Sentence examples for his pillar from inspiring English sources

Eventually his pillar became a pilgrimage site.

Here is St Antony of the desert, St Simeon on his pillar and Mother Julian in Norwich.

Trump is trying to persuade Blaine to put his pillar next to his building, on the 56th Street side.

On a rainy day in March, he is trying to find the right location for his pillar.

Mandla has described how Mandela, his "pillar of strength", persuaded him to return to university to complete his political science studies.

Simeon Stylites teetered happily on his pillar in the desert; medieval Irish hermits needed no more company than a white cat, the stars and leaves stirring.

Saint Symeon climbing to reach the top of his pillar-like abode and the dove of the Holy Spirit flying will seem familiar to viewers acquainted with the world of Picasso and Basquiat.

He called these boys his "pillars".

READING I just passed the 1,000-page 1,000-pagen Follett's "World Without End," the follow-up to his "Pillars of the Earth," one of markll-tine favorites.

His pillars are his family members -- his parents, Olivia and Archie, who played quarterback for 14 years in the N.F.L.; his football-crazy brothers, Cooper and Eli, a star quarterback at Mississippi; and his wife, Ashley, who is often asleep while Manning, up at all hours, stares at game film on his Beta machine in a downstairs room.

As a prop — one of rock's least dispensable — the beard also obscures the presence of a fairly keen mind, which instead must reveal itself in ornate remarks about souped-up automobiles, vintage guitars, and life on the road: his pillars of wisdom.