Use tower in a sentence
Sentences ending with tower
- The winding staircase within is dark, but one always knows which side of the tower he is on because of his naturally gravitating from one side to the other of the staircase with the rise or dip of the tower. [5]
- There they showed us no end of aged documents; some were signed by Popes, some by Tilly and other great generals, and one was a letter written and subscribed by Goetz von Berlichingen in Heilbronn in 1519 just after his release from the Square Tower. [5]
- The driver pointed to one of these ancient fortresses, and said, (I translate): "Do you see that great iron hook that projects from the wall just under the highest window in the ruined tower? [5]
- Miss Vincent heard this story, as others did, and talked about it with her friend, Miss Tower. [6]
- For example, consider this figure, which he used in the village "Address" referred to with such candid complacency in the title-page above quoted--"like the topmost topaz of an ancient tower. [5]
- They had left the room with its noise and heat behind them and were descending the worn, oaken treads of the spiral stairway of a neighbouring tower. [9]
- Hark ye: before the night come, she shall hie her to the Tower. [5]
- You are not the first young man who has been fascinated, almost at a glance, by Miss Euthymia Tower. [6]
- And the same terror returned to him now after all the years of respite, tenfold increased, of falling in the sight of man from the topmost tower. [9]
- Listening to the story of the struggle between love and duty, Pierre saw before his eyes every minutest detail of his last meeting with the object of his love at the Sukharev water tower. [2]
Short sentences using tower
- The Tower showed recent war-scars. [5]
- A very tower of virtue. [9]
Sentences containing tower two or more times
- And this shifting panorama continues until, towards evening, behold, on a hill, Berne, shining through showers, the old feudal round tower and buildings overhanging the Aar, and the tower of the cathedral over all. [4]
- I ought to have made a second visit to the Tower, so tenderly spoken of by Artemus Ward as "a sweet boon," so vividly remembered by me as the scene of a personal encounter with one of the animals then kept in the Tower menagerie. [6]
More example sentences with the word tower in them
- And then, sir, you will be sent to the Tower, and I shan't move a finger to get you out. [9]
- They comb their wool up to a peak and keep it in position by stiffening it with brown-red clay--half of this tower colored, denotes engagement; the whole of it colored denotes marriage. [5]
- The roof, thatched with palm-leaves and reeds, had begun to crackle when Antinous rushed into the tower only a few paces off crying: "Fire--fire! [10]
- Then he sprang with long leaps from the ruined tower to the barren plain at his feet, and ran southward as fleetly as if he were escaping from captivity a second time. [10]
- Howells wrote: "I wish you could understand how unshaken you are, you old tower, in every way; your foundations are struck so deep that you will catch the sunshine of immortal years, and bask in the same light as Cervantes and Shakespeare. [5]
- Paulus obeyed his wish and then went with Hermas to the top of the tower to spy the distance from thence. [10]
- How the brother whom she had given to his imperial father would some day tower above him! [10]
- And suddenly another white tower, loftier than the first, had risen up! [9]
- That high tower which you see on the horizon is the celebrated temple of Bel, next to the Pyramids, one of the most gigantic works ever constructed by human hands. [10]
- The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock. [2]
- Do you know where Dr. Latimer's office is, on Tower Street? [9]
- Its precipitous sides were powdered over with snow, and the upper half hidden in thick clouds which now and then dissolved to cobweb films and gave brief glimpses of the imposing tower as through a veil. [5]
- Day after day we issued forth from a musty and highly respectable hotel near Piccadilly to a gloomy Tower, a soggy Hampton Court or a mournful British Museum. [9]
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. [5]
- The royal standard was not floating from the tower of the castle, and everything was quiet and lonely. [6]
- She took to wandering to that part of the palace-grounds where she could see the windows of the tower her lover inhabited. [11]
- I will climb up, and from the top of the tower there I can see where the dogs come from. [10]
- His heart felt unspeakably heavy and sad, and it seemed almost like a deliverance when, just before midnight, the bell in the Tower of Pancratius raised its evilboding voice. [10]
- In the shops under the Belfry, the great tower from whence the bell summoned the inhabitants when danger threatened, lay plenty of cloth for new doublets. [10]
- As the silent troops reached the neighborhood of Allertssohn's house, the clock in the church-steeple slowly struck twelve, and directly after the alarm-bell began to sound from the tower of Pancratius. [10]
- The noble Norman tower, one hundred and thirty-two feet in height, was once surmounted by a spire, which fell during divine service on Easter Day of the year 1559. [6]
- He turned up Tower, deliberately avoiding Dalton Street in its lower part, reached Mr. Bentley's door. [9]
- The old church tower, clad in a ghostly garb of pure cold white, again rose up before them, and a few moments brought them close beside it. [12]
