There he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They left Old Nan in the tower room with her needles and her memories. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And just then, right that moment, there is a gray flutter and on the ledge of the tower balcony lands a pigeon. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora shrieked “No!” while James toppled tower after tower of books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Atop each corner of the cell-block’s wall, rounded guard towers seemed to sag sadly at their edges as though the prison itself had exhaled a final dying gasp. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the center of the sub, there was the control room, and the tower was directly above it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Nat and I look for three days straight near the northeast point by the water tower. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them the church tower rose high above the rooftops, and there was nothing now to shield them from the sentry's eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fence towers over us, too high and flexible to climb over, too sturdy to knock down. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

This prediction was tested in 1962, using a pair of very accurate clocks mounted at the top and bottom of a water tower. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d seen a fisher hang up and sink on the old struts when it had run itself into the whole mass of towers and then been unable to win free. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A square stone tower rose directly in their path, and Lee didn’t seem to have noticed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two tall towers touching the clouds, reflecting sunshine, shimmering rainbows and diamond-shaped light. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The entrance from the tower steps was out of view. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look skyward and see the wall stretches into a tower, atop which flies a proud American flag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I count the time between sweeps of the beams of light from the guard towers and sneak from trailer to trailer, trying to avoid detection and the consequences that come from breaking curfew. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Our environments change from jungle to city to towering cliffs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once the elevator doors open, I carry the chair to the huge, arched window of the tower, where it's always quiet, even when the dorm is full. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A rose garden, salty ocean wind, burning cordite—the tower could convincingly re-create them all. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When the morning dawned, foggy and squally, they were right up under the island’s towering black cliffs, and a violent squall tore down the side of a mountain, slamming into the boat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Camouflaged from the view of the guards in their towers, he’d crossed the slender path to the island to meet his brothers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Alex parked the quad next to the tower and went in through an arched doorway. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“While the princess was locked away in her tower, all she could think about was the prince.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I blurt, “Miss Garcia, if history is alive, how come everybody in the towers is dead?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some are migrants, who sit on the steps of the big clock tower. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He leaned against the stone sill and looked out on dark towers, empty yards, black sky, and more stars than a man could ever count if he lived to be a hundred. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The great double curtain wall still stood, for granite does not yield easily to fire, but most of the towers and keeps within were roofless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was also armed with a cannon, and behind the tower there was an antiaircraft gun, loaded with a magazine of ten shells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He towered over her, a great beast of a man, as big as Yai but with an even thicker neck and arms that were muscular and brown from working in the sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Pong craned his neck back to see the spirit of Ampai towering over him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The shape of the diving plane slashing horizontally through the conning tower and the shark’s tail rudder at the back was like nothing he had ever seen. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At night she runs her fingertips over her father’s model: the bell tower, the display windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His ears rang with the metallic bellow of the saa-horn up in one of the temple’s towers, rattling his bones from head to toe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And then it went dark and we climbed up onto this locked-up lifeguard tower and leaned our backs against the wall facing the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ivory towers, now beet red as they reflected the burning rip in the sky, stood tall and angry. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, he thought that the two cameras hidden in burlap-covered towers might be distracting when he began to play, and the towers themselves, looming over the stage like medieval battering rams, were disconcerting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He has a corner office high atop the Conde Nast tower in Manhattan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And all the temples, towers, palaces, pyramids, and bridges cast long, disastrous- looking shadows in the light of that withered sun. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The kitchen came first, with an open cabinet where dishes were stacked in perilous towers without the least regard for their varying dimensions. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even without the nighttime fights and fireworks, the city’s surfaces shone with glass and metal, the unlikely spindles of party towers casting thin shadows across the island. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the tower was a corroded iron spiral staircase. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never thought to find a stone castle on the far side of the Wall, but he had pictured some sort of motte-and-bailey with a wooden palisade and a timber tower keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Craning their necks, they peered up at the dusty orange bricks of city hall, to the tall clock tower that marked the time at exactly 10:04. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was the only entrance to the tower; but many tall windows were cut with deep embrasures in the climbing walls: far up they peered like little eyes in the sheer faces of the horns. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The rain beat down and the black river roared while Roosevelt shivered under the towering trees. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He was tall as a tower and his eyes blazed like bonfires when he was angry. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his shoulders thrown back he seemed to tower in the doorway. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The bears slammed into Roz, knocking her against the trunk of a towering tree. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I live for the exceptions: an easy day in the wall tower, the barber-shop, or the hospital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made her way sadly up to the room in the adamant tower, where the orderly offered to bring her some food and coffee. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

No children would go in the tower, they’d said; there were scary things in there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It even had elevated towers for the dishes, for heaven’s sake. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone wandered like ghosts beneath the guard towers with the mountains looming on either side of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful building with its three-bell tower and western construction. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

New York was known for its architecture, the elegant brownstones, the towering skyscrapers, the grand museums. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are standing in the middle of a white sidewalk, next to a white street crowded with white cars, with white columned buildings towering all around us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown had taken to haunting Professor Trelawney’s tower room at lunchtimes, and always returned with annoyingly superior looks on their faces, as though they knew things the others didn’t. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I know that the hungry childrens are not hungry today, and at night they no longer sleep in the tower rooms, but instead they have beds in the other rooms of Casa Rosa. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Tanks placed around the tower to test the bomb’s strength were tossed into the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when he’d seen the smoke from the fallen towers, it hadn’t quite seemed possible. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have to get back into the tower. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As they neared the castle, he saw a third raven flap from the maester’s tower, only to be feathered by Black Balaq himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And from those evil heads there came a high shrill cry that echoed in the towering walls before him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nailer’s ankle burned with pain as he tried to move and stack the junk into a semblance of a tower. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to the base of the tower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The fire...the bandits...I still cannot believe that you defeated Regibald du Burgh in single combat. You were smart to lure him up into that broken glass tower.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The road cuts back away from the water tower. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all — he was the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher... I just assumed that he was in a hurry to chase after the Death Eaters who’d escaped up to the tower...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond them stretched more cornfields, a few whitewashed houses with red tile roofs, and, towering in the distance, mountains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two large strides the Trunchbull was behind Eric's desk, and there she stood, a pillar of doom towering over the helpless boy. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shorter one has a head full of thick hair, and even though he’s shorter than his brother, he still towers over my sisters and me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The shiny tower whizzed by as we dropped, and then a rumble sounded high above us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Had he leapt from the tower of Fine Hall? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

From the ground, the towering man seemed a million feet tall. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He passed the town’s Rathaus with its tall clock tower, slender side towers, and Gothic arches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There, standing ten feet from the register, was a large man—towering, really—in a gray suit. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His ClockWatchers—dozens upon dozens—spilled from the tower, filling the square, meeting them head-on. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My parents grew up in these towering mountains, the Hauts Plateaux, in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo called South Kivu. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"The king's not dead, that's only summoning bells. One tower tolling. When the king dies, they ring every bell in the city." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Violet remembered her promise, and thought of Klaus, whose bruised face still looked sore, and Sunny, dangling from the top of the tower like a flag, and began working faster. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A massive pyramid-shaped structure covering several square kilometers at its base, it towered above most of the structures adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He towers over me, and I shrink into myself a little. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t look much at the towers though, or the people passing me in their fashionable getups, imports, handcrafted leather, suede, whatever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt and the others couldn’t see them because the animals were hiding and blending in among the densely packed leaves that make up the upper level of the towering trees, known as the canopy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Ernest Rutherford was one of science’s Great Men, a towering figure who drove developments in his era rather than riding in the wakes of others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It has a tower with a red roof on each corner. Every morning the girls raise a flag in the garden.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I take those last few steps, laying Helene down against the tower and reaching out a hand to touch the stone. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and studied the tower, admiring the way it loomed over my bed. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They would bring the siege tower from out of the cover of Mossflower Wood and wheel it to a part of the wall where the defense appeared weakest. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Very strong it might be, wrought of steel and iron, and guarded with towers and bastions of indomitable stone, yet it was the key, the weakest point in all that high and impenetrable wall. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Almost seven hundred feet high it stood, three times the height of the tallest tower in the stronghold it sheltered. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But McGonagall said we’ve got to stay in our tower unless we’re in class —” “I think,” said Harry, more quietly still, “it’s time to get my dad’s old Cloak out again.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t even put a block on the tower since Stick left. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure why, but something kept her rooted to the floor as the white-clad women towered over her, watching. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A tuna tower is the tall aluminum platform that sits above the cockpit on a deep-sea charter boat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The arrows from the tower thin as we drop, clattering off our armor uselessly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bright lights from the guard towers moved across the White Island, and Nina could hear the shouts of soldiers closing in around the palace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was shaped like the tower of a fort. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Against the stage’s backdrop is a towering screen with an ice-blue dragon’s head breaking out through it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the aftermath of the fallen towers thousands of people were missing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He saw square brick towers, a great red temple, a distant manse upon a hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Wmterfell’s inner wall was the older and taller of the two, its ancient grey crenellations rising one hundred feet high, with square towers at every comer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Major Major’s father was a towering, gaunt man in heavy shoes and a black woolen suit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Not far away, in the middle of the garden, he could see the giant peach towering over everything else. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the tower Robin could look down upon the town and the church roof, and see clearly how the church was shaped like a cross. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then with his sharp jack-knife he worked at them, cutting the edges of the large one into little peaks and towers, with a large star carved on the very tallest point. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I float back to my tower to wonder about the boy. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

