All 13 Uses
obelisk
in
An Abundance of Katherines
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- 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.†
p. 48.3 *
- Colin and Hassan clapped politely, and then Colin walked over to the obelisk, which read only: ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND.†
p. 49.4
- "That's a lot of money," Colin said, his hand still on the granite obelisk.†
p. 50.3
- Colin's head swiveled back to the Archduke's obelisk, where he saw—holy shit—TOC, his very self, slithering into some camo pants.†
p. 173.9
- Katrina was leaning against the obelisk, dressed now, her hands shaking slightly as she smoked a cigarette.†
p. 174.3
- Colin stared at the Archduke's obelisk.†
p. 174.4
- Katrina put her cigarette out against the Archduke's obelisk.†
p. 174.9
- She stood up and stepped toward TOC, who was still leaning, in a state of apparent calm, against the obelisk.†
p. 177.7
- His head scrambled, Colin crawled to the Archduke's obelisk, the only geographical location in the world that wasn't currently spinning.†
p. 178.6
- He grabbed hold of the obelisk with both hands and clung to it.†
p. 178.7
- 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.†
p. 180.5
- "I'm still here," Colin said feebly, his eyes shut as he held onto the obelisk for balance.†
p. 180.6
- Colin got dizzy, and then turned back around, hugging the obelisk.†
p. 180.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(obelisk) a stone pillar with a pyramidal top erected as a monument to remember a person or event
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, obelisk references a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote. The character looks a little like a dagger or cross. (See Wikipedia - Obelisk (typography) for pictures.)