pedestal
Example Sentences
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So he drove them out, and stood alone confronting "Statuesque Balaustion pedestalled On much disapprobation and mistake."
From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell
To the passing fashion of modern thought there is something stiff, scholastic, archaic, rigid, and even Byzantine, about the words "truth," "beauty," "goodness," thus pedestalled side by side.
From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper
A body less firmly pedestalled upon powerful legs and scoop-shovel feet would have gone down.
From The Devil's Asteroid by Wellman, Manly Wade
As we drove up to the porticoed front door, I observed in front of it, beside the tennis lawn, the black tool-house and the pedestalled sundial with which we had such strange associations.
From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
She had always accepted with philosophic calm the fact that such existences as hers were pedestalled on foundations of obscure humanity.
From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith
Vocabulary lists containing pedestal
Body Language: Ped, Pod ("Foot")
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The Poet X
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On a Pedestal: Marble-ous Words for Sculpture
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