The room in which he found himself was expansive, with a high vaulted ceiling and a columnlike structure in each corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day of Honor]

The weather-tanned neck that rose, columnlike, from the open shirt-throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun-Brand] Reference

He was being looked at by a dead man who was seated with his back against a columnlike tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference

Adolph Loos' columnlike entry to the original Tribune competition of 1922 with the glass prisms of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

It looked as if the strong man, with his almost blasphemous intolerance of disunion, his columnlike power of supporting, and his incomparable intellect, was to stand in the background and watch the nightmare play from afar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin O'Brien] Reference

Now it was some wonderful formation of nature -- great masses of rocks towering thousands of feet above their heads, picturesque little mountain-surrounded valleys, deep canyons and gulches and ravines and chasms, beautiful cascades of water plunging over precipitous cliffs to fall in a stream of sparkling jewels on the rocks at their base, or great forests of columnlike trees, or winding, murmuring, plunging, seething, turbulent little streams of water rushing furiously toward some far-off valley, and like marvels and beauties of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49] Reference