"Turret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the long gallery where we were all sitting looked onto the court-yard, and two flys passed the angle of the turret. ...
— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn
... picturesque antiquity meet the eye everywhere in the old English town. Now it is a half-ruinous watch-tower, now the Gothic doorway of a thirteenth-century house, now a gateway that has lost its tower, but whose wounds are covered with yellow wallflowers in spring; now a turret running up an entire front, with little windows looking out upon the quiet street, or some high-pitched roof curving inward under the ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... appointment I went recently to see and take notes of Her Majesty's famous ironclad turret-ship, the Thunderer. Knowing how much you are interested in the navy of England, I will relate a little of what I saw, premising, how ever, that although strict veracity is not required of me, I am, as you know, a man of principle, and therefore impose it on myself, so that whatever ...
— In the Track of the Troops • R.M. Ballantyne
... the stories and the dainty bits of poetry and criticism to see what Mr. Derby has to say about iron-clads. You receive your "Harper" and you feel aggrieved, if you do not find a picture of the Passaic, or of Timby's revolving turret, or of something similar which will give you a little more light concerning these monsters which are threatening to turn the world upside down. Now all this intense curiosity shows how general and instinctive is the ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. July, 1863, No. LXIX. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... church in Blakeney, By quenched turret light in Blakeney, They slumber deep, they do not know, If Life's told tale is Death ...
— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees
|
