Yes, but the ships could exist in the castle pattern; the pylons could not!
Now, above the sites of the saucer depressions great pylons of silvery metal, warmed into fire brilliance by the sunset, raked into the sky like gaunt, skeleton fingers.
And he could not set aside that memory of this very coast as he had seen it through the peep, the castle in ruins, tall pylons reaching from the land into the sea.
Those pylons may still stand in the future above a deserted sea and island.
Between these differentpylons is generally a pro-naos, or avenue of sphinxes, which, on either side, face the causeway which leads to the final gate which gives entrance to the temple proper.
To overthrow the pylons built of fragments of mountains, the earth itself would have had to quake; even a conflagration could only have licked with its fiery tongues those indestructible blocks.
Jaegers has contributed also the figure of "Nature" on top of the music niche and the capital bulls on the pylons toward the north of the court.
From the pylons of all Theban temples came thunder-like outbursts and with them loud and rapid sounds from the clashing of bronze disks.
Over the head of the stranger was Orion, and above the dark pylons flamed the star Sirius.
Above the king stood or sat two rows of gods; still higher, a line of people with offerings; at the very summit of the pylons were winged serpents intertwined with scarabs.
Those pylons with walls narrowing toward the top, the gate which connected them, the flat sculptures in which order was mingled with gloomy fantasy and piety with cruelty, produced a tremendous impression.
He was kind and as fond as he had been, though his eyes turned more frequently to the other bank of the river, and rested on the mighty pylons of his father's palace.
Those pylons had existed for ages, mighty, like Rameses the Great, that potentate who had reared them.
Every hour appeared the white houses of some village, or a larger place with colored buildings, and the immense pylons of temples.
Since every temple and palace had a great gateway with pylons Thebes was called "the city of a hundred gates.
On raising her eyes she looked with fear at the gray pylons of the pharaoh's palace, which towered silent and gloomy above the other bank of the river.
And our temples, too, with their pylons and obelisks, with their gloom and coolness, do they not recall caves and mountains, extending along the Nile valley?
In the course of some minutes the pharaoh passed over the road and halted before the immense pylons of the noblest temple in Egypt.
The sound of trumpets was heard, and from the summits of pylons banners were hung out.
In the temples, as in thy palaces, holiness, the walls are honeycombed with passages through which it is possible to hear on the summit of pylons what is said in the cellars.
All this is now a long way behind me; but the air is so limpid, the outlines remain so clear that the illusion is rather that the temples and the pylons grow smaller, lower themselves and sink into the earth.
I watched the people moving in a long row, like a trail of ants, towards the western gate between the pylons of the Ptolemies, and the last of them had disappeared before the rosy light died away on the topmost points of the obelisks.
And then, leaving behind me the pylons guarded by the broken giants, I thread my way among the palaces of the centre.
The car, seating twenty persons, starts from Chamonix and swings up two thousand meters over the twenty-seven of these immense pylons already constructed.
From there over twenty-four more pylons a cable one thousand four hundred meters long took us to the foot of the Aiguille.
The temples of Philae owe much of their beauty and picturesqueness to the island on which they are situated; their plans, and that of the long porticoes in front of the pylons of the great temple, being fitted to the irregularity of the site.
In front of this, on the west side, pylons were added by Tethmosis (Thothmes, Tahutmes) I.
We have already referred to the probable origin of the peculiar batter or raking side given to the walls of the pylons and temples, with the Torus moulding surrounding the same and crowned with the cavetto cornice.
The Sabati of this text are probably identical with the people of the Sapudiu or Spudi (Asbytse), mentioned on one of the pylons of Medinet-Habû.
The series of races conquered was represented at Karnak on the internal face of one of the pylons built by Harmhabi; it appears to have been "usurped" by Ramses II.
He had just ordered at this time the construction of the two southern pylons at Karnak, and there was great activity in the quarries of Silsileh.
The rest of the back wall was made up of the new door-piece flanked by curtains, while the third wall consisted of two pylons and curtains.
