an old wooden colonnade culminating in a stream spouting its medicinal water into a marble bowl.†   (source)
  • FEDERAL HALL, where Congress met, was a handsomely proportioned stone building at the junction of Broad and Wall Streets distinguished by its glassy cupola and colonnaded front balcony.†   (source)
  • Davos stopped beneath the colonnade and traded a halfpenny for an apple.†   (source)
  • The pavement shrank to a narrow path between two walls of ancient pines, their tall, straight trunks pressing against it like a grim colonnade, their branches meeting above, swallowing the path into sudden silence and twilight.†   (source)
  • They passed on into the Hall of Pillars and then into the Hall of Statues and down the colonnade, passing the great beaten-copper doors of the throne room.†   (source)
  • The fire-crowned candles flickered in white colonnades above the fresh linen, held in place by silver candelabra.†   (source)
  • The summons required Socrates to appear before the legal magistrate, or King Archon, in a colonnaded building in central Athens called the Royal Stoa to answer charges of impiety and corrupting the youth.†   (source)
  • He jogged down the long hallway, illuminated brightly by a colonnade of chandeliers.†   (source)
  • The colonnades had been toppled, the arches smashed.†   (source)
  • Soon enough we were turning into a small parking lot beside the Colonnade at Kessler Park.†   (source)
  • Gradually I was able to make out the forms of the carven Gods and Goddesses on the sides of the temple, on the colonnades, and in the niches of the walls, and as I gazed they seemed almost to live, their stone breasts gently breathing, their limbs lightly moving.†   (source)
  • The reverberation circled the colonnade, followed by a sudden torrent of warm air.†   (source)
  • She ran down a shadowy colonnade and pressed herself against a wall to catch her breath.†   (source)
  • I raced around the corner of South Colonnade and plowed straight into Liz and Emma.†   (source)
  • They made their way down a deserted colonnade.†   (source)
  • I ducked around the corner of the colonnade.†   (source)
  • We ran down South Colonnade, the roaring behind us almost drowned out by Liz and Emma's complaining.†   (source)
  • At the top of the nearest colonnade stood Jason, his sword gleaming gold in the sun.†   (source)
  • Hazel spurred Anion off the colonnade and they leaped into battle.†   (source)
  • Gryphons roosted on the colonnade of an old temple.†   (source)
  • It even had a curving colonnade that reached out like a giant paw as if to swat the Oglethorpe Club off its high horse across the street.†   (source)
  • The long colonnades filled up quickly with gods in their glory, clattering their adornments, laughing, casting glances to see who else had been invited.†   (source)
  • From the top of the colonnade, a blur of chubby flesh, leafy wings, and linen diaper hurtled downward and landed on Sherman Yang's back, knocking him face-first into the stone floor.†   (source)
  • In the center, a double colonnade of palms marched along the median strip as if lending architectural support to the canopy of oaks and moss.†   (source)
  • The decor in the colonnade was an incongruous mix of wall-to-wall carpets over marble floors and wireless security cameras gazing down from beside carved cherubs in the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The palace itself stretched out on either side of him—a honeycomb of halls and tunnels, balconies, colonnades, and cavernous rooms carved into the sandstone cliffs, all designed for the wind to blow through and make as much noise as possible.†   (source)
  • I stared into the foyer—a sunlit colonnade of white stone and glass skylights that still managed to make me feel claustrophobic.†   (source)
  • Without the illusory balconies and colonnades, there was nothing but a heap of rubble on a barren hilltop.†   (source)
  • The palace was a beautiful, ornate structure of open arches, colonnades, and wide balconies intended for dancing and parties.†   (source)
  • All the autumn flowers are in bloom just now, and there are groves and fountains, shady courtyards, marble colonnades.†   (source)
  • Beneath the arches of the peddler's colonnade the scribes and money changers had set up for business, along with a hedge wizard, an herb woman, and a very bad juggler.†   (source)
  • Natalie picked her way slowly through the wreckage, careful not to turn an ankle, and set out down the Great Colonnade, the ceremonial avenue that stretched from the Temple of Bel, to the Triumphal Arch, to the Tetrapylon, to the Funerary Temple.†   (source)
  • A colonnade of oak trees led from the rear of the plantation house to the formal gardens enclosed by a lichen-covered brick wall.†   (source)
  • Inside the walls the island rose in a hill and every bit of that hill, up to the Tisroc's palace and the great temple of Tash at the top, was completely covered with buildings — terrace above terrace, street above street, zigzag roads or huge flights of steps bordered with orange trees and lemon trees, roofgardens, balconies, deep archways, pillared colonnades, spires, battlements, minarets, pinnacles.†   (source)
