buttress

• I availed myself of a sort of comb of the mountain, which stood against the wall like a buttress, and which the wind and the solar radiation, joined to the steepness of the smooth rock, had kept almost entirely free from snow. —  The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson
• But the use of the buttress is an anomalous feature which it is difficult to believe was of aboriginal conception. —  The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
• She sprang towards me I beg your pardon,' she said The end of the buttress was a foot or two below the level of the leads, where Clara stood. —  Wilfrid Cumbermede
• The end of the buttress was a foot or two below the level of the leads, where Clara stood. —  Wilfrid Cumbermede
• To the right of the buttress is a long two-cusped lancet light; to the left may be traced, perhaps, the outline of an original round-arched window; while on both sides there are sloping lines in the masonry, as if there had been an acutely-pointed gable here. —  Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric

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