And they1 d both be in a party tower right now, together and pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If he stood up, towering high above them, or if he stopped quacking for more than a moment, they stopped following and began to cry loudly. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the side of the tower. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Cluny staggered into the entrance to the bell tower, where Friar Hugo had been tolling the Joseph Bell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Higher and higher he climbed, through the clouds and into the night sky, and still the tower rose before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Now they stood across from each other: Cecile towering over Fern with her arms crossed, and Fern looking up at Cecile. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an indirect reference to the bell tower incident. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“As for the whole bell tower thing, even though it wasn’t at all what you think, I can still promise that it won’t happen again.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It is a tower that stands tall and upending like a good soldier, for nearly four hundred years, not wobbling or falling down. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The dense tropical trees along the river’s edge towered overhead, providing shade along the banks, while big-beaked toucans called out with their harsh sounds and flocks of parakeets flashed their green, blue, and red feathers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I followed Hamlet through a maze of corridors to a far tower in a wing of the castle where I had never been. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He took two steps forward, then froze as a searchlight directed from a tower he hadn’t even seen rolled past, inches away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Two of his men stepped to the towering doors and pushed them open, and Cersei walked through them into the open air, blinking at the sunlight like a mole roused from its burrow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“And where is this tower you speak of?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they saw Ella zooming between high-rise towers, a large book clutched in each foot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The jetty that divided the inner and outer harbors had been fortified with a long stone wall, thirty feet tall and almost a mile long, with towers every hundred yards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He saw now: it was a black tower poised above the outer pass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Stop hollering so much, will you?” answered Milo, who was standing there right beside him in the control tower with a microphone of his own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The dark, towering silhouettes of the Wallowa Mountains surrounded us on all sides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Eventually, after many church towers had come and gone, the pigeons’ plans became so ambitious that it took an exceedingly long time to find a human intelligent enough to carry them out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It sat on a street of massive homes and towering trees in a place called Lake Forest. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hamburg finds itself digging the thawing ground, tearing up city parks, and building tall concrete towers armed with flak guns to shoot down enemy bombers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, it was a stupid thing to do. I just wanted to see what it felt like to stand there and look down. I would never jump from the bell tower.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The heat of the blast completely vaporized the steel tower holding the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A towering cliff of a black, basaltic rock cut off the sunlight, and the deep night shadow of an airless world surrounded them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Young Griff pushed the Shy Maid away from a broken tower whose windows stared down like blind black eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She could see the shapes of other tents and lean-tos and the fuzzy orange glow of the beacon fire burning atop the watchtower, but not the tower itself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jon had housed them in the same abandoned tower where he had once slept when he had been new to the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was twenty minutes’ walk away; she could see it clearly, towering high and tossing its great head in a dialogue with the urgent wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet behind, the broken tower still stood, no more burned than before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I never seen no control tower on New World,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was a towering hulk of an animal and had a thick coat of fur, but even he was struggling with the frigid temperatures. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The storage bins are stacked in small towers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"He swears he knew naught of the plot. Who can say? The man is half Lannister, half Frey, and all liar. I put him in Jaime's old tower cell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Any trespasser found by the guard is to be held at the tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But wherever the mûmakil came there the horses would not go, but blenched and swerved away; and the great monsters were unfought, and stood like towers of defence, and the Haradrim rallied about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She dreamt of footsteps on the tower stair, an ominous scraping of leather on stone as a man climbed slowly toward her bedchamber, step by step. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I think I can climb down some stone tower.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She looked more likely to breathe fire than Norbert as she. towered over the three of them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We launched water rockets, tested gravity in a drop tower, and controlled a robotic arm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Under Arthur’s direction the ladder-like structures became a scaffolding—four small towers standing one near each corner of the block. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Blue Team knocked out his microwave towers and cut his fiber-optics lines on the assumption that Red Team would now have to use satellite communications and cell phones and they could monitor his communications. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What he had taken for a part of the tower was the shoulder of the Dragon of Pendor as he uncurled his bulk and lifted himself slowly up. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay...so...so the princess? She was in her tower, and she was still really sad.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I liked the Lithuanian girl, but the towering woman called Eva spoke bad Polish and always seemed impatient. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Stop telling her such stories!” whispered Mo. He and Elinor never took their eyes off the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were last seen on the Hogwarts tower with your niece when they disappeared. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how yet—but the towers falling is my history, too. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A wide expanse of lush plains turns into a crystal-blue lagoon, surrounded by towering cliffs and smooth, steep rocks, their tops covered with vegetation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were all in a small clearing completely surrounded by thick oak trees and towering pines—older ones that hadn’t been completely consumed by the sun flares—standing on dry, brittle undergrowth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Even if I thought she was using too many larger Legos on top of her tower and lots of small ones on the bottom. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Daddy might as well lock me in a tower like Rapunzel. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should have stood at a clean right angle to the main tower, but it was angled strangely, as if it had been hastily built. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

By the time we arrived at the large plaza and stopped in front of the towering gateway, my hands were shaking and my heartbeat was pounding in my ears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And when his parents were killed in a mining accident, the mate went to live in the grove with her, learning to nurse the tender shoots into towering giants with rustling fan-shaped leaves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Soon they are all gathered in the lower tower room. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I yanked the power cord out of the tower to shut the thing down. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was very small, and perched not atop a cloud but on a very large tower constructed entirely from stacked-up railroad ties, the whole thing set smack in the middle of a grassy plateau. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In time, the Stockyards’ gate towered before us, all ivory limestone and rising turrets, as grand as any wall in the White City. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As the first light of morning trickled into the tower room, Violet reflected on all the awful things she and her siblings had experienced recently. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A naked man fell from the sky and landed on the deck, body bursting like a melon dropped from a tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was in the dining room, and Jawad Sahib towered over her. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He stood there towering like some primitive god of the dark forests,” Mathews wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Baudelaire children listened to his heavy footsteps go up the stairs to the tower they were forbidden to enter. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Malik’s tall enough that I spot him towering over several people as he makes his way down the hall. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

This Hampden was a bombed-out expanse of water towers, rusted railroad tracks, sagging warehouses and factories with the doors boarded up and the windows broken out. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stop thinking about it: the planes hitting; the billowing smoke; the towers as they fell. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The palace towers weren’t so round as the ones in the movie, and the real castle had helicopters. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a true tower—not like the Towers of Silence, which were more mounds than anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mama Bellini, who was on duty in the morning, stood towering, frowning down on them. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building loomed above us, soaring bell towers framing its giant dome. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

"We found this one locked in a tower cell," announced his escort, a beardless youth with ginger-colored hair and sodden clothing, doubtless one of those who'd swum the moat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons we sit in groves carpeted with emerald moss, and other evenings we spend in high towers or up in trees. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a brief but awkward silence in which she continued to shake her head and shift her eyes from me to the tower and back to me again. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A swimming pool glowed between two glass towers with more balconies and restaurant decks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We arrive to find an inch-thick steel cable spanning the gorge, stretched between a fifteen-foot tower on our side of the river and an outcrop on the far shore, four hundred feet away. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone tried just a little harder, maybe attempted to climb the towers, or use a magic raft…. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"See our lord of Lannister to a tower cell, and bring him meat and mead." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was easily visible, towering over the rest of the forest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We are in the tower,” said the maid. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

