12 Verbs to Use for the Word obelisk

They erected obelisks in single shafts nearly one hundred feet in height, and they engraved the sides of these obelisks from top to bottom with representations of warriors, priests, and captives.

In the centre of the Piazza della Rotonda stands an obelisk brought from Egypt, which belonged to a temple sacred to Isis in that country.

The Egyptian priests called these obelisks the sun's fingers, because they served as stiles or gnomons to mark the hours on the ground.

Would he presently say: men never inhabited this place; no human hand had anything to do here; it is chance that formed these columns, that placed them on their pedestals, and crowned them with their capitals, with such just proportions; it is chance that so firmly jointed the pieces that make up these pyramids; it is chance that cut the obelisks in one single stone, and engraved in them these characters?

They were facing a small rough-hewn obelisk of stone which stood at the head of a low mound of earth at the far end of the court.

He watched her till her masts and sails formed only a white obelisk, gradually decreasing against the horizon.

I passed the obelisk, went up the long ascent, crossed the portico, pushed aside the heavy leathern curtain at the entrance, and stood in the great nave.

The only traces of their existence now extant were the nuraghs of Sardinia and the talayots of the Balearic Islands,gigantic tables formed with blocks, barbaric altars of enormous rocks which recalled the Celtic obelisks and sepulchral monuments of the Breton coast.

Going directly down the Borgo Vecchio, towards it, it seemed a long time before we arrived at the square of St. Peter's; when at length we stood in front with the majestic colonnade sweeping aroundthe fountains on each side sending up their showers of silvery spraythe mighty obelisk of Egyptian granite piercing the skyand beyond, the great front and dome of the Cathedral, I confessed my unmingled admiration.

He shall also break the obelisks of Heliopolis and the temples of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.

Stepping a few yards to either side throws the obelisk out of the way and affords one a perfect view of that noble arch (one of the most stately monuments in existence).

and so much harder to replace its living cone than to build a granite obelisk!

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  obelisk