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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Column

Where London’s column, pointing to the skies
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
Pope.—Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epi. III. Line 339.

So like a shatter’d column lay the King.
Tennyson.—Morte D’Arthur.