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As the third day drew to a close flames sprang pyramidically from the crater, accompanied by loud thunder and electric flashes, which rent the column of smoke hanging over the volcano.

From The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire by Morris, Charles

When cold, cut it into strips; pile these on a dish pyramidically, and serve.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

And yet this should hardly have been so, since the theory of the chimney was, that it pyramidically diminished as it ascended.

From I and My Chimney by Melville, Herman

It was a pile of stone-work, raised pyramidically, upon an oblong base, or square, two hundred and sixty-seven feet long, and eighty-seven wide.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Six successive tiers of little turrets are thus pyramidically placed one above the other3.

From Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg by Anonymous