| The atria and peristyles were embellished with valuable paintings and statues. |
| He found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts, and being adorned with verandas, beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles. |
| Most peristyles in Haiti have hard-packed dirt floors that can soak up libations when they're poured on the ground in honor of the spirits. |
| Portraits of famous Greek and Roman poets, orators, and statesmen filled libraries and peristyles. |
| A great number of amphorae were found in it, as also in both peristyles. |
