Respond
A respond is a half-pier or half-pillar which is bonded into a wall and designed to carry the springer at one end of an arch.
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Famous quotes containing the word respond:
“Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.”
—Bible: Hebrew Eli, in 1 Samuel, 3:9.
Advice to Samuel, on how to respond to God’s call.
“If you say to me: “Master, it would seem that you weren’t too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries,” I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“I just come and talk to the plants, really—very important to talk to them, they respond I find.”
—Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948)