I could see a high pylon and two of three uprights that looked like a bridge, just outside.
I could see the pylon and the bridge and the rising sun of Charin.
At length, as the sun sank, I came near to the great outer pylon of the temple; and here I crouched down in the ruins of a house, not knowing why I had come or what I was about to do.
I hurried through them, and reached the entrance to the pylon that is at the outer gate.
As I looked, the red edge of the full moon floated up over the Arabian hills, and her rays fell upon the pylon where I stood and the temple walls beyond, lighting the visages of the carven Gods.
Then the cloud rolled from the face of the moon, the wind passed, the pylon ceased to tremble, and the night was as the night had been.
I sat hidden there among the broken rafters, and idly watched the pylon gates, to see if, perchance, a face I knew should issue from them.
Then of a sudden the mighty pylon seemed to rock beneath my feet, a great wind beat about my brows and a voice spoke within my heart: "Behold a sign!
The silence fell, it gathered as the cloud gathered on the face of the moon that night when, a lad, I prayed upon the pylon towers.
Then I bethought me of my prayer upon the pylontower of Abouthis and of the answer given to my prayer, and wondered if that, too, were a dream.
From the top of the pylon you have received this still and glorious impression from the matchless design of the whole building, which you see best from there.
The driver of Number Five, as the two machines passed the grandstand, had made a deliberate attempt to prevent the Golden Butterfly overhauling him by jamming his aeroplane over toward a pylon and directly in front of the Butterfly.
So close did the two aeroplanes edge to the end pylon in the effort to secure the inside plane that for an instant it looked as if a crash must result.
Death, O Prince, is, I think, but a single step in the pylon stair which leads at last to that dizzy height whence we see the face of God and hear his voice tell us what and why we are.
Mefres put down the banners, left the summit of the pylon and descended slowly.
At the same time, from a window of the pylon shot out a small stream which seemed to be water, and which struck the giant's face.
From the summit of the pylon Thou wert pleased to survey our whole province.
From thepylon summits shrill voices were heard calling people to prayer.
But once, when he saw that the temple of the god Sebak stood on a lofty eminence, he desired to ascend the pylon and examine the surrounding country.
On the walls of each pylon the chief place was occupied by a flat sculpture of Ramses the Great, who held in one hand an uplifted axe and grasped in the other, by the hair of the head, a crowd of people tied in a bundle, like parsley.
The last of the three chief temple divisions was reached from the hypostyle hall, either by a simple gateway or by a third pylon portal.
The lower terrace is decorated, like Chaldaean works of the kind, with pilasters in low-relief; before it are pylon towers.
From the summit of the pylon thou wert pleased to survey our whole province.
On the walls of each pylon the chief place was occupied by a flat sculpture of Rameses the Great, who held in one hand an uplifted axe and grasped in the other, by the hair of the head, a crowd of people tied in a bundle, like parsley.
It was, in fact, the private door of the private office, reserved exclusively for the use of the Managing Director of Schemes Limited.
Look here," said Mr. Dibbs, and he pulled out of his pocket a handful of gold coins which bore busts of a foreign-looking lady and gentleman.
I accordingly accompanied him across the court, and among more pillars, to a small temple, which must have been situated at some considerable distance from the pylon through which we had entered the ruins.
This proved to be the main pylon of the great Temple of Ammon, the most stupendous example of human architecture ever erected on the surface of our globe.
I followed him through the main pylon to the place where we had dismounted from our camels the night before.
As on the previous occasion, I stood before the main pylon of the temple.
From the tower of the pylon which looks towards the south, I see his vast army, with its battalion of elephants, its host of brazen chariots, its horsemen and footmen as numerous as the leaves.
The towers on each side of it were ninety-nine feet high, and the pylonbetween them a wonder of beauty, for the elegance of its intaglio adornments.
On this pylon he has stood and surveyed the landscape; and along these corridors, his feet have awakened the echoes which respond to mine.
At length I saw before me the great and splendid pylon which gives admission to the city.
Here we came in sight of the gigantic pylon that opens to the Temple of the Pyramid of Cheops, and the hierarch ceased speaking.
At intervals we passed a pair of obelisks, or through a grand pylon of granite.
Having crossed this wonderful mart of the world, we issued upon a broad street, which diverging to the right led towards Jizeh, not far distant, and to the left towards Memphis, the noblepylon of which was in full sight.
I was then conducted to the pylon of the great temple before the pyramids.
We approached the centralpylon along a paved court, across which two hundred chariots could have driven in a line.
In front of this pylon there is no trace of either obelisks or colossal figures.
It has been ascertained that the first pylon and the peristylar courtyard behind it date from the time of Rameses II.
From the external doorway of the first western pylon to the eastern extremity of the building, the length, over all, is 1,215 feet.
In the great temple of Philæ alone do we find the absence of parallelism of which Strabo speaks,[314] the peristylar court which follows the second pylon is rather narrower at its further extremity than immediately behind the pylon.
From the first pylon to the innermost recesses of the sanctuary the building measures about 850 feet.
After passing the pylon in the outer wall, another has to be passed before the hypostyle hall is reached, and a third immediately afterwards.
Obelisks and colossal statues seem to have been peculiarly necessary outside the first, or outer, pylon of a temple.
A pylongave access to a rectangular court, on the right and left sides of which stood five piers faced with colossal statues of Rameses II.
They lead up to a pylon of much more modest dimensions than that of Ptolemy.
We tried to flit forth from the dark recess of the pylon stairway without being seen or heard; but as luck would have it, Monny and Fenton had had just time to discover that our boat was gone.
You see, he's up there on the pylon roof now with Monny and Captain Fenton (I can't call him Antoun when I talk to you; its too silly!
The Muse and Pan Pylon Group, Festival Hall At the base of the great pylons that flank the columnar entrance court of Festival Hall, are low pyramidal masses of foliage and flowering shrubs.
At the feet of the Muse before the northernpylon a Boy Pan sits among the flowers, balanced in the southern group by a Young Nymph or Dryad.
The temple, second in importance at Karnak, is of the Pharaonic period, but approached by a pylon of Ptolemaic date, at the extremity of the great avenue of sphinxes leading to Luxor.
The pylon towards the south is connected with the latter, and was raised in the reign of Augustus.
Then I fell back, the holy image of the goddess passed and the procession vanished through the pylon gate.
Only in the shadow, seated against the pedestal of one of the two colossal statues in front of the outer pylon gate and looking very small beneath its greatness, was a man wrapped in a dark cloak whom noting vaguely I took to be a beggar.
As I crept past the pylon feeling my way with my beggar's staff, I thought--but how can you know who have only been in Memphis an hour?
There near to the pylon gate we met a procession of her priests and priestesses advancing to offer the evening sacrifice of song and flowers, clad, all of them, in robes of purest white.
Its pylon has altogether disappeared, but the façade with lotus-bud columns is nearly perfect, together with several of the chambers in front of the sanctuary.
Seti's predecessor Ramses, desirous of obliterating all traces of the misfortunes lately brought about by the changes effected by the heretic kings, had contemplated building at Karnak, in front of the pylon of Amenôthes III.
Portions of the military bas-reliefs which covered the exterior face of the pylon are still to be seen through the gaps in the wall at the end of the great Hall of Pillars built by Seti I.
The sanctuary and its surrounding buildings were used for purposes of worship, but the court of the customary pylon was wanting, and merely a thin wall concealed the mysteries from the sight of the vulgar.
Certain episodes of these expeditions had been engraved on the exterior face of the pylon constructed by the king for the temple of Amon at Karnak; at the present time they are concealed by the wall at the lower end of the Hypostyle Hall.
It was reserved for the Ethiopian and Greek Pharaohs, in presence of the hypostyle and pylon of the XIXth dynasty, to conceive of others on a still vaster scale.
By these alterations the harmonious proportion between the main buildings and the façade had been destroyed, and the exterior wall was now too wide for the pylon at the entrance.
The list of the nations of the north who yielded, or are alleged to have yielded, submission to Harmhabî, were traced on the first pylon of this monarch at Karnak, and on its adjoining walls.
Horizontal section, in perspective, of the first pylon at Karnak; by Charles Chipiez.
This pylon dates from the Ptolemies, but if there was anything that did not change in Egypt, it was their processes of construction.
When the work was finished the bricks were cleared away, but the internal face of the pylon still bears traces of their position against it.
In front of this second assemblage of buildings there is the same rectangular structure of doubtful purpose, and the same quasi-pylon that we find before the first.
