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  • In case you've never seen it: the Needle is an obelisk, not a needle, and it doesn't have anything to do with Cleopatra.†   (source)
  • The black Japanese script cut into the white face of the obelisk read simply, "A Memorial to the Dead."†   (source)
  • A love for these animals wells up in me suddenly, a flash flood, and there it is, solid as an obelisk and viscous as water.†   (source)
  • Like an obelisk towards which the principal streets of a town converge, the strong will of a proud spirit stands prominent and commanding in the middle of the art of war.†   (source)
  • Colin and Hassan followed her to a six-foot-tall obelisk—a kind of miniature Washington Monument—before which la' a plethora of not-new pink silk roses.†   (source)
  • He drove past the Armenian church, then around the obelisk at Arat Kilo—another war monument at a roundabout—past the Gothic spires and domes of the Trinity Cathedral and then the Parliament Building, which took its inspiration from the one on the banks of the Thames.†   (source)
  • Jefferson, characteristically, had both designed the stone obelisk that was to mark his grave at Monticello and specified what was to be inscribed upon it, conspicuously making no mention of the fact that he had been governor of Virginia, minister to France, Secretary of State, Vice President of the United States, or President of the United States.†   (source)
  • That distinction belonged to the thousands of small white obelisks spaced in perfect rows.†   (source)
  • He thrust his pole out ahead of them and pushed them away from a towering green obelisk.†   (source)
  • James Taggart rose, walked to the window and pulled the blind down over the white obelisk.†   (source)
  • Obelisk.†   (source)
  • Opposite the Gate, reaching towards the clouds, is a four-sided shaft of stone, an obelisk mounted on a two-storey terrace of balustraded marble, all glistening in the sunlight, while in the shadows below on the huge base of the structure are carved the struggles and triumphs of Mao's revolution.†   (source)
  • I walked her back toward the Washington Monument and lectured her on the Egyptian obelisk and phallic symbols and classical mythology and ancient Rome and the difference between the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and the nobility of men like Cincinnatus, emphasizing that he was the man for whom Cincinnati was named, while Troy, New York, was named after a mythical city in Homer, and Cairo, Illinois, after a real city in Egypt.†   (source)
  • Inside, sheltered dry smells stand like screens around a table covered with a red-checkered cloth, in the center of which flies hang on to an obelisk-shaped ketchup bottle.†   (source)
  • The 555-foot marble-faced obelisk marked this nation's heart.†   (source)
  • Katherine nodded, her gaze climbing the glowing white obelisk.†   (source)
  • In Bernini's day, Langdon now realized, Piazza Barberini had contained an obelisk!†   (source)
  • Then he turned left and followed the brass line due north toward the obelisk.†   (source)
  • If we want to defeat the enemy, we must start with the obelisk.†   (source)
  • It doesn't seem to like the obelisk," I noticed.†   (source)
  • Following the brass line closer to the obelisk, he knocked on each tile adjacent to the brass line.†   (source)
  • It was perched high atop the obelisk, gazing calmly westward.†   (source)
  • From this vantage point, the towering obelisk looked even more impressive than it had before.†   (source)
  • We ran out of the temple and headed for the obelisk.†   (source)
  • In Vatican City, at the heart of St. Peter's Square, stood the great Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • The arrival of this stranger at the base of the obelisk was a signal from the brotherhood.†   (source)
  • On the obelisk's tip, a faint shadow blotted the sky, a lone pigeon perched silently.†   (source)
  • Langdon could think of no more lofty perch for the Illuminati's final marker than atop this obelisk.†   (source)
  • "The biggest obelisk ever constructed," she said.†   (source)
  • Silas gazed upward at the Saint-Sulpice obelisk, taking in the length of the massive marble shaft.†   (source)
  • As soon as we turned north, the obelisk loomed above us.†   (source)
  • A homeless drunk dozed awkwardly at the base of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • My dad lifted his face and scowled at the obelisk.†   (source)
  • The truth almost lifted Langdon the rest of the way to the obelisk.†   (source)
  • I stretched out my fingers toward the obelisk.†   (source)
  • Atop this stood an obelisk that climbed another forty feet.†   (source)
  • You said the other obelisk is in Paris, right?†   (source)
  • Langdon was staring straight up the obelisk.†   (source)
  • Carter nudged me as we passed the obelisk.†   (source)
  • They clattered across the upper levels of the granite obelisk.†   (source)
  • Two fountains flanked the obelisk in perfect symmetry.†   (source)
  • The Egyptian obelisk rose up lonely and dark in the middle of the square.†   (source)
  • With Sadie occupied at the obelisk, I was on my own.†   (source)
  • City planners had removed the obelisk and replaced it with a small fountain called the Triton.†   (source)
  • We can't even use an obelisk, much less destroy Set!†   (source)
  • He reached the platform from which the obelisk rose and could climb no higher.†   (source)
  • As they neared the obelisk, Vittoria slowed.†   (source)
  • Look at the Washington Monument—the world's largest Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • If you can't operate the obelisk, you'll die.†   (source)
  • In the center of the piazza rose Caligula's 350-ton Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • We sat listening to the magic hum of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • Are any of the churches located near obelisks?†   (source)
  • The first two markers had been located on or near piazzas that contained obelisks!†   (source)
  • We thought the obelisk would release all the gods, but that was only the beginning.†   (source)
  • He considered the cruciform arrangement of the four obelisks.†   (source)
  • When he touched the base of the obelisk, the circle began to glow.†   (source)
  • "Or," Vittoria added, "Bernini could have placed his markers near existing obelisks."†   (source)
  • So an obelisk can definitely be used to imprison gods.†   (source)
  • The thing you were fighting when our parents released you from the obelisk.†   (source)
  • I wasn't actually trapped in the obelisk.†   (source)
  • The obelisk glowed with purple light, humming with power.†   (source)
  • My dad stared at the top of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • You encouraged her to open that obelisk.†   (source)
  • Just as we reached the obelisk, I heard the slish-ing sound of a magic portal.†   (source)
  • They picked shapes—obelisks, pyramids—that were charged with symbolic magic.†   (source)
  • In the center, a gray obelisk rose into the winter sky.†   (source)
  • The earth around the marker was trampled and its obelisk was far dirtier than most.†   (source)
  • "That's a lot of money," Colin said, his hand still on the granite obelisk.†   (source)
  • Reyna sat cross-legged at the entrance of the tent, staring at the memorial obelisk.†   (source)
  • "I'm still here," Colin said feebly, his eyes shut as he held onto the obelisk for balance.†   (source)
  • He grabbed hold of the obelisk with both hands and clung to it.†   (source)
  • Colin got dizzy, and then turned back around, hugging the obelisk.†   (source)
  • But he could not tell what it was-a small brown wooden box, shaped like the Obelisk.†   (source)
  • On his hands he circled the tree and the obelisk waited in the weeds, upright.†   (source)
  • Mr. Fatty tiptoed over and picked the obelisk up and set it down again quickly.†   (source)
  • He felt its pressure, and the weight of the obelisk, which seemed about two pounds.†   (source)
  • "How about obelisks?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • She and Melio had decided that it was foolish for both of them to monitor the equipment every night; now they alternated, one working at the site while the other collated data and prepared for the final project-a radar mapping of the dunes between the Jade Tomb and the Obelisk.†   (source)
  • We moved deeper into the trees, and I began to make out solid shapes rising from the ground—obelisks, columns, arches.†   (source)
  • Through the dusty windows I saw Staffordshire dogs and majolica cats, dusty crystal, tarnished silver, antique chairs and settees upholstered in sallow old brocade, an elaborate faience birdcage, miniature marble obelisks atop a marble-topped pedestal table and a pair of alabaster cockatoos.†   (source)
  • Silas returned to the graveyard and found Bod sitting in the amphitheater by the obelisk, his face set.†   (source)
  • Inside, mammoth obelisk-shaped supercomputers stood in long rows, filling the giant, cathedral-like temple.†   (source)
  • When it finally turned off, there was Toronto up ahead, an artificial mountain of glass and concrete rising from the flat lakeside plain, all crystals and spires and giant shining slabs and sharp-edged obelisks, floating in an orange-brown haze of smog.†   (source)
  • The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B.C. The treelike structure is a Yahwistjc cult totem from Palestine.†   (source)
  • He walked up the hill, to the black obelisk, and Josiah Worthington's stone, where there was a natural amphitheater, and he could look out at the Old Town and at the lights of the city around it.†   (source)
