Sentence Examples

1. Beyond the peristyle lay a fresco-painted great chamber, with an open-roofed courtyard in the centre, where sat a woman playing the lyre with her back to him.
2. A peristyle ringed the building and Kirke delayed long enough to make a half circuit around the construction.
3. Tiny, but hardly humble, for a peristyle of caryatid columns surrounded the abode, making it seem more a rural temple to Artemis or Demeter than a home.
4. Her marmoreal halls were rimmed by a wide peristyle, with smooth columns crested by a circular capital.