They must have thought it was short, because they’d only gone a little way before Jackson had led them through a doorway and onto the tower steps. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Had they taken Dumbledore’s body from the foot of the tower yet? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Silver and black lightning bolts were being hurled at us by giant black stone towers with jewels at the tops, but that was no reason to panic, now was it? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The fire broke out in the cupola at the top of the central tower but was controlled quickly and caused only a hundred dollars in damage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dusk was really falling outside now; the marquee beyond the windows towered ghostly white over the hedge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The woman will never find the old house behind the hedge of towering hibiscus at the bend of the dirt road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atop Queen Anne Hill, ruby-red lights on radio towers winked on and off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The pig swooped over an office building, and Hermes plowed into a water tower on the roof, blasting water and wood everywhere. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The new public library, with its glistening gold dome, took up half a downtown block, its back butting up against an old-fashioned office tower. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Call down to Cardan. Tell him he’s won. Then jump from the tower. After all, being born mortal is like being born already dead.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She flipped the switch, and the darkness dissolved into wobbly piles of dust-covered junk and crooked cardboard-box towers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The towering forms of the young hunters crashed to the ground, each pierced by the spear of the other, each slaying and being slain by the only creature he loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it had been installed on a rickety tower of cement blocks, easily four feet off the ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A second memo, from a captain, seemed aimed at shaking up the tower personnel, who were no doubt a bastion of complacency. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aragorn strode on through the inner court, and mounted to a high chamber in the tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Commandant stands at the base of the tower, her face stiff—from anger or nerves, I can’t tell. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was nearly six feet tall; when I was a boy, Ruthanne used to tower over me, but now I was able to look her in the eye. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

But one day, I had been working on this new bell tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you what. If I win, you have to build me a tower.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Though he towered over other jockeys, ultimately leveling off at about five feet seven inches, he hadn’t filled out his frame yet, weighing just 101 pounds, light enough to ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, there were several towering piles of empty tuna-fish cans. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Nina tilted her head back to gaze at the high black towers of the fortress known as Hellgate, a dark fist of stone thrusting up from the sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the firemen on the tower balcony concentrated on the fire above them, a small plume of white smoke appeared at their feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Harry swung his legs up onto his bed and leaned back against his pillows, watching the moon glinting at him through the tower window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I imagine climbing towering trees, spying on eggs and eaglets. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The towers were part of a windmill farm, which spanned more than eight thousand acres and was expected to eventually supply electricity to some forty-five thousand homes in Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It shattered on top of the siege tower, drenching the dead wood in lamp oil. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He climbed up to the attic bedroom Elinor had given him and lay down on the narrow bed with the crates of books towering around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There are a few pushcarts spilling over with towers of chocolate squares, pots of spiced tea, orange slices, sugar-coated blueberries, and skewers of smoked salmon and beef sprinkled with garlic and ginger. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But suspecting that it might have been the mad wife in the tower, I didn’t credit it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time there was a dark tower that pierced the sky and turned everything gray. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers down the spines of various CDs housed in a metal tower at least four feet tall. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Light pours in from a glass ceiling atrium and down to where we stand, in the middle of an open space decorated with towering indoor vines. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was now shining warm and bright, and the towers and tall houses cast long clear-cut shadows westward. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a very towering sort of tower and had all manner of nooks and crannies inside it where the pigeons could roost, and they were very satisfied with themselves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On top of the ice field stood a legion camp—ramparts, moats, towers, barracks, just like Camp Jupiter except three times as large. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The station was decommissioned nine years ago for lack of funds, at which time the basket was supposed to be chained and locked to the tower on our side—the highway side—of the river. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From my tower, I can see all the casas in the village and I can see all the peoples coming and going. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The monsters’ siege tower was still hurling explosive green fireballs into the streets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the first floor of the tower there was the furnace which kept the magic water hot. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Through the broken doorway was a fallen tower of trunks and dressers; a failed blockade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There’s no sound, but I know there must be people inside the tower hurt, screaming. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, they were only a collection of fiends, of course. The whole tower turned up-so-down and vanished immediately, and it turned out that they had been fiends all the time, including the priest.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the window seat, staring out at dark towers and walls black as shadow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fires in the sea had gone out, but it looked like Nyame’s city was burning brighter than ever, and the gilded domes and shining ivory towers reflected all that light back onto the bay. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We stare at the towering column of black smoke twisting upward from the city’s newest bomb site. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care. Pop worked in a tower.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were in the tower in Town Square. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Fragments of burning debris had fallen into the space between the iron stack and the inner walls of the tower, made of smooth white pine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Your tower? This is my son's royal castle." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is just a tower, after all, like so many other towers in the Ticino, this southern part of Switzerland. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Only when Cole’s hand again rested on the ground, only then did the towering animal lower its huge head as if nodding. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The fact that the giant’s table and chair towered far above the smaller table simply could not be helped. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the Labrador walked up to the cat, who rose on his hind legs, placing black forepaws on the neck of the great dog who towered above him, gently questing at the torn ear. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Lawrence could see the glow of spotlights illuminating the spindly hundred-foot-tall test tower from which the plutonium “gadget” was suspended. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Underwater surveys of the area northeast of the island clearly show remnants of the tower toppled in that direction, with more than two thousand of its blocks Uttering the harbor bed. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“They set the tower on fire. I’m sure it went up like a box of matches. It would have been twenty-year-old jungle wood, left over from the Belgians.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seen from this perspective, with the stone tower rising up just beyond the dormitory, the buildings gave the impression of a fortress rather than a school. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Archivist Werfel and Magister Brangwain Spurge perched on rocks high above the glass tower, hidden by cedars, and waited for something to happen. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I build towers for kings, not little girls.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In his dream he was climbing again, pulling himself up an ancient windowless tower, his fingers forcing themselves between blackened stones, his feet scrabbling for purchase. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The contrast between the two towering figures of Berkeley science was striking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And this morning, just a few minutes ago, you were over there, with the children—” Gabe nodded toward the corner of the room where the two little ones were industriously piling blocks into towers. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nigro showed footage of yard disturbances taken from a wall tower at Eastern Correctional Facility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Fyrian had reached into a hole in a broken tower and pulled out a pair of boots. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Big Rose had got to the point where she had to use one of the ladders in here to reach the top of her tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A small fire crackled, casting long shadows across the towering form of Miss Miss. The sculpture seemed alive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I am at the top of a bell tower, and the wind is blowing hard at my back. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Up ahead there are huge oblong towers, all of glass, lit up, like enormous gravestones of cold light. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The clock tower,” he said, his bronze eyes shining with amusement, as the clock finished its war cry. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a birdcage, dangling from the tower window like a flag in the wind, but inside the birdcage she could see a small and frightened Sunny. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Through a gap in the curtains around his four-poster he watched snow starting to drift past the tower window and wondered . Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She could barely thrash her way through a few strokes, forget passing the deepwater test necessary to go off the diving boards that towered at the end of the right dock. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They marched toward the entrance of a huge superstore, where two columns of stacked dog food sacks rose like lumpy towers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the twin towers had fallen ten years before, I had never heard of Islam. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was not visible from the guard tower. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the tower caved into rubble long before the feeling was satisfied. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knelt in front of the tower again. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Most of the better fighters sleep in the old tower,” Kaz replied. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Again and again, no matter how I lay them out —” And she pulled a card dramatically from underneath her shawls. “— the lightning-struck tower,” she whispered. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Outside the wind blew and cut off the light of the sun with its dust, and the pigeons cried mournfully in the tower. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron caught up with them five minutes later, in a towering rage. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Half of Gryffindor House seemed to have turned up, from first years who were nervously clutching a selection of the dreadful old school brooms, to seventh years who towered over the rest, looking coolly intimidating. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

