Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Cleopatra's needle   Listen
noun
Cleopatra's needle  n.  Either of two obelisks which were moved in ancient times from Heliopolis to Alexandria, one of which is now on the Thames Embankment in London, and the other in Central Park, in the City of New York. Note: Some writers consider that only the obelisk now in Central Park is properly called Cleopatra's needle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Cleopatra's needle" Quotes from Famous Books



... river, blurring the outlines of things. He had been walking up and down for about an hour, walking for walking's sake, with his eyes fixed on the pavement. Suddenly he found himself standing still, staring at one of the sphinxes that guard Cleopatra's Needle. The monster rose up out of the fog as out of a sea; its body glistened with an oily sooty moisture, a big drop had gathered in one of its huge eyelids ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair

... at the doorway, threatened to drown himself in the Thames. In the Thames, just to the right of Cleopatra's Needle. ...
— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com