The weather-tanned neck that rose, columnlike, from the open shirt-throat.
"The Gun-Brand"
James B. Hendryx
It looked as if the strong man, with his almost blasphemous intolerance of disunion, his columnlike power of supporting, and his incomparable intellect, was to stand in the background and watch the nightmare play from afar.
"Aladdin O'Brien"
Gouverneur Morris