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  • The remarkable Hall of the Monoliths is a building some 125 feet long by 25 feet wide, with a row of great stone columns running down the centre.

    Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

  • I'm amazed that no one has mentioned Monoliths wonderful games, Condemned: Criminal Origins and F.E.A.R. These two games are simply beautiful for their implementation of in-game, interactive story-telling.

    What speaks to me the most Ben Abraham 2008

  • Now it is the very same Monoliths of the Taxpayer-funded BBC, having lost their monopoly position, that are themselves struggling to justify their existence and only able to keep the wolf from the door because the Taxpayer is forced to cough up, upon pain of having some really nasty Jobsworths pitch up and invade your house, an annual Tax of £ 135.50.

    Archive 2007-09-30 2007

  • Now it is the very same Monoliths of the Taxpayer-funded BBC, having lost their monopoly position, that are themselves struggling to justify their existence and only able to keep the wolf from the door because the Taxpayer is forced to cough up, upon pain of having some really nasty Jobsworths pitch up and invade your house, an annual Tax of £ 135.50.

    Celebrate Socialist Killjoyism? Not Likely! 2007

  • “I had to give a wide berth to the Zorin Monoliths that run along the coastal shelf of what used to be Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia,” she said.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Monoliths of black marble, they rose to great capitals carved in many strange figures of beasts and leaves; and far above in shadow the wide vaulting gleamed with dull gold, inset with flowing traceries of many colours.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • It may be observed that when slavery seemed to be firmly planted in the Republic of the United States of America, Egypt, as one of the powers of the earth, had passed away; her slavery, too, was gone -- only her Pyramids, Sphinx, and Monoliths have been spared by time and a just judgment.

    Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 Joseph Warren Keifer 1884

  • Demands from mysterious Monoliths otherwise, notwithstanding.

    digg.com: Top News 2011

  • Monoliths have the advantage of simplicity and is the way of the iPad and iPhone.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Bruce Everiss 2010

  • Monoliths have the advantage of simplicity and is the way of the iPad and iPhone.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Bruce Everiss 2010

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