QUADRANGLE in a Sentence

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But the word and the vision capered before his eyes as he walked back across the quadrangle and towards the college gate.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUADRANGLE
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quadrangle
 n.  four-sided plane figure;
Classic Sentence:
1  They entered the grounds of the college and were led by the garrulous porter across the quadrangle.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  By the time they had crossed the quadrangle his restlessness had risen to fever.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  But the word and the vision capered before his eyes as he walked back across the quadrangle and towards the college gate.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  The quick light shower had drawn off, tarrying in clusters of diamonds among the shrubs of the quadrangle where an exhalation was breathed forth by the blackened earth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
5  Cranly's heavy boots were heard loudly charging across the quadrangle and then returning heavily, foiled and spurning the gravel at each step.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  They crossed the quadrangle together without speaking.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
8  When we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle, we again looked up at the windows.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
9  The snow of the little quadrangle before the house was lit up by a light in the bedroom windows of his old nurse, Agafea Mihalovna, who performed the duties of housekeeper in his house.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 26
10  The backs of the chief establishments in town surrounded a quadrangle neglected, dirty, and incomparably dismal.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
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