Word: porch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
Bellard, in The Woman, meant to be a financier. One day "he was torn by the look of a house on whose mean little porch near the street sat a shabby old man of 60, without a coat and reading a newspaper. The man's fate seemed terrible. . . . But the man looked up, and smiled at Bellard as brightly as if he himself had been young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby...
...Harvardians, a 10 piece orchestra, will furnish the music. This jazz band, which is composed entirely of University students, has played at many affairs about the University. If weather permits, the porch will be opened for dancing...
...building up a big practice, including the counselorship of the Marion Steam Shovel Co.,* and becoming president of the National City Bank & Trust Co. of Marion, Warren Harding was moving right on up in politics. He became a U. S. Senator and then, one summer, sat on his front porch and waited for his friends to make him President of the United States...
...expansion of the Baldwin works. The lady had refused to sell and move out, and had wrathfully bade her neighbors do likewise. Mr. Vauclain put on an old straw hat, sauntered down her street and reclined in the sun opposite where she sat glowering on her porch. Neither spoke. After half an hour he strolled away. Next day he appeared again. Her sociability overcame her ire. "Phwat are ye sittin- on the sunny soid for?" she called. "Because I haven't been invited to sit on the shady side," he called back. She invited him over. He made friends...