The pillared portico. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The reception was chattering away in the large formal area upstairs known as the pillared crowing-room. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
The square-built tow'r, the pillared entrance-way. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic] Reference
Shoulders the pillared dust, death's house o 'the move. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
As they drew up before the pillared portico of the great house in. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Facing it, along its eastern marge, stand the noble pillared palaces of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
Bristle the earth to the pillared horizon, pointing in vain to the heavens above. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
Ascending with every step, he stands at last upon a level with its pillared portico. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
On one side of this pillared chamber, high-hung heavy curtains drawn apart, disclosed. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
A palace within a palace was it, pillared into twelve compartments which yet made one whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Grace gazed almost reverently at the rambling old house with its wide, high-pillared verandas. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
As we went up the shrubbery-bordered walk to the pillared porch I said, "I want to live here.". From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
He stood looking down at the two pillared sentinels in awe, the vast spherical expanse beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
Custis-Lee, imposing, pillared and cream-colored; or it was the last in the days when cream had a color. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
There is a delightful hush under this cool roof pillared by the brown tree-trunks, but it is not silence. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
Great was their surprise when they heard that the handsome pillared edifice in the next square was theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Following in their footsteps, we went up the ladder and passed through the entrance into the pillared hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
Modest Mignons are not rare in our ville, and the Gothic vaults of Saint-Léonard and the pillared aisles of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
Against this background of pillared stone and shining marble and living green was the shipping in the harbor. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
He took, instead, an inner way through the late supper room which led down into the pillared hall of banquets. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The pillared doorway and the carved wreaths above it still give an old-fashioned grace to the somewhat dilapidated house. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
On the wide, white-pillared veranda a very handsome lady and two little girls and a little boy stood to receive the party. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
From a distance only pillared fronts appear, but on a closer view the real grandeur and beauty of the temples come to light. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The end wall of the long-fronted narrow farmhouse loomed up gauntly beside the pillared entrance to the rectangular courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
A garden-room flanked the house on the south-east, the front open to the garden, pillared and arched with the old white plastered. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
This is my garden; and the long pillared shed, the sort of rustic arcade which runs along one side, parted from the flower-beds by. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827] Reference
In fancy I enter by the splendid north door and find myself in the pillared dimness softly lighted by the great window in the west. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Merchants lived in elegant two-story villas set along zigzagging streets with pillared courtyards flanked by living and prayer rooms. From Wordnik.com. [Leukaspis, Ancient City By The Sea, Rises Amid Egypt's Resorts (PHOTOS)] Reference
That way was safe of servants now; crossing the pillared hall there were no more sounds of late work from the service quarters beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
He beheld the bright, cheerful Grecian temples spreading out on the slopes before him; the pillared Forum; the rounded marble Theatres. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
There was the white-pillared "big house" in a grove of white oaks on the brow of a hill with a commanding view of the whole countryside. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
But the structure known as St. Germoe's Chair, in the graveyard, is even more curious; it consists of three roofed sedilia, fronted by two pillared arches. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
It was a curious little place, the south balcony, really not a balcony at all, but a round-pillared pavilion with a roof that jutted out above the city wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
But for its magenta tiling, the pillared market stood, a huge monochrome, its deep yellows splashed here and there with the crimson of the female hucksters 'dresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Rome walked she left her path well made, and she left the impress of her thought in rock-paved road, or in the lasting marble of her pillared temples and carven tombs. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
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