West of the stadium, a vast, flat assembly area, the Maifeld, had been leveled and a great limestone bell tower was being erected. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were among the crowns of a group of trees surrounding the tower of an old oratory: exactly where he’d thought they were, though it all looked different from high up in a tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On his left he could see tower tops above the' inner wall, their roofs gilded by the rising sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The towers were considered the facility’s last line of defense, so they were to be inaccessible from within the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up and looked inside the lifeguard tower, Rondell watching me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The floodlights in the towers weren’t sliding lazily over the grounds like usual. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The gray towers loomed large before us like stone mountains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly flames erupted from the tower at a point about fifty feet below Fitzpatrick and his men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Strong enough. The walls are stone, thirty feet high, with square towers at each comer and a square keep within." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The central tower leaned precariously to one side. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe Big Thumb was actually some kind of natural water tower that caught and stored the rain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Past that, a wall of fog had swallowed most of San Francisco, leaving just the tops of skyscrapers and the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Coughing, chest heaving, he looked back at the devastation he’d just escaped: one tower continued to burn; smoke and flames still roared from the upper floors. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were thinking of the moment in the adamant tower when that sparklike idea had flashed between them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To assault any of the three towers, an attacker must expose his back to arrows from the other two, whilst climbing damp stone walls festooned with streamers of slimy white ghostskin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As their car careened past a concrete Jewish settlement with its enclosures of barbed-wire fencing and military tower, Omer craned his neck to stare out the window and spoke soberly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was a brave little fellow and one could see that he was trying not to be scared by the Gorgon who towered above him. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The three-story brick structure had a white statue in the bell tower and looked like a suburban Catholic high school. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Control tower. Run me a check on the weather. Roger. Stand by for a fighter pilot. Over and out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silhouetted on the dark horizon, high on the cliff over the lake, stood the many turrets and towers of Hogwarts castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Forget running a gate or being an escort or doing construction supervision or transportation or manning a wall tower—a good robot might almost do those. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It soared up, up, up and landed on the very top of the wooden tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She came to him at sunset, as the clouds reddened above the walls and towers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe they weren’t as tall as the skyscrapers Gregor knew by name, but they towered high above his head, some at least thirty stories and finished in artful peaks and turrets. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had broken off one of the planes and shot through the tower to land all the way out here in the street. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Before long they saw in the distance the towers and flags of Dictionopolis sparkling in the sunshine, and in a few moments they reached the great wall and stood at the gateway to the city. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Trunchbull had now reached the victim and stood towering over her. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell her I wish I had a father like the man in the signal tower who gives you sandwiches and cocoa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now everybody was inside, the drawbridge was permanently up, and Glatisant lay in the moonlight at the foot of the tower, her head gleaming like silver. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has changed hands by secession often, by siege- once, by treachery twice, but never by assault On this tower the look-out hoved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all looked nearly the same in their dark suits and thin ties, except Eddie towered over the other boys. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

As the door slid closed, Kate saw the tower steps through an open doorway across the passage. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

On each of the towers, giant faces with magnificent headdresses looked out in different directions over our land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think Ellie and the librarian in the tower of stone were in real love. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The merman of House Manderly was everywhere in evidence, flying from the towers of the New Castle, above the Seal Gate, and along the city walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A towering funnel of smoke gradually drifted over us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then in rage the old Dragon of Pendor rose up breaking the tower with the writhing of his body, and beating his wings that spanned the whole width of the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the conning tower, another soldier whistled to him, and he ran back toward the hatch with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In that moment I was no longer in a clock tower in Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A stone church with a stubby tower stood close to the village center. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The western edge of the city has become a holocaust of crimson and carmine from which rise multiple towers of smoke. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of turning back the way they’d come, they moved counterclockwise around the old tower, the wall of the arena vibrating with voices and stomping feet to their left. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By far the biggest structure was a great church—a cathedral as I would learn—which soared upward with a multitude of towers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most people would find the picture of our universe as an infinite tower of tortoises rather ridiculous, but why do we think we know better? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They secured the hose firmly to the tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As with the gushing fountains and towering ivory walls, the lamps themselves seemed to be the product of a dream. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That would be like the prince charging up to the maiden’s tower, so mad with desire that he forgets his sword and is slain by the dragon before even getting near her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The six grandest buildings of the exposition towered over the central court with an effect more dramatic and imposing than even he had imagined. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are two spacious rooms, flaking plaster walls, scuffed parquet floors, towering stacks of boxes he has not yet bothered to unpack. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Above them a city of white stone towers — so tall she could not see their rooftops — rose to the blue sky. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt an uncomfortable sense of vertigo looking at the towering walls, as if he hovered above them instead of sitting at their base. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The old prison wall was studded with nine of these towers; there was a total of eighteen towers, including the ugly new square ones around Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was so small, even Park towered over her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I descended the tower stairs to the kitchen, where I put two half-eaten venison shanks in my basket. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It would not be much longer, she told herself; those towers could not be more than a few miles off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then they guffawed, partly at themselves and partly at the vast white world that sprawled and towered in the sun before them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whale was enormous, rising so that its front half was totally clear of the water, towering over him, looking down on him, studying him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking back to the tower to give himself up to sleep at last when Sandor Clegane and his riders came pounding through the castle gate, back from their hunt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Same day—Saturday, January 5,1935 The first thing I see when I walk out the door is the guard tower. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moniek glanced at the guard in the tower, made sure he was not watching, then thrust out his own chest in hilarious imitation. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But she must eat, and however busily they delved new winding passages from the pass and from their tower, ever she found some way to snare them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"What are they-oh God! I'm hungry-" The towering rock seemed to sway under him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Good gravy, Kate! The boys are in the flag tower already! Constance, wake up!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

To force the throat could be a bloody business, since the ridge exposed the attackers to the spears, stones, and arrows of defenders in the two round towers that flanked the castle’s main gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Icicles long as lances hung from the battlements and fringed the towers like an old man’s stiff white whiskers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Think for how many centuries that unconquerable tower has withstood. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tower was silver and tall and I could see Salim was impressed with London because he looked at the tall buildings with his eyes wide open and his mouth open. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollow Hall is a stone manor with a tall, crooked tower, the whole thing half-covered in vines and ivy. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s one of those towers that tries to make contact with deep space or track weather.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Polybotes advanced slowly, giving Jason plenty of time to contemplate the three-storey-tall tower of armour and muscle bearing down on him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the streets, for instance, I discovered that New Yorkers never look up at the awe-inspiring buildings towering above them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The only guns on the island are up high in the towers or the catwalks, because one flick of the wrist and a gun carried by a guard is a gun carried by a criminal. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mounted on her white palfrey, Cersei towered high above him, a goddess in green. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Trying not to shake, I kept holding on to my tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The White City was a labyrinth of lagoons and tended gardens, and spread throughout it all, towering buildings crammed from floor to ceiling with exhibits. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Up in the bell tower the pigeons ducked and bobbed at each other and sang their soft couing song. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The central building was a round, low tower with curved windows looking outward, like eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

More than merely tall, his tower was grace frozen in iron, as much an evocation of the spirit of the age as Chartres had been in its time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then Bran was back abed in his lonely tower room, tangled in his blankets, his breath coming hard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Tuna tower,” my sister said over her shoulder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s an eight-sided tower that rises up and out of the woods. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tilt yard was a long, sanded passage between the walls, with a tower at each end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sturdy and complex monument to his towers of determination. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On towers all around the courtyard, bands of musicians played a vast, slow tune on quacking horns, blaring trumpets, and thundering drums, while below, the spiral moved to their beat. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She rushed toward her own city and started pulling apart more blocks to use on her tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She even gave the boys Watch- tower pamphlets to distribute in the township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the letters stacked on one another like a word tower: Vincent van Gogh. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even then, she found the castle tasteless, a waste of resources and talent, its towers reaching into the sky like clawed fingers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On starless nights the great cliff was as black as stone, a darkness towering high above the wide world, but when the moon came out it shimmered pale and icy as a frozen stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There, Werfel presented himself at the door of the tower. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In his head, he was still adjusting to the move, and to life in an office tower. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slightly above six feet two, Jefferson towered over both Madison and Hamilton, and at forty-seven he was sufficiently their senior to enjoy the kind of respect accorded an older brother. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

All ten tall, strong, purposeful, silent men towered around him as they turned toward the entrance. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The barge glided past a tall tower that beamed blinking Gold light into the dark—the first orb light Pong had seen in years. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The huge bell in the tower of the Council Edifice began to ring. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elevated rails would lead from the top of the tower all the way to New York, Boston, Baltimore, and other cities. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two dragons like the first rose up from the base of the highest tower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d once told it to his friend Willie-Jay; he had described to him the towering bird, the yellow “sort of parrot.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brash skyscrapers, towering high above the city’s busy markets and railroads, made almost anything seem possible. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was still on the hill behind his house, nestled in the roots of the yew tree towering over him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aru blinked and looked up to see a wall of flames towering above them, blocking the cave entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He towered above the long row of full sacks lined up behind him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She gestures at the towering bowl of twisted metal that once held the bonfire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The broken pressure-ridges take queer shapes, overturned towers, legless giants, catapults. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega rented an apartment on the top floor of the tower facing the East River, mostly for the view—he had enough other places to live in. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I flish in their heads: to the rock, to the tower, my tower. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a guard of orcs crouching in the shadows behind the great door-posts towering on either side, but the gates were shattered and cast down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She wore giant heels that made her tower over Dimple, but without them, Rishi guessed they’d be about the same height. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Around two o’clock, Frightful’s church tower vibrated in the high wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Only the high wailing continued, and then both Will and Lyra saw what it was: a tabby cat, cowering against the wall of the tower, its ear torn and its tail bent. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give it here,” said Gregory, and he took the tray from Mig and sat down on an overturned kettle that had rolled free from the tower. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

