Round this outer court ran marble colonnades, richly ornamented and supported by four rows of pillars, and roofed with cedar, affording ample shade to the traders.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Higher on the mountain-side was the Forum with its terraces and long colonnades.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
How dreadful it was to walk in these exquisite and tropical gardens, to stand upon these terraces, to wander over these marble pavements and beneath these tiled colonnades, to hear these fountains singing under orange trees, to see these far stretches of turquoise and deep blue water, to watch Arabs on white roads passing noiselessly by night under a Heaven thick with stars, and to know "He is not here and I am nothing to him!"
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens