portico

The huge round pillars were intact; so to some extent was the stone flagging of hall and portico. There had been no home so stately along the whole stretch of Cote Joyeuse.

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.

On going downstairs again she found her mother, Norah and Miss Garth all sitting together enjoying the shade and the coolness under the open portico in front of the house.

Then he kept silence, folded his arms tightly across his breast, and took up his station under the portico which serves as an avenue of communication between the garden and the court-yard of the Tuileries.

She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

Aouda and he had remained, despite the cold, under the portico of the Custom House.

I crossed to the opposite side of the way, and soon afterward lost sight of him under the portico of a house.

This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other remaining intact.

Jacquelin then took her bridle, and led the carriage to the portico.

(with a playful allusion to democratic principles) to scramble into the first Brown conveyance in the line, instead of waiting till the cold-and-gin congested nose of one's own coachman gleamed under the portico of the Academy.

Walk straight to the garden and enter through a portico, into a small green wood, in the midst of which is a tree with a trunk of gold and leaves of emeralds.

It has a massive portico and steps, before it, heavily balustraded, and adorned with life-sized rusty iron knights in complete armor.