  • Then he moved through the night, up and up, to the flat place below the brow of the hill, a place dominated by an obelisk and a flat stone set into the ground dedicated to the memory of Josiah Worthington, local brewer, politician and later baronet, who had, almost three hundred years before, bought the old cemetery and the land around it, and given it to the city in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • From Langdon's oblique angle, the obelisk appeared ungrounded tonight …. swaying against the dreary sky as if on an unsteady sea.†   (source)
  • Langdon had never seen the Capitol from this perspective—hovering 555 feet in the air atop America's great Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • Behind him to the west, Langdon knew the ancient obelisk of Ramses rose above the trees, marking the Musée du Jeu de Paume.†   (source)
  • At the base of the Sulpice obelisk.†   (source)
  • Across the Mall, a tiny speck of golden sunlight was glinting off the highest tip of the towering obelisk.†   (source)
  • In her center, as in many of the great classical cities, the founders had erected an enduring tribute to the ancients—the Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • Inside Saint-Sulpice, Silas carried the heavy iron votive candle holder from the altar back toward the obelisk.†   (source)
  • He watched in amusement as Langdon stared intently at the ground, scratching his head and looking around at the foot of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • Here, the glistening Rose Line took a ninety-degree vertical turn and continued directly up the face of the obelisk itself, ascending thirty-three feet to the very tip of the pyramidical apex, where it finally ceased.†   (source)
  • A colossal Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • More startling, however, was the knowledge that this capstone's ultimate peak, the zenith of this obelisk, was crowned by a tiny, polished tip of aluminum—a metal as precious as gold in its day.†   (source)
  • Outside the window the sun had set, but Langdon could still make out the slender silhouette of the world's largest obelisk, rising on the horizon like the spire of an ancient gnomon.†   (source)
  • This obelisk, larger even than Cairo's or Alexandria's, rose 555 feet into the sky, more than thirty stories, proclaiming thanks and honor to the demigod forefather for whom this capital city took its newer name.†   (source)
  • The huge capstone of this obelisk sat directly over his head, and Langdon now recalled a forgotten bit of trivia that seemed to have eerie relevance: the capstone of the Washington Monument weighed precisely thirty-three hundred pounds.†   (source)
  • America's Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • Langdon felt a chill to realize how apt it was that the legendary Masonic Pyramid had guided him here …. to America's great obelisk—the symbol of ancient mystical wisdom—rising toward the heavens at the heart of a nation.†   (source)
  • And even more perfect, Langdon realized, the cherry on the cake, was that high atop Bernini's fountain stood a towering obelisk.†   (source)
  • Feeling a shimmer of hope, Langdon circumnavigated the fountain one more time and studied all four facades of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • The terrified youngster stood frozen, pointing at the base of the obelisk where a shabby, decrepit drunk sat slumped on the stairs.†   (source)
  • Halfway to the base of the obelisk, he emerged from the mist and could see the head of the bird more clearly.†   (source)
  • Scanning the hieroglyphics covering the obelisk, he wondered if perhaps there were a clue hidden in the Egyptian symbology.†   (source)
  • Tourists wandered, nuns chatted along the perimeter of the piazza, a girl fed pigeons at the base of the obelisk.†   (source)
  • Somewhere around the obelisk, boldly positioned outside the largest church in the world, was the second altar of science-Bernini's West Ponente-an elliptical block in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • That's why any obelisk can be used for opening gates to the Duat, or releasing great beings of power—"†   (source)
  • Twenty years ago, construction of the subway terminal had created a stir among art historians who feared digging beneath Piazza Barberini might topple the multiton obelisk that stood in the center.†   (source)
  • The only thing standing was the obelisk, and as I watched, it began to crack open, all four sides peeling away like some ghastly flower unfolding.†   (source)
  • Not only was it laid out in a perfectly elliptical shape, but dead center stood a towering Egyptian obelisk-a square pillar of stone with a distinctively pyramidal tip.†   (source)
  • An obelisk represents a sunbeam frozen in stone—a life-giving ray from the original king of the gods, Ra.†   (source)
  • To the obelisk?†   (source)
  • With my last bit of strength, I lurched toward the obelisk, every nerve in my body screaming with pain.†   (source)
