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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tower
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a church tower
▪ I looked at the clock on the church tower.
a tower block (=very high and usually in a poor area)
▪ She lived on the 17th floor of a tower block in East London.
a towering cliff (=very high)
▪ the towering cliffs of Gibraltar
a towering rage (=extremely angry)
▪ He was in a towering rage.
an observation deck/platform/tower (=a structure that is built in order to observe something)
▪ The army built an observation tower on the top of the building.
conning tower
control tower
cooling tower
ivory tower
▪ an academic in an ivory tower
moutains soar/towerliterary (= go very high into the sky)
▪ The distant mountains soar abruptly towards the sky.
observation tower
tower block
Twin Towers, the
water tower
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ The central and western towers are heavy and solemn and the façade, though finely sculptured, is of recent restoration.
▪ The West Tower, where she lives, was completed first, followed by the South and Central towers.
▪ Many were of wood and featured fine carving, canopies, beautiful lamps, and central towers.
▪ This central tower represents a lighthouse, Holmes.
▪ Here, the old central tower over the crossing was replaced by the unique octagon and lantern.
▪ The crossing has very tall piers and arches under the central tower.
▪ Irkutsk acquired a massive station, with two central towers capped by domes and larger corner blocks with connecting wings.
▪ At Puebla, the Inter-Oceanic Station of the National lines was a solid stone range with a squat central tower.
cooling
▪ The power stations need much water for their boilers and cooling towers.
▪ Water Hygiene and Ventilation - the specialised cleaning service for industrial and commercial ventilation systems, water tanks and cooling towers.
▪ Water in cooling towers can be contaminated with legionella bacteria: surveys found the organism in 40-70 percent of hotels and hospitals.
▪ How about a new development strategy which concentrates heat-hungry projects in the shadows of the nation's cooling towers.
▪ We have a monthly cooling tower water treatment with your company, the service consultant is John Norris.
▪ Nothing breaches the flatness except some kind of smokestack or cooling tower a couple of miles to the north.
▪ Table 1 shows how often Legionella is found in hot and cold water systems and cooling tower water.
▪ These conditions are frequently found in cooling towers, hot water systems and header tanks.
great
▪ The building is surrounded by walls and the visitor enters through the great bell tower gateway.
▪ Some lawyers have come down from the great towers of our cities to where the people are-and they must.
▪ The great tower or Stump of St Botolph's church dominates both the town and the river which gave it its prosperity.
▪ The white buildings of the cortijo, with its great gate and tower, still dominated the yellow landscape.
▪ And the great tower remains unfinished.
high
▪ In the distance, above the roofs, the high towers of the adjoining sectors could be seen.
▪ A wondrous city, its high towers resembling the Jukeboxes of the Gods.
▪ The magnificent 90 foot high tower of Orford Castle offers extensive views of Orford, and the seashore nearby.
▪ In 1876 he built a high water tower, topped for a time with a telescope.
▪ Only the power of magic enabled the Elves to construct such a high tower.
▪ Relocating all tenants from high rise tower blocks to low rise housing requires enormous logistic skills.
▪ The bells were clanging in the high tower which soared up to a steel blue sky.
ivory
▪ Why did I not practice taxation or company law, for example, and live in an ivory tower?
▪ I think you live in an ivory tower.
octagonal
▪ The octagonal tower window faced south but curved from west to east.
▪ Off one corner, an octagonal tower walled with mirrors Margarett left outdoors one winter to weather to an appropriate cloudiness.
▪ The octagonal crossing tower rises high with its spire.
▪ You can include an octagonal tower, a wraparound porch or a two-story vaulted-glass-walled kitchen.
▪ The house was tall, three storeys high, and the octagonal tower commanded a wide view of the promenade.
square
▪ At the new Chicago Grand Central of 1898-90, a striking office-block exterior was attached to a massive square corner tower.
▪ This square tower has circular turrets on each side, the whole making a fortified place of retreat.
▪ Strängnäs Cathedral has a large square western tower, though its apsidal east end presents the finest exterior view of the building.
▪ To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church.
▪ There is an immense square tower in the centre and a high pitched roof on either side of it.
▪ After being severely damaged in a storm, the spire was replaced with a square tower in 1969.
▪ It was a simple drawing of a square tower, standing in splendid isolation like an accusing finger pointing at the sky.
tall
▪ They are severely simple with tall towers and spires and lancet or geometrical window design.
▪ The purpose of the place was a vaulted whitewashed building with a tall bell tower.
▪ Many of these have tall towers, sometimes with spires, generally set at the west end.
▪ The 200-foot-#tall circular tower is scheduled to open March 1.
▪ The exterior is plain and undistinguished but with a tall, elegant tower.
▪ It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
