Sample sentences for COLONNADE

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a series of regularly spaced columns

It was raining, so they stayed under the colonnade as they walked along the rose garden.

I ran around the pond alongside a massive marble colonnade.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
ROXANE (appearing on the steps, and seeing Le Bret go away by the colonnade leading to the chapel door): Monsieur le Bret!
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Open for me a bucolic perspective as far as you can see, beneath a marble colonnade.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Rows of graceful colonnades branched up to the dark, ribbed ceiling five stories above.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
"Anne," cried Mary, still at her window, "there is Mrs Clay, I am sure, standing under the colonnade, and a gentleman with her.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion
A good colour, certainly; something like the colonnade of St. Peter's.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
No one was on the path that went along the green river meadow, along the elm-tree colonnade.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
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.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
On the opposite side of the courtyard, under a colonnade, was extensive standing—for carriages—where, indeed, some carriages of Monseigneur yet stood.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
He jogged down the long hallway, illuminated brightly by a colonnade of chandeliers.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
Soon enough we were turning into a small parking lot beside the Colonnade at Kessler Park.
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
The fire-crowned candles flickered in white colonnades above the fresh linen, held in place by silver candelabra.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Some of the guards entered the forest of pillars encompassing the colonnade.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Off to the left ran an old wooden colonnade culminating in a stream spouting its medicinal water into a marble bowl.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Merwomen unsealed and lovely in sea-floor colonnades.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
"All right" They sat behind a huge, sweating stone colonnade, out of sight of the kitchen, and gobbled their pie with their fingers.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
The outside of the long, low house wore a fresh coat of white, with a pale blue colonnade and shutters to add a bit of color to the tidy porch.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
He went back and stood for a moment under a colonnade, looking round him on all sides in hope of perceiving the nose somewhere.
Nikolai Gogol -- The Nose
At the north end, the beech roots formed a kind of irregular colonnade.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

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