In the marbled corridors outside, shouting matches broke out between friends of the ousted judge and a handful of atheists.

In another room, across a marbled corridor, Furtrado's conveyancing lawyers were still arguing with their Russian counterparts for an extension of the lease.

He returned from the anti-climactic gathering by way of the marbled corridors of the Cannon House Office Building, his zest for talk and politics undiminished.

They have nothing to wear," she cried in in the marbled corridor, gesturing to a score of Armenians who, in turn, sought to comfort her.

H opened the trelliswork door and led Clavain through another series of marbled corridors until they reached what appeared to be an absurdly spacious hotel room.

They left the chamber and made their way along the marbled corridor and down the wide stairs to the street.

She walked through the private apartments and emerged into the wide marbled corridor which led to the cabinet offices, drawing startled looks and hurried bows from staff who were in early.

Back down the marbled corridors, past three or four sets of guards until I could sense that deadly fountain of chaos- a tumbling stream of white.

The ring of keys jingling at her waist, the housekeeper marched down a marbled corridor, twice casting a suspicious glance at them over her shoulder.

Twelve family members of people who disappeared during General Pinochet's dictatorship paced the marbled corridors of the Supreme Court expecting a legal defeat through the morning.