Below, the city of Rome began to take shape in the dim and ghostly starlight, thrusting shadowy domes and towers out of her dark slumber.
Innumerable spires, domes, pinnacles and towers rose, red-litten by the sunset, into the stilly evening air.
But among them rose the fortress towers of the Roman nobles.
The roofs and palaces, domes and towersof Rome, were bathed in sunlight as he advanced to the embrasure in the wall and once more surveyed the city.
The flag of your glory shall cease to wave on thetowers of your strong citadel.
They rode on until they saw looming up before them the towers of a mighty castle.
At last in the distance the towers of the King's castle appeared.
The iron towers at Loos, the spire of Calonne, even the crazy relics of the church at Puisieux at different times contributed this uneasy feeling to the denizens of our trenches.
The former was a most crowded and degenerate-looking town, by a fewtowers rendered impressive from a distance, but in reality of mean structure.
The bottoms of the towers were grounded with electrical contacts, and every tower had a ground connection with each other by means of cables.
The discs and towerswere glowing; red at first, then violet.
A few traffic towers maintained order in the overhead air-lanes.
From its ground doorway, a narrow metal catwalk extended like a sidewalk on the ground, winding and branching among the towers and discs.
The current went into all these wires and towers and twenty-foot ground discs.
All the beams merged there; and guided by the towers directly underneath, a single shaft was standing into the sky.
And Newport to the left there, with its towers and trees rising out of the sea.
And they went along the mouths of the rivers, until they came to the mighty river which they saw flowing to the sea, and the vast city, and the many-coloured high towers in the castle.
And he beheld a great city at the entrance of the river, and a vast castle in the city, and he saw many high towers of various colours in the castle.
The bare brown rocks grew dark as bronze, and the forest-clothed hills were almost black in the shadows, as the clustered towers and roofs of the little city came in sight.
The small mountain city was many miles away upon a promontory of marble rocks, and its many spires and towers were visible only in afternoon light from the valley of the Edera.
Brantwood looks over Coniston Water to the quaint round chimneys and the gables of the century-stained hall of the Le Flemings, and beyond it towers the gigantic cone of the Old Man mountain.
A desperate assault followed, in which twenty-five towers were carried by the Venetians, and the day would have been won, but for the repulse of the land forces and the necessity to hasten to their relief.
With its nine noble towers it presents a striking likeness to the fortifications of a feudal baronial castle, and its solid masonry defied the Turkish cannon in 1453.
I could see at a great distance the towers of Magdeburg, and further, the vast plain stretching away like a sea towards Berlin.
Only the outer walls and the round towers at each corner are left remaining; the inner part has been razed to the ground, and where proud barons once marshalled their vassals, the villagers now play their holiday games.
At length, after passing the walls of an old church, in the midst of older tombs, we saw the roofless towers of Dunluce Castle, on the sea-shore.
It is still walled, though the towers are falling to ruin.
The deep moat which surrounds the city, is all grown over with velvet turf, the towers and bastions are empty and desolate, and we passed unchallenged under the gloomy archway.
After two hours' ride, we saw the tall towers of Augsburg, and alighted on the outside of the wall.
War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
A mile or two from Linz we passed one or two of the round towers belonging to the new fortifications of the city.
He also built towers in it, and encompassed it with walls, and took care that it should be safely guarded.
The elephants also had high towers [upon their backs], and archers [in them].
Judas also rebuilt the walls round about the city, and reared towers of great height against the incursions of enemies, and set guards therein.
We walk'd together on the crown Of a high mountain which look'd down Afar from its proud natural towers Of rock and forest, on the hills-- The dwindled hills!
There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towersthat tremble not!
As if the towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide-- As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven.
Through the vines, as he looked after them, Nick could see the towers of London glittering strangely in the moonlight.
The Cherwell burned with the orange light reflected from the sky, and the towers of the famous town of olden schools and scholars stood up black-purple against the western glow, with rims of gold on every roof and spire.
There were people on the battlements, and at the port between two towers where the Queen went in and out the press was so thick that men's heads looked like the cobbles in the street.
The moon, like a smoky golden platter, rose behind the eastern towers of the town, and in the north hung the Great Wain pointing at the polar star.
Amid a group of towers large and small a lofty stack poured out a plume of sea-coal smoke against the milky sky, and on the countless windows in the wall the sunlight flashed with dazzling radiance.
There were towers on it with domes and gilded vanes, and the river foamed and roared under it, strangled by the piers.
The round towers could not have comprised all the accommodation of the castle.
The statue is older than the market-house, having been moved thither from one of the demolished towers of the city wall in 1795.
Most of these towers have a great crack pervading them irregularly from top to bottom; the ivy hangs upon them,--the weeds grow on the tops.
I never suffered so much before, on this side of the water, from heat and dust, and should probably have turned back had I not espied the round towers and walls of an old castle at some distance before me.
The towersare massive, but low in proportion to their bulk.
Nobody showed him the way, but he could see the towers of the castle rising above the distant wood, and when he entered the wood itself, and the towers were hidden, each path he took led him nearer to the place where he would be.
At the end of that time it happened one day that a young Prince who was hunting in the neighbourhood caught sight of the towers of the enchanted castle rising above the dense forest.
He had never been in that part of the country before, and had heard nothing of the story of the Sleeping Princess, so he asked the first people he met what those towers were, and to whom the castle belonged.
Before him he could see the high towers and turrets bathed in the fresh light of the morning sun, and as he hastened towards them he noticed that the gardens were as trim and tidy as though they had just been tended by the gardeners.
More rapid and stormy than on his coming were the thoughts that flitted through his soul; he hastened the coachman, and an indefinite anxiety fixed his looks on the rising towers of the capital.
They were sitting under a large oak, one of the giants of the Middle Ages, that towered above the new generation of trees in the forest, as the cupola of St Peter's does above the towers and roofs of the Holy City.
Ilse sat down in a rustic chair, holding her embroidery in her hands, but looking up at the large stone palace, that rose with its towers and newly built extensions, some hundred steps from her.
Far flashed her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down.
In thus talking he seemed different, and even looked different, she thought, against the river, with the steeples and towers for background.
Denham could see him against the blank buildings and towers of the horizon.
It was a splendid sight with its gardens and squares, its temples, its towers and minaret made in the most Arabesque architecture and ornamented with the most fantastic draperies.
It went dancing along the fronts of opposite buildings, climbed up the towers and brought out golden Diana.
The conning towers are of sheet-iron and some of the formidable guns are simply painted wood.
The great similarity of the palm tree to the ancient round towers in Ireland and elsewhere will naturally strike the observer.
He was a medieval prince, falsely imprisoned, leaning from dark and lonely towers to catch the strains of some wandering troubadour from his native Southlands.
Or perhaps I could be housekeeper for one of our new beef-kings in his new Queen-Anne Norman-Georgian Venetian palace of Alberta sandstone with tesselated towers and bungalow sleeping-porches.
Lucifer towers magnificent, the controlling spirit in every plan, full of impelling thought and of tremendous action.
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