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    Natalie picked her way slowly through the wreckage, careful not to turn an ankle, and set out down the Great Colonnade, the ceremonial avenue that stretched from the Temple of Bel, to the Triumphal Arch, to the Tetrapylon, to the Funerary Temple.†  (source)
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    It had forty rooms and a double colonnade of gleaming white marble columns that wrapped around all four sides.†  (source)
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    We'd worked out the timing ahead of time and I was waiting for him on Renaissance V, standing back in the shadows of the colonnade.†  (source)
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    The last architect to work at Brideshead had added a colonnade and flanking pavilions.†  (source)
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    There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself.†  (source)
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    We saw the Red Mosque where the siege had taken place, the wide, wide Constitution Avenue leading to the white-colonnaded buildings of the Parliament House and the Presidency, where Zardari now lived.†  (source)
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    She ran down a shadowy colonnade and pressed herself against a wall to catch her breath.†  (source)
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    It wasn't easy, even though I'd been to visit my grandfather countless times growing up, because each house looked like the next: squat and boxy with minor variations, trimmed with aluminum siding or dark seventies wood, or fronted by plaster colonnades that seemed almost delusionally aspirational.†  (source)
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    In the broad, covered corridor—the colonnaded kuthambalam abutting the heart of the temple where the Blue God lived with his flute, the drummers drummed and the dancers danced, their colors turning slowly in the night.†  (source)
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    Soon enough we were turning into a small parking lot beside the Colonnade at Kessler Park.†  (source)
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    The palace was a beautiful, ornate structure of open arches, colonnades, and wide balconies intended for dancing and parties.†  (source)
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    The Treasury, the Presidencia, a dentist's, the prison — a low white colonnaded building which dated back three hundred years — and then the steep street down past the back wall of a ruined church: whichever way you went you came ultimately to water and to river.†  (source)
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    He jogged down the long hallway, illuminated brightly by a colonnade of chandeliers.†  (source)
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