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Sentences ending with towers

A stretch of two hundred yards of the high front wall was heavily draped with ivy, and out of the mass of buildings within rose three picturesque old towers. [5]
Scrawled mounds of stone, like mountain waves, seemed to roll up to steep bare slopes and towers. [13]
She had said radiant things, had rallied him, had shown him where a twenty-nine-pound salmon had been caught in a stream, and had fired at and brought down a pheasant outside the covert at Loyland Towers. [11]
All the hills on both sides of the Rhone have peaks and precipices, and each has its gray and wasted pile of mouldy walls and broken towers. [5]
Beyond is the Neckar, with the bridge, and white statues on it, and an old city gate at this end, with pointed towers. [4]
England is the most successful trader of the several trading nations; and she takes good care of the watchmen who keep guard in her commercial towers. [5]
By day, to her, the place was a plain, unaffected, ramshackle old trap just that, and nothing more; by night it was Rossmore Towers. [5]
I remarked late at night a solitary light twinkling from a remote lattice of one of its towers. [4]

Sentences containing towers two or more times

After the poor unsatisfactory towers of Westminster Abbey, the two massive, noble, truly majestic towers of Notre Dame strike the traveller as a crushing contrast. [6]

More example sentences with the word towers in them

He could have written this: The cloud-cap'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like an insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. [5]
Rosy-fingered morn touched with magic colour the masts and scattered sails of the ships upon the great river, and spires and towers quivered with rainbow light. [11]
Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castles of song and story, with its towers, turreted walls, and ivy-mantled porches. [5]
What of Jargeau, with its battlements and towers, its devastating artillery, its seven thousand picked veterans? [5]
We must see whether the towers are properly garrisoned, and charge the sentinels to keep their eyes open. [10]
For a change, when you wanted one, you could stroll to the Castle, and burrow among its dungeons, or climb about its ruined towers, or visit its interior shows--the great Heidelberg Tun, for instance. [5]
The moon, which, when I took possession of my new apartments, was invisible, gradually gained each evening upon the darkness of the night, and at length rolled in full splendor above the towers, pouring a flood of tempered light into every court and hall. [4]
Redoubts and towers were within musket-shot of each other, with watch-houses between, and at intervals every able-bodied man in the country was obliged to leave his trade to act as sentinel, or go into camp or barracks with the militia for months at a time. [11]
These mighty defences were crowned and strengthened by two hundred and fifty high towers, and even these would have been insufficient, if Babylon had not been protected on one side by impassable morasses. [10]
Even in bright weather Janet felt a sense of oppression here; on dark, misty mornings the stern, huge battlements of the mills lining the farther bank were menacing indeed, bristling with projections, towers, and chimneys, flanked by heavy walls. [9]
The building, indeed, was symbolic of a decadent and bewildered Puritanism in its pathetic attempt to keep abreast with the age, to compromise with anarchy, merely achieving a nondescript medley of rounded, knob-like towers covered with mulberry-stained shingles. [9]
The Kremlin, which was not destroyed, gleamed white in the distance with its towers and the belfry of Ivan the Great. [2]
The corners of wall bluntly rose, scarred and scrawled, to taper into towers and serrated peaks and pinnacled domes. [13]
Here was a vast balloon structure, founded on a rock, but built in the air, and anchored with cables, with towers and a high pillared veranda, capable, with its annex, of lodging fifteen hundred people. [4]
On the right, upon rocky points, are remains of round towers, and temples perhaps. [4]
Whether at Loyland Towers, or at her mother's house in Limerick, there was no touch of forwardness in her, or in anything she said or did. [11]
Here and there, towers were perched high up on acclivities which seemed almost inaccessible. [5]
From these old towers we looked down upon a broad, far-reaching green plain, glittering with the pools and rivulets which are the sources of the sacred river Jordan. [5]
The twin stone towers of the unfinished cathedral loom up large in the fading light, and the bishop's palace on the hill--the home of the Bishop of Arichat--appears to be an imposing white barn with many staring windows. [4]
From the ground to the top of the unfinished towers is one mass of rich stone-work, the creation of genius that hundreds of years ago knew no other way to write its poems than with the chisel. [4]
From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest human architecture. [5]
Sometimes Florence ceases to be substantial, and becomes just a faint soft dream, with domes and towers of air, and one is persuaded that he might blow it away with a puff of his breath. [5]
Hidden somewhere amidst those bristling miles of masonry to the northward of the towers was her future home. [9]
In some places they overhung their base so as to look like leaning towers which might topple over at any minute. [6]
The music in the towers might have ceased, so completely was it drowned by the tumult in the amphitheatre. [10]
You may see the towers from here; and that wood there--that is my father's park. [5]
