Sentence Examples

1. Garin stands out, smug and statuesque, now that the light has steadied on the portico.
2. 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.
3. It jutted out from the rest of the building, adorned with bas relief moldings and a statue of a saint above the portico over the main entrance, before soaring high above the third story.
4. Tall columns support an elaborate portico embellished with gilded winged cherubs, and two-story windows line the flat façade of the seventy-room estate.
5. Into and through the classic Italian portico, the small entourage formed a blocking maneuver.
6. 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.
7. Seeing them pointing up at it, his heart was hammering against his ribs as he stood up, slunk out and slid behind the left wall of the portico.
8. Aouda and he had remained, despite the cold, under the portico of the Custom House.
9. 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.
10. The portico extended out over the bay, supported by marmoreal columns cut from local stone.