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Example sentences for: pillar

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The magnificent university city of Coimbra, the country’s capital during the 12th and 13th centuries, has been the pillar of Portuguese intellectual life since 1290.
Eight years and 746 pages later, he has, in Pillar of Fire , covered roughly 26 months, from the beginning of 1963 through early 1965.
There is a lovely fifth-century Garuda, and near it, on a memorial pillar, the earliest historical document in Nepal, an inscription of the same period concerning the Licchavi King Manadeva.
The most complex tensions were between Lewis and his close colleague Julian Bond, whose father was a pillar of Atlanta's Negro elite and a close friend of Du Bois'.
). Some don't trust Drudge ("Gosh, that Drudge, such a pillar of journalistic integrity.