But now, in the tower, here is the Zola girl, and she seems not at all surprised to see me, and she is saying, “An angel?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Other guards press close and Officer Bomini up in the tower trains his Thompson on Mrs. Capone. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made her way round the stable block and stopped under the arched entrance, beneath the clock tower. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On an Arizona highway, a two-car caravan is flashing across sagebrush country—the mesa country of hawks and rattlesnakes and towering red rocks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The square brick towers of Pentos were black silhouettes outlined against the setting sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From the garden sprouted a tower made of inky black stone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

To him the ground may be steep and rough but on the whole it is even, and he can pick his direction easily from the top of his moving, six-foot tower. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the gesture and gasped at the sight of a beautiful city that seemed to be floating in the middle of the lake, encircled by a magical mist, bedazzling us with its towering splendor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He went to the towering cabinet against the far wall and pulled out a box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

This is the dock guard tower, a popcorn stand on stilts where somebody’s dad sits with enough firepower to blow us all to smithereens. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo pulls himself up to his towering height and stares off at the horizon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We stopped by an old structure that was probably once a tower of some kind. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

On my way out I broke the bad news to Shelley: her tower of Stay-Tite would have to wait until tomorrow. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Only one man was set to guard it, but she knew there would be sentries up in that tower as well, and others nearby walking the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He paused by the cot, towering over Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I met her on the bell tower when we were both thinking about jumping. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond it there was a spiral staircase that led up to the top of Castle Anorak’s tallest tower. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A towering man with a dense mustache, Emmett, as Tom’s father liked to be called, was poor, stern, hardworking, and pious. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had shown so clearly from the top of the tower. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It took hold of my T-shirt and whistled through the tower rungs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The streambed opened onto an expansive grassy firing range, with an observation tower and berms at the near end and hillocks at the far end. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Val stood on the tower roof, gazing up at the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Gram,” I said, “do you really believe these stories? I mean, princesses trapped in towers and things like that?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As Frodo was borne towards them the great pillars rose like towers to meet him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I remember correctly, you were in the control tower with me, weren’t you?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And she spotted the perfect place when she looked up at the huge, rocky shape that towered above the forest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Someone jumped, or was thrown, from one of the towers, screaming and flailing his arms. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On a hill stood a grand limestone courthouse with a big clock tower. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sped off up adjacent aisles; Harry could hear the others’ footsteps echoing through the towering piles of junk, of bottles, hats, crates, chairs, books, weapons, broomsticks, bats.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The ink-black wedge of the summit pyramid stood out in stark relief, towering over the surrounding ridges. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing in a ruined village, among the remains of houses and a central tower and a wall that perhaps was a place of worship. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They have one tower built, and Spencer checks the box to make sure they are building the second tower just like in the medieval castle in the picture. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Outside, Tyrion swallowed a lungful of the cold morning air and began his laborious descent of the steep stone steps that corkscrewed around the exterior of the library tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The giant blue sky, the fields of po- tatoes and corn, the white houses with red tile roofs, the rocky canyons, the mountains towering overhead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Nehemia took up behind him, and as they crossed the small patio in which the clock tower stood, Celaena looked at the spot where Cain had just been kneeling. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Park Lane Hospital for the Dying was a sixty-story tower of primrose tiles. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Isengard is a circle of sheer rocks that enclose a valley as with a wall, and in the midst of that valley is a tower of stone called Orthanc. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only person not participating in the game was Nico di Angelo, “Pluto’s ambassador,” who had climbed an observation tower about a hundred yards from the fort and would be watching with binoculars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

James asks, taking a broom handle to the stack of ready boxes to straighten the tower we’ve made. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The corpse was angled steeply into the muck, upside down, like a diver who had plunged headfirst off a high tower. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher by far than any man-made structure on earth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The family stood huddled outside the control tower of Smythe Field, a washed-out naval air station outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped back, out of Fang's reach, air rushed into my lungs, pushing him out, he was back outside, just a desperate boy, no, two desperate boys, standing at the bottom of a towering rock. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On clear nights Brother Hubert took him to a high tower of the monastery to tell him of the stars. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lysa's apartments opened over a small garden, a circle of dirt and grass planted with blue flowers and ringed on all sides by tall white towers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pde tower, with a cow-byre under the two living chambers, had come the last of alL So it was among the untidy wreckage of centuries that Gareth scampered, looking for Us brothers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great bell rang, sending waves of sound that went out over the hills and came echoing back into the stone of the bell tower, which trembled with the vibration. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Just Renee looked around at the dry twigs and towering trees. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Delphi under towering Parnassus, where Apollo’s oracle was, plays an important part in mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed under one of the watch- towers along the river, and someone noticed a familiar face—a recruit from the class ahead of ours, the guy who had taught us to short-sheet our beds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally gazed down at the familiar skyline, the slender trails of fireworks silhouetting the party towers and mansions. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the scholars didn’t even know it was there, but the librarians did, because they used it as a shortcut between the stacks and the reading rooms in the base of the tower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Heavy posts, reeking of creosote and paint, towered up as high as the holly trees in the hedge, and the board they carried threw a long shadow across the top of the field. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The windows around the tower were small and deeply set, like frowning eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On her first night in Casa Rosa, Zola climbs the narrow, ziggy stone steps to the tower and clambers through the tripping door up to the balcony. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Upon them stood the Teeth of Mordor, two towers strong and tall. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There were lights on towers behind us that played on the wire. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, just as the church bells began to ring midnight at the First Baptist on Washington Street, Benton was walking up the stairwell of the bell tower. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“One more tower and the whole thing will collapse,” the Crown Prince said from his spot on the other side of Chaol. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A few helicopters came and hovered inquisitively round the tower. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Eyrie was a small castle by the standards of the great houses; seven slender white towers bunched as tightly as arrows in a quiver on a shoulder of the great mountain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Towering above the housetops and the trees of the town was the church tower. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led Fred, Nala, and Scruffy to a thick yellow ribbon that was tied on either end to the two food bag towers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Eddard Stark rode through the towering bronze doors of the Red Keep sore, tired, hungry, and irritable. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Brother Louis, after trying two or three times to make conversation, gave up and led her in silence to the President’s rooms in the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’ll be our lookouts—put one in the carnival and keep the other The folding man unfolded from his chair to tower above us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I let out a gasp, seeing him like that, towering over me, holding Clove like a rag doll. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bright searchlights shone down from the guard towers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed and fired again, and one last tower, one last chess piece, took fire, ignited, and in blue flinders went up to the stars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here is the funny thing that happens: Zola leads Mr. Pomodoro into the first tower room, where all of the childrens have gathered to eat the bread and cheese. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

This notion came to Prendergast initially as a glimmer, like the first sunlight to strike the Masonic tower each morning, but now he thought of it a thousand times a day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn’t break the silence so much as it underpins it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Flying slowly above the tiles, which glistened with the recent rain, she edged the machine into a little gully between a steep tiled roof and the sheer wall of the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The twins huddled around him, towering over him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It looked a lot like my neighborhood, only it had a huge tower at the corner of what was Main Street. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the rebels underneath the tower started running and shooting toward us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then Selitos spoke, “This is my doom upon you. May your face be always held in shadow, black as the toppled towers of my beloved Myr Tariniel. “This is my doom upon you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His cloak was cloth-of-silver too, lined with vair and clasped at the collar with a brooch in the shape of the twin towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They waited before the round tower, the red mountains of Dome at their backs, their white cloaks blowing in the wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I finished the whole plastic row, four neat towers next to the sugar and the milk. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the early evening when Zola arrives through the trippy-trap door on the balcony of the tower, she says, “Angel, I will tell you something.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He towered above all in the chamber and his beard flamed around a face so scarred with old wounds it was impossible to tell where one began and another ended. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. I have her locked in a tower and never let her out. She’ll have to grow her hair and escape through the window if she ever wants to leave. Please, Paul.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She glowered at her tower of treats as though it had insulted her. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could just make out two stocky towers rising over the trees in the distance. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“A million—no, a trillion—golf balls wouldn’t have crashed the real towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron and Hermionfe shivered slightly — the towering white chessmen had no faces. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Not only fine. She’s strong. She stands on her two feet. She’s a tower of strength. Did you come back to Olive’s house after the funeral?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pomodoro glances up at my stone tower and moves his lips around as if he is tasting them from the inside and says, “Of course.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The library is majestic with its glowing white clock tower. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s the last exchange between Avianca and the control tower, just minutes before the crash. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, I blurt, “I didn’t know planes hit the two towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The guardsmen left their mounts out-side the walls and escorted her through a narrow postern door, then up endless steps to a tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jinny rose and leaned over Loo, towered above him in the shallows. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow glanced up at the Wall, towering over them like a cliff of ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We were up in the tower, me and Zola, smashing figs. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The walk back to his tower felt surprisingly long. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There is a village in the distance which has 31 visible houses and a church with a square tower and not a spire. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He glided toward them and landed noiselessly in a towering beech tree. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

