What is "clock towers"

Usage examples of "clock towers".

Unlike Renie's other view of the House, which had been mostly flat rooftops, cupolas, and domes, what surrounded their tower windows was a profusion of vertical shapes in astounding varietywindowed obelisks, clock towers, attenuated pyramids and needle-thin spikes, Gothic protrusions clotted with dark carvings, even vast crenellated belvederes so ornate they looked like entire castles perched in the sky.

Unlike Renie's other view of the House, which had been mostly flat rooftops, cupolas, and domes, what surrounded their tower windows was a profusion of vertical shapes in astounding variety-windowed obelisks, clock towers, attenuated pyramids and needle-thin spikes, Gothic protrusions clotted with dark carvings, even vast crenellated belvederes so ornate they looked like entire castles perched in the sky.

White Tower's new art deco or modern look was often augmented with sleek clock towers and reflective materials, thereby creating a distinctive difference in appearance.

Kerans stared at the two clock towers jutting up like white obelisks above the fern fronds.

She saw the Register House's portico and clock towers burst outwards, before fire erupted from within, white and hot, overwhelming the Wellington statue, the old Iron Duke on his horse, in the instant before the cloud enveloped them.

They do not listen for chimes from a clock tower, for clock towers do not exist.

With a hollow booming sound reminiscent of old eighteenth- and nineteenth-century clock towers, the electronic time tone rang out from the Tower of Galileo, chiming the hour of nine.