Such application is not quite correct, since ``plane'' indicates a flat surface, and the lifting surfaces are always cambered. Propeller--See ``Air-Screw.''
Propeller, Tractor--An air-screw mounted in front of the main lifting surface. Propeller, Pusher--An air-screw mounted behind the main lifting surface. Pusher--An aeroplane of which the propeller is mounted behind the main lifting surface. Pylon--Any V-shaped construction from the point of which wires are taken. Power--Rate of working. Power, Horse--One horse-power represents a force sufficient to raise 33,000 lbs. 1 foot in a minute.英文原著 · 《The Aeroplane Speaks》
Reflections in pool in center of court; from north, half dome and figure of "Harvest" above dome; from south, the bulls on the pylons.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
Only the voices from the Nile steal up to the obelisk of Rameses, to the pylon from which the flags of Thebes once flew on festal days, to the shrine of Alexander the Great, with its vultures and its stars, and to the red granite statues of Rameses and his wives.英文原著 · 《The Spell of Egypt》
All strong souls cry out secretly for liberty as for a sacred necessity of life. Liberty seems to drench the Ramesseum. And all strong souls must exult there. The sun has taken it as a beloved possession. No massy walls keep him out. No shield-shaped battlements rear themselves up against the outer world as at Medinet-Abu. No huge pylons cast down upon the ground their forms in darkness. The stone glows with the sun, seems almost to have a soul glowing with the sense, the sun-ray sense, of freedom.英文原著 · 《The Spell of Egypt》
Egypt calls--even across the space of the world; and across the space of the world he who knows it is ready to come, obedient to its summons, because in thrall to the eternal fascination of the "land of sand, and ruins, and gold"; the land of the charmed serpent, the land of the afterglow, that may fade away from the sky above the mountains of Libya, but that fades never from the memory of one who has seen it from the base of some great column, or the top of some mighty pylon; the land that has a spell--wonderful, beautiful Egypt.英文原著 · 《The Spell of Egypt》