It stands on an octangular pedestal of gray marble, with Gothic panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

On the North side stands a tower of an octangular form, supporting the spire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg] Reference

From Chia we went to see the center of Cota: it has an octangular central plaza.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cheese Run « Unknowing] Reference

A shortish square basement is at one end, from which springs a tall octangular steeple.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference

Its form is octangular, having a strong butment at each angle, surmounted with pinnacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831] Reference

These three octangular triangles of orange mean my third cousin did a good deal of war work.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Toasts] Reference

The octangular dome over the chancel is also of the byzantine era; however, it has been renewed in several parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg] Reference

Those of Newark are of a diamond or lozenge form, some are octangular, and others of a shape that would puzzle a geometrician.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference

The mausoleum of Selim II was a square structure, wrapped around an octangular upper story that was capped by a mottled lead dome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference

This consisted in a tall, perpendicular, octangular structure, placed upon the tower, quite light and open, and pierced with long windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference

The roof of the Chapel is divided into nine groined arches, supported by six octangular pillars in two rows, having small circular columns at the four points.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference

From the ceiling of the aisles, and around the dome, hung innumerable lamps of different sizes; an octangular frame of iron, suspended under the dome, also supported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

From what we see remaining, it is clear that it was (if ever built) similar to the southern limb; and it was doubtless terminated in the same way by two massive octangular towers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference

I advised him to have a light octangular canopy, like the cross at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

It is of an octangular shape, and the outside is adorned by tracery work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

(Note: In all cases the round head denotes male and octangular head female.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

The fourth pillar to the right of the entrance is octangular, and enormously thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference

A high, octangular wooden pulpit with a precentor's pew in front of it stood at the far end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Northern Iron] Reference

The chapter-house, part of which is standing, was of an octangular shape, and highly decorated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Some of the pieces were octangular, and had the appearance of being formed into that shape by art.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16] Reference

Catacombs, formed of massive octangular pillars, and supporting ranges of shelves, line the walls on either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windsor Castle] Reference

The majority of the columns at Anarajapoora are of dressed stone, octangular and of extremely graceful proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

The medal is a cross made octangular in form by fleurs-de-lis fixed in the angles of the cross in a special manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

None of them are yet proved to be square, oblong, ovate, octangular, or rhomboidal, but all are round, or spheroidal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,] Reference

Some huts also were entirely built of this material, of a rude circular or octangular form, and roofed with skins like the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2] Reference

I wore a hanger at my side, and carried a small fowling-piece, as well as an octangular stick, graduated for the purpose of measuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure] Reference

The pedestal was either triangular, quadrangular, or octangular, and was richly ornamented with various decorations and bassorilievos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

The Caaba has a double roof, supported within by three octangular pillars of aloes wood; between which, on a bar of iron, hang some silver lamps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference

Catledge Hall, Cambridgeshire, has a small octangular closet adjoining a bedroom, from which formerly there was a secret way on to the leads of the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.] Reference

It is in the Londesborough collection, as also is Fig. 193, another silver ring set with an octangular bloodstone, with a circular turquoise on each side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture] Reference

I think to be octangular the best shape, and I have made it of the size I like, being about the bigness of what Lord Harrington uses (one of his seals you'll find with it).    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

These minarets are much less substantial than those of Morocco, being octangular, with protruding stone balconies in something of the Florentine style, reached by winding stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond] Reference

A small, but ~356~~rather compact octangular building, on the right of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference

A tumbled-down circular tower, and an octangular tower in two tiers, also partly ruined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference

The corner turrets are octangular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference