Pillars

Examples

• Pillars are required under the center of the ice. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The next thing he demanded was one of the hollow iron pillars; by which he meant my pocket pistols. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It seems, therefore, not incredible that the region abou t the Pillars of Hercules [Gibraltar] is connected with that of India, and that there is thus only one ocean. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Between these snow-white pillars hung heavy curtains of azure tint, embroidered with bizarre figures in yellow silk. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She had taken a crayon from the tutor's desk, and was drawing little leaves, fragments of pillars, broken crosses, on the margin of the book. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here, in a new shrine--in a hall inlaid with precious stones, under a roof supported by pillars of gold--the moon-god was set up and worshipped. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Some of the larger buildings had corners knocked off; pillars cut in two; cornices smashed; holes driven straight through the walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These pillars are small, and doubtless the edifices they adorned were distinguished more for elegance than grandeur. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The trunks remain still and firm as pillars, while the boughs sway to every breeze. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The two vertical strokes are thought to represent the Pillars of Hercules, which were stamped upon the coin itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They have twelve small pillars, in St. Peter's, which came from Solomon's Temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This old dried-up reservoir is occupied by a few ghostly silk-spinners now, and one of them showed me a cross cut high up in one of the pillars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The portals of the great western front are bisected by square pillars. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There were many marble busts on painted wooden pillars along the walls of the room they used for an office. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• BREADALBY Breadalby was a Georgian house with Corinthian pillars, standing among the softer, greener hills of Derbyshire, not far from Cromford. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The American Diamond Rock Boring Company of Providence, Rhode Island, bored out a twenty-four inch core from each of the great pillars, and thus relieved the danger. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I see an insufferable glory burning terribly between the pillars. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Wonderful Work of Stone-Boring Machine on Pillars of Ohio State Capitol. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The ultimate one--that is a good word--but the pillars are not both on the same side of the strait. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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