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Examples
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Yes, for sure if they know that it has been porched.
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From the head of the lawn, on the first soft swell from the valley-level, looked down the deep-porched, many-windowed house.
The Southland 2010
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Yes, for sure if they know that it has been porched.
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Located on Depot Road and 166th Street, this porched house is perched on a hill overlooking the Broadway Long Island Rail Road station.
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It's not a stretch to suppose that cookie cutter buildings like this will replace our porched residence.
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They will likely be much smaller and have none of the elan that the present porched house possesses.
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The countryside between Philadelphia and Harrisburg is lovely -- rolling hills, Amish farms bright and ordered as folk art paintings, fieldstone private schools and academies, one after the other, old churches and full cemeteries, brokerage houses and antique stores, deep-porched nineteenth-century houses that Lincoln might have seen as he passed.
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Lights shone from all its high windows, streamed out through the Corinthian columns and low-porched doorways.
Maurice Guest 2003
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The high, porched entry hall had been designed for the defense of the main doorway by means of arrow-fire, in case the great door was ever breached.
Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988
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The high, porched entry hall had been designed for the defense of the main doorway by means of arrow-fire, in case the great door was ever breached.
Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988
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