The great obelisk is but one of the many cases in point. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
Well, moving the obelisk is something spectacular at that time, and even attracting people. From Wordnik.com. [Moving the Vatican Obelisk] Reference
"A great open place, and in the midst of it an obelisk, which is a thousand years old.". From Wordnik.com. [What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales] Reference
"It is a very large place; in the centre of it stands an obelisk, which is four thousand years old.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sand-Hills of Jutland] Reference
Rome, as we have seen, possesses his grandest obelisk, which is at the same time the greatest of all extant monoliths. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
It must be remembered that the obelisk is a single stone, seventy-two feet high, and weighs five hundred thousand pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business] Reference
"The return of the obelisk is a return of Ethiopia's historical culture. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The word "obelisk" literally means "Baal's Shaft" or Baal's organ of reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [henrymakow.com] Reference
"The obelisk is a long pointed four-sided shaft, the uppermost portion of which forms a pyramid. From Wordnik.com. [henrymakow.com] Reference
Sometimes also the offering is of the obelisk itself. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The largest obelisk known is that of St. John Lateran. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
But a skinny obelisk -- a narrow signal-is tough to miss. From Wordnik.com. [ET, PHONE US] Reference
The obelisk of Heliopolis bears the name of Osirtasen I. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In the centre is an enclosure, and in that is a fine obelisk. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Through the hills and upon the desert, as a mighty obelisk stands. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Creation] Reference
An obelisk of gray Canadian granite now stands on this historic ground. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Graph out this increase in app display capacity, and it looks like an obelisk. From Wordnik.com. [Aaron Shapiro: The Great App Bubble] Reference
They were placed on a plain square pedestal, but larger than the obelisk itself. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
This was a wooden obelisk about ten feet high, painted white, at the base of which. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
Assuredly his own name, aside from the tall obelisk itself, was the largest thing in view. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
A memorial obelisk was erected by one of these survivors, and this was restored by order of. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
At the peak of the obelisk is Lee mounted atop his horse, Traveler, staring out at the battlefield. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Cesca: Ground Zero Mosque Opponents Have A Lot of Work To Do] Reference
We hang up and I shake my head at the tall, white obelisk in front of the Mount Vernon strip mall. From Wordnik.com. [Nigtingale] Reference
The obelisk found at Philæ was erected in honor of Ptolemy Evergetes II. and of Cleopatra, his sister, or. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Egyptian obelisk brought from the circus of Nero, and surrounded by points of the compass let into the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
A few yards beyond is an obelisk which marks the boundary between France and Italy, and which commemorates in French. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
In the centre of the “Place” is the monolith obelisk, 49 ft. high, hewn by the Romans from the quarries of Esterel. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The inscription was a commemoration by the king who had the temple or palace built before which the obelisk was placed. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The obelisk of the Piazza del Popolo claims great interest, as it also stood before the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The obelisk in front of St. Peter's was brought to Rome by Caligula, and placed on the Vatican in the Circus of Caligula. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Nearby was Barnett Newman's "Broken obelisk," a sculpture that, as its name suggests, is a smashed obelisk teetering on a podium. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Art Worship] Reference
Then, after a dinner of caribou meat and coffee, they wheeled the plane over the gravel to the foot of the great gray granite obelisk. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
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