Portals
['portl]
Examples
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and towered two hundred feet in the air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- In the cab they continued to remain silent through the brief drive which carried them to the illuminated portals of the Stepneys' hotel. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The massy portals of the churches swung creaking on their hinges; and some few lay dead on the pavement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was now dusk, but the watchers at the gate saw the approaching trio and distinguished one as a prisoner ere they reached the portals. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Opening the gates I ordered the two great beasts to pass out, and then slipping quietly after them I closed the portals behind me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Dear brethren, let us tremble before those august portals. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The portals of the great western front are bisected by square pillars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On they came to the portals of Kulonga's hut, the very one in which Tarzan had wrought his depredations. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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