It is a wooden minaret, it is octangular, it is louvred, and it is surmounted by an iron rod holding aloft a wooden crescent painted gold. |
Some huts also were entirely built of this material, of a rude circular or octangular form, and roofed with skins like the others. |
The two conspirators found Louis seated in a cabinet, which, being placed in one of the towers, partook of its octangular form. |
Its form is octangular, having a strong butment at each angle, surmounted with pinnacles. |
About seventy years ago, those towers were pulled down, and rebuilt in their present octangular form. |
The majority of the columns at Anarajapoora are of dressed stone, octangular and of extremely graceful proportions. |