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Example sentences for "four columns"

  • Two of the side chambers were so large that their ceilings required the support of four columns.

  • Lepsius gives it four columns, but at present there are only the remains of one to be found.

  • The hall of four columns of the smaller building corresponds to the large saloon called the Hall of Thothmes, in the Great Temple (J).

  • The outer one must have had twenty-four columns, the largest in the building, and the second forty, of rather less diameter; the remainder of the temple has disappeared.

  • It was supported by four columns of African marble, relieved by four niches and an attic above a small pediment; the whole was surmounted by an equestrian statue between two trophies, as shown upon a coin.

  • Four columns of Porta Santa marble stood on a podium, 7 feet by 4 feet, and supported a canopy, under which was the emperor's statue.

  • The high altar is adorned by four columns of breccia-corallina, which support the canopy.

  • Before the entrance was a portico of four columns, with a flight of steps leading up to it.

  • At a short distance from thence is another building, whose entrance is through a portico consisting of four columns in front and of two others behind, between two wings; on the inner sides of which are two niches above each other.

  • Several broad steps lead up to the entrance, and in front of all is a colonnade of four columns, standing between two pilasters.

  • This army crossed the lake in four columns: the following day it reached the second Narrows without interruption except from the roughness of the weather, and landed near the spot where Abercromby had disembarked the year before.

  • Four columns resting on four red marble lions support it; one of them guards a lamb, and another has a serpent beneath its paw.

  • Not much remains of the altar--which appears to have been the usual edifice on four columns--except some very ancient sculpture, and two small columns with extremely rude statues on them.

  • Benedetto sculptured the now ancient pulpit of the cathedral, which was supported on four columns, and to which the relief of the Crucifixion, signed by him, belonged.

  • Four columns, however, two at the middle of the east side, and the two opposite them on the west side, were painted blue, probably to serve as bounds in marking off the area for athletic exercises.

  • The five entrances here are separated by four columns.

  • On the twenty-eighth day of July he began his march in four columns, and passed the Jaar near its source, with an army superior to the allies by five-and-thirty thousand men.

  • On the eleventh of July, the dauphin marched in four columns to Oerle upon the Jaar, where he pitched his camp.

  • When Gyllius visited the church in the sixteenth century the dome arches rested on four columns of Theban granite, 'hemispherium sustentatur quatuor arcubus, quos fulciunt quatuor columnae marmoris Thebaici.

  • The dome rests on four columns placed at the inner angles of the cross, and the vaulted cross arms rest on lintels spanning the space between the columns and the outer walls.

  • In the eastern nave bay there are four columns, giving five aisle bays on each side.

  • The church stands on a platform, built over a small cistern, the roof of which is supported by four columns crowned by beautiful capitals.

  • It contains some twenty-four columns, on a sheet about as large as the Ottawa Free Press.

  • Later on, it was enlarged on the right side, the new part forming a kind of flat-roofed portico supported on four columns (fig.

  • It is a square mass of limestone, raised on a base, supported by four columns at the corners, and surmounted by an overhanging cornice; a flight of five steps leads up to the inner chamber (fig.

  • His march is in four columns, Friedrich in the vanguard; quarters to be Neumarkt, a little Town about fourteen miles off.

  • It consists of a basilica divided into three naves by twenty-four columns of Greek marble with Romano-Byzantine capitals.

  • The altar is ancient and above it is a marble coffer with Renaissance ornaments, upheld by four columns of porphyry, having two Byzantine and two Roman capitals.

  • Entering the church we find ourselves in a cruciform building consisting of three naves, divided by twenty-four columns of marble, transept, and apse, with a dome over the crossing.

  • Behind the gorgeous marble screen which divides the presbytery from the body of the church the high altar rises beneath a canopy of verde antico borne by four columns.

  • One is supported by four columns of rare porphyry and the other by twelve of granite from Paestum.

  • Both arches are round; the lower is supported by four columns, the upper by eight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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