Horses were being walked before a large porticoed building. From Wordnik.com. [Murder to Go]
It is clearly a building composed of shops or depots on the ground level, with a porticoed upper floor. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Urban Survey Report 1] Reference
The porticoed frc~7nt of the near-~nansion spc, ke as usual of eff~'rtless wealth, bt, t no one answered the door-bell. From Wordnik.com. [Penalty]
In this elegant, porticoed mansion of a restaurant, we admired the view and the meticulously authentic French traditional food. From Wordnik.com. [Dinner Deep in Walleye Territory] Reference
Directly across the square was the Capitol, a sprawling, porticoed marble mass beneath a gilt dome whose point upheld an argent star. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Three years later he showed up at Astor's white-porticoed Hell's Gate, where he encountered Irving as he was engaged in writing Astoria. From Wordnik.com. [Zane Grey, Romancing the West]
Even the newer structures'long, porticoed, ogive-windowed, until they rose in towers-preserved a tradition going back to the earliest settlers. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Everywhere he was spoken of as Cynthia's boy and no one seemed to remember that he was born in heathen India instead of in the old porticoed house on the. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Disregarding all three, Maytera Marble cut across the lush lawn toward the porticoed entrance, keeping well clear of the fountain to avoid its windblown spray. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Set on 1,600 acres in the rolling hills of central Connecticut, it was magnificent to behold, with porticoed, neo-Georgian red-brick buildings surrounded by endless lawns. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Miller's Missing Act] Reference
We entered its porticoed door, ascended the stone stairs, and went into a small office, where the most repulsive-looking official I have anywhere seen, noted my arrival in a book. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
Street with a straggling crowd gathered about the porticoed entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Grafters] Reference
Farther down, on a spur of the same mountain, I had a porticoed pavilion built in. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
A winding path, lined with laurel bushes, led to the arched and porticoed entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
There was no reminiscence of the usual Southern porticoed gable or columned veranda. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Dows] Reference
And now and then you see a pillared and porticoed great manor-house, embowered in trees. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
The door of the cottage, porticoed with trellis-work, was in the center of the cottage itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Miracle Man] Reference
This entrance was an inconspicuous one, which could not be said of the several porticoed entrances. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
The house was a porticoed one which had belonged to the Austens for a hundred years or more, for Hilary. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Elm Street, with its wide lawns and porticoed mansions, is as affluent and Waspy a suburb as Craven could have chosen. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
He set off along a gravelled path which ran round the side of the house, and ascended the steps to the porticoed front door. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange-Yellow Diamond] Reference
But, having mapped out for himself a career which did not stop short of a stately and deep-porticoed edifice in Washington's. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
A porticoed manor-house, that had a history almost as old, faced it across lawn and shrubbery on the opposite side of the way. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
The couple bought an old, porticoed mansion, fastidiously restored it, and opened it to the public as a temple of afternoon tea. From Wordnik.com. [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference
A few yards, and he was quit of Duke of Gloucester Street; behind him, porticoed Capitol, gaol, and tiny vineclad debtor's prison. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans] Reference
The Mannings live for the blossoming of the wistaria which covers their charming porticoed house from top to toe and fills their grounds. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
Camden Town is full of little houses standing back in side streets, houses with porticoed front doors monstrously disproportioned to their size. From Wordnik.com. [Superseded] Reference
It was an imposing porticoed house at which we stopped, and the heavily-curtained windows gave every indication of wealth upon the part of this formidable Professor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost World] Reference
Theodora Deming was on the steps of the handsome, porticoed old mansion, enjoying the summer twilight, when the Captain entered the gate and came up the gravelled walk. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
Most of them, faced and porticoed with florid pillars, were mere dickies opening upon nothing, and only the huge armorial bearings showed that they had ever been owned. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
Doric-porticoed genteel Pocklington quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Our Street] Reference
Farther down, on a spur of the same mountain, I had a porticoed pavilion built in 902 (1496-7) ". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
Leaders Act "inside the porticoed entrance to the palace before they were hustled away by security guards. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories] Reference
"The torch was applied to the one-room cabin, the clapboard house, the porticoed mansion and the barn, smokehouse and all outbuildings. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
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