The three Porticoes at the Entrance answer to the three Windows of this Hall, which Windows instead of Glass, have noble Bars of Brass curiously wrought.
These seven Porticoes lead to two Gates at the Foot of the Grand Stair-Case.
Beyond are other porticoes and galleries, which have been continued to another propylon, at the distance of two thousand feet from that at the western extremity of the temple.
This was probably used as a portico for shelter or business for those who trafficked in the Forum; there were many similar porticoes in ancient Rome.
Walking to the end of this street, and turning to the right, he entered the Agora, a public square surrounded with porticoes and temples, which were adorned with statuary and paintings in honor of the gods of Grecian mythology.
Folding doors lead to it at each end, in the porticoes in front and in the rear.
In front of me, in the dazzling sunshine, was the series of courts with porticoes of irregular outline and old monsters on pedestals.
At last, when they can hold out no longer and go and lean against the porticoes among the old acacias and willows, another company just like the first comes forward and begins again, to the same tune, a similar dance.
The populace took to their heels, but did not run away in fear, but posted themselves on the tops of the porticoes and on the highest parts of the Forum as though they were spectators at a public show.
In some of the inner porticoes were the bookcases for the library which made Alexandria the very temple of science and learning, while other porticoes were dedicated to the service of the ancient religion.
Farther off was the beautiful gymnasium for wrestlers and boxers, with its porticoes of a stadium in length, where the citizens used to meet in public assembly.
The few persons whom he met, creeping about under the shadow of the lofty houses, or under the porticoes of the temples, looked at him with wonder, and thought him furious or deranged.
Here are found two pavilions of extremely elegant architecture, with porticoes and staircases at each end.
A raised terrace leads to the foot of the great staircase, and forms a cross, the arms of which lead to two small pavilions with four porticoes and staircases.
There is a second gallery, with four towers at each end and three porticoes and staircases on each side.
The poorer classes of citizens were fed under the porticoes of the Vatican basilica.
Before the door was a porch supported on two columns, decked with banners or ribbons, and largerporticoes had a double row of columns, with statues between them.
This gallery furnished an agreeable promenade, when the weather did not permit the enjoyment of the external porticoes or terraces.
There were also spacious porticoes for walking and conversing, halls and courts for athletic games and gladiatorial combats, apartments for the lectures and recitations of philosophers, rhetoricians and poets.
These porticoes have semi-dome shaped roofs, and are flanked on either side by the windows of the transept aisles.
The central windows above the porticoes are slightly larger than the others, and have niches on either side.
It is built of freestone, one hundred and seventy feet in length, eighty-six in width, with grand porticoes on the north and south fronts, supported by Ionic columns.
This building is now painted white, to correspond with the extensions, columns and porticoes of white marble.
It was flanked by narrow, dimly lightly chambers, and was approached through a pronaos with four rows of columns, a vast court surrounded with porticoes occupying the foreground.
Piazzas and porticoes are very expensive; and their cost would secure far more comfort, if devoted to additional nursery or kitchen conveniences.
Many kinds of porticoes cost as much as one additional room in the house.
Fairy palaces and gardens, porticoes of agate, and groves flowering with emeralds and rubies, inhabited by people for whom nobody cares, these are his proper domain.
It will scarcely be maintained that the lazzaroni who sleep under the porticoes of Naples, or the beggars who besiege the convents of Spain, are in a happier situation than the English commonalty.
Long ranges of stone, high walls of brick, fretted away by time, porticoes covered with parasitical vegetation, stand out boldly from the sheet of silver light which blends the horizon with the limpid blue of the heavens.
I believe she was neither more nor less than a milliner, under one of the wooden porticoes of the Palais Royal.
It is indeed common in all the places which we have seen; and the doors and porticoes are universally formed by a Saracenic arch.
On the interior sides of the porticoes or door frames, are many sculptured figures, which have been drawn with accuracy by Le BRUN.
In this way a continuous space of nearly a thousand feet in length by a width of from three hundred to four hundred feet was either covered by the roofs of porticoes or open to the sky within belts of these same porticoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "porticoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
