One of its frontages forms the side of a forecourt flanked by grandiose outbuildings--estate offices, stables, and a great frescoed ballroom.
CLI In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy; and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.
I hurried home through the waving crowds in the forecourt and the bazaar, whilst all encountered me with the respectful 'Selam Aleikum.
Both usage and necessity forced me to begin by paying him my respects, for his office was in a hall in a forecourt at the very gate that leads directly to the Khan's apartments.
Then the spears in the forecourtglittered and the swords shone over the wall, But the song of smitten harp-strings came faint from the cloudy hall.
There were many men about him, and the wind in the wall-nook sang, And the spears of the Niblungs glittered, and the swords in the forecourt rang.
For the writer of it, who was sitting at an open window of the library, became aware of the entrance of a motor into the forecourt of the house.
Farther on, separated from the forecourt by smaller though still massive pylons, lay a hypostyle hall, so called from its covered colonnades; this hall was used for all kinds of processions.
A small gateway between two massive towers or pylons gave admittance to a spacious forecourt open to the sky, into which the people were allowed to enter at least on feast days.
At the door of the forecourt Klea was met by Asclepiodorus, who desired her to follow him.
That might be, but it was certain young Martin had not been blown half across the forecourt of a Patiala palace by an explosion of fireworks; nor had he.
Again, the atrium or forecourt through which the Christian basilica was often approached has been supposed to be derived from the forum in connexion with which the secular basilica was frequently built.
The architect referred the slave to the workmen who were busy laying the pavement in the forecourt of the palace; these men would carry in for him as much water as ever he could need.
As he dismounted from his chariot in the newly-paved forecourt and was conducted to the Emperor's anteroom he looked as bright and free from care as if the future lay before him sunny and cloudless.
His sudden silence as he looked round the empty forecourt in which we stood was eloquent.
Then I turned and ran, with a defiant gesture and an answering yell, right across the forecourt and up the steps to the door.
For Tom was back again in his home, beneath the shadow of that grand mulberry tree, with Father Thames flowing past the forecourt silently, swiftly, incessantly, as if ever engaged upon a purpose.
From the shade and shelter of the forecourt the view was perfectly enchanting, and for a little while held all Huggins's attention, even though he looked out upon it every day of his life.
From the base of the Column of Progress, the vista stretches away, through the Forecourt of the Stars and the Court of the Universe, to the Tower of Jewels, which dominates the southern approach to the grounds.
By the time they reached the forecourt of the castle, Rudolf's carriage was rumbling into the courtyard.
Now to the forecourtflock the Trojan folk To view the portent.
These mutilated figures, one of which has been known ever since classic times as the “vocal Memnon,” are 56 feet high, and once flanked the entrance to the forecourt of the temple of Amenophis.
An atrium or forecourtsurrounded by a covered arcade preceded the basilica proper, the arcade at the front of the church forming a porch or narthex, which, however, in some cases existed without the atrium.
The great doors of the pylon were wide open, and afforded a view into the forecourt of the sanctuary, paved with polished squares of stone, and surrounded on three sides with colonnades.
During all these ceremonies the priests stationed in the forecourt continued their lamentations.
The forecourtonce filled with bookstalls, that leads up to it, was only decorated in 1480 by Guillaume Pontifz, who also erected the fine screen that opens into it from the Rue St. Romain.
The forecourt gave privacy to the house even when in the centre of a town.
She mounted rapidly, not noticing that a telegraph boy on a bicycle had come wheeling into the forecourt behind her.
Then, swiftly, and instead of going up to the front door, she turned to the right along a narrow flagged path that skirted the forecourt and led to the back of the house.
The moon stood immediately over the roof, and the shadow of the house stretched beyond the forecourt almost to her feet.
Every ninth year, a bower, composed of Laurel-branches, was erected in the forecourt of the temple at Delphi.
He had glanced in the forecourt and seen that there was no room in it for him.
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