grecian-columned

Updated: May 13, 2025

But the days of road travelling departed, and Viney, who, beneath the Grecian-columned portico of his country-house-looking hotel, modulated the ovations of his cauliflower head to every description of traveller from the lordly occupant of the barouche-and-four, down to the humble sitter in a gig was cut off by one fell swoop from all further traffic.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour