Meanings of fallen columns in English

They can see the fallen columns of the temple of Zeus.

Below lay the ruins of fallen columns, capitals, cornices and statues.

Up in the chaos of fallen columns, she stood a moment with her hands pressed over her eyes.

Close to us was a temple, a fine mass of building, surrounded by innumerable fallen columns and ruined cornices.

The white pillars in front of colonnaded mansions had been shattered and the fallen columns lay in the icy slough.

The pyramids of Egypt reaching to the clouds, with fallen columns, and Sphynxes half buried in sand, next sailed past them.

Only the flat marble floor, littered with fallen columns and mounds of scattered rubble, showed where the temple had once stood.

They sat down upon one of the fallen columns, in the midst of a cluster of magnificent lilies which had shot up there.

Faust, Satan and Oldham, all wearing white tropical dress and sun-helmets, are seated on fragments of fallen columns in front of the pool.

All along this way lie great blocks of stone and marble and fallen columns, so numerous that at times our progress is almost barred.

They formed an extended line to walk down the street, picking their way over fallen columns and shattered glass dulled by years of dirt.

All the fallen columns are now restored to the perpendicular, and the capitals and architraves are in process of being hoisted into their original positions.