pedestal
/ˈpɛdɪstəl/ verb C2- To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
He/she/it pedestals · Past pedestaled · Past participle pedestaled · -ing form pedestaling
Verb forms
- Base form
- pedestal
- He/she/it
- pedestals
- Past
- pedestaled
- Past participle
- pedestaled
- -ing form
- pedestaling
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It stood on a small pedestal table with an old dressing-gown of Holmes’s so draped round it that the illusion from the street was absolutely perfect.
On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.
“Nay, madame; I would place each of these heroes on his right pedestal—that of Robespierre on his scaffold in the Place Louis Quinze; that of Napoleon on the column of the Place Vendôme.
He saw that he was on the highest point of the island,—a statue on this vast pedestal of granite, nothing human appearing in sight, while the blue ocean beat against the base of the island, and covered it with a fringe of foam.
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