Sentence examples for lofty tower from inspiring English sources

Its lofty tower looked out on the town's hard-edged geometrical composition of church steeples, red tile roofs tufted with wild flowers and moss, and the towers of other carmens.

In a popular 17th century guide book, Justus Zinzerling tells visitors that "a fine view of the city is beheld from the lofty tower" of St Paul's (he also warns them to keep an eye out for the gibbeted thief on the outskirts of Sittingbourne).

And all who watch at the midnight hour, From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower, Cry, as they trace the Meteor bright, Moving along through the dreary night,— "This is the hour when forth he goes, The Dong with a luminous Nose!" It is significant that the luminous nose of the Dong is not biological, like Rudolph's.

Ms. Lambert recalled that Bronfman had to be brought around to accepting the building's lofty glazed base: Mies insisted that Bronfman lean down to the pedestrian's level to see on the model just how beautiful the effect would be of entering a glazed void under a lofty tower, especially when it was encountered on a plaza that broke the great line of Park Avenue's masonry cliff face.

At noon small figures parade around its astronomical clock, and there is a lofty tower which can be climbed for city views.

Mar-nu-Falmar "Land under the Waves"; Mindon Eldaliéva "Lofty Tower of the Elvish-people"; Quenta Silmarillion "Tale of the Silmarils".

– "Sonnet 64": When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage … When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay … And then it started to get fun.

The lofty towers of Gothic architecture led to much larger, more resonant bells and gave rise to an archaic version of the present campaniform bell: tulip-shaped with a narrow, rounded top; a long, straight waist spreading outward at the bottom; and a flared mouth, or sound bow.

"The scenes have a riotous energy, and often stretch beyond the boundaries of the picture frames, with lofty towers poking through the borders at the top, and figures tumbling out of the miniatures onto the blank page as they fall or scramble to escape their enemies".

Other external features include: canted and box bays; a variety of lofty towers that are round, square or octagonal; many different gables; and numerous diagonally set stone flues.

Her original song "Hardwick's Lofty Towers" tells the tale of the prominent lady Bess of Hardwick (1521-1608), CofnteShrewsburywsbury, in language that would be equally at home in Irish traditional ballads or Shakespeare sonnets.