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Columned

adjective

Having or resembling columns; having columns of a specified kind (often used as a combining form). "Trees with columned trunks" , "White-columned houses"

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"Columned" Quotes from Famous Books

... Michael's: in whose brazen call To curfew his first wails of wrath were whelmed), Sedate for all his haste To be at home; and, nestled in his arm, Inciting still to quiet and solitude, Boarded in sober drab, With small, square, agitating cuts Let in a-top of the double-columned, close, Quakerlike print, a Book! . . . What but that blessed brief Of what is gallantest and best In all the full-shelved Libraries of Romance? The Book of rocs, Sandalwood, ivory, turbans, ambergris, ...

— Poems by William Ernest Henley • William Ernest Henley

... those irresistible afternoons—radiant with the sun-washed geometry of three architectural renaissances, a monastic-fronted fur emporium, a Parthenon of a library, a Doric-columned bank—that Lilly and Zoe lumbered their omnibus way through the daily carnival of the most rococo avenue in ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... refuge, even though known for what he was. But he pushed that thought away as other men push temptation and tried to sleep under his saturated tent. In the morning he was on the trail with the first light, staggering a little, squinting down the columned aisles for open ground whence he could look out ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

Words linked to "Columned" : columnar, combining form, pillared, amphistylar, columniform, noncolumned, columnlike, colonnaded