Columns

Examples

• A good skirmish line preceded each of these columns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• First there had been columns, then there were regiments, then there were brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I sat at the foot of these vast columns. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Another column marched on the direct road and went into camp at the point designated for the two columns to meet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It had fifty-four columns around it, but only six are standing now--the others lie broken at its base, a confused and picturesque heap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The plan had been for an advance of Sigel's forces in two columns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the so-called wind instruments, sound is produced by vibrating columns of air inclosed in tubes or pipes of different lengths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At eleven o'clock, our eyes fell upon the walls and columns of Baalbec, a noble ruin whose history is a sealed book. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming Out between the columns. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The meanest streets are strewed with truncated columns, broken capitals--Corinthian and Ionic, and sparkling fragments of granite or porphyry. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The cast-iron pier consists of four octagon columns, 10 feet in diameter. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The largest adding machine ever made was produced in 1915 and has a capacity of forty columns, or within one unit of ten duodecillions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As I took on an average from eight to fifteen columns of news report every day, it did not take long to perfect this method. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If the engine had been finished it would have contained seven columns of wheels, twenty wheels in each column, and also a contrivance for stereotyping the tables calculated by it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The columns supporting the cross-head are 14 feet 6 inches apart, and the working height under cross-head is 17 feet 1-1/4 inches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Two columns were occupied with a highly sensational and flowery rendering of the whole incident. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• There was a balcony along the second floor held up by columns. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I couldn't understand this, and when he got through, and I had copied about three columns, I asked him why those changes, if he read from notes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Columns of water and of air have been so arranged that should the car fall the fall will be broken by the water or air cushion made to yield gradually to the pressure. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Two assaulting columns, two hundred and fifty men each, composed of volunteers for the occasion, were formed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Up to this time he moved in two columns to enable him to get a good supply of forage, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The army was divided into four columns, separated from each other by one day's march. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You go in for fancy farming, you know, Chettam, said Mr. Brooke, appearing to glance over the columns of the Trumpet. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Most of the Parthenon's imposing columns are still standing, but the roof is gone. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Waldo