The ends were formed by the inner pylons of the porch and outer pylons of the main temple.
From the tunnel-like entrance between the dwarf pylons a light was diffused as though it came through thin hangings.
Each of the pylons before which they are stationed had in its turn been the entrance to the temple, and was thrown into the rear by the works of succeeding Pharaohs.
As at Karnak, avenues of sphinxes and series of pylons led up to the various gates, and formed triumphal approaches.
A clear space was at first reserved round the pylons and the walls; but in course of time the houses encroached upon this ground, and were even built up against the boundary wall.
Hatshepsût, however, in order to bring in her obelisks between the pylons of Thothmes I.
The outer faces of the pylons were ornamented, not only with the masts and streamers before mentioned, but with statues and obelisks.
The axis of the temple runs approximately northward, and is continued by a great avenue of rams to the southern pylons of the central enclosure.
It will be observed that the successive pylons diminish in size from the outside inwards.
In the angle between these pylons and the main temple was the great rectangular sacred lake.
To these Haremheb added two great pylons and the long avenue of ram-figures, changing the axis slightly so as to lead direct to the temple of Mut built by Amenophis III.
At Thebes there was added to the temple of Amenhotep (Luxor) a court with two pylons and two obelisks of granite, the finest of which is on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
It forms an astragal under the cavetto cornice and runs down the angles of the pylons and walls.
It is preceded by a narrow columnar vestibule and twopylons enclosing a columnar atrium and two obelisks.
Ptolemies, when the last of the pylonsand external gates were erected.
The Dravidian temples are not single structures, but aggregations of buildings of varied size and form, covering extensive areas enclosed by walls and entered through gates made imposing by lofty pylons called gopuras.
We must rouse our imaginations, and picture them to ourselves with their flanking colonnades about them, with thepylons at their backs, and the obelisks at their sides.
The same qualities are found, though in less perfection, in those bas-reliefs which commemorate the conquests and military exploits of the great Theban Pharaohs on the pylons and external faces of the temple walls.
A small gateway between two massive towers or pylons gave admittance to a spacious forecourt open to the sky, into which the people were allowed to enter at least on feast days.
Harmahib (Horemheb) resumed the work at Karnak, erecting two great pylons and a long avenue of sphinxes.
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.
The group "Harvest" surmounting the great niche in the Court of the Seasons is a fine placid thing - and the bull groups on the pylons are time-honored, virile conceptions strikingly placed.
The architectural beauty of these groups, in relation to the arched panels of the pylons forming their background, is worthy of study.
At the other extremity of the court each of the two pylons is surmounted by a bull, wreathed in garlands, and led by man and maiden to the sacrifice.
On the pylons at either end of the semicircular arcade of the main entrance are two reclining figures.
No huge pylons cast down upon the ground their forms in darkness.
The pylonsof Ptolemy smile at you as you go up or come down the river.
The pylons and obelisks, glittering with copper and with gold, towered to the tender sky.
Well might she laugh, for the two great obelisks without the gate that the old Hyksos lion had set up there to stand "to all eternity," had fallen across the low pylons and the doors and crushed them.
The pylons and buildings generally decrease in height as we proceed from the entrance eastwards.
Obelisks were nearly always erected in pairs in front of the pylons of the temples, and added to the dignity of the entrance.
A is the entrance between the two enormous pylons giving access to a large courtyard, in which is a small detached temple, and another larger one breaking into the courtyard obliquely.
The necessity of covering such vast surfaces as the pylons offered had accustomed them to arrange the various scenes of one and the same action in a more natural and intimate connexion than their predecessors could possibly have done.
Grant that I may sail down to Tatu in the form of a living soul, and sail up to Abydos in the form of the Benu bird;[11] that I may go in and come out without being stopped at the pylons of the Lords of the Other World.
The camp of Rameses is depicted on the pylons of Luqsor and the Ramesseum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pylons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
