Sold that watercolour of the obelisk
to a man from Peoria," he announced overwhelmingly.
She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an obelisk
, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of her own in her head.
Their residences are usually on the outskirts of 'the Rules,' chiefly lying within a circle of one mile from the obelisk
Try to decide between him who scribbles jokes on Egyptian obelisks
, and him who has "bostoned" for twenty years with Du Bousquier, Monsieur de Valois, Mademoiselle Cormon, the judge of the court, the king's attorney, the Abbe de Sponde, Madame Granson, and tutti quanti.
The approach to this portico, from the Nile, was through an avenue two miles long, composed of sphynxes, statues, and obelisks, twenty, sixty, and a hundred feet in height.
They could not be compared, of course, with the vast, level, direct, iron-grooved causeways upon which the Egyptians conveyed entire temples and solid obelisks of a hundred and fifty feet in altitude.
I then mentioned our steel; but the foreigner elevated his nose, and asked me if our steel could have executed the sharp carved work seen on the obelisks, and which was wrought altogether by edge-tools of copper.
People coolly pretend to read it who would think themselves presumptuous if they pretended to interpret the hieroglyphics on the obelisks
of Luxor--yet they are fully as competent to do the one thing as the other.
Everything struck your eye at once: the carved gable, the pointed roof, the turrets suspended at the angles of the walls; the stone pyramids of the eleventh century, the slate obelisks
of the fifteenth; the round, bare tower of the donjon keep; the square and fretted tower of the church; the great and the little, the massive and the aerial.
She repressed her impulse to speak aloud, and rose and wandered about rather aimlessly among the statues until she found herself in another gallery devoted to engraved obelisks
and winged Assyrian bulls, and her emotion took another turn.
Helena, however, I ascertained that some pinnacles, of a nearly similar figure and constitution, had been formed by the injection of melted rock into yielding strata, which thus had formed the moulds for these gigantic obelisks
and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes tells of a pioneer in Egyptian studies who discovered the King List--a call listing Egyptian kings in chronological order--and uncovered an obelisk
which he had sent back to England.
Allerton Tower was demolished in the 1930s and the other, simply called Allerton but better known as Obelisk
House, is now a ruin.
The event took place at the newly landscaped area around the obelisk
in the George Eliot Memorial Gardens.
Standing at 555 feet high and constructed entirely of stone--making it the tallest obelisk
in the world--the Washington Monument represents the pinnacle of Egyptian architecture's influence on America's desire to memorialize its national heroes by employing monumental forms associated with solidity and timelessness.