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portico
1. They walked only across the street and up a few broad steps to a wide marble portico
2. He took them into a passage that looked like the portico of some old federal court house
3. Buttressing the old granite portico was a wall in reinforced concrete
4. The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics
5. A black and white escorted them to the North Front of the White House and allowed them to exit the vehicle under the portico
6. It was dusk when Vera pulled into the portico of the Mariner’s Center
7. In the house on the left, with one portico and broken
8. The double front doors were only two steps higher than ground level, sheltered beneath an arched portico
9. Curiosity made me accept the invitation, but I had nothing to wear so Edgar took me to a warehouse of clothing seconds on Vauxhall Bridge Road, and the following afternoon I strode manfully up the drive, mounted the magnificent staircase and strutted through the classical portico resplendent in a cream linen suit, cream shoes and white silk shirt open to reveal a heavy gold stage-jewellery chain from Edgar’s property box
10. Feeling somewhat awed by stone balustrades, broad steps and portico, he pressed the bell and was ushered into a lounge-room literally stuffed with deeply cushioned couches, arm chairs, small tables, oriental carpets, knickknacks, souvenirs and colourful daubs of minarets and camels silhouetted against desert sunsets
11. The entrance is rather grand with wide steps and stone balustrades leading up to a portico and wide glass doors
12. Seeing the Gautam waiting in the portico for them, the couple couldn’t comprehend their position
13. His flying feet spurned the marble as he darted up the broad stair and through the pillared portico
14. He staggered out upon the portico, halted at the head of the steps
15. Arrows flickered about him as Valerius ran back between the pillars of the portico, shielding the body of the queen with his own
16. A marble wall surrounded the shrine, with a broad opening directly before the portico
17. A short flight of broad marble steps led up to the pillared portico
18. Presently, pushing through a screen of vine-tangled branches, he came into a comparatively open space where the trees straggled, unencumbered by undergrowth, and saw before him the wide, pillared portico of the palace
19. He melted into the bushes that lined the broken street, glided through the dense growth and reached the edge of the open space before the portico
20. The front façade of the mansion was white marble with broad steps, a portico, and a colonnade
21. When evening falls, I help the others when they bring out the candles to light up the portico
22. Colin pales, helplessly looking over at Andy who’s still waiting at the other side of the portico
23. He is now using the portico as a sort of stage to address the people present
24. “Dad, why are you so nervous?” Richard asked as they stepped onto the back portico and headed for the conservatory
25. “Why would I mind?” he chuckled as he led her out onto the portico
26. corrugated-iron portico roof and a notice-littered pillar
27. “Thank you,” Wickland said as he stepped by Claydon, closely enough to force the younger man to take a step back off the portico of the shed
28. ” The limousine rolled to a stop beneath the north portico and Hardin straightened his uniform “Have the chiefs meet us in the War Room in ten minutes
29. When the Ambassador came to a halt in the portico of the Madhava Raos’ house, they came out in welcome
30. stone steps that led up to the pillared portico of a museum
31. On the outer walls there was lodging for the priests, and in front was the portico with the 2 brazen pillars, Boaz and Jachin
32. One day, during a bridge game party, a stray kitten wandered onto the portico patio, where the bridge tables were set up
33. and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of
34. I took Flint’s hands and I led him to one of the large portico pillars
35. I pulled the car up under the massive portico and got out
36. The Monte Pincio seemed a vast amphitheatre filled with spectators; the balconies of the two churches at the corner of the Via del Babuino and the Via di Ripetta were crammed; the steps even seemed a parti-colored sea, that was impelled towards the portico; every niche in the wall held its living statue
37. A thick clump of trees and shrubs rose in the centre, and masked a portion of the front; around this shrubbery two alleys, like two arms, extended right and left, and formed a carriage-drive from the iron gates to a double portico, on every step of which stood a porcelain vase, filled with flowers
38. The carriage stopped at the left side of the portico, two men presented themselves at the carriage-window; the one was Ali, who, smiling with an expression of the most sincere joy, seemed amply repaid by a mere look from Monte Cristo
39. Bertuccio," said the count, springing lightly up the three steps of the portico; "and the notary?"
40. Walking through the adjoining nursery and up another path, they finally arrived on a wide gravel drive leading up to a large expanse of lawn on which stood Springwood, the Roosevelts’ stately three-story brick-and-masonry mansion, complete with a semicircular portico supported by white Grecian columns
41. Nervous, but too far along to back down now, they shuffled deferentially up onto the portico and peered inside
42. I went myself at the summons, and found a small man crouching against the pillars of the portico
43. ' Then we went to the front portico and waited there with the upper servants
44. In the center was a white portico supported by four slender columns
45. The ceiling of this portion of the building is upheld by sixteen fluted columns of Jura stone, with white marble capitals, forming a portico
46. " She thought of the white freestone, the pillared portico, and the terrace full of flowers, Sir James smiling above them like a prince issuing from his enchantment in a rose-bush, with a handkerchief swiftly metamorphosed from the most delicately odorous petals—Sir James, who talked so agreeably, always about things which had common-sense in them, and not about learning! Celia had those light young feminine tastes which grave and weatherworn gentlemen sometimes prefer in a wife; but happily Mr
47. Eudora Town Hall still featured an oversized Confederate stars-and-bars hanging in the second-floor window above the portico
48. They joined the others at the top in the shadow of the ancient stone portico
49. As the minute hand counted off the last second of the last minute, the front portico lights went on
50. "The tomb house? The family vault? There must be a name on the portico