Across the strip of sliding water the sombre firs rose in a great colonnade from the grey rock's crest, with the fires of sunset blazing behind their wide-girthed trunks.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Nasmyth noticed how curiously at home she seemed amidst that tremendous colonnade of towering trunks.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Here is a colonnade where in winter you can pace up and down with shutters closed on the weather side, or in spring-time enjoy the scent of violets and the temperate sunshine.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill