Galleries

Examples

• From the rail before the dock, away into the sharpest angle of the smallest corner in the galleries, all looks were fixed upon one man--Fagin. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• These four perpendicular ranges of windows admitted air, and, the fire being kindled, heat, or smoke at least, to each of the galleries. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They prowled about the churches and picture-galleries, much in the old, dreary, prison-yard manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I could not rest under the imputation that I visited Florence and did not traverse its weary miles of picture galleries. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by us in Venice, I shall mention only one--the church of Santa Maria dei Frari. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The rooms on the floor above the two galleries are kept in tolerable repair, but are very seldom used. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It begins to dawn upon me, now, that possibly, what I have been taking for uniform ugliness in the galleries may be uniform beauty after all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Even to-day enough remains of the galleries, shafts, sco ria, mine-lamps, and other utensils to give a clear idea of this scene of ancient industry. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I liked to visit the picture-galleries, and I dearly liked to be left there alone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There were long galleries, and ancient state bedrooms, there were pictures and old China, and armour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We rode on asses and mules up the steep, narrow streets and entered the subterranean galleries the English have blasted out in the rock. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But we reached the upper galleries without detection and presently Thuvia halted us at the foot of a short, steep ascent. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In 1829 he went abroad, visited the great galleries of Europe, and tried to find a more ready market for his historical studies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Each of these stories or galleries has four windows, facing directly to the points of the compass, and rising of course regularly above each other. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Is it not possible that the reason I find such charms in this picture is because it is out of the crazy chaos of the galleries? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The place was vast, naked, dreary; its court a barn, its galleries stalls for human horses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• From this spot, Mr. Pickwick wandered along all the galleries, up and down all the staircases, and once again round the whole area of the yard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His children had urged him to travel: Mary Chivers had felt sure it would do him good to go abroad and see the galleries. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• There was no stairway, but a gentle incline to the first floor of the building opened into an enormous chamber encircled by galleries. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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