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Usage examples of monolith.

It was whiter than bleached bone, but here and there were glimmerings, like gems of the same berylline color as the sky, life within the monolith, revealed to Riane, so newly come to this creased and pitiless realm.

Follingston-Heath adjusted his monocle and leaned back against a speckled black and gray monolith.

An old woman, a monolith of an ancient Scrow matron, easily the size of all her retainers standing together.

He was very tall and despite his phalanx of lawyers, the gapers and starers got a clear view as he stood on top of the mean flight of steps, framed between two stone monoliths.

The most prominent object of all amid the general devastation, and the one that fascinated Theos more than the view of the destroyed monolith and the debased Lion, was the uninjured head of the Prophet Khosrul.

Beyond the bridge, the giant monoliths thinned and the cleared area that was Rybatta proper began.

Reflecting crystal facets of the translucent edges haloed the monolith with insubstantial shimmer, but the blue-green shadowy depths held its unmelted heart.

One wall was bare, unworked stone: the naked rock of the granite monolith itself.

At once, therefore, this huge unwrought monolith suggests religion, and probably one of the earliest, and most primitive forms of worship.

He was a close correspondent of the notorious Baudelairean poet Justin Geoffrey, who wrote The People of the Monolith and died screaming in a madhouse in 1926 after a visit to a sinister, ill-regarded village in Hungary.

In the center reposed a wide empty desk like a frozen lake, a huge mashina, and Yamashita himself, a bemedaled monolith in a tall black chair.

Immense girders buckled huger beams together as the monoliths rose against the sky day by day.

Halak arrived in the Kohol District well after the sun had slid behind blocky monoliths of apartments and tenement complexes.

It was very unpleasant to see those filthy and disproportioned animals which soon numbered about fifteen, grubbing about and making their kangaroo leaps in the grey twilight where titan towers and monoliths arose, but it was still more unpleasant when they spoke among themselves in the coughing gutturals of ghasts.

How could these ancient monoliths possibly be related to the Mayan calendar and the Mesoamerican culture, halfway across the world?