▪ The exterior is large, forceful in design and has an impressive façade with tall towers.
▪ It has two tall Lombardic towers and three domes over the nave.
twin
▪ It is large, with tall, twin western towers and spires, nearly 400 feet high.
▪ At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.
▪ The original station in Colombo had twin towers which housed the first and second-class booking offices at their bases.
▪ Kuala Lumpur has twin towers that are the tallest buildings in the world.
▪ Approach the old quarter from any direction, and the twin towers of the baroque cathedral dominate.
▪ It has tall, twin western towers and spires and a long nave and choir.
▪ It has twin west towers and gables with similar eastern towers flanking the apse.
▪ A number of façades, like those of Brussels and Antwerp Cathedrals, have twin western towers and portico below.
western
▪ Here is a stone, tall, well-proportioned cathedral, with western towers and spires, built on classic Latin cross plan.
▪ It is large, with tall, twin western towers and spires, nearly 400 feet high.
▪ The central and western towers are heavy and solemn and the façade, though finely sculptured, is of recent restoration.
▪ It is a five-aisled hall church, entirely of brick and with a single, very tall western tower and spire.
▪ Strängnäs Cathedral has a large square western tower, though its apsidal east end presents the finest exterior view of the building.
▪ It has tall, twin western towers and spires and a long nave and choir.
■ NOUN
bell
▪ The building is surrounded by walls and the visitor enters through the great bell tower gateway.
▪ We kissed, and every time the bell tower sounded, we listened attentively.
▪ Hollola is a fine country church with decorative gables and detached, classical bell tower added in 1848.
▪ Already heavily damaged by the September quakes, the Foligno bell tower lost more pieces Sunday during a series of quakes.
▪ The bell tower dates from the eleventh-century and is the oldest in the Lombardy Romanesque style that still exists.
▪ And then Madeleine ascends the mission bell tower.
▪ Lombard influence shows chiefly in the bell towers.
▪ In little villages it is often a white clapboard building with a hip roof and a bell tower.
block
▪ Competition entrants are asked to look at how to transform the tower block typology into a new type of community.
▪ A spokesman for the Housing Department would only say that the tower blocks had seemed a good idea at the time.
▪ And even more amazing that he can still squeeze through chimneys and central heating air vents in tower blocks.
▪ Only from the windows of a derelict tower block squatted by women was there any deliberately hostile response.
▪ And new cars shed their value faster than a Steinway falls from the top of a tower block.
▪ The tower block, the demolition, and Hugh bad now and dying in his bed.
▪ Glasgow certainly needs a modern landmark - something to deflect the eye from the miserable tower blocks of the 1960s.
▪ Maybe they had lived in one of his tower blocks.
church
▪ The church tower was altered in the 1950s and swifts can no longer get in.
▪ Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills.
▪ Allen had just been able to see the church tower.
▪ St Mary's Church tower presents an enigma.
▪ The most remarkable feature of Coningsby village is the single handed clock on St Michael's church tower.
▪ It would be surprising to find a chapel with such a substantial church tower so early.
▪ As the church clock struck twelve, they listened to the heavy notes ringing out from the church tower.
clock
▪ Some parts of the painting, such as the area around the clock tower are nearly finished at this stage.
▪ The famous clock tower stays as a permanent reminder.
▪ Only the clock tower on the stables showed from behind the trees.
▪ The only additions are the 30-year-old first pier and the clock tower seen in the distance.
▪ There is also an appealing clock tower, built in 1899.
▪ Henry was wasting his time and, as if to underline this fact, he glanced at the clock tower.
▪ The church dominates the commercial centre with its clock tower visible from the housing developments on the outskirts.
▪ A popular rendezvous and a familiar landmark with its prominent clock tower.
control
▪ Birkwood Lock, the first mechanized lock with control tower and traffic light gantry.
▪ He practiced landings on Sunday, then told the control tower that he would fly for another hour.
▪ The control tower staff saw the aircraft making a sharp left-hand climbing turn before it disappeared into thick low cloud.
▪ A window also was blown out of the control tower.
▪ Meanwhile, up in Duxford's control tower, John Allison was anxiously waiting.
▪ The quake shattered windows in the control tower at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and forced the airport's immediate closure.
▪ Soon, Rob would take S-Sugar on to the runway and wait for clearance from the control tower.
house
▪ The dungeon tower houses craft workshops and the resident falconer gives regular displays.
observation
▪ For an overall impression of the site a visit is recommended to the top of the observation tower.
▪ I know people who like to lean over the edge of observation towers or ride the tallest roller coasters without holding on.
office
▪ A., when hundreds of covert jumps were carried out from the unfinished skeletons of office towers on Bunker Hill.
▪ At the Eighth Avenue end, nearest to the commercial district, there would be an office tower of about forty-five stories.
