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Out of several mausoleums in a good state of preservation the most magnificent is the monument of the family of Kiladar, who was hanged on the city tower by the order of General Hislop in 1818.
These birds, that build their nests in thousands round the Tower of Silence, have been purposely imported from Persia.
They slept in an empty tower that was once the altar of a decayed pagoda and was situated behind the main building.
But at night he visited the old tower and gave fierce chase to the insects that sought rest in this out-of-the-way corner.
The Tower of Silence, on the heights of the Malabar Hill, is the last abode of all the sons of Zoroaster.
Its one hundred and thirty-eight steps, each a single stone, turn spaciously about the central column, which does not reach to the tower top.
Now and then, a hole was burned in the mediaeval night by a cresset on a church tower or porch, or shot out from a cabaret's fire through an opened door.
Rue Guenegaud is a stable, and deep in the shadow of that stable lurks a round tower of Philippe-Auguste, massive and unmarred.
A devious way it turned out to be, for, having admitted his complicity to the Council, in his high and mighty fashion, he found himself safer in flight than in his guarded topmost room of this towerbefore us.
Gone now is every vestige of the theatre and every stone of the Hotel de Bourgogne, except this tower of "Jean-sans-Peur.
It would carry us too far from thistower to follow the course of the feud between the heirs of these two houses.
Here, at the foot of the street on the river-bank on our right, is the great space where Boulevard Saint-Germain comes down to the quay, and where the old wall came down to its great tower on the shore.
Wilkes was in 1703 imprisoned in the Tower on the charge of sedition.
The tower was almost gone as to three sides of it; the fourth was fairly intact.
From the inn and its surroundings a winding track, a merely rough cartway, wound off and upward into the land; in the distance I saw the tower of a church.
The Porcelain Tower of Nankin, once one of the seven wonders of the world, can now only be found piecemeal in walls of peasants' huts.
Indeed, a dragon received divine honours in a certain tower in Melita in Egypt.
He distinguished himself as an architect by building a bridge of stone and a tower to his cathedral, and as a Minister of State both to Æthelwulf and his successor, Æthelbald.
They were then to fire the cavalry-barracks; and the Bank and Tower were to be taken by the people, who, it was hoped, would rise upon the spread of the news.
But the tower is still grey, and has looked unchanged over the Axe estuary for hundreds of years.
Jack Benson took his place at the deck wheel, and Eph, after Hal had come to the conning tower opening, hurried forward once more to cast off the moorings.
Though Eph was at the tower wheel Hal Hastings was now virtually in command of the boat, by previous arrangement, for young Benson meant to keep a sharp, though covert, eye on passengers.
After reaching the conningtower he paused, for a few moments, to look keenly all about him.
Eph as quickly handed them through the conning tower to Hal, who took them down to the engine room.
Less than half an hour later the young submarine skipper climbed up into the conning tower beside Eph.
As he spoke, he slipped the camera box back to Eph, who started for the conning tower with it.
All this time the conning tower of the submarine was just a bit below the surface.
Sister Anne, Sister Anne, look from the tower window.
Abernethy, Perthshire: Round Tower of, said to have been built by Pechts, 67, 86.
But the students of these ancient structures have recently restricted "broch" to the more elaborate and superior building of the round or "martello" tower order.
A special example of one of the buildings so reared is the Round Tower of Abernethy in Perthshire, well known as one of the two towers of this class still to be found in Scotland.
In this instance, also, the Pechts are remembered as working for people of another race; which is somewhat remarkable, as the tower itself is one of those which seem to have been built by the Pechts for their own purposes.
Martello Tower and back in sixteen minutes, against a whale-boat with six stout rowers, and evidently shewed his ability to outsail his opponents by the advantages he frequently gave them, and which he redeemed as often as he chose.
That Abernethy was long a seat of Pictish power is what no historian would deny, and the tower referred to is always denominated "Pictish.
Belonging to a period less easily defined are the Pecht masons of the famous Round Tower at Brechin.
And the builders of the Round Tower of Abernethy, as also the builders of the Round Tower of Brechin, are alleged by local tradition to have been "Pechts.
Beyond question, there is much that demands criticism and inquiry in the traditional description of the way in which such edifices as Abernethy Tower and Corstorphine Church were reared.
They want bridges now," he said, indicating the monstrous outline of the Tower Bridge.
Anne Boleyn, and nearly opposite rises the tall tower of St. Michael's, the oldest church in Southampton.
The tower was completed in 1518, and is with the cloisters almost without equal in this country for beauty and perfection.
Showing the Central Tower constructed of Roman bricks from Verulamium.
The castle stands high, is square, with a round tower at each corner, and gives one the impression of massive proportions and enormous strength.
It seems strangely slight when one is standing within the tower and notices that no floor breaks the great sweep of walls for a great height.
Showing the richly-sculptured west front, and the central tower rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren.
