31.   Architect Don Jacobs, of the Irvine, Calif., firm JBZ Dorius, points to the current neotraditionalist movement, marked by the return of the front porch.

32.   As flames and smoke poured from the windows, several tenants jumped from the roof of rear and front porches, fire officials said.

33.   As a result, Shores sometimes sat guard on his own front porch with a shotgun.

34.   As the light began to fade, Russell residents gathered on front porches to chat and watch their children chase about on well-kept lawns.

35.   As she stood on the front porch a string of neighbors, white and black, came through the door bringing food, in the tradition of small towns.

36.   As we pass by, two elderly men converse quietly in Spanish on the front porch.

37.   As the tires on her car crunched on their gravel driveway she could see Mick on the front porch, FedEx envelope in hand.

38.   At midnight, children scampered to front porches, shouting in high-pitched voices and banging pots and pans in a noisy, homespun welcome of the new year.

39.   At some point during the night, I was awakened by a bright light and the stench of cigar smoke drifting in from the front porch.

40.   At Chi Psi, the University of Colorado fraternity where her stepbrother lives, fraternity brothers routinely chase television crews from the front porch.