  • "It's a long shot," Langdon said, "but I know that many of Rome's obelisks were erected or moved during Bernini's reign.†   (source)
  • My prison was a magically created abyss deep in the Duat, and the obelisk was the door your parents used to release me.†   (source)
  • Spoils of Rome's imperial plundering, obelisks were scattered across Rome and referred to by symbologists as "Lofty Pyramids"-skyward extensions of the sacred pyramidal form.†   (source)
  • The other Luxor obelisk is in Paris.†   (source)
  • In a final breathtaking revelation, Langdon realized Bernini's city-wide cross of obelisks marked the fortress in perfect Illuminati fashion; the cross's central arm passed directly through the center of the castle's bridge, dividing it into two equal halves.†   (source)
  • "But I don't know what I'm doing!" she protested, searching the obelisk's base as if she hoped to find a secret switch.†   (source)
  • Maybe obelisks were a theme?†   (source)
  • A giant cross of obelisks.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile Sadie stood in front of the obelisk with her arms raised, shouting: "Open, you stupid piece of rock!"†   (source)
  • No obelisks on the line.†   (source)
  • The obelisk rumbled, glowing faintly.†   (source)
  • Carter kept running, dragging me along, but I could see quite clearly what was happening back at the obelisk.†   (source)
  • Big stone pharaohs stood guard on either side of the entrance, and a single obelisk stood on the left-hand side.†   (source)
  • We stopped at the obelisk's base.†   (source)
  • I activated the obelisk at Luxor.†   (source)
  • The obelisk at the entrance, fool!†   (source)
  • The pyramid had been ripped from its source of power, the desert, and in front us loomed the default gateway for North America, the tall white obelisk that was the most powerful focal point of Ma'at on the continent: the Washington Monument.†   (source)
  • Use the obelisk.†   (source)
  • An obelisk.†   (source)
  • Nearby lay a rectangular cairn—hundreds of stones piled in the shape of an oversized grave with a granite obelisk for a headstone.†   (source)
  • That obelisk in Washington—†   (source)
  • Throughout this mad jumble, however, Max could see unmistakable elements of human architecture—Chinese pavilions, Islamic minarets, Egyptian obelisks, massive domes and cupolas whose scale dwarfed their human antecedents.†   (source)
  • They've never left us a chance…… " His eyes were moving restlessly; he glanced at the window, but looked hastily away: he did not want to see the white obelisk in the distance.†   (source)
  • Then EA's regional service of DC-3s flew a daily looping, hopscotch route so that you could leave the Hilton Addis Ababa in the morning, see the castles in Gondar, the ancient obelisks in Axum, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and be back in the Hilton lounge in Addis just when the good-time girls were drifting in trailing perfume, and the Velvet Ashantis were playing their theme song, a version of "Walk—Don't Run" by the Ventures.†   (source)
  • But instead I say, "Obelisk?"†   (source)
  • The obelisk—built in 1943—and the gatehouses are all that have survived intact from internment days.†   (source)
  • Whenever Max came upon one, he touched the obelisk and spoke their name aloud: John Buckley, Rowan Academy, Sixth Year; Jesse Chu, Rowan Academy, Fifth Year; Laurence M Renard, Senior Instructor; Annika Kraken, Department Chair of Mystics….†   (source)
  • There were patches of blue in the sky above the spacious streets of Washington, the faint blue of mid-April, and a few beams breaking through the clouds, A monument stood shining in the distance, hit by a ray of sun: it was a tall, white obelisk, erected to the memory of the man Dr. Ferris was quoting, the man in whose honor this city had been named.†   (source)
  • About half a mile in we spotted a white obelisk gleaming in the distance and marking a subtle line where the plain begins gradually to slope upward into the alluvial fan that becomes the base of the mountains.†   (source)
  • One could see them here and there across the grounds or at the base of walls and towers, larger white obelisks set upon blocks of rose granite.†   (source)
  • The shaft of red smoke that shot to the sky on the night of January 22 and stood abnormally still for a while, like a solemn memorial obelisk, then wavered and swept back and forth across the sky, like a searchlight sending some undecipherable message, then went out as abruptly as it had come, marked the end of Rearden Steel-but the inhabitants of the area did not know it.†   (source)
  • Now she knew that they were tombstones, slender obelisks soaring in memory of the men who had been destroyed for having created them, they were the frozen shape of the silent cry that the reward of achievement was martyrdom.†   (source)
  • Colin and Hassan clapped politely, and then Colin walked over to the obelisk, which read only: ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND.†   (source)
  • Katrina was leaning against the obelisk, dressed now, her hands shaking slightly as she smoked a cigarette.†   (source)
  • Colin stared at the Archduke's obelisk.†   (source)
  • She stood up and stepped toward TOC, who was still leaning, in a state of apparent calm, against the obelisk.†   (source)
  • His head scrambled, Colin crawled to the Archduke's obelisk, the only geographical location in the world that wasn't currently spinning.†   (source)
  • Katrina put her cigarette out against the Archduke's obelisk. stood up, and walked over to stand next to TOC.†   (source)
  • But he had to get up, because he could hear Hassan grunting as he received blow after blow, so Colin crawled to the obelisk, and slowly dragged himself up, his hands walking up the Archduke's grave.†   (source)
  • He took the obelisk away from the old woman, and with a sudden change on his face threw it with all his might out the open window.†   (source)
  • She set the obelisk up on the piano, there in the crown of leaves; she pushed a statue out of the way.†   (source)
  • At last Old Man Moody, the smarter one of those two, spied what they were looking for, the obelisk with its little moving part and its door open.†   (source)
  • Solitary trees marked distant hills like obelisks.†   (source)
  • The shadow of the obelisk spanned the terrace.†   (source)
  • But who could complain of this pert, pretty Paris when it revolved like a merry-go-round--the gold bridge-horses, the Greek Tuileries heroes and stone beauties, the overloaded Opera, the racy show windows and dapper colors, the maypole obelisk, the all-colors ice-cream, the gaudy package of the world.†   (source)
  • Sebastian's nanny was seated at the open window; the fountain lay before her, the lakes, the temple, and, far away on the last spur, a glittering obelisk; her hands lay open in her lap and, loosely between them, a rosary; she was fast asleep.†   (source)
  • …and wild English fern in its natural fronds; through them ran a dozen streams that counterfeited springs, and round them sported fantastic tropical animals, camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all vomiting water; on the rocks, to the height of the pediment, stood an Egyptian obelisk of red sandstone—but, by some odd chance, for the thing was far beyond me, I brought it off and, by judicious omissions and some stylish tricks, produced a very passable echo of Piranesi.†   (source)
  • He read of the swallows that fly in and out of the little cafe at Smyrna where the Hadjis sit counting their amber beads and the turbaned merchants smoke their long tasselled pipes and talk gravely to each other; he read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile, and longs to be back by the hot lotus-covered Nile, where there are Sphinxes, and rose-red ibises, and white vultures with gilded claws, and crocodiles, with small beryl…†   (source)
  • Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk.†   (source)
  • Even his cuff-buttons were engraved with hieroglyphics, and he was more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.†   (source)
  • Then rose the mighty monuments that cumber the river-bank and the desert—obelisk, labyrinth, pyramid, and tomb of king, blent with tomb of crocodile.†   (source)
  • He was alone in his garret, busy imitating in wood one of those indescribable bits of ivory, composed of crescents, of spheres hollowed out one within the other, the whole as straight as an obelisk, and of no use whatever; and he was beginning on the last piece—he was nearing his goal.†   (source)
  • As they approached the Piazza del Popolo, the crowd became more dense, and above the heads of the multitude two objects were visible: the obelisk, surmounted by a cross, which marks the centre of the square, and in front of the obelisk, at the point where the three streets, del Babuino, del Corso, and di Ripetta, meet, the two uprights of the scaffold, between which glittered the curved knife of the mandaia.†   (source)
  • Our dragnet was filled with Midas abalone, harp shells, obelisk snails, and especially the finest hammer shells I had seen to that day.†   (source)
  • They divided it into cakes by methods too well known to require description, and these, being sledded to the shore, were rapidly hauled off on to an ice platform, and raised by grappling irons and block and tackle, worked by horses, on to a stack, as surely as so many barrels of flour, and there placed evenly side by side, and row upon row, as if they formed the solid base of an obelisk designed to pierce the clouds.†   (source)
