colonnade

• “SI's editors must have said, "No a colonnade is a row of columns -- you know, something architectural-like.”

  Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog)

• “I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall.”

  Heart of Darwin

• “Around the frieze above the colonnade are the names of 44 battles from the American Revolution to the Spanish-American War.”

  The Washington Post: Arlington cemetery urns turn up on auction block, but how'd they get there?

• “But, here, amazingly, Wolf, we still have power, our cell phones still working, although we must say, on the skylight of what I would call the colonnade, they have been crashing within the last half-hour.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005

• “The western colonnade, which is by far the best preserved, has been examined by two trenches, while in 2006 a sounding within the shops behind the actual colonnade was executed.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 2

• “Surmounting each arch of the colonnade is a small dome: in all there are a hundred and twenty, and at different points arise seven minarets, dating from various epochs, and of somewhat varying altitudes and architecture.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “The guides led the cavalcade up through the long colonnade, which is terminated by a triumphal arch, the shaft of each of the pillars having a projecting pedestal, or console, on which a statue once stood.”

  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

• “After dinner I walked by starlight along the Ionic colonnade, which is a further continuation northwards of the Corinthian, and found nearly the whole length, with the intermediate pavement, remaining, consisting of squares about two feet in length, laid down in diamond pattern.”

  Byeways in Palestine

• “Among the frescoes on the walls under the colonnade was the famous”

  The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus

• “Through the lovely rounded arches of this encircling colonnade, which is elevated a few feet, one looks down into the beauty of the court, or out across it to the richly fretted walls.”

  The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition

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