How To Use Obelisk In A Sentence
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The catalogue describes an obelisk and a stele brought back as symbols of imperial conquest.
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a street of considerable extent, in the broader part of which stands what may justly be deemed one of the most valuable curiosities of the place; it is a _milliare_, or Roman mile-stone, forming part of a small obelisk.
A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers
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On the other side of the water, the New York Sun called the obelisk "terrific humbug," and "only a broken, decaying and disfigured old block of stone.
'Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights'
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There, jutting from the racing waters, stood a dark, jagged stone, not too tall, its rugged jet surface like an unhewn obelisk.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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He used the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the fallen obelisk which he removed from Philae and the Greek text on its pedestal to further the decipherment of hieroglyphs by his recognition of the name Cleopatra.
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The famous Castletown obelisk, for example, is on land that forms part of the Carton demesne.
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I walked from the fort site three miles to the stone obelisk marking the place where Captain Fetterman and his men met their end in 1866.
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For instance, in 1676 the academicians of Aries undertook the reconstruction of a Roman obelisk excavated nearby under the supervision of the academy.
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It was so far off her personal awareness sensors that the obelisk was the first artifact Abramowitz had ever physically encountered from the planet, an admission she made somewhat sheepishly considering her role as a cultural specialist attached to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers.
Creative Couplings
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This made the obelisks so brilliant in sunlight that whenever a visitor looked out on the city, the most dazzling sight was no longer the temple of Amen-Ra but her obelisks.
King/Pharaoh Hatshepsut, An Awesome Lady Ruler
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He proposed to set up there a national fertilising farm to be named OMPHALOS with an obelisk hewn and erected after the fashion of Egypt and to offer his dutiful yeoman services for the fecundation of any female of what grade of life soever who should there direct to him with the desire of fulfilling the functions of her natural.
Ulysses
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Had the obelisk been successfully completed, it would be the single heaviest piece of monolithic stonework reaching about 42 m and weighing over 1168 tonnes.
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And that granite obelisk is the Bunker Hill Monument which you will have learnt about in school.
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The War Memorial Obelisk stands about 20 foot high on an outcrop of gritstone and is brilliantly situated.
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Finally in 1885 it was replaced by an obelisk known as Flinders' Column.
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Fortresses construct the Blood Obelisk to increase the ferocity of their town defenders.
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The privatisation and embourgeoisement of customs surrounding death proceeded inexorably towards an English speaking world marked by Victorian forests of of obelisks, stone crosses and angels marking affectionate remembrance.
The Book of Common Prayer, part 4: In the midst of life
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A good part of this was taken up by the spina, or middle space, adorned with temples, statues, and two great obelisks; as well as by the euripus, or canal, made by order of Julius Caesar, to contain crocodiles, and other aquatic animals, which were killed occasionally.
Travels through France and Italy
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Over the past few years, the English archaeologist David Philipson has uncovered a dense underground network of burial chambers and connecting tunnels below them, proof that the obelisks were funeral monuments.
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We came about evenfall, and were received by the cellarer who had a nose very rich – like an obelisk.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate; of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt; of the Doric architecture, and the
Uncollected Prose
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From the railway we catch sight of the monticule crowned by an obelisk; surmounting the vine-clad slopes, we also obtain a glimpse of its "Ormes de Sully," or group of magnificent elms, one of many in
East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne
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Our prime minister tells us that the return of the obelisk is a Tigrian affair, not the business of us southern people," says Alemayehu, an ethnic Oromo who works for a non-governmental organization that helps the rural poor outside the capital, Addis Ababa.
Special Report: The Axum Obelisk Returns, but Some Still Grumble
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Near the Pantheon there is a pair of obelisks which were brought from the East, and stood together before the temple of Isis and Serapis, which is supposed to have been situated on the site of the Dominican
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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Among its wealth of neoclassical details are the legs in the shape of inverted obelisks, the torsos of draped and winged caryatids and atlantes, and the allegorical figure (possibly Summer).
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From the orange obelisk monument of Ohakune, to the corrugated iron sheep and dog combo, outlandish structures remind us of the cargo-cult of tourism and a need to be noticed.
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Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
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Tall, stone obelisks and stellae exemplify the building skills of the people.
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Well, moving the obelisk is something spectacular at that time, and even attracting people.
Moving the Vatican Obelisk
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He was faced with a monolithic obelisk of pumice with long turquoise strips running along it vertically, the area around it devoid of any tombstones.
