The scene was generally placed in an opening of the forest, where such parts of the wood as were penetrable formed around us numerous arcades of foliage, beneath which we were sheltered from the heat during the whole day; but when the sun descended towards the horizon, its rays, broken upon the trunks of the trees, diverged amongst the shadows of the forest in strong lines of light, which produced the most sublime effect.

"We entered then an arcade arching long Through saph'rine galleries, and heard the song That swelling came from temples hyaline; And passed through lazite courts and halls divine, While dazzling glories brighter round us shone.

This lofty hall, forty feet wide and 300 feet long, extending between a double range of shops, connects the arcades extending around the other three sides of the inner court of that palace, (now turned into shops, bazaars, etc.)

The Cathedral, built entirely of a milky white stone from the quarries close to Toledo, rose in one single elevation from the base of the pillars to the vaulting, with no triforium to cut its arcades and to weaken and load the naves with superimposed arches.

Webster defines an arcade as "A long, arched building or gallery lined on each side with shops."

The principal streets display lofty arcades, and the churches, which are very numerous, confer upon the city a highly architectural character.

Then in 1187 the Cathedral was burnt again, and Bishop Seffrid vaulted it for the first timetill then only the aisles had been vaultedbuilding great buttresses to support this and re-erecting the inner arcade of the clerestory.

To the right of us extend the arcades, with the trees of the Royal Garden peeping above them; on the left is the spacious concert building of the Odeon, and the palace of the Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Eugene Beauharnois.

The architects heap arcade on arcade, ogive on ogive, pyramid on pyramid, and give to all geometrical symmetry and artistic grace....

The dampness froze him to the spot; the wind blew from the side, lashing the arcades with whips of rain.

A dazzling halo crowns its lofty domes, And spreading from its summit softly comes With grateful rays, and floods the balustrades And golden statues 'neath the high arcades; A holy palace built by magic hand With wondrous architecture, portals grand, And aurine turrets piled to dizzy heights, Oh, how its glory Izdubar delights!

The S. aisle is evidently older than the rest of the building (note the arcade).

" As the gondolier spoke he glanced an eye aside at a group of patrician rank, who paced the gloomy arcades which supported the superior walls of the doge's palace, a spot sacred, at times, to the uses of the privileged.

The church has been much restored, but retains on the S. the original Dec. arcade and a squint.

She stopped suddenly, there where the road skirted the arcades.

"I have seen those temples," I said abruptly, and indeed he had brought those still, sunlit arcades of worn sandstone very vividly before me.

But this same position swallowed up the lower arcade on this side, and it hindered the usual works underneath the seats from being carried into this part of the building.

But it is an excellent material for vaulting arcades and all purposes involving the turning of arches.

In the centre of the court is a square marble well, looking white through a rankness of wild vine, acacias in flower, weeds, jasmines, and roses, which overgrew it, as well as the kiosk and the whole court, climbing even the four-square arcade of Moorish arches round the open space, under one of which I had deposited a long lantern of crimson silk: for here no breath of the fire had come.

Des Esseintes viewed the arcades of the rue de Rivoli, drowned in the gloom and submerged by water, and it seemed to him that he was in the gloomy tunnel under the Thames.

A further great improvement has been made by the removal of the hideous modern additions which entirely concealed all the arcades.