Archway

Examples

• Against the dark draperies veiling the archway the slender figure of the handsome Greek stood out in bold relief. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Doctors' Commons was approached by a little low archway. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I heard of her first at the archway toll, over at Highgate, but couldn't make quite sure. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But she said she meant a poor burying ground not very far from here, where there was an archway, and a step, and an iron gate. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Five days after the death of Raffles, Mr. Bambridge was standing at his leisure under the large archway leading into the yard of the Green Dragon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We passed by a natural archway, leading to a second gallery, and enquired, if we could not enter there also. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I found the academy established in a sufficiently dingy house at the corner of an archway, with busts in all the staircase windows. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I looked, there were only the two carabinieri and the archway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The carriage went up the street, Catherine pointed in toward the archway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He went back under the shelter of the archway. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It then, with an old broom it carries, softly sweeps the step and makes the archway clean. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sometimes he would get down by an archway or at a street corner and mysteriously show the light of his little lantern. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She did not hear him cross the courtyard beyond, nor see him pause in the archway that led from the subterranean path into the garden. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They crossed the bare scorched terrace all three together, and disappeared through a staring white archway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The towers are each pierced by two archways, 31? feet wide, and 120? feet high, through which openings passes the floor of the bridge at the height of 118 feet above high water mark. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There are ponderous archways down there, also, over which the destroying plough of prophecy passed harmless. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typed by Billie