The long central spike seemed to be completely featureless, a slim column of grey metal.

And it seemed to be balanced at its center, like a one legged table, on a single slim blue-green column rising from the sea.

The top is supported by several slim columns designed to hold oversize portfolios.

The weight of their large beams was more than the slim columns supporting the beam pivot could cope with.

He lifted one hand and slid it around the slim column of her neck.

"You do care for me," she whispered when he broke the kiss to trail his lips down the slim column of her neck.

It stood almost as high as his head on its slim column of polished green soapstone.

He looked up again at the slim column of her bare throat and caught his breath.

Far off against the sky a slim column of smoke was rising toward the sky.

It lay beyond the glow, a single slim column, about the height of a man.