88 adjectives to describe porches

" This was seriously considered the morning it appeared in the Tribune by Peggy McNutt and Skim Clark, as they sat in the sunshine on the former's little front porch.

It follows the local type having a nave with north and south aisles and a chancel with north and south chapels, vestry, south porch and western tower.

What a relief to get rid of coat, veils, bonnet, and to sit on a shady porch where a faint breeze blew!

My mother and I were sitting together on the broad porch which overlooked the river.

For the rest, the hotel was of yellowish-brick, half-surrounded by a wooden porch where at milder seasons of the year in deep wicker chairs men and women were always rocking with the air of people engaged in serious and not unimportant work.

It is wise for both to spend much time in the open air and to sleep on a screened porch.

Is it the marvellous symmetry of the whole graceful pile, as the eye, glancing down the massive square tower and along the pierced battlements and elaborate pinnacles, finally rests on the empty niches and traceried oriel windows of the magnificent south porch?

It is entered by a grand Norman arch under the western porch, which will remind those who have traveled in France of the glorious door of Loches.

It may not be in the inner sanctuary, but it certainly occupies a goodly part of the outer porch of the temple.

The procession came to a halt in front of the bungalow porch and Katherine Adams detached herself from the ranks.

It was a neat little house, with a rustic porch and a small garden in front of it, with a swarm of cocks and hens.

For here and there the ranks are broken by the plain guard-wall and deep-eaved porch, or by the glistening domes and balcony-girt minarets of a mosque: and at such points one may, if one so wish, see more of the people who dwell in the silent houses than one could hope to see during the course of a month's peregrinations up and down the streets devoted to the followers of the Prophet.

This fact the horseman did not fail to notice, and with a ready eye to the main chance, which showed its possessor to be a man of no ordinary apprehension, he glanced approvingly at the groined porch, the richly carved pinnacles above it, and at the quaint belfry beyond, exclaiming with great enthusiasm: "'Fore God, you have a goodly dwelling and a rich here.

Miss Roberta took off her hat, for there was no need of a hat on a shaded porch, and holding it by the ribbons, she let it gently slide down toward her feet.

Several are distinguished by their handsome porches.

In the tiny porch, there were many mysterious baskets and boxes and tin pails of varying sizes, and within doors a long table at the back of the room had on it many cups and saucers, with a pile of tissue paper napkins.

The architecture of Corfe, as in most of the inland villages of the "island," is most pleasing; a distinctive note being the pillared porch with a room above.

Three times they knock, three times they cry, and wide the doors they throw; Dejectedly they enter, and mournfully they go; In gloomy lines they mustering stand beneath the hollow porch, Each horseman grasping in his hand a black and flaming torch; Wet is each eye as they go by, and all around is wailing, For all have heard the misery.

Miss Lavinia, after her morning housekeeping is over, takes her work bag to the narrow cottage porch and apparently gives herself up to the task of making pin-cushions for Sylvia or embroidering initials on napery.

SENTIMENTALITIES The sunny porch.

But he immediately recovered an air of indifference, took off the red Levantine cap which hung like a great purse over his left ear, and pushing back his long, dark brown curls, said smiling, "The fact is, I'm a stranger in Florence, and when I came in footsore last night, I preferred flinging myself in the corner of this hospitable porch to hunting for a chance hostelry, which might turn out to be a nest of bloodsuckers.

On the S. side of the church there is an incongruous "classical" porch (cp.

"David!" Two blithe baby voices answered her from the rear porch.

Miss Diana Chillingworth was sitting in the old-fashioned porch of her old-fashioned house which opened into an old-fashioned garden in one of the suburbs of Marlborough, shelling peas.

On the S. side of the church there is an incongruous "classical" porch (cp.

88 adjectives to describe  porches