watch-towers

Jennifer Merritt/The Wall Street Journal Beyond the boardwalk is a creamy sand shoreline that extends north past the hotels and vacation homes to Cape Henlopen State Park's pristine beaches and old war-time watch-towers.

Rehoboth Beach, Del. 2008

In the rehearsals I had been assured by my US counterpart that the camp would be up and running by the time we came to it, complete with wire, prefab watch-towers and the like.

An Ordinary Soldier Doug Beattie MC With Philip Gomm 2008

There were watch-towers and firefighters perched to pounce on any campfire gone bad.

The Master Liquidity Enhancement Con (duit) 2007

Beyond the orchards lay a thick mud-brick outer wall studded with watch-towers and guardposts.

Spirit Gate 2006

By the time he cut the engine, still well back from the watch-towers and their lights, he could hear the mewling of the prisoners.

Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

The walls seemed of marble and with their fretted battlements and slim watch-towers, dwarfed the memory of such cities as Rome, Damascus, and Byzantium.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

In the principal streets night watchmen are stationed in watch-towers, which consist of small mat huts, placed on scaffolds raised far above the house-tops, on bamboo poles bound together with strong cords.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Udolpho, its proud irregularity, its lofty towers and battlements, its high-arched casements, and its slender watch-towers, perched upon the corners of turrets.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

But in civilized life, where the State undertakes the protection of our person and property, the principle is no longer applicable: it stands, like the castles and watch-towers of the age when might was right, a useless and forlorn object, amidst well-tilled fields and frequented roads, or even railways.

The Wisdom of Life 2004

The view from that corner of the wall (to my thinking) is beautiful, the flaming red pagoda with its many roofs; the singularly picturesque ancient gray wall, all ups and downs, watch-towers, and strongholds, the Tartar city below, with the

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004