When her mind took this turn her marriage seemed no more than an archway through which it was necessary to pass in order to have her desire.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Thus bound, the culprit was marched through the archway of the old tower into an apartment that was but feebly lit by the reflected glare coming from without.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
We must have gone a considerable way round, for it seemed a long while before we reached the archway, which I at once recognised.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston