One time I rolled a Croquet ball off a high front porch and across a lawn to where it went over a bank and hit my sister Dorothy on the head.
The house did not catch fire, but the event charred the siding and the porch floor.
One day in 1938 when we came home from work we found my mother standing on the back porch with her head jerking and she was unable to talk.
Gale and Valerie stepped out onto the porch into the cool darkness.
A porch had been added to the cabin and the roof sloped away from the window where she stood.
On the porch of the ranch house were gathered the Adventure Girls with Virginia.
I used to get the jitters every time I thought of Pedro and his knife," Val confided to Gale in a secluded dark corner of the porch where they had gone for a breath of air between spurts of gaiety.
Carol had been sitting on the porch step with Janet, but suddenly she found herself catapulted into the dust.
Cautiously she transferred her hold from the edge of the porch roof to the pole around which her legs were locked.
That afternoon, for the first time since his illness, Senhor Almaida sat out on the porch in his arm-chair, his best broadcloth cloak wrapped about him.
Every cottage which Jose passed had its shady porch built with trellis covering, and heavy bunches of grapes hung over the heads of women spinning at the open doorways, surrounded by quiet, bare-foot children.
This advertisement he caused to be struck off in considerable numbers as bills and posted in various parts of the town, and he even went so far as to affix one to the porch of the church.
It was a "front room," and its two windows opened directly over the porch upon which I stood.
Up the three steps leading to this second porch Mr. Penfield Evans had that moment escorted Miss Elizabeth Sheridan.
There was no response to her imperative knock, but a middle-aged man appeared on the porch of the adjoining shack and observed her curiously.
Before supper the old man came out on to the porch where I was sitting.
On the morning of my departure I stood on the porch with old Peter waiting for the arrival of the mail driver, who was to take me to the nearest railroad town.
In the hall and on the porch the elders gathered, while on the broad porch steps young men in holiday dress waited to see if they might be of help.
The short path was lined with zinnias and with prince's feather and the porch covered with a shady grapevine.
They found on the square porch at the back of the house, Colonel Churchill, the negro Eli, and a white man, roughly dressed.
Rand drew rein before the broken gate, and a young woman in a linsey gown rose from the porch step and came down the narrow path toward him.
Unity sat down upon the porch steps and began to name upon her fingers the eligible young men of three counties.
I am here, and let us have the porch to ourselves.
The crowd about the post-office increased, men gathering on the steps as well as upon the porch above and on the parched turf beneath the mulberries.
He stood for a moment looking at it in silence, then walked up the narrow path, mounted the porch steps, and tried the door.
Smut the dog, lying in a patch of light upon the porch floor, broke out of a dream, got up, and wagged his tail.
The pines hid the porch where Jacqueline sat with her work, or, hands about her knees, dreamed the hours away.
Miss Dandridge descended the porchsteps to the waiting coach.
In Vinie Mocket's garden withered and bent stalk showed where had been zinnia and prince's feather, and the grapevine over the porch was but a mass of twisted stems.
Mounting the porch steps, he found himself in the presence of Major Edward playing Patience in the shade of the climbing rose.
The long lowerporch seemed crowded, the street in front filled with people.
As Henry Tremaine had ordered this boat built and delivered at Lake Okeechobee lately, and had never seen her in operation, he now rose, and went over to the edge of the porch to watch her movements.
Then, if Dixon is watching me, he’ll find me sitting on one of the porch chairs from which I couldn’t see him take the train.
Henry Tremaine and his wife were alone on the porch as the boat’s whistle sounded just before the landing was made.
On the broad porch the four prisoners were lined up.
Out on the porch at this moment, bringing a pitcher of lemonade and glasses on a tray, bustled Ham Mockus.
Then there came a tapping and clatter from inside a window, and both of us left the porch to get down upon the sward and visit the window and investigate.
He looked from the porch upon the riant, dissipated two, and commanded and cajoled and made tremendous threats, but to no purpose.
On the porch they met the famous Chikhaev, another old acquaintance.
The woman walked up the porch to the vestibule, felt for the entrance, pulled at the latch, and opened the door.
We entered by a large porch, and from the large porchwent to a smaller one.
Beyond the porch was a very large room: instead of a floor it had sand.
Presently Sam Kettleman appeared on the porch of his grocery across the street, and Scattergood called to him: "Well, Sam, glad you decided to git the woman a new stove.
