All 4 Uses of
vista
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Groceries, toy-shops, drygoods stores, with their immense panes of plate-glass, their gorgeous fixtures, their vast and complete assortments of merchandise, in which fortunes had been invested; and those noble mirrors at the farther end of each establishment, doubling all this wealth by a brightly burnished vista of unrealities!†
Chpt 3 *
- In old Colonel Pyncheon's funeral discourse the clergyman absolutely canonized his deceased parishioner, and opening, as it were, a vista through the roof of the church, and thence through the firmament above, showed him seated, harp in hand, among the crowned choristers of the spiritual world.†
Chpt 8
- Her father meanwhile had turned away, and seemed absorbed in the contemplation of a landscape by Claude, where a shadowy and sun-streaked vista penetrated so remotely into an ancient wood, that it would have been no wonder if his fancy had lost itself in the picture's bewildering depths.†
Chpt 13
- Through the passage-way there was a dark vista into the lighter but still obscure interior of the parlor.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
view
or more rarely:
a view of a possible future
or more rarely:
a view of a possible future