colonnades

Putting out of the question the Piazza of St. Peter's with Bernini's encircling colonnades, which is a special thing and unlike anything else in the world, the Piazza Navona is the handsomest piazza in Rome.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

He cites founder and architect Thomas Jefferson's then-novel concept of flanking a lawn with pavilions linked by colonnades and a grand library at its head.

America's Most Beautiful College Campuses (PHOTOS) 2011

She peered down one of the golden colonnades that led away from the central dome.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

Two of the colonnades extended to distant entrances, beyond which stretched the desert.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

There are three colonnades—three entrances to this sanctuary.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

Boats go missing there; just below the surface are statues and mausoleums; and the colonnades.

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Extinct Pompeii returns to the celestial light from her immemorial oblivion like a buried skeleton that greed or piety has raised out of the earth into the air, and from the empty forum the wanderer, gazing down the rows of broken colonnades, contemplates the distant double peak and its smoking crest, still menacing the scattered ruin.

The Raptures of a Tragic Visionary Eric Ormsby 2010

The sand moved—grains fusing to become crystals and crystals fusing to become gems and gems to become rods and columns and walls and colonnades.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

Pompeii is indeed extinct; there are only "broken colonnades."

The Raptures of a Tragic Visionary Eric Ormsby 2010

Two of the colonnades extended to distant entrances, beyond which stretched the desert.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011