martello

• “For a long time people supposed they were called martello towers from the man who built them, but I found in a book that the name came from a vine that grew over this one in Corsica.”

  The Spanish Chest

• “At its opposite extremity the street leads to a deserted martello tower, and to the forlorn outlying suburb of Slaughden, between the river Alde and the sea.”

  No Name

• “Something in his look and manner took her memory back to the first night at Aldborough, when she had opened her mind to him in the darkening solitude — when they two had sat together alone on the slope of the martello tower.”

  No Name

• “Southward, the high ridge of the sea dike, and the grim, massive circle of a martello tower reared high on its mound of grass, closed the view darkly on all that lay beyond.”

  No Name

• “What juts out on boundless marshlands are abandoned factories, while emptied martello towers and collapsed jetties and wharves line the gray waterfronts of a country that Michael Hamburger, whom Sebald so beautifully evokes in The Rings of Saturn, would have called Novemberland.”

  Out of Novemberland

• “Granting that the French did not take alarm and incontinently drop their hostile designs upon the tight little island, there would be a small outlay for pay, a trifle of a shilling a day on exercise days, but nothing more -- except for martello towers.”

  The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

• “They sent rockets from their martello towers, and they maintained a perfect storm of musketry from their advanced trench and from the city walls.”

  Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief

• “In the foreground stretched an expanse of jagged red reefs and shining pools with a single martello tower rising in dignified grandeur.”

  The Spanish Chest

• “The bulk he had encountered was not the martello tower on Noirmont”

  The Spanish Chest

• “Win cast a glance at the deserted castle of St. Aubin's, a miniature Castle Elizabeth on its isolated rock off shore, another at the martello tower on the point.”

  The Spanish Chest

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