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Lady Thrum, whose figure is something like that of the shot-tower opposite

Mens Wives 2006

His words falling from a shot-tower hit the water and up it spurted.

The Waves 2003

But a steeple starts up from its green thickets; not one of the hideous objects which the architects of our district churches perpetrate, to puzzle the passer-by as to the purpose of its being, -- whether a brewer's chimney, or a shot-tower, -- a perch for city pigeons, or a standing burlesque on the builders of the nineteenth age of the fine arts in

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

The container remained on the ground near the shot-tower during the detonation.

Project Trinity 1945-1946 Carl R. Maag

Of the remaining two, one is the old brick shot-tower in the lower part of town, which legend tells us was put up without the use of scaffolding nearly a hundred years ago; while the other, a more modern, if less modest structure, proudly surmounts a large commercial building and is itself capped by the gigantic effigy of a bottle.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

Willows became elms, a settler's shanty rose like a shot-tower -- towns hitherto unseen swam and palpitated in the yellow flood of light like shaken banners low-hung on unseen flagstaffs.

The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota Hamlin Garland 1900

Elsa suffer the worst torments of a woman's fear in the Red Mill on the marshes; and Foy and Martin play their parts like men in the shot-tower, the Gevangenhuis and the siege, and Mother Martha the Sword find a grave and rest in the waters of the Haarlem Meer.

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The tank beneath the shot-tower, when it was not in use, was closed with a stone cover, and around this they piled firewood and peats from

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The sentence seemed to flash through the rift over the shot-tower -- to tingle down from the stars.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884