In the pylons, for instance, we often find that the cornice of the doorway was both deeper and of bolder projection than those upon the two masses of the pylon itself (Fig.
Behind the pylon there is a court surrounded on three sides by a double row of apartments, some of which communicate directly with the court, others through an intervening portico.
In the great pylon of Karnak the lintel over the doorway is a stone beam more than 25 feet long.
This arrangement has an obvious raison d'être; if the columns were brought close up to the pylon their outlines would not combine happily with its inclined walls.
The great stones were dragged up its slopes, and as the pylon grew, so did the mass of crude brick.
There is a representation of such a door in a bas-relief at Karnak, where it is shown in front of a pylon and forms probably an opening in a boundary wall.
The usual situation of the obelisks was in front of the first pylon of the temples.
There was a pause at the pylon for the presentation of the little red entrance books, and then the gate closed behind them, and the five moved cautiously forward into the shadowy dark of the confusion of the ruins.
The roof of the great nave rose to a height of 75 feet above the level of the ground, and the pylon stood some fifty feet higher still.
Not only is the larger pylon out of alignment with the smaller, but the two colonnades are not parallel with each other.
It still needed one last pylon and a colonnaded court.
Of these buildings, only the large temple in the middle distance to the right of the picture, with its pylon gateway and its four Osirian colossi, recalls the general arrangement of Egyptian architecture.
Neither are they attached to the pylon with a due regard to symmetry.
At Luxor, and again at the Ramesseum, each face of the pylon is a battle-field on which may be studied, almost day for day, the campaign of Rameses II.
The pylon walls and the principal façades (and sometimes even the secondary façades) were sloped at an angle which varied according to the taste of the architect.
From the pylon to the wall at the farther end, the height decreases continuously.
His pylonis not parallel to that of Amenhotep III.
Now at the foot of the pylon lay a little rim of shadow.
While Rei the Priest crouched thus against the pylon wall, praying for the coming of him who came not, suddenly a voice spoke to him in tones sweeter than a lute.
I saw a fair woman, or, perchance, an immortal Goddess, stand upon the pylon brow, and as she stood and sang those who looked were bereft of reason.
So did Argive Helen tell me of a truth, Lady, but this she said, that I should find her by the pylon of the temple, and lead her thence to be my bride.
Temple of Hathor a great multitude was gathered, and there on the pylon brow stood the Hathor's self shining with changeful beauty like the Dawn.
Knowest thou that she waited for thee there by the pylon gate?
Now there was but a line, and now the line was gone, for the sun's red disc burned high in the blue heaven straight above the pylon brow.
By that stair she passes to the temple roof, and thence to the pylon top.
Their bandaged faces were lifted and they stared towards the pylon top as though their vision pierced the cloths.
For now he remembered that this was the day when the Strange Hathor should stand upon the pylon of the temple and call the people to her, and he was minded to look upon her, and if need be to do battle with that which guarded her.
Before the second tower they halted, and Rei showed to the Wanderer that place upon the pylon roof where the Hathor was wont to stand and sing till the hearers' hearts were melted like wax.
Now they were come to the space before the bronze gates of the pylon of the outer court, and there the multitude gathered to the number of many hundreds.
Then the Priest went to the pylon and stood in the shadow of the gate.
But "the Red Mound" of the guides was probably one that was visible from the pylon of the great temple of Heliopolis, where the obelisks stood with which the story of it was associated.
He further assures us that the pylon of the temple bore on the summits of its two towers two images of the deity.
In front of the northern pylon of the temple of Luxor, Ramses erected six colossal figures of himself, and on their recently-uncovered bases are inscribed the names of the various nations he claimed to have subdued.
By working around the hangars and doing odd jobs till you know a monoplane from a biplane, and a pylon from an aileron.
There’s a big bulletin down at the pylon announcing this flight.
Yes, and the difference between a pylon and aileron.
These were of course originally designed for defensive purposes, and the passage through the pylon could thus be successfully barred against all foes, while from postern-gates in the wall sorties could be made.
Inside the pylon was a great court, open to the sky, usually only colonnaded on either side, but in larger temples, as that of Karnak, a series of columns ran the length of the centre.
At times it was a portico supported on columns and adorned with statues; at others, a pylon similar to those at the entrance of temples.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pylon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
