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Excavations uncovered the temple's southern approach, which once faced a broad stone-paved courtyard and consisted of a monumental staircase and porticoed - entrance, supported by a large, ornately carved basalt column base.— University of Toronto -- News@UofT
It was no fault of the parish that its young baronet had proved a spendthrift and alienated the inheritance of his fathers; and, but that he had preserved the manor-house from desecration, they would perhaps have ostracized him altogether, as having lent his aid to disgrace their manor with so noble a structure as the porticoed façade of Lexley Park Meanwhile the shrewd Jonas was fully aware of his unpopularity and its origin; and, during a period of three years, he allowed his ill-advised subjects to chew, unmolested, the cud of their discontent.— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
At length, turning the corner of a pillar-porticoed temple, which stood back from the street, and up the gentle ascent of whose steps a concourse of priests and attendants were forcing a garland-decked bullock, unconscious of the sacrificial rites which awaited him within, she stood beyond the surging of the crowd and in a quiet little street It was a narrow avenue, in whose humble architecture brick took the place of stone; but by no means mean or filthy, like so many of the streets of similar width in the central portion of the city.— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
They live in the high-porticoed, tall-pillared white old house next door to the church in the village, on the opposite side from the church-yard.— The Brimming Cup
In the midst of all there were moments of perfect peace made up of reminiscences of a high-porticoed house, the grass-grown wheel-tracks and the sandy beach of the village on the Connecticut coast where his early home had been.— Stories by American Authors, Volume 1
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