The choir was reconstructed in 1350 in Gothic style, but the nave and massive central tower are Norman.
A fine tower at the north end of the transept still stands, but the central one has fallen into great decay.
Originally there stood a square tower in the centre of the building, but this fell in 1322, crushing three arches of the choir.
After Ely's Tower fell, the Norman central tower of Peterborough was pulled down as if a similar fate was feared for it, and a shorter tower was erected in its place.
The other entrances to the castle are by a gateway on the north side, under a tower bearing a statue of Edward I.
He was taken to the tower of London, where he lay in a dismal cell four years.
The eldership has ever been a tower of strength in the Covenanted Church.
Strange to remember now and here, that the man who built the Kutubia tower for this thousand-year-old-city of Yusuf ben Tachfin, gave the Giralda to Andalusia.
From the minaret that overlooks the mosque the mueddin calls for the evening prayer; from the side of the Kutubia Tower and the minaret of Sidi bel Abbas, as from all the lesser mosques, the cry is taken up.
He will never forget the Kutubia tower flanking the mosque of the Library, with its three glittering balls that are solid gold, if you care to believe the Moors (and who should know better!
The dramatic intensity of either scene connects for me this slave market in Marrakesh with the plaza de toros in the shadow of the Giralda tower in Sevilla.
One side of the tower of the minaret was visible from the courtyard, but apart from that the place was nowhere overlooked.
Mary, who was now no longer her friend, did not vouchsafe her a hearing, but sent her to the Tower and subjected her to a criminal examination.
So Henry VI perished in theTower the day before Edward IV made his entry into London.
On the scaffold in the Tower Norfolk said he was the first to die on that spot under Queen Elizabeth and trusted he would be the last.
But lightning can't hurt the Eiffel Tower because practically the entire building is a lightning-rod and it has been very carefully grounded into deep wells, a long way below the ground.
Of the churches, the High or Parish church has a squaretower surmounted with a steeple, containing one of the bells which Cromwell removed from Fortrose cathedral.
Yonder was the Mouse Tower of Bishop Hatto, and the boat was just shooting through the Bingen Eddy.
Yea, for it is as beautiful as the tower which looketh forth toward Damascus, and as lofty as a cedar of Lebanon.
The watchman on the tower of Castle Strahleck blew a melancholy blast, and with it rang in jarring discord the funeral bell of Saint Werner's.
From this spot the imposing rear of the remaining portion of the tower may be seen to advantage.
Meanwhile jetties were being built to better control the shifting channel and in 1898 the rear light towerwas rebuilt.
In 1791 it appears that the tower was in commission under a keeper named Higgins and that spermaceti candles were being used in the lantern.
The earthquake of August 1886 extended the cracks in the tower but not to any dangerous extent.
An attempt was made to take the dismantled tower to pieces and save it, but owing to the inability of the lighthouse tender to approach near enough to the wreck, the work was discontinued and the lighthouse was abandoned.
In 1879 the Lighthouse Board reported the tower in a dilapidated condition.
In 1862, during the Civil War, the interior of the tower and the lantern were destroyed by fire and the lens was removed.
There was St. Paul's looking as Sir Christopher Wren surely never dreamed of, there the great square of the Tower and the shimmering water of the Docks.
The subsequent history of this toweris rather curious.
Conspicuous among the wilderness of roofs eastward shone out an enclosure of little white objects, puzzling at first, but which we presently decided to be the gravestones of some large cemetery--Tower Hamlets probably.
Across it we could trace each teeming thoroughfare, Tower Bridge in particular standing out as a beautiful little miniature.
In that year, having obtained permission of the lord of the manor, Sir John Evelyn, of Wotton, he erected a toweron the summit of Leith Hill, both for the benefit of the public and to form his own cenotaph.
Accordingly, a staircase towerwas built by the side in order to make it available for the original purpose.
James; 'but for me--it is like to be the library and the Round Tower again.
By him lives also the weasel, the ptarmigan, and the Bighorn wild sheep; but no other fellow lives higher in the sky than he; he occupies the conning tower of the continent.
From my treetop observation tower I saw a single coyote coming, and wondered what would be his attitude concerning the blockading of the trail by superior numbers, and also how these superior numbers would receive a single ancient enemy.
Eleven years later, month for month, I stood on Tower Hill on the steps of the St. Katherine's Dockhouse, a master in the British Merchant Service.
And again I walked on air along Tower Hill, where so many good men had lost their heads because, I suppose, they were not resourceful enough to save them.
The others followed, the conning-tower hatch was dogged shut, and soon the Swiftsure was gliding off into the shadowy blue-green depths.
As the conning tower broke water, Tom and his men swarmed up on deck.
When the jet finally landed at Enterprises and came to a halt on the runway, the control tower operator spoke over the radio.
In the distance, a tall glassed-in control tower overlooked Enterprises' long runways for jet planes.
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