“Confusingly, the word obelus was later used for the printer's character we often call a dagger, another symbol with a point.”

“The division sign was in Rahn's time known either as the obelus or sometimes the obelisk, from a Greek word meaning a roasting spit.”

“This obelus directs readers to a four-line footnote that explains the terms and conditions attached to this freebie.”

“Jordan arrived at work yesterday to find a stone obelisk in front of the restaurant toppled over.”

“Thus, at Treblinka, the memorial to those killed consists of 17,000 granite shards surrounding a large obelisk broken down the middle.”

“The famous Castletown obelisk, for example, is on land that forms part of the Carton demesne.”

“Travelers to Egypt are still impressed with its great pyramids, slender obelisks and avenues of monuments.”

“A welter of ancient corridors in a ruin gives way to a clear space, contained within a circle of weathered obelisks.”

“The building with the sphinx and obelisks in the center housed Akoun's Beautiful Orient with its bazaar offering wares from the Middle East.”

“The author utilized the asterisks and obeli known from Origen's Hexapla as critical signs and indicated variant readings in the margins.”