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monument 1. an obelisk, statue, building, etc., erected in commemoration of a person or event or in celebration of something 2. a notable building or site, esp one preserved as public property 3. a literary or artistic work regarded as commemorative of its creator or a particular period monument [′män·yə·mənt] (engineering) A natural or artificial (but permanent) structure that marks the location on the ground of a corner or other survey point. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But, beautiful as it has been preserved in growing old, it is difficult not to sigh, not to wax indignant, before the numberless degradations and mutilations which time and men have both caused the venerable monument to suffer, without respect for Charlemagne, who laid its first stone, or for Philip Augustus, who laid the last. He saw, or thought he saw, a woman in white, yesterday evening, as he was passing the churchyard; and the figure, real or fancied, was standing by the marble cross, which he and every one else in Limmeridge knows to be the monument over Mrs. He had, in fact, spoken contemptuously of the monumental tradesman as an "exploiter" of labor, and had asked a young working mason, a member of the International Association, to design a monument for the gratification of Jansenius. |
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