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:
“Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, How shall we respond to the dreams of youth? It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answera range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.”
—William Ayers, U.S. author. To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, ch. 7 (1993)
“If you say to me: Master, it would seem that you werent 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 (14941553)
“Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.”
—Bible: Hebrew Eli, in 1 Samuel, 3:9.
Advice to Samuel, on how to respond to Gods call.