The nose is longer than an umbrella, the head is about ten feet long, and the whole body is in due proportion; so that the colossal monolith (for it is one stone) probably weighs about four hundred tons.
Originally it was one hundred and ten feet long, and therefore the longest monolith ever quarried.
Possibly Jacob and Joseph, certainly Moses and Aaron, Pythagoras and Plato, have gazed upon these two obelisks; and therefore the English nation should look at the hoary monolith on the Thames Embankment with feelings of profound veneration.
Mademoiselle Rose (a blossom withering on its stem) had a figure like a monolith but a heart of gold.
Large and deep Excavations, from which the Monolith of the Mosque el-Aksa was taken.
And the monolith found by Petrie in 1896 seems to imply that his lists of conquests were not always so trustworthy as could be wished.
One copy of this became the basis of the Kirkh inscription while another was made at Kalhu and it was from this that the Monolith and Annals are derived.
To this extent, then, the Monolithis a better document.
Because of its most interesting sculptures and because it gives a summary of almost the entire reign, it has either been given the place of honor, or a place second to the Monolith alone.
This is still further confirmed by the fact that we do find such a required invocation in the beginning of the Monolith inscription.
This has come down to us in a monumental copy which was set up at Kirkh, the ancient Tushhan, and which has been named the Monolith inscription.
It is probable that it was a receptacle for rain water, which was to serve for the drink of the dead man above whom the monolith was erected.
Now, that the monolith had been standing upright for a vast number of years, was shown by this fact, that the rain water, accumulating in the artificial cup, driven by the prevailing S.
A monolith found in the ruins of Kurkh, at some distance from Diarbekir, contains some important additions to the account of the campaigns of the fifth year.
The Monolith discovered at Kurkh is in itself a proof that Shalmaneser executed works in this town, the Tushkhân of the inscriptions.
The Basilica Ulpia built by Trajan was similar in plan, but in the place of the piers were monolith columns, with Corinthian capitals carrying an entablature, with an upper storey forming a gallery round.
The plan consists of nave, aisles, transept and triple apse, the arches, all pointed and stilted, being carried on monolith columns of granite and marble alternately.
The monolith columns of the nave and their capitals (together 40 ft.
The nave arcade, with its Corinthian capitals and monolith stone columns, is of exceptional boldness, and as it is carried across the transept up to the east end (a length of 320 ft.
The last great rocky crest at Capim Branco, when seen in profile, looked like a huge monolith with a slight inclination to the south-east.
There was also a giant monolith and other strange-looking rocks of great size standing up at all angles close by.
It is a monolith measuring fourteen feet in height above ground, eighteen inches in breadth, and ten inches in thickness, and is set in a block of granite three feet in height.
At Campbelltown in that county is a handsome cross, carved from a monolith of blue granite, and now serving as a Market Cross, which is alleged to be one of the spoils of St. Columba's isle.
The operation was tedious, difficult, and expensive; but it was worth the labour; and the monolith now forms a remarkable monument of the zeal of the king, and of the liberality of his government.
Of all the objects of this class the most notable is a monolith found among the debris of a tlaltel, and of which I give a drawing [see next page.
It is a monolith of red sandstone, standing seven feet high, and reaching nearly as far below the ground.
This was a huge monolith which stood on the brow of the hill at Fairmilehead, and which, within the memory of the last generation, was barbarously broken up to make road-metal.
These are the measures of the monolith house outside; but the length inside is eighteen cubits and five-sixths of a cubit, the breadth twelve cubits, and the height five cubits.
Though many pass, yet few record Their names in characters sublime, By grand achievement, work or word Upon the monolithof Time; But few inscribe a lasting name On the eternal cliffs of Fame.
The monolith obelisks of ancient Egypt are scarcely more remarkable.
St. Petersburg was once a swamp, and so rotten is the ground that it would be quite possible for a monolith to sink out of sight and never more be heard of.
These are the measures of the monolith house outside; but the length inside is eighteen cubits and five-sixths of a cubit, 149 the breadth twelve cubits, and the height five cubits.
So saying, he slipped his arm through that of his companion, and led him back in the direction of the Monolith Club.
Ringing the bell, he bade the footman telephone to the Monolith Club, and inquire whether Mr. Foote were there; and if he were not, whether they could tell him where it would be possible to find him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monolith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