▪ So, beneath the site of the office tower, there was rock at seventeen feet.
▪ During a recent humid week, business people poured from soaring office towers.
▪ In exchange, it got the right to build two office towers adjacent to city hall.
▪ Plans were made for a fast-food restaurant across the Plaza at the foot of the office tower.
water
▪ The most distinctive land-mark in the parish is the Rimswell water tower, built in 1916 to serve South Holderness with water.
▪ Since time immemorial, boys have climbed the water tower.
▪ This pressure is maintained by means of water towers and gravity, or by booster pumping stations.
▪ A simple life, no one to worry about except yourself. --- Till you go and climb a water tower.
▪ In 1876 he built a high water tower, topped for a time with a telescope.
▪ Janey teetering on a ledge with a storm-gray New York cityscape behind her, water towers, sooty brick.
▪ Over the deserted houses, the water tower loomed.
▪ Even the water tower in Addison, a northern suburb, is bathed in blue light.
■ VERB
add
▪ In 1057 an immense stone tower was added.
▪ The Coast Guard also has said it has found no serious problems caused by adding the two towers.
▪ The construction will add two nine-story towers to the existing Headquarter5 Tower, which is connected to the Operations Building.
build
▪ Block play Building two towers with similar sized bricks, matching one-to-one to build towers of similar height.
▪ He built four massive towers, two on each side of the gorge, to support four cables.
▪ Robert Myle built one such tower on the Shore at the corner of Tower Street in 1685.
▪ For Charlie Swibel, building the apartment towers was coming a long way from being a flophouse and slum operator.
▪ Cities vied with each other to build more beautiful towers.
▪ In exchange, it got the right to build two office towers adjacent to city hall.
▪ They then raised the money to build a replica tower one-third the size in 1891.
▪ In 1876 he built a high water tower, topped for a time with a telescope.
climb
▪ She would climb a tower, look down and cry.
▪ Since time immemorial, boys have climbed the water tower.
▪ A simple life, no one to worry about except yourself. --- Till you go and climb a water tower.
▪ They climbed up to the small tower that was perched on top of the terminal building.
▪ Albert remained politely in the car while Rob climbed the water tower.
▪ The prince went all a-flutter as he climbed to a memorial tower on Scolty Hill in Banchory, Grampian.
▪ There is a rifle range and climbing tower.
stand
▪ Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning, watching her knight ride away.
▪ At Forty-second Street stand the twin apartment towers of Manhattan Plaza, grim reminders of two more miserable affairs.
▪ We are standing outside the tower on the ledge.
▪ The outside of the base was a rectangular box and on it would stand the square-sided tower.
▪ Odonatist towers stand everywhere, glass towers resembling translucent vases.
▪ Then the chief stepped forward and stood by the conning tower hatch.
▪ In the middle stood a dark deserted tower.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in a towering rage
please Sir/Mrs Towers etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a clock tower
▪ radio towers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At Montego Bay there was an overall shed backed by a long building with an elaborate tower.
▪ In the distance, above the roofs, the high towers of the adjoining sectors could be seen.
▪ It bounced back on the field after it hit the tower, and Willie Mays retrieved it for me.
▪ The bell tower came into view, a square slim block of stone separated from the church by a dozen yards.
▪ The local army base, a corrugated fortress with a spindly camera tower, is pressed right up against a primary school.
▪ Then Henrietta and Samantha charged up to the tower, with Jacqueline stumbling after them, to quarrel about their bedrooms.
▪ Up ahead, the towers of New York Hospital rose straight up from the edge of the highway.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
▪ Ralph is now all alone against Jack's hunters, who tower above upon Castle Rock.
▪ Giles Cathedral towers above the Old Town.
▪ What sets it apart is its situation, with the massive range of the Taygetus mountains towering above.
▪ Occasionally the skeleton of a leafless flame tree towered above smaller shrubs.
over
▪ He towered over his foes, and was flailing at them two-handed.
▪ Big for his age, he towered over Garry who was eleven.
▪ Seeing him towering over the young hedgehog like that, licking his great, greedy chops ... Oh!
▪ It towered over the railway line and the makeshift station, a platform without a signboard.
▪ That was something else she found maddening, the fact that he towered over her.
▪ As it grew gradually nearer, and larger, they soon found it towering over them - a mighty steel fortress.
▪ Majestic snow-capped peaks towered over sweeping flower-strewn plains.
▪ He towered over everybody like a strapping Gallic chieftain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As it grew gradually nearer, and larger, they soon found it towering over them - a mighty steel fortress.
▪ He stooped and towered above me.
▪ I stood there feeling ugly and out of place, a large man towering over this crumpled child.
▪ It towered so far above me I couldn't even see the top of it.
▪ The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power.
▪ They tower over the rest of the world in the Atlanta medals table.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tower

Tower \Tow"er\, n. [OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin to Gr. ?; cf. W. twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor, Turret.]

  1. (Arch.)

    1. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

    2. A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.

    3. A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

  2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

    Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
    --Ps. lxi.

  3. 3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

    Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
    --Hudibras.

  4. High flight; elevation. [Obs.]
    --Johnson.

    Gay Lussac's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below.

    Glover's tower (Chem.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above.

    Round tower. See under Round, a.

    Shot tower. See under Shot.

    Tower bastion (Fort.), a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.

    Tower mustard (Bot.), the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata.

    Tower of London, a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

Tower

Tower \Tow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. towered; p. pr. & vb. n. towering.] To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

On the other side an high rock towered still.
--Spenser.

My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
--Shak.

Tower

Tower \Tow"er\, v. t. To soar into. [Obs.]
--Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tower

c.1400, "rise high" (implied in towered); see tower (n.). Also, of hawks, "to fly high so as to swoop down on prey" (1590s). Related: Towering.

tower

Old English torr "tower, watchtower," from Latin turris "a tower, citadel, high structure" (also source of Old French tor, 11c.; Spanish, Italian torre "tower"), possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean language. Meaning "lofty pile or mass" is recorded from mid-14c. Also borrowed separately 13c. as tour, from Old French tur; the modern spelling (1520s) represents a merger of the two forms.

tower

"one who tows," 1610s, agent noun from tow (v.).

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Wiktionary
tower

Etymology 1 n. 1 A structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires. 2 (context figuratively English) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide. 3 (context informal English) An interlocking tower. 4 (context figurative English) A strong refuge; a defence. 5 (context historical English) A tall fashionable headdress. 6 (context obsolete English) High flight; elevation. 7 The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many http://en.wikipedi

  1. org/wiki/Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen. v

  2. (context intransitive English) To be very tall. Etymology 2

    n. One who tows.

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WordNet
tower

  1. n. a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building

  2. anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower; "the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite" [syn: column, pillar]

  3. a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships [syn: tugboat, tug, towboat]

tower

v. appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, predominate, hulk]

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Gazetteer
Tower, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 479
Housing Units (2000): 295
Land area (2000): 2.708809 sq. miles (7.015783 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.402133 sq. miles (1.041520 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.110942 sq. miles (8.057303 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65272
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.806844 N, 92.279442 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55790
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tower, MN
Tower
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Wikipedia
Tower (disambiguation)

A Tower is a tall human-made structure.

Tower or Towers may also refer to:

Tower (comics)

Tower is a fictional mutant character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in X-Factor #2.

Tower (typeface)

Tower was a slab serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for American Type Founders, and based upon his earlier design for Stymie, but with straight sides to the round letters emphasizing the vertical appearance. Tower Italic was designed but not cast. In 1936, Tower Bold was started by the same designer, but was instead made into Stymie Bold Condensed.

Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.

Towers are specifically distinguished from " buildings" in that they are not built to be habitable but to serve other functions. The principal function is the use of their height to enable various functions to be achieved including: visibility of other features attached to the tower such clock towers; as part of a larger structure or device to increase the visibility of the surroundings as in a fortified building such as a castle; or as a structural feature as an integral part of a bridge.

Towers can be stand alone structures or be supported by adjacent buildings or can be a feature on top of a large structure or building.

Tower (ward)

Tower is one of the 25 wards of the City of London and takes its name from its proximity to the Tower of London. The ward covers the area of the City that is closest to the Tower.

Prior to boundary changes in 2003, Tower contained all of Great Tower Street and historically was known as "Tower Street" ward. John Leake's 1667 map of the City refers to it as "Tower Street Ward", as does a 1755 map of the ward. However, it lost much ground to neighbouring Billingsgate ward in a 2003 review of ward boundaries, including nearly all of Great Tower Street. It did though gain land to the north of the Tower of London, including Minories. The resident population of the ward is 227 (2011).

