"Archway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... close to the factory about that time, and the girls and I visited what the journalists call "the scene of the tragedy." It was strange watching crowds of people collected daily to see nothing but an archway. ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... cab had passed around the corner Paul stood by the archway staring in that direction, but presently he aroused himself and returned to the courtyard. He tried the handle of James's door but learned that the bolt remained fastened, whereupon he determined to proceed ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer
... rein, we flew beneath the dark outer port of the castle, clattered through a court paved with slippery blocks of stone, thundered over a noble drawbridge, plunged into a long and gloomy archway, and finally came out in a bright inner palace court with lamps ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett
... facing the river and the other a broad square. Their sleigh stopped by the tall monolith column commemorating Alexander the First, which stands almost directly in front of the Palace. Leading from the Palace to the Hermitage, once the palace of the great Catherine, is a covered archway. ...
— The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army • Margaret Vandercook
... the low archway of the entrance amid a clamor of “adieu“ and “au revoir,” the young Frenchman at my side pointed up to a row of closed windows overhead. “Isn’t it a lesson,” he said, “for all of us, to think of the occupants of those little rooms, whom the generosity and care of that gracious artist are leaning ...
— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory
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