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Tower

noun

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

Anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower. Synonyms: column, pillar. "A tower of dust rose above the horizon" , "A thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite"

A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships. Synonyms: towboat, tug, tugboat.

verb

(past & past part. towered; pres. part. towering)

Appear very large or occupy a commanding position. Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate. "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"

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"Tower" Quotes from Famous Books

... darkening earth, a symbol of that faith which is "the evidence of things not seen," and it made my heart swell as at a chant from the prophet Isaiah. What matter then whether it hung over a stable-roof or a church-tower? ...

— Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood • George MacDonald

... now artlessly describes Nicolette's beauty as she trips over the dewy grass, her tremors as she slips through the postern gate, and her lingering at the foot of the tower where her lover is imprisoned. While pausing there, Nicolette overhears his voice lamenting, and, thrusting her head into an aperture in the wall, tells him that she is about to escape and that as soon as she is gone they will set him free. To convince her lover that it is she who ...

— The Book of the Epic • Helene A. Guerber

... commenced. In 1256 the buildings known as Belle-Chaise were constructed. They contained the entrance to the abbey before the chatelet made its appearance. After Toustain came Pierre le Roy who built a tower behind Belle-Chaise and also the imposing-looking chatelet which contains the main entrance to the whole buildings. The fortifications that stood outside this gateway have to some extent disappeared, but what remain are ...

— Normandy, Complete - The Scenery & Romance Of Its Ancient Towns • Gordon Home

... had a meaning, one moreover full of vigour and poetry. This he did, when he heard it by accident on the lips of a Swiss peasant, no longer cut short and thus disguised, but in its original fulness, 'Habichtsburg,' or 'Hawk's- Tower,' being no doubt the name of the castle which was the cradle of his race. [Footnote: Opp. vol. vi. pt. 2. p. 20.] Of all the thousands of Englishmen who are aware that Angles and Saxons established themselves in this island, and that we are in the main descended ...

— On the Study of Words • Richard C Trench

... height tower aloft to the heavens, And his head reach up to the clouds, Yet shall he perish for ever like dung, They who have seen him shall ask: "Where ...

— The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur • Emile Joseph Dillon

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