The complaisant Senate was brought down from its constitutional watchtower to become the tool of the Consuls; and an easy way for further innovations was thus dextrously opened up through the very portalswhich were designed to bar them out.
Animated with this hope, he left Paris before the dawn of April 15th; and, travelling at furious speed, his carriage rolled within the portals of Mainz in less than forty hours.
He sought his opportunity, and cautiously followed the guide unto the very portalsof the lovers' retreat.
Then pushed the portals of the sacred door, Exclaiming: "Enter; but I give you warning That forth returns whoever looks behind.
I said: "As pleaseth her, or soon or late Let the cure come to eyes that portals were When she with fire I ever burn with entered.
It rarely occurred that whole fronts of churches were covered with sculptures, as in Germany or France, and there were few richly sculptured portals of churches in Italy.
In one of the side portals of this cathedral there is a figure of Christ which was not surpassed by any work of this period.
This is proved by the portals and fronts of the churches, by the highly ornamented chapels, the wall niches and choir screens of the interiors, while the monuments are also equal to those of other nations.
It so happened that very little contemporary criticism was indulged in, from a wholesome fear of social or business ostracism, or the frowning portals of Fort Lafayette.
But far distant though Ben was and deep as he slept--just outside the dark portals of death itself--those sounds went down to him.
For a moment she stood peering into the gloom, one hand resting against the portals of stone.
Ben cut boughs as before, placing Beatrice's bed within the portals of the cave and his own on the grass outside.
The bow dipped, split the foam; then the raging waters seized the craft again, and with one great impulse hurled it through the clouds of spray, down between the narrow portals of rocks.
Here giant weeds a passage scarce allow To halls deserted, portals gaping wide; Fresh lessons to the thinking bosom, how Vain are the pleasaunces on earth supplied; Swept into wrecks anon by Time's ungentle tide.
At nine every evening the portals of the various dwelling-houses were closed, and the key given to one of the masters, who took turns to fill this office.
Here you need only note how symbolic and how simple the sculpture is, on the portals and porches.
The palace of Theodora rose phantom-like from among its environing groves in the moonlight, and the chariots dashed through the portals of the outer court, which closed upon the fantastic procession.
The bronze portals opened as of their own accord and a terrific gust of wind extinguished every light in the thousand-jetted candelabrum.
He shall open for me the portals of the Emperor's Tomb, he shall sue at my feet for my love--and obtain his guerdon.
At last he found himself before the open portals of the great Church of Santa Maria of the Aventine.
As he passed the church of Santa Maria of the Aventine, Tristan saw the portals open.
Hellayne had fled into the open portals of a church at the end of the street.
The woman's appeal knocked at the portals of Tristan's heart.
Both, with their trains, had simultaneously arrived before the portals of the sanctuary when Roxana barred Theodora's way.
Having appointed a cautious and confidential agent in New York and Paris, I destroyed all traces of my whereabouts, and became as utterly lost to the world as though the portals of the grave had closed upon me.
He stands with wondering eyes until some experienced guide conducts him to the portals of the farthest vestibule.
The screen itself has three deeply-recessed portals with pointed arches, and a large canopied empty niche on each side of the main entrance.
Bishop Geoffrey de Lèves went back to Chartres to build the most beautiful tower in the world, and the sculptors who had made Suger's western portals (now no longer extant) worked on the three west doors of Chartres.
These rough designs on the capitals of St. Bénigne are, as it were, the first stutterings of the national pæans in praise of God and country that are the imaged portals of Gothic cathedrals.
Its west portals are strangely dissimilar, as are its monumental towers.
Its strange, elongated figures are not the culmination of an old art, but a first effort in a development that was to produce the imaged portals of Gothic cathedrals.
A copy of Avallon's door is in the Trocadéro Museum at Paris where it can be compared at close range with the two other notable Romanesque portals of the province--those of Autun and Vézelay.
On the inner wall of the three western portals is an elaborate decoration found nowhere else.
The five deeply recessedportals correspond to its five aisles, and the western towers are set clear of the aisles, as at Rouen; that to the southwest is now braced by a flying buttress and detached buttress pile.
The two decorative glories of Chartres Cathedral are its sculptured portals and its wealth of stained glass, "an assemblage unique in Europe, the thought of the Middle Ages made visible.
To one and all the portals of this hospitable mansion were ever open.
It went into very small details indeed and the parish church portals were frequently posted with proclamations from Quebec.
Open she threw the portals of her soul And gave the keys up to her new-found King.
Not alone were the market workers here, for it seemed as though the Boul' Mich' had merely taken an adjournment after the law had closed its portals and turned it out of doors.
An atmosphere of refined and elegant suppression pervades the place; the roystering spirit that haunts the boulevards stops at the portals of the Procope.
When all had sworn the oath, and given surety, then did they shut fast the portals upon all their food and all the aid they might win against the king and his army who were nigh at hand.
The host, who would do his guest all honour, took the knight by the hand, and led him through three portals into a fair hall where he was received with courteous words.
He crushed the portals of that life, And laid the brave child low.
I will bring thee windows of agates, And gates of carbuncles bright, And thy fairest courts and portals Shall be filled with love and light.
The portals were established in the cuts, several thousand feet back from each bank and there the tunneling itself began.
But the vital point in this was the fact that Sommeiller drove his drills not with steam, but air, compressed at the tunnel portals and piped to the work face.
From one of the great portals I drove with Flamma; from the other, Diodora and Cenni started on a trip to Heligoland.
It would be something to tear that water-nymph on the Vernöczy crest from over the portals of the château into the mire, and erect the Dumany crest on the front of the proud old castle.
We turned westward into the entrance of a deep valley, over which hung a perpendicular cliff of gray and red rock, fashioned by nature so as to resemble a vast fortress, with windows, portals and projecting bastions.
The portals at either end rested on slender pillars, over which projected broad eaves, decorated with elaborate carved and gilded work, and above all rose a dome, surmounted by the Crescent.
There was a sound of singing, sweet and low, as of childish voices; for the first to issue from those gloomy portals were the boys of the College of Doctrine, dressed in white surplices, and chanting litanies to the saints.
At sunrise next morning its gloomy portalswere unlocked, and he, with others, passed forth from beneath their shadow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "portals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