  • If I express myself strongly it is all because I love you so much; and from that point of view I may say I should as soon have thought of making up to that piece of pale high-mightiness as I should have thought of making up to the Obelisk in the Place des la Concorde.†   (source)
  • The place to which Mr Cheeryble had directed him was a row of mean and not over-cleanly houses, situated within 'the Rules' of the King's Bench Prison, and not many hundred paces distant from the obelisk in St George's Fields.†   (source)
  • Everything struck your eye at once: the carved gable, the pointed roof, the turrets suspended at the angles of the walls; the stone pyramids of the eleventh century, the slate obelisks of the fifteenth; the round, bare tower of the donjon keep; the square and fretted tower of the church; the great and the little, the massive and the aerial.†   (source)
  • There was a long-legged young man with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfriars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing me as 'Sixpenn'orth of bad ha'pence,' hoped 'I should know him agin to swear to' — in allusion, I have no doubt, to my staring at him.†   (source)
  • Only, in this case, it was Claude who was erect and the obelisk which was lying down; but, as the river, reflecting the sky, prolonged the abyss below him, the immense promontory seemed to be as boldly launched into space as any cathedral spire; and the impression was the same.†   (source)
  • On the facades of palaces and temples, on obelisks, on the inner walls of tombs, we wrote the names of our kings, and what they did; and to the delicate papyri we intrusted the wisdom of our philosophers and the secrets of our religion—all the secrets but one, whereof I will presently speak.†   (source)
  • That immense black obelisk thus isolated between the two white expanses of the sky and the river, which was very broad at this point, produced upon Dom Claude a singular effect, comparable to that which would be experienced by a man who, reclining on his back at the foot of the tower of Strasburg, should gaze at the enormous spire plunging into the shadows of the twilight above his head.†   (source)
  • The chimneys of the houses, the battlements of the walls, the faceted gables of the roofs, the spire of the Augustines, the tower of Nesle, all these projections which broke the profile of the colossal obelisk added to the illusion by displaying in eccentric fashion to the eye the indentations of a luxuriant and fantastic sculpture.†   (source)
  • At his feet, some chickens were searching the thickets and pecking, enamelled beetles ran about in the sun; overhead, some groups of dappled gray clouds were floating across the blue sky; on the horizon, the spire of the Abbey Saint-Victor pierced the ridge of the hill with its slate obelisk; and the miller of the Copeaue hillock was whistling as he watched the laborious wings of his mill turning.†   (source)
  • No doubt, when one contemplates these two Bibles, laid so broadly open in the centuries, it is permissible to regret the visible majesty of the writing of granite, those gigantic alphabets formulated in colonnades, in pylons, in obelisks, those sorts of human mountains which cover the world and the past, from the pyramid to the bell tower, from Cheops to Strasburg.†   (source)
  • In the darkness of the dome they wait, their pushedback chairs, my obelisk valise, around a board of abandoned platters.†   (source)
  • …Cong Abbey, Glen Inagh and the Twelve Pins, Ireland's Eye, the Green Hills of Tallaght, Croagh Patrick, the brewery of Messrs Arthur Guinness, Son and Company (Limited), Lough Neagh's banks, the vale of Ovoca, Isolde's tower, the Mapas obelisk, Sir Patrick Dun's hospital, Cape Clear, the glen of Aherlow, Lynch's castle, the Scotch house, Rathdown Union Workhouse at Loughlinstown, Tullamore jail, Castleconnel rapids, Kilballymacshonakill, the cross at Monasterboice, Jury's Hotel, S.…†   (source)
  • He proposed to set up there a national fertilising farm to be named Omphalos with an obelisk hewn and erected after the fashion of Egypt and to offer his dutiful yeoman services for the fecundation of any female of what grade of life soever who should there direct to him with the desire of fulfilling the functions of her natural.†   (source)
  • …towns, I see Algiers, Tripoli, Derne, Mogadore, Timbuctoo, Monrovia, I see the swarms of Pekin, Canton, Benares, Delhi, Calcutta, Tokio, I see the Kruman in his hut, and the Dahoman and Ashantee-man in their huts, I see the Turk smoking opium in Aleppo, I see the picturesque crowds at the fairs of Khiva and those of Herat, I see Teheran, I see Muscat and Medina and the intervening sands, see the caravans toiling onward, I see Egypt and the Egyptians, I see the pyramids and obelisks.†   (source)
  • 6 (This, this and these, America, shall be your pyramids and obelisks, Your Alexandrian Pharos, gardens of Babylon, Your temple at Olympia.†   (source)
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