And back in Halifax, back on that gritty, beers-on-the-porch section of Mitchell Street that Spriri calls home, Patrick and his colleagues say that they are "Thrilled, relieved… and maybe a little terrified".
In addition to the porch, the front section of the house also includes the turret and a gabled roof line.
As I go about my daily life, phrases from "The Church Porch", the first section of Herbert's poem "The Temple", often come to mind.
So in 2004, when her husband, Simon, a salesman, told her about the crumbling 1901 Federal-style house with a colonnaded wrap-around porch in the Highbridge section of the Bronx that he had seen when he was out on business, Ms. Diaz had to have it.
We'll get home, put our feet up in our side covered porch and fight over sections of the paper.
A screened porch connects the two sections of the guesthouse, one with a kitchenette and each with a bedroom and a bathroom.
A man was shot and wounded on a back porch in the Hungry Hill section of Springfield, Mass., Saturday afternoon.
On that July night, around 11, Mr. Dunikowski was having dinner on a neighbor's front porch in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn.
Morover, if we were in the roofing business, we'd rop him a lin about the section over the porch, which we cannot help but feel could stand a patch job.
The police said he killed Latasha Logan, 20, the mother of his 4-year-old son, and Desire Privette, 19, and wounded her aunt, Carolyn Privette, 39, as they sat on a porch in the Asylum Hill section of Hartford on Aug. 26.
The Forsters' house was fronted by two porches, separated by a central section with seven bays.
