Altarlike

Five men approach a wooden altarlike table to the right of the stand and remove a white tablecloth to reveal several trays filled with tiny plastic water cups and bite-sized pieces of white bread on small silver platters. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

Rising altarlike out of the scorched ground, somber and gray. ❋ Roberts, Nora (2008)

What every test had deemed ordinary limestone speared up, then spread altarlike in the quieting light of the spring evening. ❋ Roberts, Nora (2008)

On one altarlike rock, there are offerings left by the Huicholes, who leave personal effects the way other Mexicans leave them in cemeteries: jewelry, a piece of corn, coins, a cigarette. ❋ Barry Golson (2006)

Displayed on mantel or table with the Bible, a taper, sprigs of galax, so that the effect was altarlike. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

There was an altarlike shelf below it bearing several weapons, and upon which a number of candles were burning. ❋ Zelazny, Roger (1991)

An altarlike table stood before a translur cent block of lilac stone, a rectangular cube larger than the huge hlllman who gaped at it. ❋ Gygax, Gary (1987)

She would arrange these in the altarlike temple she had set up - Parker pens, bottles of blue-black Quink, pencils, hunting rifles - all mixed in with gods, sacred threads, and marigolds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Taking full advantage of Mr. Obama's policy of "engagement," Tehran stalled for a few weeks (while Iranian centrifuges spun) and then returned to Mr. Obama's altarlike negotiating table to say that on second thought, they're not going to ship their uranium out. ❋ Unknown (2009)