The flags on the towers and ramparts hung straight down like tassels. [5]
He towers into the sky like a colossal wedge, with the upper third of its blade bent a little to the left. [5]
And Newport to the left there, with its towers and trees rising out of the sea. [4]
This morning, however, the huge material towers which she gazed upon seemed stronger than Providence, and she thought of her husband. [9]
The earliest of the five towers was built by the Modi family something more than 200 years ago, and it is now reserved to the heirs of that house; none but the dead of that blood are carried thither. [5]
None may touch the dead or enter the Towers where they repose except certain men who are officially appointed for that purpose. [5]
The ladies of the court gazed with delight at the red towers of the Alhambra, rising from amid shady groves, anticipating the time when the Catholic sovereigns should be enthroned within its walls, and its courts shine with the splendor of Spanish chivalry. [4]
The porches of the country-houses and the little towers on the larger buildings were all lighted up by brilliant flames, burning in pans of pitch and sending up clouds of smoke, in which the flags and pennons waved gently backwards and forwards. [10]
In their midst the central steeple towers proudly up like the mainmast of some great Indiaman among a fleet of coasters. [5]
Thus you see that our Cybele sits with her head crowned with very stately towers and her feet in a tub of very dirty water. [6]
They clattered their steins on the table and sang wonderful Jena songs, while Stephen was lifted up and his soul carried off to far-away Saxony,--to the clean little University town with its towers and crooked streets. [9]
Calm, solemn, and stately, they sat like towers upon their powerful chargers. [4]
Thick clouds of smoke hovered over its towers, obscuring the light of the burning May sun. [10]
As the steamer slipped westward my spirits rose, to reach a climax of exhilaration when I saw the towers of New York rise gleaming like huge stalagmites in the early winter sun. [9]
The evening sun shone gloriously upon its red towers as we approached it, and gave a mellow tone to the rich scenery of the vega. [4]
When a person reads the noble verses about the cloud-cap'd towers, he ought not to follow it immediately with Good friend for Iesus sake forbeare, because he will find the transition from great poetry to poor prose too violent for comfort. [5]
What a grand pyramid of billowy clouds towers above the storied Pari! [5]
I read the page Where every letter is a glittering world, With them who looked from Shinar's clay-built towers, Ere yet the wanderer of the Midland sea Had missed the fallen sister of the seven. [6]
This little episode over, he turned once more towards the sea, watching the sun of late afternoon fall upon the towers of Elizabeth Castle and the great rock out of which St. Helier the hermit once chiselled his lofty home. [11]
A little way over the purple plain he saw the darkening towers and heard "the sweet bells of Imola. [4]
The mist parted on a sudden as at the signal of a magician, and before us lay the city with its walls, and towers, and shining roofs, over-topped by the noble citadel. [10]
One of these old towers is split down the middle, and one half has tumbled aside. [5]
The principal part of the castle of the Pharaohs was constructed of light Nile-mud bricks and elegantly carved woodwork, but the extensive walls which surrounded it were ornamented and fortified with towers, in front of which heavily armed soldiers stood on guard. [10]
I caught glimpses of solid, Norman farm buildings, of towers and keeps and delicate steeples, and quaint towns; of bare poplars swaying before the March gusts, of green fields ablaze in the afternoon sun. [9]
Until the season of mourning is past, the usual Thursday evening receptions at Rossmore Towers will be discontinued. [5]
At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture. [5]
The student, having nothing to do, suffered himself to be carried away by the holiday-seeking throng until he found himself in the narrow valley of the Darro, below the lofty hill and ruddy towers of the Alhambra. [4]
The Towers are not tall, but are low in proportion to their circumference, like a gasometer. [5]
As like as not it wouldn't have occurred to anybody else to name this poor old rat-trap Rossmore Towers, but it just comes natural to him. [5]
The countess would not be detained long, for the sun had already sunk behind the towers and western wall of the fortress, and the reflection of the sunset was tinging the eastern sky with a roseate hue. [10]
We spent a night at Amiens, and had several hours for the old cathedral, the sunset light on its noble front and towers and spire and flying buttresses, and the morning rays bathing its rich stone. [4]
Have I spared my blood in fighting before the red walls and towers yonder? [10]
Each of that multitude of vast towers seemed a fortress now, manned by Celt and Hun and, Israelite and Saxon, captained by Titans. [9]
We whisked by many a gray old medieval castle, clad thick with ivy that swung its green banners down from towers and turrets where once some old Crusader's flag had floated. [5]
They wanted to make the house positively gloomy for the sake of a little artificial moonlight on the painted towers and the canvas lakes. [4]
May you stand like Olympus' towers, Against earth and all jealous powers! [5]
We marched, marched, kept on marching; and at last, on the 16th of July, we came in sight of our goal, and saw the great cathedraled towers of Rheims rise out of the distance! [5]
What a pity it could not borrow from Paris the towers of Notre Dame! [6]