He went out and sat on the porch and beamed up at the stars.
The deacon pounded on the porch with his nearly finished leg, and grew red in the face.
He sagged down on Locker's porch, and it is reported the corner of the porch sagged with him.
It is asserted that he walked the full twenty-four miles from the railroad, subsisting on the country, as it were, and sagged down on the porch of Locker's grocery just before sundown.
Conversation had expired on Scattergood's arrival, and the group on the porch converted itself into an audience.
He was certain that a chair creaked on the porch outside the window.
Scattergood sat on the porch of his store, in the sunniest spot, twiddling his bare toes.
It was a comfortable farmhouse, white painted and agreeable to look upon, but the pleasure of the view was ruined for Crane and Keith by reason of a bulky figure standing on the porch in conversation with a woman.
As he spoke he crossed the porch and stood at her side, with his hand resting affectionately on her shoulder.
He glanced around, and saw the doctor standing on the porch with Mrs. Emory and Constance.
The editor was lounging on the Emorys' porch with the family.
On the little side porch which opened off the kitchen they found Ruth.
Mr. Fenderson, uttering the above complaint, stood on his porch in the light from his open door and struck hands with two men there; after which he slapped them violently on the back.
Good-bys were said at last; Forbes and See put foot to stirrup and rode jingling into the white moonlight; the others stood silent on the porch and watched them go.
Still green about its ample porch The English ivy twines, Trained back to show in English oak The herald's carven signs.
She shook the dust from her naked feet, And her sackcloth closer drew, And into the porch of the awe-hushed church She passed like a ghost from view.
Keen white between the farm-house showed, And smiled on porch and trellis, The fair democracy of flowers That equals cot and palace.
A lilac spray, still blossom-clad, Sways slow before the empty rooms; Beside the roofless porch a sad Pathetic red rose blooms.
It was fortunate that only Hildur had come out on the porch and that she had seen the cart and blanket, the horse and harness.
They were sitting on the porchin their best attire, ready for the drive to church.
Think of me sitting in the thatched porch behind those roses smoking, and you looking out through those pretty little lattice windows under the eaves.
An ample porch jutted from the main building, and this was covered with ivy, as the windows were with jasmine and honeysuckle; while seats were ranged inside the porch covered with many a rude initial and long-past date.
While the groups in the church-yard ran forth to gaze, and the bells rang merrily all the while, two chaises whirled by Madeline's window and stopped at the porch of the house.
After we had exchanged the common salutations, seated on a bank of wild thyme, he led the way to the porch of the church.
Then, as if that were all that she had to do, she made a short prayer, kissed the Holy Mother's feet, and went out again to the porch of the church.
This gallery was formed of twenty-four arcades of fifteen feet each, and joined at right angles the porch erected before the portal.
The Duke of Bordeaux and his sister were on the porch with their governess.
The centrings and the interior portieres of this porch presented to the view a canopy sown with fleurs-de-lis in the midst of which stood out the royal cipher and the crown of France, modelled in antique fashion.
The 19th of May was begun the placing of the exterior decorations on the wooden porch erected in front of the door of the basilica.
I went there to seek you, and not finding you, I took down the key of the iron gates that open into the porch of the church, and went to look for you in the garden.
The front windows command a fine view of the sacred edifice, particularly of the carvedporch within the iron gates at the entrance, and the massive oak door through which you enter into the body of the building.
The June roses over theporch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they were.
As twilight fell, dewy and still, one by one they gathered in the porch where the June roses were budding beautifully, and each groaned or sighed as she sat down, as if tired or troubled.
On the way he was obliged to pass Mr. Howard's house, and he saw somebody sitting on the porch whom he hoped he might never see again.
Enoch and Caleb were at home and holding their mothers spellbound with the various incidents that transpired before their sight, while James walked up and down the porch feeling as though he did not have a friend in the world.
He was sitting on the porch with his wounded eye done up, and when he saw Enoch approaching he got up and came down to the gate; but Enoch noticed that he did not come within reach of it.
I declare, mother, I do not often let you get up and build a fire," said Enoch, as he opened the door and walked out on the porch to wash his hands and face.
He looked at his father with surprise and then walked out on the porch again.
The boys were sitting on the porch and were talking about what they had seen at the wharf.
