They flickered darkly through the trellis at the end of the porch, along the white balustrade, across the lawn and the stone walkway, stretching impossibly, swooping into the night as if trying frantically to tear free of the trees that cast them.

It carried him to the reception clerk who sat at a telephone switchboard behind the white balustrade of a Florentine balcony.

Off in the distance the high, white engirdling balustrade of the palace, with its statues of Spanish kings, appeared over the surrounding treetops.

Up the five broad steps of the porch Cal carried Kitty, to stop at the top between the white balustrades.

Surrounding the lantern is a concrete gallery, accessible through a door in the lantern wall, with a white painted balustrade, and a 1990 railing.

On a recent visit, Mr. Cetera paused in front of the house and looked askance at the gleaming white balustrade on the building's new front porch.

The footbridges, which lead to the vestibules, are separately decorated with red metaloplastic tiles and moulded white balustrade with marbled railings.

It was designed in 1907 by Hubback in an Indian Moghul style: three-pointed domes over the prayer hall, two minarets and balustrades above an arcade of cusped arches - the whole predominantly gleaming white, with pink terracotta brick.

Positioned throughout the lower floor and along the elaborately carved white balustrade of the balcony are a number of white marble statues of putti and apostles.

Its gray cinder blocks are painted a cheery pink, and its carved white balustrades recall the structural motifs of finer homes.