- Probably the Eiffel Tower would be stricken down as a monumental presumption, like that of Babel, if it had not been raised with the full knowledge and consent of all the world. [4]
- This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. [5]
- We halted; the tower saluted, I responded; then we wheeled and rode side by side to the grand-stand and faced our king and queen, to whom we made obeisance. [5]
- In the one tower of the citadel there were prisons of tolerably pleasant aspect, but she had heard whispers of terrible subterranean dungeons connected with the secret tribunal. [10]
- Now in the Tower lay the Lord de Courcy, the mightiest arm in England, stripped of his honours and possessions, and wasting with long captivity. [5]
- The conical capped tower I got from a French chateau, and some of the features on the south from a Buddhist temple in Japan. [9]
- Up in the tower Dicky had listened intently, and as the speech proceeded his features contracted; once he gripped the arm of Renshaw. [11]
- You stand a tower among the ruins. [11]
- At Grand Tower, too, there was a railway; and another at Cape Girardeau. [5]
- Mr.------, to walk to the Talcott Tower, ten miles distant. [5]
- You must come to the strong tower on the western side of the ravine. [10]
- To the Tower, to see the lions,--of all sorts. [6]
- He was going to marry Guenever, as a first move; but she fled and shut herself up in the Tower of London. [5]
- He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. [5]
- In two hours' time we are at Stalden, a village perched upon a rocky promontory, at the junction of the valleys of the Saas and the Visp, with a church and white tower conspicuous from afar. [4]
- She felt that this was the purer, the nobler, the better cause; and she rejoiced in the love of which he had spoken as the support and the stay of their future life together--as sheltering them like a tower of strength and a mighty refuge. [10]
- As I approached, they begun to tower and swell and look like mighty furnaces. [5]
- There is nothing there but an assemblage of shabby booths and fruit-stands, and an ancient stone tower in ruins and overgrown with ivy. [4]
- Our party descended the winding staircase in the tower, and walked on the shelf under the mighty ledge to the entrance of the Cave of the Winds. [4]
- The monotony of the view is interrupted only by the great Mosque of Omar, the Tower of Hippicus, and one or two other buildings that rise into commanding prominence. [5]
- We stopped at the very same inn which the famous old robber-knight and rough fighter Goetz von Berlichingen, abode in after he got out of captivity in the Square Tower of Heilbronn between three hundred and fifty and four hundred years ago. [5]
- Go up to the tower, I tell you, and let him lie--or carry him up with you into your new den, and hand him over to your sweetheart to nurse. [10]
- The alarm-bell in the Tower of Pancratius rang incessantly, and more than once doors opened, voices and shots were heard. [10]
- The bell in the tower began to clang, with heavy, relentless strokes --like physical blows from which she flinched--each stirring her reluctant, drowsy soul to a quicker agony. [9]
- The walls surrounding the tower are said to be still clearly recognizable, and were 4000 feet long and 3000 broad. [10]
- It seemed like the story of the youth doomed to be slain by a lion before reaching a certain age, and whose fate found him out in the heart of the tower where his father had shut him up for safety. [6]
- Their figures against the setting sun took on a strange burnished radiance, so that they seemed as mystical pilgrims journeying into that golden haze, which veiled them in beyond the hill, as the Angelus sounded from the tower of the ancient church. [11]
- Who is he, The one ye name and tell us that ye serve, Whom ye would call me from my lonely tower To worship with the many-headed throng? [6]
- And there is the old clock and watch tower, which for eight hundred years has enabled the Augsburgers to keep the time of day and to look out over the plain for the approach of an enemy. [4]
- Chapter 5 On the fourth day comes the astrologer from his crumbling old tower up the valley, where he had heard the news, I reckon. [5]
- By 6 P.M. the face has dissolved and gone, and the goatee has become what looks like the shadow of a tower with a pointed roof, and the shoe had turned into what the printers call a "fist" with a finger pointing. [5]
- Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order. [5]
- The ringing of the alarm-bell in the tower also disturbed the night's rest of the ladies in the Van der Werff household. [10]
- He is now supporting himself in his old age, by the assistance which his superior knowledge enables him to render the Chaldoeans in their astronomical observations from the tower of Bel. [10]
- So that mediaeval structure, all tower, growing out of the rock, is Stedman's Castle--just like him, to let his art spring out of nature in that way. [4]
- The odd thought struck the clergyman that this man had made his own Tower of London, had built with his own hands the prison in which he was to end his days. [9]
- In crossing Tower Street he was frightened by the sharp clanging of a great electric car that roared past him, aflame with light. [9]
- Yet there it stood before me, all covered with its associations as an ivy-clad tower with its foliage. [6]
