Tower

Examples

• Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He knew himself by no other name than One Hundred and Five, North Tower, when he made shoes under my care. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Then, amid cheers of encouragement from the immense throng that was watching, he turned sharply past the starting-tower and flew between the flags that marked the starting-line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A long series of experiments resulted in the invention of the tower dryer with a capacity of three hundred tons per hour. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Since then they have taken the form of iron skeleton towers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The two towers at the axis supporting the wheel were 140 feet high, and the motive power was secured from a 1,000 horse-power steam engine under the wheel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This class of bridges is usually constructed with chains or cables passing over towers, with the roadway suspended beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A supper-table was laid for two, in the third of the rooms; a round room, in one of the chateau's four extinguisher-topped towers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is a quarter of an hour's walk from there to Appledore Towers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If we went to Italy, to sacred and eternal Rome, we might with greater patience submit to the decree, which had laid her mighty towers low. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was but a single way, and that led through the mighty, towering trees upon our right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• From the towering lighthouses of our coasts its beams are thrown seaward, and a beacon for the mariner shines beyond all other lights. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There were towering cliffs on our left, and the pretty Lago di Lecco on our right, and every now and then it rained on us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The great apes, towering in all their fifteen feet of height, had gone down before my sword while the charging guards were still some distance away. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Malone, being neither good-natured nor phlegmatic, was presently in a towering passion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• About noon I dragged myself wearily to the portals of a huge building which covered perhaps four square miles and towered two hundred feet in the air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The head of the topmost warrior towered over forty feet from the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Tars Tarkas, whose giant stature towered high above the rest of us, could see the farthest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The fellow towered nearly sixteen feet in height, while Kantos Kan was some inches under six feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The way wound through enchanted parks to a mighty wall that towered a hundred feet in air. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Still the same lofty domes and minarets towered above the verdurous walls, where Constantine had died, and the Turk had entered the city. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The juggernaut on his car towered there a grim load. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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