pillers

Other children saw their parents struggling to fight across the flames only to disappear in the ruins of falling beams and pillers.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

Mohammad is perfect- that requires them to believe the earth is flat, the sky is a bowl held up by pillers, etc (they do become competent engineers in spite of such unscientific Islamic beliefs) or believe Islamic medicine is infallible because Mohammad said black cumin cures every disease except death (and other 7 centaury medical knowledge had not prevented Muslims to become competent with western medicine.)

Frank Talk, and Warnings, in a Saudi Desert - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

I think just about everyone believed the earth was either supported on the back of a turtle or by pillers or something.

Blame Aliens - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Moreouer, the principall palace, wherein he maketh his abode, is very large, hauing within it 14 pillers of golde, and all the walles thereof are hanged with red skinnes, which are sayd to be the most costly skinnes in all the world.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

A bedsted of wallnut-tree, toppe fashion, the pillers redd and varnished, the ceelor, tester, and single vallance of crimson sattin, paned with a broad border of bone lace of golde and silver.

Kenilworth 2004

Within the same in a corner thereof is a tombe built vpon foure pillers with a vault, as if it were vnder a pauement, which bindeth all the foure pillers together.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Below there are round about very great staires of yron ascending vp vntill the midst of the pillers, and in the very midst thereof is buried the body of Mahomet, and not in a chest of yron cleauing to the adamant, as many affirme that know not the trueth thereof.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And in this place are other 3. pillers, not together, but set in diuers places, where (as their prophet saith) were the three apparitions which the diuel made vnto

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The greatnesse of this Citie is such, that if it were of double habitation, as it is compassed with a double wall, it might be truely said, that there were two Alexandrias one builded vpon another, because vnder the foundations of the said City are great habitations, and incredible huge pillers.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Also from the mountaine of pardons vntill they be passed the said pillers none dare looke backward, for feare least the sinnes which he hath left in the mountains returne to him againe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003