Damage to the base of a column can weaken the entire frame and could cause it to collapse.

An empty-eyed skull stared past me from the shadows at the base of a column.

Earlier examples in France were placed unobtrusively either at the base of a column or more frequently on a capitol."

His crozier clattered across the floor, rang against the base of a column, and lay still, deprived of fire.

Once he heard a mutter of voices, and leaping upon the base of a column, clung there while two women passed directly beneath him.

Man sitting at the base of a column carved with hieroglyphs at Luxor Temple.

It can be an architectural element used at the top or base of a column, but is also employed as a framing device on furniture and woodwork.

The only fragment of the medieval palace which survives is the base of a column found in the early 20th century and set up in the garden.

CATHEDRAL She drew away from the opening until her back came into contact with the base of a column.

Hydrostatic gauges (such as the mercury column manometer) compare pressure to the hydrostatic force per unit area at the base of a column of fluid.

The concrete form that resembles the base of a column but is hollowed out and painted red represents Ms. Winsor in her anti-Minimalist stance, during the late 1980's.

For a few minutes he was a shape at the base of a column of dust, and then a shifting dot in the heat haze, and then the desert swallowed him.

Stunned, sweating all over and lying limp at the base of a column, I listened dully as they explained to me in Greek that this church was only part of all I had seen.

Not all fish: the jutting curve of a jaw-bone showed above the mud, a few teeth still clinging; a green-stained leg bone leaned against the base of a column, as though washed up by some underground tide.

Once my head struck against a hard object, and when I felt of it I learned that it was the base of a column - a column of unbelievable immensity - whose surface was covered with gigantic chiseled hieroglyphics very perceptible to my touch.

The picture in the middle, is of the base of a column from the palace of Darius in Susa, inscribing in its rim, in three languages (Babylonian, Elamite, and Old Persian), that Darius, is the "great king of kings."