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Rested then the wide-hearted; high up the house tower'd
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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And tower'd above the rest, conspicuous in the throng.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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The great mass of curiously simple yet most striking structures that girdle the summit of the rock and form the platform beneath the church, though built at different times, have joined in one consenescence and now present the appearance of one of those cities that dwell in the imagination when reading of "many tower'd Camelot" or the turreted walls of fairyland.
Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 Gordon Home 1923
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The great mass of curiously simple yet most striking structures that girdle the summit of the rock and form the platform beneath the church, though built at different times, have joined in one consenescence and now present the appearance of one of those cities that dwell in the imagination when reading of "many tower'd Camelot" or the turreted walls of fairyland.
Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923
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"Speak, I say!" again thunder'd Lugare; and his hand, grasping his ratan, tower'd above his head in a very significant manner.
Pieces in Early Youth, 1834-'42 ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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"Speak, I say!" again thunder'd Lugare; and his hand, grasping his ratan, tower'd above his head in a very significant manner.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Then tower'd the masts, the canvas swell'd on high,
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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Flank'd by large groves, which tower'd on either hand:
Don Juan George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Though thy tall ftandards tower'd with lordly pride Where northern Phafis rolls his icy tide;
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And tower'd above the reft, confpicuous in the throng.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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