By degrees simple unadorned mosques were replaced by vast buildings with many arcaded courts entered from ornate lateral doorways, whilst certain characteristic features were introduced, of which the chief were the stalactite vaulting, the name of which explains itself, the horse-shoe arch, and the minaret, the last named a turret of several stories gradually decreasing in circumference, each with a balcony of its own from which the mueddin calls the faithful to prayer.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
Half-way up the slope to the left, on a ledge of rock, rose a long, low building with curious, pyramid-like roofs, crowned at either end by a sort of minaret, which resembled more than anything else a huge earthenware oil-jar.
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
Does not yon strange form appear to you like the topper-most minaret of a sunken tower?
"Us and the Bottleman"
Edith Ballinger Price