Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris,; akin to Gr. ; cf. W. twr, a tower, Ir. tor, a castle, Gael. torr, a tower, castle. Cf. Tor Turret
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
O. Fr. tur—L. turris, a tower.
In literature:
I will ask father to let me have all this old empty tower to myself.
"The Young Castellan" by George Manville Fenn
Now the mist lifted above towering walls of mountains very near him, yet not the mountains of his memory.
"The Defiant Agents" by Andre Alice Norton
This vast host soon encamped before the large city of Nicaea, its strong walls and hundreds of towers swarming with Turks.
"With Spurs of Gold" by Frances Nimmo Greene
His ancestral home, Dean Tower, raised its dark red walls before him.
"Sea-Dogs All!" by Tom Bevan
A temporary wooden tower, used formerly in naval and military warfare.
"The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth
The Roman walls were repaired, the towers on the north and south banks were strengthened.
"The Story of Paris" by Thomas Okey
The lads, in their exposed position on the tower, paid scant heed.
"The Submarine Hunters" by Percy F. Westerman
It was the hour for Mr. Punch's father to call Mr. Punch from the church-tower.
"The Old Tobacco Shop" by William Bowen
In England it appears that the tower formed no part of the plan until, at any rate, the epoch of the Danish wars.
"The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church" by A. Hamilton Thompson
In later years we shall find that the damp cells of the Tower filled his joints with pain, and reduced him with a weakening cough.
"Raleigh" by Edmund Gosse
We will attach the end of the aerial wires with the rope to the roof of the old tower.
"The Campfire Girls of Roselawn" by Margaret Penrose
There are several specimens to be seen in the Tower of London.
"Richard III" by Jacob Abbott
You will be committed to the Tower till his Majesty's pleasure is known.
"Guy Fawkes" by William Harrison Ainsworth
All her knowledge is like a tower, which will fall down.
"Psyche" by Louis Couperus
It is recorded that the Moorish astronomers used the tower as an observatory.
"The Story of Seville" by Walter M. Gallichan
BRIXWORTH All Saints' Church Nave, Tower.
"The Seven Periods of English Architecture" by Edmund Sharpe
He is in the haunted tower; right at the top of it.
"The Cloister and the Hearth" by Charles Reade
It is midnight, and I must go back to my post of turnkey of the Tower of London.
"The Dramas of Victor Hugo" by Victor Hugo
The smaller tower is as perfect as it was when its builder pronounced it finished a thousand years ago.
"Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland" by T. O. Russell
What could the tower have been for?
"Beaumaroy Home from the Wars" by Anthony Hope
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In poetry:
We do not know the day,
We do not know the hour,
But Two and Two shall meet again
By Ben Boyd’s Tower.
"Ben Boyd's Tower" by Henry Lawson
Hood drawn on her forehead—
Withered dame and grey—
She never looks on Boyd Tower
Out across the Bay.
"Ben Boyd's Tower" by Henry Lawson
Within thy presence, Lord,
For ever I'll abide;
Thou art the tower of my defence,
The refuge where I hide.
"Psalm 61" by Isaac Watts
Until at last a castle lay
Beneath the moon, among the trees;
Its Gothic towers old and gray
With mysteries.
"Morgan le Fay" by Madison Julius Cawein
Mothers! thou who hast all power,
To begin these human towers,
Canst thou tell at this late hour,
Where the boys are?
"Where are the Boys" by Frank Barbour Coffin
THROUGH halls of vanished pleasure,
And hold of vanished power,
And crypt of faith forgotten,
A came to Ludlow tower.
"Poppies on Ludlow Castle" by Willa Sibert Cather
In news:
Sister Station AM 1400 WQXO Munising undergoing tower upgrades.
Future of Columbia lakefront bell tower still up in the air.
Robots in Flight by Atticus Fraley, at Scottsdale Civic Center Bell Tower .
From the Bell Tower .
Bell Tower welcomes two new merchants.
Drop Out and Try Something New From the Bell Tower.
The Bursting of the Academic Library Bubble From the Bell Tower.
Actress Lea Michele attends the Valspar Hands For Habitat Unveiling on July 20th Hosted at Hearst Tower New York City.
An earlier version of this story attributed some quotes to Melania Knauss-Trump, Donald Trump's wife, at an April 14 marketing event for Trump International Hotel & Tower.
Remaining Clock Tower condo land sold in Portsmouth.
On October 31, 1962, the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower started letting many people in Milwaukee know what time it was.
Tarrant County Courthouse's clock tower is rededicated after renovation.
The Tarrant County Courthouse's clock tower had its coming out party Tuesday after a 14-month, $4.5 million makeover befitting the architectural queen of Fort Worth.
A careful trip and a new home for historic clock tower .
Organizers want to erect a clock tower in Liverpool.
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In science:
Let L ⊂ L′ ⊂ L′′ is a tower of finite Galois extensions of L.
Ramification of local fields with imperfect residue fields
So one might call a theory nilpotent if there is a tower of linear extensions of theories starting with a theory which is “abelian” and ending with the given one.
Linear extensions and nilpotence for Maltsev theories
Similar results were obtained from the other tested towers.
The CDF MiniPlug Calorimeters
From the whole ”tower” of fields only the massless fields survive (under assumption that the tachyon problem is solved; this problem will be discussed in detail in sect. 3.5 and 6.3).
String Theory or Field Theory?
The main goal of this paper is to interpret Cech classes geometrically, by defining the notion of commutative ngerbed tower.
Non abelian cohomology: the point of view of gerbed tower
In the VPF of the photon was calculated in the presence of the tower of fermionic KK modes.
Power corrections in models with extra dimensions
Klein tower associated to compactification on a circle of an 11-dimensional theory.
Quantum Gravity
Finally, L has the distribution of a h1ik whose starting position consists of an infinite tower of pieces in column 0.
Asymptotic Behavior of Random Heaps
E ), then X and X ′ = ι−1 (X ) have the same resolution towers over M ′ (not counting isomorphisms in the sequences of blowings-up).
Desingularization of toric and binomial varieties
The spectral geometry of a tower of coverings. J.
Poisson--Dirichlet distribution for random Belyi surfaces
This is required for the so-called ‘twiddle factors’ in the decomposition of QFTHp along the subgroup tower {1} ⊳ N∞ ⊳ Hp .
On the Power of Random Bases in Fourier Sampling: Hidden Subgroup Problem in the Heisenberg Group
Indeed, we construct a QFT adapted to this subgroup tower, see also [PRB99, MRR04].
On the Power of Random Bases in Fourier Sampling: Hidden Subgroup Problem in the Heisenberg Group
In the preprint , Tsemo has defined the notion of gerbed towers, this is a recursive definition of geometric representations of cohomology classes.
Gerbes, 2-gerbes and symplectic fibrations
The classifying cocycle of a 2-gerbed tower.
Gerbes, 2-gerbes and symplectic fibrations
We can associate to a 2-gerbed tower, a 3-Cech cocycle defined as follows: Consider an ob ject ei of C (Ui ) and a morphism gij : rUij ,Uj (ej ) → rUij ,Ui (ei ).
Gerbes, 2-gerbes and symplectic fibrations
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