Lookout post

Usage examples of watchtower.

Odo became houseboy to the villa of Lucius Falco, and Galba Brassidias, forty rings now jangling from the waist chain of his armor, burst from the base of the watchtower to receive his reward from Rome.

So, then, the entrance ran through some sort of dam, and Haen Marn was not entirely a natural creation, no matter which world it belonged in, When he looked ahead, he could see the main island clearly, with its tall watchtower rising from a grove of wind-bent trees, and what seemed to be a long manse at its base, a cluster of small sheds round that, and then a boat dock jutting from a covered boathouse.

In the end, they reached the palace much more quickly than Padme had dared to hope, entering from a skywalk bridging to a watchtower, then making their way along the palace halls toward the throne room.

Yet they were indeed inhabited by the very least and lowest of those who vowed allegiance to Caliph Ras el Fada, whose own dwelling at the other side of the city proudly showed a blazing watchtower striped with gold leaf.

This was clearly demonstrated by the way in which the fences that bordered on the city and suburbs were little more than tokens, without watchtowers, patrols, or minefields, while on the other side, where the badlands bordered on the remaining farm country, there was a wall of steel to rival any European frontier.

They would come down from those watchtowers and take our young women out from the fields when they were hoeing the maize and harvesting the sunflowers, or grab them when they were gathering mussels in the rivers.

They saw how easily they had been invaded and now they would have to go back to the old time-wasting ID system, and all the checks: scanners, roadblocks, watchtowers, and aerial patrols.

Whereupon Koskomenos swept away to his watchtower above the minnow pool, and the hawk set his wings toward the outlet, where a brood of young sheldrakes were taking their first lessons in the open water.

So many old ruined walls wandered out onto the grassy land around that the brooding watchtowers and massive walls did give it the look of a many-eyed spider nesting at the center of its web.

Cassius, Rhascupolis and the legates to see just how Saxa had dug himself in, Brutus noticed that Saxa had no view of the sea, whereas Norbanus in the more westerly Sapaean Pass had two watchtowers well able to spot any maritime activity.

She laughed easily, and became passionate quickly, and when it passed she was talking about the watchtowers and were there rats in that house?

The patched streets and stained roofs and empty watchtowers of these so-called outposts had misled him.

To the men in the watchtower Taran called out that here were wayfarers journeying to Caer Cadarn and known to King Smoit.

There were watchtowers and balconies, columned belvederes and pediments.

Justen ducked as another wizardly firebolt arced past, splattering on the antique stones of the watchtower.