watch-tower

After that, the veriest five-year-old among the Zakka Khels, watching sleepless over the rim of some stone watch-tower, could have taken oath that the Khyber's unburied dead were prowling in search of empty graves.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

He called, therefore, for a beaker of Burgundy, in which he swallowed down his displeasure, and had just returned to Kilian the cup, which he had drained to the bottom, when the warden winded a blast from the watch-tower, which betokened the arrival of strangers at the gate of the city.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Ai am tinkin dat u had lots ob time to read up on tings when you werked in dat forest watch-tower.

yeah, mom - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Leo XIII looking out of the watch-tower of the Christian world, as St. Leo the Great used to say, has before him what no Pontiff yet has ever seen.

Review of the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII/1 2008

I went up to the watch-tower in the southeast corner of the house, above the royal apartments, from which one could see down into the streets and over the city walls and gate.

'Lavinia' 2008

But so great was the insecurity of the period, that when she ventured to extend her walk beyond the hamlet, the warder on the watch-tower was directed to keep a sharp look-out in every direction, and four or five men held themselves in readiness to mount and sally forth from the castle on the slightest appearance of alarm.

The Abbot 2008

“Oh, your death will be exquisite,” the bandit in the watch-tower sent.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

From her watch-tower afar off, Isabel, whose ceaseless love followed him night and day, notes:

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

No male eagle had a more powerful downstroke than Scar, and he was lifting and moving forward with such strength that he was past the compound's wall before the sentry got his eagle off the watch-tower.

Spirit Gate 2006

The ship passed the great island with its white watch-tower and into the bay of Yalakeht on a cool, hazy morning.

A Shadow in Summer 2006