Thesaurus / columns
FEEDBACK- monument
- cylinder
- monolith
- buttress
- totem
- pedestal
- support
- prop
- brace
- obelisk
- standard
- upright
- post
- stay
- pier
- shaft
- mast
- tower
- colonnade
- underpinning
- pilaster
- pylon
- caryatid
- minaret
- stele
- peristyle
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Within were the park and the deer, and the mansion rearing its brilliant columns amidst the redundant groves of a Spanish autumn.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERHe stood still an instant, hidden by the porphyry columns of the portico.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThose soaring columns held up the very sky, and their foundations made the earth itself swing true.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODWhen the main French columns were deployed, Lannes, with the remnant of his indomitable corps, had a brief period of rest.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONThe first and second companies fired volleys to cover the advance of the other columns.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANAs it had columns for recording statistics of the fair for a period of years, it was instructive as well as ornamental.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWThe men who print newspapers search closely for a bit of 'news,' and so your simple story got into the columns of my weekly.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDThe columns advanced cautiously towards the town in anticipation of a fierce resistance and, it was hoped, a fight to the finish.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANSimultaneously, Generals Hale and Wheaton were coming forward with their columns, each having had some hard fighting on the way.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANThe insurgents were under cover the whole time, and their assembled thousands could hardly be seen by the attacking columns.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN