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Example sentences for "obelisk"

Lexicographically close words:
obeied; obeisance; obeisances; obeissance; obeissant; obelisks; oben; ober; oberseer; oberseers
  1. The fountains had ceased to play, from the lateness of the hour, but still looked massive and gigantic; the obelisk looked shapely and superb.

  2. Then the obelisk required to be protected from the accidents of carriage, which was done by enclosing it in a wooden case.

  3. Before me were the two great fountains, and the Obelisk of Luxor.

  4. But the whole question is, whether the transport of the obelisk which remains in Egypt for us is worth the expense.

  5. The labour, it is true, of conveying the obelisk would be serious, the expense considerable, and we might not see it erected before the gate of Buckingham Palace these ten years.

  6. In transporting and erecting the obelisk of Luxor six years were employed.

  7. Hence the steeple and obelisk form of the rocks, with their naked aspect--which has, not unaptly, been compared to bones stripped of their flesh.

  8. An Arab was sent after me without delay, to announce the discovery, and on my return I found the obelisk completely exposed to view.

  9. An obelisk 140 feet in height, supported upon open arches, and surrounded by a grove of full-grown trees, stands on a hill near Maynooth, and can be seen to advantage both from the Midland and the Great Southern Railway.

  10. The morrow, and let us suppose the tourist ascends to the massive but friendly gate which admits to that same Obelisk hill.

  11. On the west side was a vast paved area, in the centre of which towered the obelisk of Thothmes the Great.

  12. His pyramid is an imposing one, and singularly pre-eminent, by having an obelisk at each angle.

  13. The face I at once recognized to be that of Chephres, as seen upon his obelisk at Rhoda, aggrandized by the vastness of its proportions to the aspect of a god.

  14. On the pyramidion base of the left obelisk in front of the temple of Osiris, have I not seen reposing four small sphinxes copied from this?

  15. Thou seest that the obelisk of Amense is wanting; that the palace of the governor of the Nile has only its foundations laid.

  16. I could see them steal along the tangled avenue beneath the palm-trees, and through that of the broken sphinxes, until they came to the pyramidion of the obelisk of Sesostris I.

  17. As we re-entered the City of the Sun, we passed by the base of an obelisk which Queen Amense is erecting to mark the era and acts of her long reign.

  18. The Lady Senci wishes me to prepare plans for the further elaboration of her tomb," he went on, at last, "but the work on the obelisk may not be laid aside.

  19. Mentu was at that moment in On, seeing to the decoration of the second obelisk reared by Meneptah to the sun.

  20. Garlands rioted over colossus, peristyle, obelisk and sphinx without conserving pattern or moderation.

  21. At the entrance stands an obelisk fifty feet high, and on it are inscribed the names of his victims.

  22. Shortly before my arrival, an obelisk of inconsiderable height, a small and uninjured sphynx, together with other remains, had been sent to England.

  23. From the obelisk at the fork it skirts on the left Wrotham Park, the seat of the unlucky Admiral Byng, its woods hiding a white mansion that looks out conspicuously from the other side.

  24. Running on through the cheerful High Street, and by the common called Hadley Green, our road forks for St. Albans and for Hatfield at a triangular patch of grass on which an obelisk marks the traditional scene of Warwick’s death.

  25. In the pleasant churchyard the most noticeable tomb is an obelisk over Major Cartwright, that firebrand of Radical reform in his day, who in ours, perhaps, might pass for a cautious Conservative.

  26. In this town, is a splendid obelisk to Tobias Smollet, the novelist and poet, who was born here in 1721.

  27. What ruins of empires and dynasties has not this ancient Egyptian obelisk seen!

  28. The obelisk has had a strange and eventful history.

  29. The corner-stone of this obelisk was laid in 1825, by Lafayette, during his visit to America.

  30. The Egyptian Obelisk stands on an eminence west of the museum.

  31. Within the obelisk is an elevator and a stairway.

  32. The obelisk was restored by Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

  33. Through it he entered in triumph in 391, and like the column of Arcadius and the obelisk in the Hippodrome, it is the still surviving memorial of his greatness.

  34. At this Mehemet Ali was greatly displeased; and he thereupon made up his mind to make this beautiful obelisk a present from Egypt, the oldest nation of the world, to the United States of America, the youngest nation.

  35. He thought that the United States had treated him better than the European nations; and it seemed to him that we ought to have an obelisk as well as the nations of Europe.

  36. But now we must tell you how this great obelisk came to be brought to this country.

  37. And it is quite likely that this very obelisk stood before his door on the day that Joseph married his daughter Asenath.

  38. But it so happened that this obelisk stood very near the sea.

  39. This obelisk was at first erected by Thothmes III.

  40. The Obelisk of Luxor was given to King Louis-Philippe by Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt.

  41. All our letters from Paris say that no ceremony has been more imposing than the erection of the Obelisk of Luxor.

  42. The setting sun gilded the top of the Obelisk and the Arc de Triomphe, and was reflected upon the arms and cuirasses of the troops; the benches of the National Guard were adorned with flowers.

  43. The July festivals will be confined to the opening of the Arc de Triomphe, and the Obelisk from Luxor will be unveiled.

  44. From the white obelisk to the little lambs at the heads of once sparkling innocent babes, all was beautiful.

  45. Constantius visits Rome; he presents an obelisk from Egypt to the city.

  46. Imagine that awful scene, once witnessed by the silent obelisk in the square before St. Peter's at Rome!

  47. In the Assyrian Hall of the British Museum there now stands a small obelisk of black marble, which was brought from Calah by Sir A.

  48. Henceforth Egyptian art was characterised by a stiff conventionality wholly unlike the freedom and vigour of the art of the early dynasties; the government became more autocratic; and the obelisk took the place of the pyramid in architecture.

  49. While the obelisk at Heliopolis outranks all others in age, the one at Karnak, in the suburbs of Luxor, has the distinction of being the tallest one yet remaining.

  50. In front of the Luxor temple is an obelisk of pink granite, a part of which is still under ground.

  51. It is eight and a half feet in diameter at the base and ninety-seven and a half feet in height (eight and a half feet less than the obelisk at Rome).

  52. At one time Heliopolis was a thriving city and is referred to in the Bible as "On," but to-day the obelisk stands alone in the midst of cultivated fields, all the buildings having disappeared.

  53. The oldest Egyptian obelisk is at Heliopolis, not far from Cairo, and is sixty-six feet in height.

  54. The hole was twenty-two by fourteen feet and only sixteen or eighteen feet in height, and the awful sufferings of those who perished there are commemorated by an obelisk which stands near by.

  55. The great work was undertaken in the year 1586, and the day for raising the obelisk was marked with great solemnity.

  56. The house was, many years after, converted into a tasteful villa, although the obelisk records the success of the experiment.

  57. As the ropes which held it had somewhat stretched, the base of the obelisk could not reach the summit of the pedestal, when a man in the crowd cried out, "Wet the ropes!

  58. Piercing through it are the more prominent of the Alpine peaks--the dark tremendous obelisk of the Matterhorn towering in one direction, the not less tremendous and far grander head of Mont Blanc looming in another.

  59. The interest of the Place is summed up in the Luxor column, which may perhaps be said to mark what is perhaps the most critical site in modern history; for where the obelisk now stands stood not so very long ago the guillotine.

  60. But Jehoram at least removed the Matstsebah or stone obelisk which had been reared in Baal's honour in front of his temple by Ahab, or by Jezebel in his name.

  61. On this obelisk we see a picture of Jehu's ambassadors--perhaps of Jehu himself.

  62. Of Jehu the Books of Kings and Chronicles have no more to tell us, but we gain fresh insight into his degradation from the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser II.

  63. Black-Obelisk king, apparently without any pretext, made a fresh invasion of the country.

  64. Thirty years later, his son, the Black-Obelisk king, made the power of Assyria still more sensibly felt.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obelisk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arch; barbican; belfry; brass; bust; cairn; campanile; cenotaph; colossus; column; cross; cup; cupola; dolmen; dome; grave; gravestone; headstone; inscription; lantern; lighthouse; mark; marker; mast; mausoleum; memento; memorial; minaret; monolith; monument; mound; necrology; obelisk; obituary; pagoda; pilaster; pillar; pinnacle; plaque; pole; prize; pylon; pyramid; reliquary; remembrance; ribbon; shaft; shrine; skyscraper; spire; standpipe; steeple; stela; stone; stupa; tablet; testimonial; tomb; tombstone; tope; tour; tower; trophy; turret