‘And then Frodo will have to be locked up in a tower in Minas Tirith and write it all down. Otherwise he will forget half of it, and poor old Bilbo will be dreadfully disappointed.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hardly able to believe his luck, Grub scurried back toward the command tower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s brilliant, Uncle Heath. I mean, who wouldn’t want to live in a river-view tower? I know I’m looking forward to my free penthouse apartment. Care for a mint?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there any Guild men in the tower now?” said Lyra. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years before, Dad had been hired by Utah Power to dismantle hundreds of utility towers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the brush and the towering cottonwoods were thick and dark. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its eight towers were like lanterns suspended from the sky. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Right, exactly. So if you want light, you have to buy it from a merchant who gets it from those towers. You have to go to the Light Market." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There were the hornbeam trees a little way ahead of them; there were houses, trees, roads, and in the distance the towers and spires of the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tower room held objects that were very dear and precious to Count Olaf, and they were terrible things. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Most of the day he spent out of the house, or up in the high tower, where the children were forbidden to go. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So far we have come safely. Soon Sir Hugh’s men will encircle the town. By then we shall be in the church tower to give the signal for attack.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Passing through the towering ice pinnacles of Phantom Alley we entered the rock-strewn valley floor at the bottom of a huge amphitheater. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been sure there was only one man in the tower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trash cans of wall towers were stuffed with newspapers and magazines. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the guard towers the lights scanned steadily, making shadows ebb and flow among the barracks like dark, square waves. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t considered before,” he said, and he moved toward her until he towered over her and she had to tilt back her head to look into his face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And in two days thence you shall see the purple shadow of Mount Mindolluin and the walls of the tower of Denethor white in the morning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The Wall stretched east and west as far as the eye could see, so huge that it shrunk the timbered keeps and stone towers of the castle to insignificance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A great desire came over him to climb the tower and see the Sea. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No sound from the bazaars, no arguments among the merchants, no men climbing to the towers to chant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baggage and personal articles towered on top of the seats. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I want to do something with my life besides fix computers in an office tower. I want to make a difference. I want to do interesting work, to be around ideas,” he said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad towered over his father, but you could see the family resemblance. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I tried to rescue Sunny,” Violet said, “using an invention of mine to climb up the tower.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Champagne bubbles over a tower of stacked glasses into a small golden well. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The guard towers are gone, and the mess halls and shower rooms, the hospital, the tea gardens, and the white buildings outside the compound. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad towered in my bedroom doorway, the family laptop in hand. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He recalled Bilbo’s account of his journey and the threatening towers on the hills north of the Road, in the country near the Troll’s wood where his first serious adventure had happened. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When they toss away all the toys she loves from the tallest tower of the castle, she laughs, even though she feels terrible. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I have to clear the stairs so we can make it to the top of the tower. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rivers broke his camp quickly and sad- died up beside her, and they set off again, near fifty strong now, flying beneath the direwolf, the leaping trout, the twin towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One visionary put forth a tower five hundred feet taller than the Eiffel Tower but made entirely of logs, with a cabin at the top for shelter and refreshment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Those used to be towers, connected by steel cables.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As she made her way past the temples, she could hear the acolytes of the Cult of Starry Wisdom atop their scrying tower, singing to the evening stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His jaw was jutting as it had done last night facing the stone-throwing children by the tower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed roadside restaurants advertising breakfast specials and movie theaters with the show times listed on towering signs near the edge of the highway. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Bolton glanced up at the banners waving above the gatehouse towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Feet away, towering above him, was a solid wall of spiders, clicking, their many eyes gleaming in their ugly black heads. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I had made progress with my tower, but it seemed like as fast as I piled bricks, Big Rose was always a little faster. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Behind the compound are a few tall towers with bulges at the top—I don’t know why, but I think of the control room when I see them, and wonder if that’s what they are. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She drew a tower with unsettling stonework and intersecting corridors and stairways crowding its insides, looming over a town drenched in fog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the city in a bronze tide. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Senor Saguaro was a cactus, a thirty-foot-tall giant that towered over the toolshed in the backyard. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The towers in her fire had been different, but that was oft the way with visions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He tugged mightily, causing the cumbersome tower to sway dangerously as it bumped over grassy hillocks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Why cower in towers of ivory and squeeze out private words when we had only to speak and millions listened? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vault opened onto one of the tunnels the brothers called the wormwalks, winding subterranean passages that linked the keeps and towers of Castle Black under the earth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him, and then pitifully he began to crawl forward on his hands. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he was above the towers, still inching his way upward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What calms me down is the rock of the houses and the towers and the churches. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

And the names of sealed and buried sorcerers and towers and obelisks. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a step above me, and now he towers over me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Most of the wall space was taken up by towering bookshelves that reached high above my head and held more books than I’d ever seen outside a library. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I would live my life in a tower of books. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She thought it pretty likely he was guarding the tower steps. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He may tower over Clyde, but he still didn’t want to be alone in a dark alley—or a computer room—with the guy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond, the tops of the keeps and towers still stood as they had for hundreds of years, and it was hard to tell that the castle had been sacked and burned at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ran down the tower stairs that turned in a spiral, emerging dizzy into the darkness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As it bent sharply round the tower, it entered a narrow defile and passed not far below the hollow where he stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She could see why people used to live out in nature, even if there weren’t any party towers or mansions. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

From outside, only the tops of five -immense towers could be seen beyond the walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And Lazlo supposed that must also be the reason he had brought her along with them: because she could climb a six-hundred-foot tower with only her small hands and bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Did you know, Dèja, stretching steel shrieks, clangs as joints shift? Something told me the tower was dying. “‘Come on, Mrs. Able. We’ve got to move faster. Come on.’ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He towered over the smaller man, moving forward into his space, forcing him to retreat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was victory and defeat; and towers fell, fortresses were burned, and flames went up into the sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A little beyond where the houses ended on the far side of Dactyl Hill, a towering concrete building stood surrounded by barren fields. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Morrec had a fire burning in his room, he noted with approval, but the Lord Commander's tower was dark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The king's command traveled like an echo from guard to guard up the stone stairway to a small chamber in the drafty north tower. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sides, it’s not just about home, it’s about the missing towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

According to her mother, the Witch rode on the back of a dragon and lived in a tower so tall it pierced the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He saw Winterfell as the eagles see it, the tall towers looking squat and stubby from above, the castle walls just lines in the dirt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He slammed both hands against it to keep me from going anywhere, towering over me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Somebody Stupefied a Death Eater on top of the tower after Dumbledore died. There were also two broomsticks up there. The Ministry can add two and two, Harry.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The hospital’s tower looms just a few blocks away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This interests me, because, with a heavily armed wall tower just a few yards away, this has got to be one of the safest places to leave your car in Westchester County. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, the crenellated guard towers of the city were as tall and warlike as ever. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You mean they tried to bring down the towers before?” asks ’Stasia. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

With that smile of his, and those depthless eyes, beneath the towers of the white city, with people, white, hurrying all around them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He picked smooth winds between towers of clouds as he led Frightful through the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight I could make out the tower of the church, the school house top, and way beyond the glistening of the town’s water tank. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was led to the tower, then we passed through it and into the college. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was a towering figure, gliding solemnly to the front of the room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Harry panted as they reached the corridor beneath the tallest tower. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Terrorized Berlin inhabitants crowded into cellars, subways, underground bunkers, and concrete flak towers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Ahmet used to visit Turkey every year. Since the towers fell, he’s always searched, held at the airport when he tries to fly home.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We saw the tall buildings in the distance before we got to them, long rows of huge white apartment towers against a brilliant blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Shay looked out over the river at the spires of the party towers, placing a thumbnail firmly between her teeth. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The reading of the names would begin at the exact time that the first plane had struck the first tower, 8:46. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

