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towerlike

a. Resembling a tower or some aspect of one.

Usage examples of "towerlike".

We visited the principal church, also--a curious old structure, with a towerlike spire adorned with all sorts of grotesque images.

College of Crossroads Brethren who supervised the well-being and spiritual life of the crossroads outside its double doors, especially the towerlike shrine to the Lares and the big fountain, which now flowed sluggishly amid a tumble of ethereally blue icicles, so cold was this winter.

They wore towerlike headdresses covered in gold, and when Hanna looked at them they made signs as one might against the evil eye.

Even as Chekov spoke, the shuttle executed an elegant swoop along the slope of one towerlike hill, then rode her own velocity a half-kilometer higher in the parchment-yellow sky.

The towerlike thighs rose to a pelvic girdle, in which, like a flat-bottomed boat, rested the iron trunk.

The trapeze-shaped flame between conjoined sheets of glass burned in this towerlike wide darkness as in a little room, letting darkness assert itself a few steps farther on.

A vision in tiered and tasseled skirt of embroidered flame and saffron, a short-sleeved coat upon his upper body, and on his head a towerlike tiara tied round with the white ribbon of the diadem.

He projected the power past the slate roof of the round towerlike silo, sending a little spark into it to find tinder.

She and Gwena pushed past Skif and scrambled for the shelter of that ruined towerlike edifice she had Seen.

Soon, she heard the alto tones of her servant in the anteroom below, followed by footsteps on the stone stairs that wound to the second level of her towerlike home.

The people of Subterranae were cringing in their towerlike homes of mica and gold.

Over an inner wall he saw the pinnacles of strangely shaped towerlike structures.

Harry had noticed that the house was equipped with a towerlike third floor.

The last exclamation was elicited by a brief glimpse of a towerlike structure off to the left.

There were the prancing horses that were the Knights, the stately Bishops as elephants, camels with towerlike chairs on their backs that served as Rooks.