Above was a dark roof, breaking at the corners into little round overhanging turrets, the whole lying silent in the moonshine, with a drift of ragged clouds blackening the heavens behind it.

The lofty turrets of its towers were tipt with the golden light of the sun, and the neighboring peasantry had commenced their daily labors, as the different attendants of the equipage we have mentioned collected around it at the great entrance to the building.

Behind the Palais rises the tall belfry, a big square tower from which springs an octagonal turret carrying an elaborate campanile.

Ships of low freeboard equipped with revolving turrets.

A terrible salvo burst from the 16-inch guns in the forward turret.

It was said to have been a noble pile, and adorned with four square turrets.

Most have large external stair-turrets (commonly at the N.E. or S.E. angle), which, when carried above the parapet and surmounted by spirelets, add dignity to the plainer structures, but which are less appropriate where the pinnacles are sufficiently prominent and graceful to give of themselves an adequate finish.

Where still their silver-bosom'd Nymphs abhor, 90 The blood-smear'd mansion of gigantic THOR, Erst, fires volcanic in the marble womb Of cloud-wrapp'd WETTON raised the massy dome; Rocks rear'd on rocks in huge disjointed piles Form the tall turrets, and the lengthen'd ailes; [Gigantic Thor.

The essential idea of the "Monitor" was low freeboard and thus small exposed surface to the ship herself, combined with the mounting of guns in circular revolving turrets, thus giving an all-around fire and on the whole making possible an adequate protection of the exposed parts of the ship and providing for the combination in maximum proportions of armored protection and heavy guns for offence.

Far up in a lonely turret dwelt a rare maiden, of such surpassing beauty and fairness that the peasants thought she was not mortal, but an angel from heaven, resting in that tower from the doing of good deeds.

But she, remembering her old ruin'd hall, And all the windy clamor of the daws About her hollow turret, pluck'd the grass There growing longest by the meadow's edge,

The thought was yet in his mind, when, first one and then another, with every variety of pace and voiceone deep as the bell from a cathedral turret, another ringing on its treble notes the prelude of a waltzthe clocks began to strike the hour of three in the afternoon.

Yet though my limbs disease invades, Her wings imagination tries, And bears me to the peaceful shades, Wheres humble turrets rise; Here stop, my soul, thy rapid flight, Nor from the pleasing groves depart, Where first great nature charm'd my sight, Where wisdom first inform'd my heart.

The windows are of fine stained glass, and the view from the belfry tower, over the peculiar old townwith its curious turrets and roofs, whose best days have long passedis worth the somewhat arduous mount to get to it.

Round turrets and gables the wind raved and moaned like a famished wild thing denied its kill.

The pointed turrets at each corner were roofed with the small green tiles that the Moors loved.

The armored turrets were found upside down.

Mr. Harrison and I saddled and rode off, passing along a wall of fantastic rock-turrets, at the base of which was a natural column, about ten feet high, and five in diameter, almost perfectly round, and upholding an immense rock, shaped like a cocked hat.

After passing the gate the vast pilewith its three great towers and innumerable turrets, and pinnacles, and buttresses, and arches, and painted windowsrose in majesty before us.

The towers are low, with insignificant turrets; the latter evidently a later erectionprobably at the commencement of the sixteenth century.

Isolated turrets, domes, and pinnacles came out in gleaming relief against the dark-blue background of the heavens.

Moorea, four leagues away, loomed like a mammoth battle-ship, sable and grim, her turrets in the lowering clouds on the horizon, her anchors a thousand fathoms deep.

Where, as proud Maffon rises rude and bleak, And with mishapen turrets crests the Peak, Old Matlock gapes with marble jaws, beneath, And o'er fear'd Derwent bends his flinty teeth; 175 Deep in wide caves below the dangerous soil Blue sulphurs flame, imprison'd waters boil.

Wandering eastward, we arrive at the precincts of Fountains Abbey, which gradually presents its monastic turrets midway in a dell, skirted by hills crowned with trees, and varied by rocky slopes to the brook.

O road of high adventure, That leadest many a band To yon ungrateful country where My native turrets stand, The country that my valor Did oft with glory crown, The land that lets me languish here, Who won for her renown.