Word: portals
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ability of one, executed and completed by the physical efforts of many, into a glorious edifice. See this spacious hall, those eastward-looking wings, and a dome more lofty and resplendent than that which looked down upon the chains of Regulus! Although no nosce te is emblazoned on the portal, a symbol more expressive than the Delphic inscription stands out in bold relief on the front of this column-supported vestibule; there, forgetful of the tennis-court, rests the well-proportioned athlete, whose contour indicates that Greek repose which our multiplex university studies make almost impossible in modern...
...portal open flies...
...modest young lady guards the portal of that famous basement in Beacon Street, and receives your fee before you enter the shades beyond. Besides this pecuniary transaction she requests you to inscribe your name in a ponderous volume. Could it be that I was thus leaving a last record for the outer world before opening that mysterious plate-glass door on which I deciphered the words "Ring the Bell and Walk in"? I began to feel slightly nervous, and to repent my rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed...
Through clouds that changing formed in arch and portal...