Despite its name, the Tower of London has never formed part of the ward or, for that matter, of the wider City of London; it is actually located within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Furthermore, Tower Bridge does not fall within the City or Tower ward's boundaries, although the bridge does use the City's logo.

Tower (surname)

Several people have been named Tower:

  • Charlemagne Tower (1809-1889), American lawyer, soldier, and capitalist
  • Charlemagne Tower, Jr. (1848-1923), American diplomat
  • Ion Tower (1889-1940), British Royal Navy officer, World War II air raid victim
  • Joan Tower (born 1938), American composer of classical music
  • John Tower (1925-1991), American politician
  • Wells Tower, (born 1973), American writer
  • William Hogarth Tower (1871-1950), of Princeton, New Jersey
  • William Lawrence Tower (born 1872), American zoologist
  • Zealous Bates Tower (1819-1900), American soldier

People with the surname Towers:

  • John Henry Towers (1885-1955), United States Navy admiral and aviation pioneer
  • William Towers, English countertenor
Tower (album)

Tower is the twenty-fifth album by the Finnish experimental rock band Circle. It was recorded in collaboration with Mika Rintala, who appears here under the alias Verde.

Members of Circle have been regular guests on Rintala's albums as Verde, often released on Jussi Lehtisalo's Ektro Records imprint. Here Rintala repays the favour on a collection of six keyboard-led instrumentals, occasionally reminiscent of Bitches Brew era Miles Davis. The tracks' names are the surname of a member of the group, including the sound engineer Tuomas Laurila, with the first letter replaced by a G.

Tower (mathematics)

In category theory, a branch of abstract mathematics, a tower is defined as follows. Let $\mathcal I$ be the poset


⋯ → 2 → 1 → 0

of whole numbers in reverse order, regarded as a category. A (countable) tower of objects in a category $\mathcal A$ is a functor from $\mathcal I$ to $\mathcal A$.

In other words, a tower (of $\mathcal A$) is a family of objects {A} in $\mathcal A$ where there exists a map


A → A
if i > j and the composition


A → A → A
is the map A → A

Tower (2016 film)

Tower is a 2016 documentary film about the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas at Austin by Charles Whitman. Directed by Keith Maitland, it is the first factual documentary about the shootings. The film is 98 minutes long and premiered at the 2016 South by Southwest.

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Usage examples of "tower".

Dale of the Tower: there shall we abide a while to gather victual, a day or two, or three maybe: so my Lord will hold a tourney there: that is to say that I myself and some few others shall try thy manhood somewhat.

But now hold up thine heart, and keep close for these two days that we shall yet abide in Tower Dale: and trust me this very evening I shall begin to set tidings going that shall work and grow, and shall one day rejoice thine heart.

Two of the towers were ablaze, black smoke pouring from their arrow loops and twisting in the light wind as it rose into the sky.

Forsooth of all the years that I abode about the Land of Tower those were the happiest.

On the abutment towers the chains are connected by horizontal links, carried on rockers, to anchor ties.

Each chain over a shore span consists of two segments, the longer attached to the tie at the top of the river tower, the shorter to the link at the top of the abutment tower, and the two jointed together at the lowest point.

Brunei constructed the towers and abutments for a suspension bridge of 702 ft.

Two main towers in the river and two towers on the shore abutments carry the suspension chains.

Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.

He pictured to himself the moment when he must advance to meet her, and could not help thinking of his little tutor Chufu, above whom he towered by two heads while he was still a boy, and who used to call up his admonitions to him from below.

Sevilla with some muledrivers who had decided to stop at the inn that night, and since everything our adventurer thought, saw, or imagined seemed to happen according to what he had read, as soon as he saw the inn it appeared to him to be a castle complete with four towers and spires of gleaming silver, not to mention a drawbridge and deep moat and all the other details depicted on such castles.

Had scarce burst forth, when from afar The ministers of misrule sent, Seized upon Lionel, and bore His chained limbs to a dreary tower, In the midst of a city vast and wide.

Accustomed to flat open steppe and towering sky, Aganippe always associated going underground with death and burial.

Minutes later his airmobile was at two thousand feet and climbing to merge into an eastbound traffic corridor with the rainbow towers of Houston gleaming in the sunlight on the skyline ahead.

The tower certainly stood on the site of the present tower, as Roman ashlaring has been discovered on the north-west side of the north-west tower pier, above the vault of the side aisle, and also portions of a shaft with a base, which probably belonged to the Norman clerestory.