But Helen might as well have appealed to the trees that stood tall and columnar just outside the prison window.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
When a toddling babe she had moved about under the huge plow-horses in their stalls, and put straw about them, and patted their columnar limbs with her little pads of palms, talking to them in soft indefinite gurgle of love and command.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
Adjoining each of these humble homes which line the thoroughfares, or perhaps just in the rear of them, one is sure to find clusters of bread-fruit, banana, and mango trees, often dominated by a tall, gracefully bending cocoanut palm of columnar proportions.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou