Rows of squat wooden columns now break into three small areas what once had been a splendid large room.

In front of him were squat columns of coins and a few cheques.

The squat columns I had seen, under the touch of the old priest's hands, lay shattered beside it.

The church has an entrance archway with squat Syrian columns; and the building features a prominent front gable, chimneys, towers and pinnacles.

He was lying in an immeasurable dark grotto along the sides of which were rows of thick, squat columns made of some green, glittering crystal.

The basement could be a German Expressionist set in a Fritz Lang movie, a brooding, low-ceilinged space with a circle of squat columns supporting the floor above.

On three sides it was enclosed by walls, windowless and doorless; on the fourth by huge, squat columns which formed the front of the edifice.

The newel post is a short, squat column with a foliated capital.

The sandstone gallery of the latter building, with its plain squat columns, is particularly impressive.

There was a squat column in the center, covered with what looked like carvings in relief.