Set out a clematis or two, for beautiful blooms up a porch pillar or over an old fence or stone wall.
And another pair of eyes watched as well, from the deep shadows under the porch pillars of Convocation Hall.
The house was grand even for the era, white Italianate Victorian, with twin porch pillars and many bow front windows.
A morning-glory climbed over the porch pillars, as a curtain between the house and the light of a lamppost on the corner.
While the men talked, it returned, having smelled the parcel Gregg had laid behind the porch pillar.
He helped Marie sit down against one of the porch pillars.
An exterior door and porch pillars in the Greek Revival style were added in about 1830.
"I don't hear anything more down- stairs, or maybe we could get out on this roof and slide down the porch pillars."
The lamps at the end of the walk and those on the porch pillars were brass ship's lamps with flameshaped bulbs.
She leaned against a porch pillar.