The beautiful moonthe very moon of all the harvest-homes since the earth was madeshone on them as they went; and by the time they had reached the portico of the old comfortable mansion, evening had cast such shadows, far and near, that only the outlines of the forms were seen, as they passed in through the deep shadow.

While the muezzin was crying his sunset-call to prayer, I entered the portico and looked into the interior, which was so bare as to appear incomplete.

The architecture of the whole is cold and unfeeling, and even the columns supporting the porticoes are of a very rigid orderwhen we consider that the clubhouse is not an official establishment, but one intended for luxurious accommodation, and that it would have admitted of much more florid embellishment.

It is a large Grecian building; having a portico, supported by four massive columns, from which rises a lofty bell-tower, ending in a spire.

Once in a while the gay visitors in the more prosperous regions stretched their sails and skimmed along till they saw its white porticos and piazzas gleaming faintly up among the trees; once in a while a belated traveller tied his horse at the gate, and sought admittance in vain, at the empty house, of the shadows who may have kept it.

It consists of four columns and two antae, of the Grecian Ionic order, supporting an entablature and pediment, and forming together one grand portico.

They are crowding the porticos of the temple, but they are merely merchants.

Graceful little statues of Faith and Justice, elegantly draped, decorated the portico.

In addition to the Luxembourg Palace, which was built entirely according to his designs, he erected the magnificent portico of St. Gervais, the aqueduct of Arcueil, and the famous Protestant church of Charenton (destroyed in 1685).

The glorious orb sank slowly behind Saint Paul's, which formed a prominent object in the view from the fields, and threw out its central tower, its massive roof, and the two lesser towers flanking the portico, into strong relief.

The troops designated to form the escort will assemble on the east side of the Capitol and form line fronting the eastern portico of the Capitol precisely at 2 o'clock p.m. on Friday, the 23d instant.

And since the Dalmatians had been utterly subdued, he erected from the spoils thus gained the porticoes and secured the collection of books called the Octavian, after his sister.

These halls are apparently meeting places for countless men, simply crammed like one could have imagined a portico in the Roman days,not people necessarily staying there, but herds of others from outside.

When I reached my own dwelling, I found Mr. Hardinge pacing the little portico, or piazza, waiting for my arrival, with an uneasiness of manner that at once proclaimed his anxiety to see me.

Now a torrent of broken, incoherent, insane words gushed from his lips, and, to Nydia's horror, he passed the portico with a bound, and rushed down the starlit streets, striking fear into the hearts of all who saw him.

Who would dream of placing a Grecian portico to an Elizabethan building?

From this decastyle colonnade projected a tetrastyle portico, which introduced the people ascending from a flight of steps to a gigantic portal.

One of them is a winter scene, representing the portico of an old Gothic church.

The old house stands stately, high-roofed, almost unaltered, its great pillared portico before it; hard by are the Druids' Mound, and Preshute Church in the lap of trees.

He adopted the Greek cross, and substituted a stately portico for the long vestibule invented by Sangallo.

Again hurrying on, he passed the cloister-walls surrounding the Convocation House; tried another door between that building and the church of Saint Gregory, a small fane attached to the larger structure; and failing in opening it, turned the corner and approached the portico,the principal entrance to the cathedral being then, as now, on the west.

They ran swiftly for a moment and then disappeared into dark caverns under toppling porticoes.

At the time of the Commonwealth, while the interior of the sacred fabric underwent every sort of desecration and mutilation,while stones were torn from the pavement, and monumental brasses from tombs,while carved stalls were burnt, and statues plucked from their niches,a similar fate attended the portico.

They would have celebrated him as a benefactor to mankind, who had built a new portico to the Temple of Glory superior to the dome itself.

He made arrangements for the entertainment of the people on the most magnificent scale, and made great additions and improvements to the public buildings, constructing porticoes and piazzas around the areas where his gladiatorial shows and the combats with wild beasts were to be exhibited.