The aircar came in, circling slowly over the town on the big rock, and let down on the roof of the castle-like building from which the watchtower rose.
The high watchtower at the front now carried a telecast-director, aimed at an automatic relay-station on an unmanned orbiter two thousand miles off-planet.
These women also sang watchtower songs to the growing corn, as a mother sings to her babe.
In each garden stood a platform or watchtower upon which in certain seasons sat one or two Indian women, whose duty it was to frighten away marauding crows and blackbirds.
From such a fate thewatchtower of Usella had been saved by several accidents.
It must be some Algerine corsair brigantine that the watchtower signals to us.
McKean reconnoitered the Watchtower target area and discovered the Japanese building an airfield on Guadalcanal.
Vandegrift, 1st Marine Division commander, review the Operation Watchtower plan for landings in the Solomon Islands.
Calculated risk was the name of the game where the Navy was concerned, and if the risk seemed too great, the Watchtower landing force might be a casualty.
The news that his division would be the landing force for Watchtower came as a surprise to Major General Alexander A.
Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.
And a lion cried out: I am upon the watchtower of the Lord, standing continually by day: and I am upon my ward, standing whole nights.
But with all the bravado of their hearts, men and women passed sleepless vigils while the sentinel stood all night long in the lonely watchtower of the middle blockhouse.
From his watchtower on Rock River the old chief scanned the country.
It was thewatchtower from which Titus caught his first glimpses of the Holy City, as many a traveller does to this day, and the point at which Richard I.
The watchman on the lofty watchtower of the summer palace caught sight of a storm of dust careering along from the eastward up the valley towards the city.
And he cried like a lion for impatience, O my Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower by day, and am set in my ward every night.
He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
There were ten of us now to do battle with the Okarian guard, and I warrant that that ancientwatchtower never looked down upon a more hotly contested battle than took place that day within its own grim walls.
When one went down before my sword another scrambled over the dead man to take his place; and thus, taking an awful toll with each few feet gained, I came to the spacious glass-walled watchtower of Kadabra.
Dunvegan from the watchtower to the noisy fellows who were shouting and beating upon the gates with the ostensible object of awakening the sleepy post.
Eugene Demorel slid back the shutter in the watchtower and leaned out, his gun trained on the entrance.
Black Ferguson seemed to have fallen from the watchtower so quickly did he accomplish the descent.