  • He looked at the long silhouette, the curves of blast furnaces standing like triumphal arches, the smokestacks rising like a solemn colonnade along an avenue of honor in an imperial city, the bridges hanging like garlands, the cranes saluting like lances, the smoke waving slowly like flags.†   (source)
  • Seeing him in good heart, the others set aside their fear as best they could and did as he told them, enlarging the burrows beyond the south end of the Honeycomb and piling up the soft earth in the entry runs until what had been a colonnade began to become a solid wall.†   (source)
  • It was a city that could sit quietly observing itself, listening to the cooing of its pigeons in the colonnades, the purring of bees among the mint gardens, and the rumors of old people beneath the columns and belvederes.†   (source)
  • And at the top of the colonnade ….†   (source)
  • Cobblestone paths led from the courtyard in several directions—straight, level roads of good Roman construction, edging low stone houses with colonnaded porches.†   (source)
  • Merwomen unsealed and lovely in sea-floor colonnades.†   (source)
  • I was at work painting another panel in the little garden-room in the colonnade.†   (source)
  • A good colour, certainly; something like the colonnade of St. Peter's.†   (source)
  • The last architect to work at Brideshead had added a colonnade and flanking pavilions.†   (source)
  • It has, however, everything: the mezzanine with the colonnade and the stairway with a goitre and the cartouches in the form of looped leather belts.†   (source)
  • This drive twisted and turned as a serpent, scarce wider in places than a path, and above our heads was a great colonnade of trees, whose branches nodded and intermingled with one another, making an archway for us, like the roof of a church.†   (source)
  • The Treasury, the Presidencia, a dentist's, the prison - a low white colonnaded building which dated back three hundred years - and then the steep street down past the back wall of a ruined church: whichever way you went you came ultimately to water and to river.†   (source)
  • From a colonnade steps descended to a garden, in which a lotus pool lay entrapped, the leaves so closely set that they gave an impression of a floor of moist green tiles.†   (source)
  • But why, I asked myself, having returned the books, why, I repeated, standing under the colonnade among the pigeons and the prehistoric canoes, why are they angry?†   (source)
  • The darkness stretched the room into a hall, the big windows rose like a flat colonnade of sentinels.†   (source)
  • It stood on the edge of the Boston Post Road, two small structures of glass and concrete forming a semicircle among the trees: the cylinder of the office and the long, low oval of the diner, with the gasoline pumps as the colonnade of a forecourt between them.†   (source)
  • It was embraced by the two arms of the colonnade; beyond the pavilions groves of lime led to the wooded hillsides.†   (source)
  • An exact papier-mâché replica of his famous structure covered him from head to knees; one could not see his face, but his bright eyes peered from behind the windows of the top floor, and the crowning pyramid of the roof rose over his head; the colonnade hit him somewhere about the diaphragm, and he wagged a finger through the portals of the great entrance door.†   (source)
  • Sebastian supine on the sunny seat in the colonnade, as he was now, and I in a hard chair beside him, trying to draw the fountain.†   (source)
  • I had carried two garden cushions from the shelter of the colonnade and put them on the rim of the fountain.†   (source)
  • We never discussed the matter until on the second Sunday at Brideshead, when Father Phipps had left us and we sat in the colonnade with the papers, he surprised me by saying: "Oh dear, it's very difficult being a Catholic."†   (source)
  • …beyond the valley; all the opposing slope was already in twilight, but the lakes below us were aflame; the light grew in strength and splendor as it neared death, drawing long shadows across the pasture, falling full on the rich stone spaces of the house, firing the panes in the windows, glowing on cornices and colonnade and dome, spreading out all the stacked merchandise of color and scent from earth and stone and leaf, glorifying the head and golden shoulders of the woman beside me.†   (source)
  • The paints gave us the idea of decorating the office; this was a small room opening on the colonnade; it had once been used for estate business, but was now derelict, holding only some garden games and a tub of dead aloes; it had plainly been designed for a softer use, perhaps as a tea-room or study, for the plaster walls were decorated with delicate Rococo panels and the roof was prettily groined.†   (source)
  • No one was on the path that went along the green river meadow, along the elm-tree colonnade.†   (source)
  • Under the colonnade Temple was standing in the midst of a little group of students.†   (source)
  • He came back quickly along the colonnade towards the group of students.†   (source)
  • He struck the ferrule of his umbrella on the stone floor of the colonnade.†   (source)
  • So Mr. Kenge gave me his arm and we went round the corner, under a colonnade, and in at a side door.†   (source)
  • Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you can see, beneath a marble colonnade.†   (source)
  • I shall take my little meal, I think, at the French house, in the Opera Colonnade.†   (source)
  • Stephen's mother and his brother and one of his cousins waited at the corner of quiet Foster Place while he and his father went up the steps and along the colonnade where the Highland sentry was parading.†   (source)
  • ROXANE (appearing on the steps, and seeing Le Bret go away by the colonnade leading to the chapel door): Monsieur le Bret!†   (source)
  • Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.†   (source)
  • If you know the post-office you must have seen Ethan Frome drive up to it, drop the reins on his hollow-backed bay and drag himself across the brick pavement to the white colonnade: and you must have asked who he was.†   (source)
  • Halfway up the big colonnade of elms, where the Grove rose highest above the river, their forward movement faltered to an end.†   (source)
  • The chapel opens by a little side door on to a colonnade which is wreathed with autumn leaves, and is lost to view a little farther on in the right-hand foreground behind the boxwood.†   (source)
  • The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur.†   (source)
  • Their trim boots prattled as they stood on the steps of the colonnade, talking quietly and gaily, glancing at the clouds, holding their umbrellas at cunning angles against the few last raindrops, closing them again, holding their skirts demurely.†   (source)
  • He walked away slowly towards the deeper shadows at the end of the colonnade, beating the stone softly with his stick to hide his revery from the students whom he had left: and allowed his mind to summon back to itself the age of Dowland and Byrd and Nash.†   (source)
  • Then by passages and arched halls; through courts, and under colonnades not always lighted; up long flights of stairs, past innumerable cloisters and chambers, they were conducted into a tower of great height.†   (source)
  • He went back and stood for a moment under a colonnade, looking round him on all sides in hope of perceiving the nose somewhere.†   (source)
  • On the opposite side of the courtyard, under a colonnade, was extensive standing—for carriages—where, indeed, some carriages of Monseigneur yet stood.†   (source)
  • The chandler's shop being in Hungerford Market, and Hungerford Market being a very different place in those days, there was a low wooden colonnade before the door (not very unlike that before the house where the little man and woman used to live, in the old weather-glass), which pleased Mr. Dick mightily.†   (source)
  • "Anne," cried Mary, still at her window, "there is Mrs Clay, I am sure, standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her.†   (source)
  • The dark-complexioned men who wear large rings, and heavy watch-guards, and bushy whiskers, and who congregate under the Opera Colonnade, and about the box-office in the season, between four and five in the afternoon, when they give away the orders,—all live in Golden Square, or within a street of it.†   (source)
  • The sun was setting; the sky showed red between the branches, and the trunks of the trees, uniform, and planted in a straight line, seemed a brown colonnade standing out against a background of gold.†   (source)
  • Seeing all these colonnades of bone so methodically ranged about, would you not think you were inside of the great Haarlem organ, and gazing upon its thousand pipes?†   (source)
  • Between la Courtille and Saint-Laurent, your eye had already noticed, on the summit of an eminence crouching amid desert plains, a sort of edifice which resembled from a distance a ruined colonnade, mounted upon a basement with its foundation laid bare.†   (source)
  • To begin with, at its base there was a square of blue cardboard, representing a temple with porticoes, colonnades, and stucco statuettes all round, and in the niches constellations of gilt paper stars; then on the second stage was a dungeon of Savoy cake, surrounded by many fortifications in candied angelica, almonds, raisins, and quarters of oranges; and finally, on the upper platform a green field with rocks set in lakes of jam, nutshell boats, and a small Cupid balancing himself in…†   (source)
  • To and fro I paced before this skeleton—brushed the vines aside—broke through the ribs—and with a ball of Arsacidean twine, wandered, eddied long amid its many winding, shaded colonnades and arbours.†   (source)
  • The Colonnade of Herod was easily found; thence to the brazen gates, under a continuous marble portico, he passed with a multitude mixed of people from all the trading nations of the earth.†   (source)
  • …a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets…†   (source)
  • Going next day to fill his appointment with Iras, Ben-Hur turned from the Omphalus, which was in the heart of the city, into the Colonnade of Herod, and came shortly to the palace of Idernee.†   (source)
  • When we got under the colonnade, Mr. Kenge remembered that he must go back for a moment to ask a question and left us in the fog, with the Lord Chancellor's carriage and servants waiting for him to come out.†   (source)
  • , resembles the laws of Minos,—it is called in architecture, "the Messidor"** taste;—the Paris of Napoleon in the Place Vendome: this one is sublime, a column of bronze made of cannons;—the Paris of the Restoration, at the Bourse: a very white colonnade supporting a very smooth frieze; the whole is square and cost twenty millions.†   (source)
  • It is true that the architect was at a good deal of trouble to conceal the clock face, which would have destroyed the purity of the fine lines of the facade; but, on the other hand, we have that colonnade which circles round the edifice and under which, on days of high religious ceremony, the theories of the stock-brokers and the courtiers of commerce can be developed so majestically.†   (source)
  • …of jingling and whip-cracking, and many plunging demonstrations on the part of two bare-backed horses and two centaurs with glazed hats, jack-boots, and flowing manes and tails, they rattle out of the yard of the Hotel Bristol in the Place Vendome and canter between the sun-and-shadow-chequered colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli and the garden of the ill-fated palace of a headless king and queen, off by the Place of Concord, and the Elysian Fields, and the Gate of the Star, out of Paris.†   (source)
  • He levelled the solid rock, and tapped it with deep excavations, and built over them; connecting the whole great mass with the Temple by a beautiful colonnade, from the roof of which one could look down over the courts of the sacred structure.†   (source)
  • And still, as we went through the pretty rooms, out at the little rustic verandah doors, and underneath the tiny wooden colonnades garlanded with woodbine, jasmine, and honey-suckle, I saw in the papering on the walls, in the colours of the furniture, in the arrangement of all the pretty objects, MY little tastes and fancies, MY little methods and inventions which they used to laugh at while they praised them, my odd ways everywhere.†   (source)
  • Looking in upon him about the seventh hour of the day, the officer appears weary and impatient; when the report is despatched, he will to the roof of the colonnade for air and exercise, and the amusement to be had watching the Jews over in the courts of the Temple.†   (source)
  • As for the Palace of the Bourse, which is Greek as to its colonnade, Roman in the round arches of its doors and windows, of the Renaissance by virtue of its flattened vault, it is indubitably a very correct and very pure monument; the proof is that it is crowned with an attic, such as was never seen in Athens, a beautiful, straight line, gracefully broken here and there by stovepipes.†   (source)
  • The eye was, for a long time, wholly lost in this labyrinth, where there was nothing which did not possess its originality, its reason, its genius, its beauty,—nothing which did not proceed from art; beginning with the smallest house, with its painted and carved front, with external beams, elliptical door, with projecting stories, to the royal Louvre, which then had a colonnade of towers.†   (source)
  • Evening was hardly come upon Antioch, when the Omphalus, nearly in the centre of the city, became a troubled fountain from which in every direction, but chiefly down to the Nymphaeum and east and west along the Colonnade of Herod, flowed currents of people, for the time given up to Bacchus and Apollo.†   (source)
  • The next street to the left, going south, leads straight to Mount Sulpius, crowned by the altar of Jupiter and the Amphitheater; keep it to the third cross street, known as Herod's Colonnade; turn to your right there, and hold the way through the old city of Seleucus to the bronze gates of Epiphanes.†   (source)
  • No doubt, when one contemplates these two Bibles, laid so broadly open in the centuries, it is permissible to regret the visible majesty of the writing of granite, those gigantic alphabets formulated in colonnades, in pylons, in obelisks, those sorts of human mountains which cover the world and the past, from the pyramid to the bell tower, from Cheops to Strasburg.†   (source)
  • On the right and left there were palaces, and between them extended indefinitely double colonnades of marble, leaving separate ways for footmen, beasts, and chariots; the whole under shade, and cooled by fountains of incessant flow.†   (source)
  • Here and there, moreover, the structures fell into what appeared low colonnades, permitting the passage of such winds as chanced to blow, and allowing other parts of the house to be seen, the better to realize its magnitude and beauty.†   (source)
  • He walked on and into Priam's palace, fair and still, made all of ashlar, with bright colonnades.†   (source)
  • In haste the old king boarded his bright car and clattered out of the echoing colonnade.†   (source)
  • And now, from the colonnade, he made his Trojan people keep their distance, berating and abusing them: "Away, you craven fools and rubbish!†   (source)
  • Nine times they spent the night and slept beside me, taking the watch by turns, leaving a fire to flicker under the entrance colonnade, and one more in the court outside my room.†   (source)
  • …thunder.
    Once they had poured their offerings, drunk their fill,
    the Pylians went to rest, each in his own house.
    But the noble chariot-driver let Telemachus,
    King Odysseus' son, sleep at the palace now,
    on a corded bed inside the echoing colonnade,
    with Prince Pisistratus close beside him there,
    the young spearman, already captain of armies,
    though the last son still unwed within the halls.
    The king retired to chambers deep in his lofty house
    where the queen his wife…†   (source)
  • Your bed is made."
    How welcome the thought of sleep to that man now ….
    So there after many trials Odysseus lay at rest
    on a corded bed inside the echoing colonnade.
    Alcinous slept in chambers deep in his lofty house
    where the queen his wife arranged and shared their bed.†   (source)
  • …sun sank and the roads of the world grew dark
    as they reached Phera, pulling up to Diodes' halls,
    the son of Ortilochus, son of the Alpheus River.
    He gave them a royal welcome; there they slept the night.
    When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
    they yoked their pair again, mounted the blazoned car
    and out through the gates and echoing colonnade
    they whipped the team to a run and on they flew,
    holding nothing back, approaching Pylos soon,
    the craggy citadel.†   (source)
  • Torches in hand,
    they left the hall and made up beds at once.
    The herald led the two guests on and so they slept
    outside the palace under the forecourt's colonnade,
    young Prince Telemachus and Nestor's shining son.
    Menelaus retired to chambers deep in his lofty house
    with Helen the pearl of women loosely gowned beside him.
    When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
    the lord of the warcry climbed from bed and dressed,
    over his shoulder he slung his well-honed…†   (source)
  • …the women out of the great hall—between
    the roundhouse and the courtyard's strong stockade—
    and hack them with your swords, slash out all their lives—
    blot out of their minds the joys of love they relished
    under the suitors' bodies, rutting on the sly!"
    The women crowded in, huddling all together ….
    wailing convulsively, streaming live warm tears.
    First they carried out the bodies of the dead
    and propped them under the courtyard colonnade,
    standing them one against another.†   (source)
  • …reached out for the good things that lay at hand
    and once they'd put aside desire for food and drink,

    Prince Telemachus and the gallant son of Nestor
    yoked their team, mounted the blazoned car
    and drove through the gates and echoing colonnade.
    The red-haired King Menelaus followed both boys out,
    his right hand holding a golden cup of honeyed wine
    so the two might pour libations forth at parting.
    Just in front of the straining team he strode,
    lifting his cup and pledging…†   (source)
  • …son of the Alpheus River.
    He gave them a royal welcome; there they slept the night.
    When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
    they yoked their pair again, mounted the blazoned car
    and out through the gates and echoing colonnade
    they whipped the team to a run and on they flew,
    holding nothing back—and the princes reached
    the wheatlands, straining now for journey's end,
    so fast those purebred stallions raced them on
    as the sun sank and the roads of the world grew…†   (source)
  • …the craft into deeper water,
    stepped the mast amidships, canvas brailed,
    they made oars fast in the leather oarlock straps,
    moored her riding high on the swell, then disembarked
    and made their way to wise Alcinous' high-roofed halls.
    There colonnades and courts and rooms were overflowing
    with crowds, a mounting host of people young and old.
    The king slaughtered a dozen sheep to feed his guests,
    eight boars with shining tusks and a pair of shambling oxen.
    These they skinned and…†   (source)
  • Candide was at once conducted to a beautiful summer-house, ornamented with a very pretty colonnade of green and gold marble, and with trellises, enclosing parraquets, humming-birds, fly-birds, guinea-hens, and all other rare birds.†   (source)
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