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The sad truth is that she's barely mentioned in the 3,000 years of effigies and hieroglyphics that cover the towering columns, needle-like obelisks and endless sarcophagi.
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Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
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The obelisks are all formed of granite, the foundation-stone of the globe, belonging to the oldest azoic formation, which laid down the first basis for the appearing of life.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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Some of these shells, called hams, -- clams of great size, with valves in the form of a club, -- had fixed themselves upright in the mire, giving the appearance of a submerged Celtic camp, with a succession of obelisks swallowed up by the depths of the sea.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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I love the story about the raising of the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde in Paris - I've read a better version somewhere but here's the quickie recap.
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Jordan arrived at work yesterday to find a stone obelisk in front of the restaurant toppled over.
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Near the centre was a tall standing stone now marked by a concrete obelisk, adjacent to which was a short straight line of stones which may have formed one side of a square around the central upright.
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The obelisk in the square before the church of St. John Lateran is ascribed not to Rameses the Great but to Thoutmos
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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But only the next morning could we fathom the magnificence of the temple with its huge pylons and obelisks.
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A welter of ancient corridors in a ruin gives way to a clear space, contained within a circle of weathered obelisks.
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Visitors generally assume that the name, like the obelisk, is a holdover from the 1930s.
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Porterfield ventures to propose that the obelisk was ‘a monument that advanced the culture and politics of an era, not a regime’.
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Triumph filled the end of the bosquet; it was placed on an estrade with marble steps, and was preceded by four lofty obelisks of gilded iron in which the water leaped and fell in sheets of crystal.
The Story of Versailles
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To the top of the surbase is fourteen feet from the ground; on this rests a sarcophagus, seven feet three inches high, from which rises an obelisk forty-two feet eight inches in height, and the apex is two feet one inch.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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Travelers to Egypt are still impressed with its great pyramids, slender obelisks and avenues of monuments.
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I copied the inscriptions on the plaque and the obelisk in my notebook.
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The above is reduced from Mr. Petrie's large plan in "Tanis," Part I., showing the position of the ruins within the enclosure wall, the obelisks being figured as they lie.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Large family sepulchers featuring urns, statues of angels, and obelisks, spread out as far as the eye can see.
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Lengthening shadows cast by giant stone structures, like obelisks or the pillars of Stonehenge, were used by ancient civilizations to measure time.
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Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks.
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‘The obelisk is a remarkable landmark, but made even more important because it was one of the first such monuments to be built,’ he said.
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On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.
Erema
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Most of its grandeur - all that street furniture of pillars, obelisks and pyramids - is the work of one man: Joze Plecnik, who studied in Prague.
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When Ramses II was over eighty he celebrated his rejuvenation at the feast of Set, repeating it yearly until he was ninety and more, and displaying his power of rejuvenation to the Gods above in the Obelisks he regularly erected as a memorial, which the aged Pharaoh decorated with electrum at the top so that their brightness should pour over lands of Egypt when the sun was mirrored in them.
Rebellion in the Land of the Pharaohs
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An obelisk on a spit of land across the bay commemorates his death.
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The building with the sphinx and obelisks in the center housed Akoun's Beautiful Orient with its bazaar offering wares from the Middle East.
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Standing at the centre of the memorial are six large basalt obelisks etched with the names of all the countries where Australians have been held prisoner of war.
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A couple on a bench become a woman's face; a peaceful walkway becomes a conflagration; a weeping widow morphs into an obelisk for an unknown soldier.
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The building with the sphinx and obelisks in the center housed Akoun's Beautiful Orient with its bazaar offering wares from the Middle East.
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Living in north Alton as a child, I played in the Confederate cemetery, both tree-shaded and open, green and lovely, with a granite obelisk monument to the dead.
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Work involved the repair and cleaning of headstones, above-ground chambers, obelisks and monuments together with the construction of boundary walls and ornate railings.
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Countless pyramids, obelisks and urns, rising far and wide above the cedars and cypresses, showed the extent of the splendid necropolis, which is inhabited by pale, shrouded emigrants from its living sister below.
Views a-foot
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Neoclassical commodes, desks, and some chairs had fluted tapered legs reminiscent of upside-down obelisks.
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The colossi are of black granite; the obelisk is of red, highly polished, and covered on all four sides with superb hieroglyphs in three vertical columns.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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The great obelisk is but one of the many cases in point.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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At 75 years old, Harry was still the odds-on favorite to win the tournaments at the Obelisk.
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Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle.
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Scholarly notes are usually signalled by superscript numbers at appropriate points in a text, but such symbols as asterisks and obelisks may be used instead for footnotes.
