...Some of these were covered from top to bottom with parasitic plants, giving them the appearance of tall towers or obelisks...
Mayne Reid 「The Giraffe Hunters」
...108)measures sixty-eight feet in the shaft, and the obelisks of Luxor standseventy-seven and seventy-five and a half feet high, respectively...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...Drawing nearer, theworshipper saw two lofty obelisks towering up a hundred feet inheight, on the right and left...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...To me the most familiar and interesting of all the Roman obelisks isthat which stands in the centre of the Piazza del Popolo, the finestand largest square in Rome...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...All the other obelisks in Rome belong to comparatively recent periods,to the decadence of Egypt...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Several of them were executed in Egyptby order of the Roman emperors, and are therefore not genuine butimitation obelisks...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...A very dark colour distinguished these rocky masses, which terminated in pointed obelisks, or were broken into bold terraces of dismal aspect...
Thomas Mitchell 「Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2)」
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