The columns were of different substances; some of handsome marble, others of rough stone meanly plastered over, with dissimilar capitals, vulgarly cut shafts of various sizes; here with a pediment, there without, now turned upside down, then joined together by halves in the centre, and almost invariably nescient of intercolumnar rule.
"Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah"
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The nescient opponents who have taken up the hostile pen probably belong to the ranks of those who, some time ago, equally opposed the introduction of an important cycling innovation.
"The Esperantist, Complete"
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