- It was a stately truth, a lofty truth --a Tower; and I think it was a mistake to go on and distract attention from its sublimity by building another Tower alongside of it fourteen times as high. [5]
- He was still standing on the top of the ruined tower, and raised his arms and face toward heaven. [10]
- The tower episode solidified my power, and made it impregnable. [5]
- Often did I sit with Polly Ann till midnight in the sentry's tower, straining my ears for the owl's hoot that warned us of his coming. [9]
- Here she was shut up in the top of a tower which was sixty feet high. [5]
- These tower stairs, she remembered, led to a yard communicating by a little gate with the office entrance. [9]
- Suddenly, however, he seemed to tower over her, his two big hands were raised as though they would strike, and then the palms spread out and enclosed her cheeks lovingly, and his eyes fastened upon hers. [11]
- An' w'en I see 'im goin' to the Tower to be'old the Champion, 'Captain Paul,' says I, 'yere a man arfter my hown 'eart. [9]
- Smith had the satisfaction of wounding the rascal, and the inhabitants of a ruined tower near by, who witnessed the combat, were quite satisfied with the event. [4]
- A rickety ladder rose to a kind of tower (cupola, I suppose it would be called), whence the bay spread out before me like a picture, the white islands edged with the whiter lacing of the waves. [9]
- The old bell Roland, that was used to call the burghers together on the approach of an enemy, hung in this tower. [4]
- He was later released from the Tower, and under Elizabeth was one of a group of commissioners sent by that princess into Scotland, to foment trouble with Mary, Queen of Scots. [5]
- The sun hung red above the silhouetted roofs of Conanicut, and a quaint tower in the shape of a minaret stood forth to cap the illusions of a day. [9]
- The River Stavely ran between; and just under the window of the North Tower is the prettiest copse you ever saw. [11]
- There wasn't a rag of his tower left, but I had the government rebuild it for him, and advised him to take boarders; but he was too high-toned for that. [5]
- This so angered Queen Mary that she imprisoned him in the Tower, and fined the jurors from one to two thousand pounds each. [5]
- All the physical perfections which Miss Lurida had missed had been united in Miss Euthymia Tower, whose school name was The Wonder. [6]
- Now not a pebble must be thrown in vain, for if our tower becomes the central point of the struggle the defenders will need stones to fling. [10]
- Coming up this passage, I could see on an eminence, far distant, the tower of the Chateau Alixe. [11]
- There are other parks, and fine ones, notably Tower Grove and the Botanical Gardens; for St. Louis interested herself in such improvements at an earlier day than did the most of our cities. [5]
- She left the paper with the doctor, telling him she would come for it the next day, and went off to tell the result of this visit to her bosom friend, Miss Euthymia Tower. [6]
- On a hill overlooking the village is a big, pretentious brick house, with a tower, the furniture of which is an object of wonder to those who have seen it. [4]
- When they were out of sight the sound of the bell came softly, softly up the road, while the bell in the church tower still called to prayer. [11]
- If we open one tower to the enemy he is master of the whole fortress. [10]
- That was from one side of the tower. [11]
- Before him lay one of the largest of the storehouses that surrounded the tower. [10]
- It stands to-day one of many monuments to its builder, with its windows of one pane (unheard-of magnificence), its tower of stone, its porch with pointed arches and scroll-work. [9]
- There was only one boat advertised for that section--a Grand Tower packet. [5]
- The dwarf's lodging on Tower hill comprised, besides the needful accommodation for himself and Mrs Quilp, a small sleeping-closet for that lady's mother, who resided with the couple and waged perpetual war with Daniel; of whom, notwithstanding, she stood in no slight dread. [12]
- The old clock on the tower of St. James's would still give the time to his step as he went to and from the Foreign Office, and there were quiet places like Kensington Gardens where the bounding person would never think to stray. [11]
- Dark shadows lay on the road, and the high structures which shut it in like cliffs seemed to tower to the sky. [10]
- Then, at last, on the halcyon air of that summer day floated the Angelus from the cathedral tower. [11]
- Now I am off to call the others, and we shall meet again at the tower. [10]
- Then the ring of vultures rose, flapping their wings, and swooped down into the Tower to devour the body. [5]
- At the top of this rock stood a tower built of rough blocks, in which the anchorites were wont to take refuge when they were threatened with a descent of their foes. [10]
- Among the graduates of the year were Miss Euthymia Tower and Miss Lurida Vincent, who had now returned to their homes in Arrowhead Village. [6]
- The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time. [5]
- The white marble of the tallest beacon tower in the world, on the island of Pharos, reflected a rosy hue, but its far gleaming light shone pale and colorless. [10]
- True, the mouth of the pass was covered by the field pieces on the city wall, and the strong tower beside the gate, but it was not incumbent on the citizens to provide for the safety of the row of houses up there. [10]
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