...A charming old Moorish gateway with horseshoearches between two towers, built about 1100, and recently restored...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...But little remains now ofthe old walls of Seville, which had a circumference of upwards of tenmiles, and were pierced by fifteen gates and strengthened by one hundredand sixty-six towers...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
... The sea was veiled by the fog, but behind its hazy curtains could be distinguished some silhouettes like islands with great towers and sharp, pointed minarets...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...If I ever go it will be toclimb the honest rock towers around Chamonix, for I won’t have anythingto do with snow mountains...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...Several other groups were formed in the recesses of the windows, like soldiers stationed in their different towers who belong to the same garrison...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...Snow was still falling in sparse, thin flakes, and lay like a crisp and glittering mantle over the parapets of the bridges and the grim towers of the Chatelet prison...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... No bolts and bars, no fortified towers or inaccessible fortresses could prove so effectual a prison for Marguerite Blakeney as the dictum which morally bound her to her cell...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...It was not a very great city, but from the outside it looked rich, for domes and roofs and towers showed above the wall, all well built and well preserved...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Well-built towers of stone guard each corner; four gates, one facing each cardinal point, and set half way between the several towers, permit ingress and egress for its inhabitants...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Suddenly, right up out of the sea, rises the great mountainto its 13,760 feet, while close at hand, to westward, towers the lovelyisland mass of Fernando Po to 10,190 feet...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...In a veryfew minutes they had rounded the point and got clear out of sightof the Cockneyfied towers and false battlements of Seldon...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...The area of the town is about half a square mile, while four towers of stone guard each corner...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...A nearer view shows great cliffs, weather-worked into ravines and basins, ribs and ridges, towers and pinnacles...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...This blue and brilliant morning shows allthose burning peaks alight, while here, shapeless, mistful, brood theshadowed towers...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...New York and night from the Brooklyn Bridge: The bees and fireflies flitand twinkle in their vast hives; curved clouds like the breath of godshover between the towers and the moon...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...Around themstretched ruined walls, dismantled towers, and crumblingearthworks—footprints of the god of war, one of whose temples hadcrowned this height...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...Courtesy denominated it a fort, but inreality it was little more than a stockade made permanentby small towers of crude masonry, filledbetween with logs set on end...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
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