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Behind the high walls, hidden by a long screen of ilexes, you are suddenly back in the eighteenth century, surrounded by the obelisks and mausolea of sea captains and corsairs, exiled aristocrats and shipwrecked plantation owners.
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The battle site was for many years recorded by a stone obelisk which stood on the bank of the river at Oldbridge but which was blown up in the early years of the 20th century.
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More than one-quarter of Australia's civic memorials are obelisks or columns - traditional cemetery forms.
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The straight vertical edge that viewers see as they walk into the room could be an obelisk, a standing figure, or even a stone tombstone.
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After knoll to see the Boundary Obelisk, we had a swim at Kau Leng Chung Beach.
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After knoll to see the Boundary Obelisk, we had a swim at Kau Leng Chung Beach.
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But I have not yet received that which I stand most in need of, to wit the Psalter in 8vo which is distinguished with obeliskes and asteriskes.
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
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Inside Saint - Sulpice , Silas carried heavy iron votive candle holder from the altar back toward the obelisk.
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The sad truth is that she's barely mentioned in the 3,000 years of effigies and hieroglyphics that cover the towering columns, needle-like obelisks and endless sarcophagi.
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All I could see, from a distance, were numerous hands vigorously hurling stones at the aforementioned obelisk.
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There was a rather squat, stone-and-rock obelisk in the middle of the lawn.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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I think you would've remembered them if... "The woman had become an obelisk; it was futile to continue.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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The long shadow of the obelisk was not born of the plenilune moon, but of the first crescent of the sun, and that shadow pointed to me like an arrow.
The Urth of the New Sun
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In a land of enchantment, a garden most gorgeous, a plain sprinkled with coloured meteors, a forest with sparks of purple and ruby and golden fire gemming the foliage; a region, not of trees and shadow, but of strangest architectural wealth — of altar and of temple, of pyramid, obelisk, and sphinx: incredible to say, the wonders and the symbols of Egypt teemed throughout the park of
Villette
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He worships at an obelisk lit by a single spotlamp, dressed in roughly fashioned cowhide.
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High above a hill in Oakwood Cemetery at Troy, New York, stands a huge obelisk, a monument to the life of Maj.
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Today, the obelisk is a common sight in cemeteries across America, standing as memorials to the deceased.
Touring the New York City Obelisks
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For days before, public drapers were to be seen clinging cross-legged to obelisk and peristyle; moving in spread-eagle fashion, hung in a jacket of sail-cloth attached to cables, across the fronts of buildings, looping garlands, besticking banners and spreading tapestries.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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We still wonder how the ancient Egyptians raised giant obelisks in the desert and how stone age men and women moved huge cut stones and placed them in position in dolmens and passage graves.
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As a final blow to her detractors, Hatshepsut ordered the creation of two of the largest most beautiful rose granite obelisks the world had ever seen and presented them as gifts to the temple of Amen-Ra.
King/Pharaoh Hatshepsut, An Awesome Lady Ruler
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A large obelisk north of the village, erected in 1823, offers the gnomic advice that kings should not strain their prerogatives nor subjects rebel.
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To the west of the gardens was the Place de la Concorde, which from its name sounded like it should have been be a haven of peace and harmony but turned out to be a giant roundabout with a big Egyptian obelisk in the middle.
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There, jutting from the racing waters, stood a dark, jagged stone, not too tall, its rugged jet surface like an unhewn obelisk.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Page view page image: where dwelt priests and nobles, illumined the propyla of the temples, burnished the lakes, gilded the obelisks, and flooded the whole City of the Sun with magnificence; — for there is a splendor and glory in the sunshine of Egypt unknown in other lands, the result of the purity of the crystalline atmosphere.
The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
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The tall buildings flickered with a glow of white, gaunt towers rising like obelisks in the night thrusting towards a heaven that would forever elude them.
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Its quarries, with those of Rohannou, were the principal ones of Egypt; they supplied a certain kind of red granite called syenite, out of which were cut the obelisks, monolithic temples, the colossus, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The arrival of this stranger at the base of the obelisk was signal from the brotherhood.
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Both these treaties are shown on the base of the obelisk of Theodosius, erected in the hippodrome at Constantinople in 390, as triumphs of Roman arms.
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He visited finally the city of Sunnu, situated at the first cataract of the Nile, and visited the immense quarries, granite and sienite, where rocks were split off with wooden wedges on which the quarrymen poured water which swelled them, and thus obelisks one hundred and thirty feet high were detached from the face of the quarry.
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