When the fire is applied it expands, and climbs up and towers above the pipe, and presently tumbles off inside of one's vest. [5]
Let the garrisons in the towers be doubled. [10]
Far away up in the tallest of the castle's towers a single light glimmered. [5]
The veil which I afterwards saw spread over so many things in Feuerbach's writings at that time produced the same influence upon me as the mist whence rise here the towers, yonder the battlements of a castle. [10]
He hardly knew how he got to the Towers, or when. [5]
At the Sick Horse Depot Connor had, without good cause, made some disparaging remarks upon the charger ridden by Subadar Goordit Singh at the fight at Dihilbat Hill, which towers over the village of Hashin. [11]
Since Dyck left his old home he had seen her twice; once at Loyland Towers, and once at her home in Limerick. [11]
On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge relic and witness of the baronial grandeurs of the Middle Ages. [5]
And so, turning her grieving eyes about her, where rose the towers and spires of that fair city, she said: "Oh, Rouen, Rouen, must I die here, and must you be my tomb? [5]
What a very heaven the messy towers and ramparts of vast Mars Saba looked to us when we caught a first glimpse of them! [5]
He doubted that he would ever see it again; he knew he never wanted to; yet he looked at the red corners and towers with the eyes of a rider picturing landmarks never to be forgotten. [13]
It is not hard to see that one of these grand towers is somewhat larger than the other, but the difference does not interfere with the effect of the imposing front of the cathedral. [6]
The city spires had a mysterious appearance in the gray haze; and above all, the round-topped towers of the old Frauenkirche, frosted with a little snow, loomed up more grandly than ever. [4]
Rossmore Towers saw great times and late hours during the succeeding week. [5]
At last, sleep gradually stole upon her--a broken, fitful sleep, troubled by dreams of falling from high towers, and waking with a start and in great terror. [12]
The years had gone on and then had come the happy visit to Loyland Towers, where she had met Dyck Calhoun. [11]
Anyway, Tracy would go to the Towers and --then what? [5]
They passed the frowning towers of Briel, The "Hook of Holland's" shelf of sand, And grated soon with lifting keel The sullen shores of Fatherland. [6]
The gate is double, with flanking octagonal towers, inclosing a quadrangle. [4]
Still in the distance, but on this side of the water and close to its edge, the Monument to the Father of his Country towers out of the mud--sacred soil is the, customary term. [5]
Quite from a distance the prefect could see a bright light; it rose to heaven from the large pans of pitch which were placed on the towers on each side of the tall gate of the Caesareum which faced the sea. [10]
This entrance was defended on each side by a strong tower, and before each of these towers lay, as warder, a gigantic winged bull carved in stone, with a human head, bearded and solemn. [10]
It had a covered way under the snow, through which only could it be entered, and it had bastions and towers and openings to fire from, and a great many other things for which there are no names in military books. [4]
Then added, by command, that at some time during the twenty-four hours I would consummate the miracle, but would first give a brief notice; by flags on the castle towers if in the daytime, by torch-baskets in the same places if at night. [5]
It is a charming panorama, and the most conspicuous towers and domes down in the city look to-day just as they looked when Boccaccio and Dante used to contemplate them from this hillock five and six hundred years ago. [5]
It is one central fire, which, flaming now out of the lips of Etna, lightens the Capes of Sicily, and now out of the throat of Vesuvius, illuminates the towers and vineyards of Naples. [6]
Loyland Towers is between here and there. [11]
He was king bee of the little village that snuggled under the shelter of the frowning towers and bastions of Courdray Castle, and acknowledged lord of the tap-room of the inn. [5]
It proved to be an extensive pile of crumbling walls, arches, and towers, massive, properly grouped for picturesque effect, weedy, grass-grown, and satisfactory. [5]
And at last, away yonder at 5 o'clock when some east towers and fortresses hove in sight we couldn't recognize them for Avignon--yet we knew by the broken bridge that it was Avignon. [5]
There was music, as usual, in the towers at either end of the row of carceres; but it was less stirring and cheerful than of yore, for flutes, and several of the heathen airs had been prohibited. [10]
Temples, palaces, bridges, aqueducts, cathedrals, towers of marvelous delicacy and strength, grew to perfection while the common people lived in hovels, and the richest lodged in the most gloomy and contracted quarters. [4]
The massive towers and bastions are more than thirty feet high, and have been sixty. [5]
Better to stand amid the toppling towers Of every valiant hope; a Samson's dream, Than the deep indolence of Lethe's stream, The loneliness of slow submerging hours. [11]
Finally there was a quiet wedding at the Towers, instead of a big one at the British embassy, with the militia and the fire brigades and the temperance organizations on hand in torchlight procession, as at first proposed by one of the earls. [5]
We stood at a little distance and changed from one point of observation to another and gazed long at its lofty square towers and its rich front, clustered thick with stony, mutilated saints who had been looking calmly down from their perches for ages. [5]

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