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set on a pedestal



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see on a pedestal .
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The fibreglass structure was set on a pedestal and had four symmetrical wings.

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Their Philadelphia firm famously proposed a monumental red apple set on a pedestal in the place of the Times Tower.

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To one side of the dish is a small conch shell set on a pedestal; to the other, a small silver handbell.

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They passed through a covered passage into a little garden overgrown with laurels and gnarled old pepper trees; there was a fountain with gold fish, and green arums were springing up about a broken faun’s head set on a pedestal of verd’ antico.

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At first he voted with the Girondists, attacked Robespierre, "a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal," and at the trial of the king voted with the Mountain for the king's death "without appeal and without delay."

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