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  • Clark carved his name and date into the pillar's sandstone surface.

    Fact Sheet On Celebrating Lewis And Clark Legacy ITY National Archives 2001

  • Cold, fresh, mineral-rich water was pouring from the pillar's summit as the sun began to reduce it with a vengeance.

    A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • The Prince folded up the spectacles and set them on the narrow ledge of the pillar's capital beside him.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • A quick glance at the ceiling, a quicker decision, and then he was swinging the light-saber at the pillar's base.

    Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978

  • A quick glance at the ceiling, a quicker decision, and then he was swinging the light-saber at the pillar's base.

    Splinter Of The Mind's Eye Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1978

  • And, though the position was exposed, I was drawn to that earthy platform beneath the central pillar's long shadow.

    Year of the Unicorn Norton, Andre 1965

  • The rockface offered little resistance as he climbed, and soon he stood atop a hooked spire that sprang from the pillar's crumbling eastern shoulder, high above the plain.

    Oberheim (Voices) Christopher Leadem

  • So vivid the tint, that steady contemplation was necessary to assure the beholders that it was not fire, climbing in and out of the pillar's heart.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • "That pillar's gone!" exclaimed Neale O'Neil, pointing to one of the wooden supports by which the roof of planks and snow was partly upheld.

    The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917

  • She sat upon a pillar's base, her eyes turned towards the cabmen's shelter.

    Esther Waters 1892

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