Sentence examples for stone pillars from inspiring English sources

The navigators were given stone pillars (padrões) to stake the claims of the Portuguese crown.

Those accustomed to stone pillars were shocked by this modern element.

Some of the houses in the Marianas appear to have been constructed on stone pillars.

Inside, neat lines of stone pillars rise to soft Moorish arches, creating beautiful walkways.

With legs like stone pillars, Gehrig also stole home 15 times.

The soaring tiled arches and massive stone pillars suggest an Old World food hall.

Stone pillars topped either with ram's heads, stylized animal forms, or human figures have also been discovered.

Little remains except some stone pillars of the Coptic Christian Church, jutting up out of the sand.

The main entrance is through an arched doorway, which opens into a foyer with stone floors and carved stone pillars.

There is a double porte-cochere with stone pillars at the entrance, to shelter arrivals and departures.

There are widely placed funeral monuments of marble, lofty stone pillars and ornate tombs that are truly works of art.