Rectangular column

Usage examples of pilaster.

Octagonal in form, clad in white and green marble, decorated with rounded arches and stately columns and pilasters, all crowned with a white marble roof that conceals the dome below, the Baptistery is an exquisite example of Tuscan Romanesque architecture.

Corinthian pilasters pointed at the scattering of light clouds high in the lazuline sky, plate glass windows glittering in the sun.

The Colonial had lent Pilasters a million pounds to tide them over the criA DANGEROUS FORTUNE 493 sis, but the money was repayable on demand.

The sides of the library are adorned by Scagliola pilasters and arched recesses, which contain the books.

But the syndicate members were bankers just like 518 KEN FOLLETT the Pilasters, and in their hearts they thought There but for the grace of God go L Besides, the cooperation of the partners was helpful in selling off the assets, and it was worth a small payment to retain their goodwill.

He had finally disposed of all the assets of Pilasters Bank, and the syndicate that had rescued the bank had made a small profit.

Her head remained still, her eyes fixed upon the house of the Avellanos, whose chipped pilasters, broken cornices, the whole degradation of dignity was hidden now by the gathering dusk of the street.

The effigy no longer sleeps, but opens its eyes and sits up -- ideally noble, as on the Medicean tombs, or soberly a portrait, like any one of those admirable busts in their round niches between the pilasters of a classical design.

Divide it into squares of 1 foot, so that there will be 8 feet between each column or pilaster, supposing we make them to stand on a square foot.

The wall is of richly coloured marble highly polished, its paneled sweep relieved by fluted columns and pilasters of distinguished grace and dignity, which glow softly and frostily in the electric light.

Its gilt-ribbed pilasters and wedding-cake ceiling leafed in gold almost mocked the poverty of the people intended to benefit from the event, who were brought to mind only in the obligatory mid-meal video.

Stone angels, gargoyles, and eagles carved into the pilasters bore rake marks, as though they had been repeatedly clawed by a creature powerful enough to gouge stone.

The house was quaint in appearance, with pilasters at the corners, a tile roof edged with terra-cotta goddesses, and a small yard protected from the street by a wrought iron fence and an abundance of vegetation.

Then he came to a lodge with a thatched roof and absurd Ionic pilasters, and turned in at the gates.

When we had satisfied our curiosity in the cave, so far as our penury of light permitted us, we clambered again to our boat, and proceeded along the coast of Mull to a headland, called Atun, remarkable for the columnar form of the rocks, which rise in a series of pilasters, with a degree of regularity, which Sir Allan thinks not less worthy of curiosity than the shore of Staffa.