The marble of the pilaster, against which he leaned, was not more cold and unmoved than the face of the inquisitor.

In every part, interior and exterior, do we see a matchless proportion and beauty, whether in the shaft or the capital or the frieze or the pilaster or the pediment or the cornices, or even the mouldings,everywhere grace and harmony, which grow upon the mind the more they are contemplated.

On the pedestal, &c., in front of the pilaster, generally, were one or two branches of what looked like myrtle stuck into pieces of bamboo which serve for flower-pots.

cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster. relief, relievo [It], cameo; bassorilievo^, mezzorilevo^, altorivievo; low relief,

[Fr.], arabesque, fret, anthemion^; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal^, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster &c (projection) 250; bead, beading; champleve ware

pilastra, f., pilaster.

The monument is a sort of Grecian temple, with pilasters and a dome, covering a space of about twenty feet square.

Hadrian's villa has already furnished many a statue, column and pilaster to the Museums, churches and Palaces of Rome.

In each of the said six tabernacles will be placed two figures about one palm taller than life (i.e., 6-3/4 feet), twelve in all; and in front of each pilaster which flanks a tabernacle shall stand a figure of similar size, twelve in all.

Then I walked round the little church, knee-deep in the long grave-grass, and noted the broad pilaster-strips of the apse, the stone eaves ornamented with billets, the bracket or corbel heads just beneath, fantastic, enigmatic, and not two alike.

Each angle is strengthened by a double square pilaster of the Doric order, which supports an entablature, continued round the whole edifice.

The principal elevation, (seen in the Engraving) towards Mosley-street, has a noble portico of six lofty columns of the Ionic order, supporting a rich entablature and pediment in the centre, on each side of which are columns and pilasters connecting it with the wings.

Genevra was there before him, pale, wistful, heavy-eyedstanding in the shelter of a huge pilaster.

A column is a more agreeable figure than a pilaster; and, for that reason, it ought to be preferred, all other circumstances being equal.

An other reason concurs, that a column connected with a wall, which is a plain surface, makes a greater variety than a pilaster."See

So long, however, as the general proportions were the same, there was no fear that the new edifice would topple over if it did not conform exactly in height and length and breadth, in column and pilaster and facade, to the venerated model in the mother countries.

There was no door, no shop, nothing, only the common pilaster between the shop where they sell pictures and the window with the chicks!

And Gam a says that in Mexico the presiding god of the spring was often represented without a human body, and in place thereof a pilaster or square column, whose pedestal was covered with various sculptures.

An inscription discovered by Edmund Smith upon the capital of a pilaster in the west façade of the building, states that it was erected in Samvat 1629 (A.D. 1572), ten years before this date, and three years after the commencement of the city.

He grasped the pilaster on each side of the panel, gave a gentle pull, and panel and pilasters came away bodily, exposing a moderate-sized cupboard.

[Footnote 1: On each side of the principal door of the Cathedral at Siena, which is dedicated to "Beata Virgine Assunta," and just within the entrance, is a magnificent pilaster, of white marble, completely covered from the base to the capital with the most luxuriant carving, arabesques, foliage, &c., in an admirable and finished style.

Interior decoration necessarily followed suit; instead of the curled endive scrolls enclosing the irregular panel, and the superabundant foliage in ornament, we have rectangular panels formed by simpler mouldings, with broken corners, having a patera or rosette in each, and between the upright panels there is a pilaster of refined Renaissance design.

A notable feature in the ornament of woodwork and in metal mountings of this time, is a fluted pilaster with quills or husks filling the flutings some distance from the base, or starting from both base and top and leaving an interval of the hollow fluting plain and free.

"Eh?" said she, halting within the gate, a pilaster of which hid Miss Sally from her.

For example, they circled a bend of which the extreme delicate angle was a jutting pilaster five hundred feet broad and a mile high, its head towering in a sharp tiara far above the brow of the plateau, and its sides curved into extravagances of dizzy horror.