And it isn’t Santa Barbara because she doesn’t have a crown on her head and a tower behind her back. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Its iron-crowned battlements, massive towers, and thick red walls gave it the aspect of a ferocious beast hunched above river and streets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Looming over Cole, its breath warm and musty, towered the Spirit Bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Celaena awoke the next morning to the wretched booming of the clock tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Yossarian could make out Major Major by his towering and lanky aloofness and thought he recognized Major Danby mopping his brow with a handkerchief. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Arc lamps on scaffolding towers stood at regular intervals and there were huge signs, red on white. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The moon hung pale in the sky above the church tower, and the night wore a veil of moonlight when the Magpie came back to fetch Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Hornburg it was called, for a trumpet sounded upon the tower echoed in the Deep behind, as if armies long-forgotten were issuing to war from caves beneath the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Set between the high front towers was a vast circle of stone and multicolored glass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were sitting side by side, with our legs swinging on the wall of the tower, and the Clouds™ were all turning pink in front of us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall man stepped forward, towering over the much smaller Mr. Ebgard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dad waves at a tower of cars and says, “Luke, cut off those tanks, yeah?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Yet, like many landmark structures in history, the Lighthouse towered as much in symbol as in physical height. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He pulls me back to the first tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I studied buildings a lot, partly to get ideas for the block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’d stack them up to make the highest tower, carefully adding blocks one by one. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She gasped, drawing breath after greedy breath in the dark of Kaede’s tower room. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were lonely cabins and stone cottages in the heights, and guard towers manned by Ghohg’s soldiers. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Even though she was seventy years old and only 5’2”, Gran looked towering in the foyer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sword in hand, he strode through the snow, putting himself between the riders and the king’s tower, its beacon glimmering behind him like the orange eye of some strange god. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lina clutched the edge of the clock tower as if the tumult below might cause her to fall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was surprised to see the Divination teacher, Professor Trelawney, sitting on Hagrid’s other side; she rarely left her tower room, and he had never seen her at the start-of-term feast before. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We entered the prison yard near a corner of the main structure, beneath a guard tower that stuck out from the outer walls like a castle’s turret. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, we attend a lecture in a high tower, where we are taught about birdsongs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

With the edge of my fingernail, I eased the gun back inside the tower, uncovered. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They reached the edge of the flowers, a dense growth of trees and brush that started at the foot of a towering mountain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She could still see the great dome and seven crystal towers of the Great Sept of Baelor atop the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Roofless towers appeared and disappeared, thrusting blindly upward. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“See that man on watch up there?” he whispered, pointing to the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The whole tower was loaded with the ill-gotten wealth of years of crime. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tower was accessed from an iron ladder in the control room. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Degalis threw his sword against the stone wall with a clang, and began running back towards the tower by the moat His iron feet threw echoes down the yard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe cell phone towers are out because they have no power. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her feet are free of the three-inch heels she’d worn as soon as the religious part of the wedding was over, causing her to tower over almost everyone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it, the bell tower angled down to the clapboard front and granite steps, hewn a hundred years ago by the first congregation. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Could you get the Ridgeback up the tallest tower at midnight on Saturday? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It looked just like a church, with a funny bell tower. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

This holds true whether you jump off the bell tower or the Purina Tower, whether it’s school property or not.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Served on delicate bone china, the slices of cake towered precariously high. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The blurred tree towering overhead consumes the sun; the ground is dead; I gasp for rain and wind. scene: The Queen BesideHrothulf’s Bed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no clocks in the village, but the bell tower rang at intervals, and the midafternoon bell had sounded some time ago. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a most formidable task, for the roof soared to nearly twice the height of the bell tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He felt so tall, towering alone up at the front of the classroom. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

For several seconds, he stood frozen, towering over me, glaring down as though he meant to hit me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The towers and domes of the city were visible beyond it, reddened by the light of the setting sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Rats were kicking and fighting each other to get down from the blazing tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he was before me, towering, indignant, I could not remember how, when I was young, his laugh used to shake his gut and make his glasses shine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And this giant red bridge towered over everything in the background. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He no longer felt exhausted or discouraged or anything else except a towering fury to survive. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1891 Eiffel himself telegraphed the directors to ask if he might submit a proposal for a tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He descended the tower steps in a red rage. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It came as no surprise to the ferret to see a large siege tower under construction. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lord Caswell's keep was scarcely tall enough to call a tower, but the country was low and flat and Catelyn could see for leagues in all directions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On top of the mountain, Tegucigalpa’s highest, shrouded in wisps of clouds by day, bathed in an orange glow of lights by night, stands a towering statue of Jesus. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A tower of strength, she is firm and does not yield, except in loving. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At the base camp the observers were instructed to lay prone in ditches excavated to protect them from the blast, with their feet pointed toward the tower. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Jason nodded encouragingly, like this was great news—like he expected Leo to walk up to a towering mass of darkness, shoot a few fireballs, and solve all their problems. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Were you in the bell tower again today?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

All I remembered of the last three days was an enormous radio tower in the distance, growing larger and larger as we marched. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” a muffled voice came from behind the tower of mail, “that would be lovely.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like everything, from Gum Baby to the Bottle Tree to the weird shadow man to the Burning Sea to the bone ships, was piled up in a wobbly tower in my mind. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Without a degree, Jesse would likely remain in a cubicle in an office tower, fixing and maintaining the computers of people who didn’t like them but needed them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night it was the tuna tower of a big Bertram,” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Killconey oversaw the lifting of the tower on to the bed of the cart. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed the glow of distant fires well above them; a tower keep, built upon the steep side of the mountain, its lights like orange eyes staring down from above. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was always cold in the tower, for all the carpets and the tapestried hangings and the rich furred clothing and the broad marble fireplaces they had. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing hasty about a five-year-old block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She took off from the tower and flew out over a weedy meadow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After we made it to the other side, we saw that there were rebels on guard in a little tower at the wharf that overlooked the clearing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly he realized that it was not so, his hearing had deceived him: the orc-cries came from the tower, whose topmost horn was now right above him, on the left hand of the Cleft. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Above the Vale, the Eyrie stood high and impregnable, its towers reaching for the sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Everything sloped away before him, flat roofs below flat roofs, down to the towers and battlements of the city's northern wall. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Over the debris of the tower and the crushed bodies they battered the doors with it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Today, the setting is dwarfed by a cellular transmission tower. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

‘Surely the Enemy knows all about his own mountains, and that road will be guarded as close as this? The tower isn’t empty, is it?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I passed the gallery and came upon the tower stairs that led down to the apothecary. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Instantly, as it seemed to Uncle Andrew, the Queen towered up to an even greater height. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Martín returned, carrying a tower of filthy frying pans. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Not a sound was heard from the guard up in the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Somehow he managed to grab the rim of the tower with his fingers as he fell. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The big stableboy no longer fought him as he had the first time, back in the lake tower during the storm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From the few job inquiries he’d made, he already sensed that jobs in those towers would be different, much more structured, formal, and confining. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even when they reached the towers that flanked the gate itself, there was nothing to be seen beyond the veil of white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Clouds like mountains towered high above their heads on all sides, mysterious, menacing, overwhelming. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like a towering sculpture of lighted glass and metal, like a machined piece of art. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could only picture the gun, the block tower’s magic destroyed by foreign invasion. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But when the gargoyles pulled themselves loose from the stone and padded down the side of the tower to where Bran clung, he knew he was not safe after all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I have lived entirely on my own in the world—something few nineteen-year-olds get to do—worked in an office tower, moved halfway across the country with no money or support in search of something. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lovely woman with a tower of twisted braids smiled into the camera. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the Purina Tower, our tallest building, is lit up, and beyond it the bell tower of the high school. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She felt the cold stone of the clock tower behind her back. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Past the com and potato fields, my house comes into view, looking small and weak against the mountains towering behind it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island was less than a mile wide, a barren patch of sand and rock distinguished only by the wrecked foundation of an old tower used by the Council of Tides. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Hobbits of the Westfarthing said that one could see the Sea from the top of that tower; but no Hobbit had ever been known to climb it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One wall was covered with a tower of sneaker boxes—inside the boxes were a rainbow assortment of Nikes, each pair fresher than the last. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Long, two stories high, and crowned with a giant clock tower at its center. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ground was littered with the bodies of attackers who had fallen prey to the flames in the ill-starred venture of the siege tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I ask about a bridge with a clock tower behind it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The two goblins stood near the base of the broken glass tower. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Celaena hit the ground and flipped, over and over and over, until she slammed into the clock tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He found him without trouble in the tower room which he had chosen when he arrived. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked twenty-hour days, setting up instruments to measure the blast, and building a 100-foot steel tower to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was all of the lights from the factory towers below us, those really hard lights, those bright white ones. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as an infinite tower of tortoises supporting the flat earth is such a picture, so is the theory of superstrings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him towered the Yard’s great gate, a wide center arch flanked on either side by ornately carved turrets and two smaller gates. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that must be Mama, no?” one of my sisters would whisper excitedly, pointing to another small woman completely engulfed in a tower of presents. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard, and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Their banner bore twin towers, dark blue on a field of pale silver-grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The tower was collapsing. We barely made it out alive. “ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

As Cole weakened, he stared up at the giant spruce tree towering above him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She formed the name on her lips, asleep in the tower room with Kaede beside her, and she felt the woman in the fortress come alive. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"What are you going to do-?" From the top of the towering rock came the incomprehensible reply. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a glossy new airport, towering skyscrapers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That maybe it was my own daddy who had landed in this town and found a friend in Ned and made fireworks and blew up a water tower and had people who cared about him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I drop a pinecone from the tower and it lands on the Signora’s head. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I am leaning over the balcony of my tower watching Signora Divino gather fat orange slugs in her yard. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The towers will have been gone for twenty-two years. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was a number and the voice that answered him was a tower. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the field, and all the people in the field, and all the towers of the castle, seemed to be jumping up and down like the surface of a lake under rain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To build a tower would be to follow Eiffel into territory he already had conquered for France. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The tombwalk was a relic of the old palace cemetery, cut off from the rest of the grounds by the construction of the astronomers’ tower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She propped the foam-board-mounted artist’s rendering of his next towering condominium project on an easel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Guards who worked towers over a yard had a lot of responsibility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were high up in an office tower. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet as fate would have it, he was the only captive who was never seen; he was abed in a tower cell, recovering from a wound. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Strung between a window in each of two towers was a gossamer thread of china from which hung—laundry! Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hand in hand they went back into the City, the last to pass the Gate before it was shut; and as they reached the Lampwrights’ Street all the bells in the towers tolled solemnly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Right in my own tower all the time, an angel? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the morning it turned out that one of the guards had become convinced of an escape in progress and had alerted the tower machine gunners. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tramped out of camp by headlamp behind Rob and Frank, wending between ice towers and piles of rock rubble to reach the main body of the glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had learned well how to stack similar-sized vessels into a tower that could touch the sky if need be and never topple. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Tins was surrounded by a high wall with towers, and, on the inner side of this wall, the big rooms which were needed for stores, bams, barracks, and stables were built. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t satisfied at all, of course, but at least his baby sister was no longer dangling from a tower. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

We felt our way up the winding stairs of the dark tower until we emerged onto a deserted parapet overlooking the field and the river below. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It held nothing but a narrow bed surrounded by crates of books towering up to the rafters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The castle stood on a hill to one side of the valley, and there was a handsome pele tower on the bill of the other side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loosened more bricks until I could make out the neatly folded piece of fabric hiding inside the block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now it appears that, as the rock of Orthanc has withstood the storms of time, so there the palantír of that tower has remained. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I gasped and looked up at the bell tower. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his mind, he has tried and failed to communicate his plight, and his only conclusion is that he must have somehow offended his superiors in the control tower. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His animosity was all for Snape, but he had not forgotten the fear in Malfoy’s voice on that tower top, nor the fact that he had lowered his wand before the other Death Eaters arrived. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The one night we weren’t in the tower....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She strides in, her hair fashioned into a tower made of blond strands and blue flowers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped off into sleep somewhere between Staunton and Lexington, and woke up just in time to get a perfect view of the towering white warehouse that was Roanoke, Virginia’s former Walmart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To murder at the top of the highest tower... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There were two gates, each protected by a pair of square wooden towers, and wallwalks around the perimeter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Courtiers filled the gallery while supplicants clustered near the towering oak-and-bronze doors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His towering image stood tall against the cement wall, arms crossed over his chest, his name written in bubbly letters across the front of his favorite hoodie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The crumble started at the foot of the tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But there is something illegal about dangling an infant out of a tower window,” Justice Strauss said indignantly. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

During heavy rains, river water flowed in a greasy plume far out into Lake Michigan, to the towers that marked the intake pipes for the city’s drinking water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He has guard duty in another tower somewhere on the island. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a brief tour: a glimpse of the sea in one district, towering forests in another, ugly factories, fields of wheat, stinking refineries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when we plundered Priam’s town and tower and took to the ships, God scattered the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 3:50 Hitler arrived at the bell tower. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was a big fellow, but Lem towered over him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Frey men wore the badge of the two towers, those from White Harbor displayed merman and trident. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the massive round fruit towered over them so high that they looked like midgets from another world beside it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

On they went, higher and higher up the dizzying trail, on one side the sheer stone walls and brutal peaks towering above them, and on the other an endless, limitless, bottomless nothing. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom turns to me and asks, “Were you in the bell tower of school last week?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They must be heading up to the top of the flag tower, Reynie thought. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a whole stack of casseroles in the fridge, a leaning tower of Pyrex baking dishes crimped in foil. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Lannisters had piled brush around the tower's base and set it afire, but the stone would not bum, and Lorch did not have the patience to starve them out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Only her hands and bare feet, wedged in the single cleft that ran spiral from the base of the tower to its tip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s a blank, beige kind of conference room, filled with banquet tables, coffee thermoses, fruit baskets, plastic towers of cereal, tiered plate stands, and stainless steel food warmers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost noon when they reached the shattered tower itself. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Heart thudding, he ran to the corner of the big house and looked up at the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beyond it sat the abandoned Jerusalem airport—a few streaks of gray runway and a small tower. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The tower had been gutted to create an arena. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Images aren’t moving, but I can see one tower is ablaze. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pressed on south and southwest, until the wooden towers of Deepwood Motte were lost to sight and the sounds of trumpets had been swallowed by the woods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There upon its spur stood high walls of ancient stone, and within them was a lofty tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I began filling a bucket and packing it, then turning it over to make towers of a castle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was Marcus,” Faris, a member of my battle platoon who towers over the rest of us, says, grinning, his blond hair popping up in an unruly cowlick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond their heads she could see the windows looking down, and to one side the tower waited confidently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the canyon wall of crates towering above him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The lightning tree’s unmistakable as it towers so high above the others. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This time the towering fellow swung on him like a shying horse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around it on the plateau were scattered a few shacks, and at the far end was a small patch of woods, but we paid no attention—our eyes were on the tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He stops at the towering main entrance, a sheer glass door painted with stripes in our team colors, and pulls aside as the panels slide open. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Will thrust his cold hands into his pockets, and stood staring up at the carved panels of the two closed doors towering before him. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them a few stars still glimmered faintly; but on either side there arose walls of impenetrable gloom; they were in a narrow lane between moving towers of shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if our family tree looks like a set of high-voltage wires strung across a field from one steel tower to the next. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many do we share with the people who used to work in the two towers?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The King of England painfully climbed the two hundred and eight steps which led to Merlyn’s tower room, and knocked on the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roz had spent the day collecting logs and branches and stacking them in a perfect, massive tower. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, the movie said they dug over seventy feet down to support the towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before too long we heard the belling tower striking noon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"And where we end. Esgred is yours, sweet prince. Take me to your castle. Let me see your proud towers rising from the sea." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

From here it looked solid, its surface polished bright as a mirror and illuminated by the guard towers on the White Island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Palace-lined streets, parks and fountains, spires and towers—all were labeled in neat and legible handwriting. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But before they left, Lyra looked up at the tower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says, Thank you very much, and laughs when he leads us to the end of the platform where we have to climb a ladder to the signal tower. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Isabella towered over her soft-spoken husband, Benjamin, a deeply religious man who had converted to the Jewish faith. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Above the cricket, towers that seemed like mountains of light rose up into the night sky. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there parts of it almost float away from the central tower, drifting off into space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A paperboy cap sat on his hair, which he’d gelled into a tall tower sticking straight up off his head. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Benton Sage died when he leapt from a bell tower on Christmas Day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the clock tower, the legions of Clock Watchers scrambled, panicked. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He liked for her to mount him so he could see her towering above him and call soft obscenities up into her face. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Had he not climbed to the towers and turrets of the castle many times? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I pull out a bar for the three of us to share as we gaze at a radio tower across the border in the Dominican Republic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The next he knew, he was descending the tower steps, thinking, This is my father, my sisters, how can it be none of my concern? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Just this week, we had both watched our towers explode in our faces. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He stood on his long legs in the middle of the dirt road, his long neck towering above the car, and looked down his long nose at us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why do the guards in the towers not see what is going on and stop this f They have always been all-seeing. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The First National Bank of Midland announced plans for two forty-story-plus bank towers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the Mekong River, I see orange and gold pointed temple roofs and towers erected on muddy red topsoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He towered above me on his skeletal horse, his scythe in one hand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Each house had a high wall, over which peeped jacarandas, wisteria and Kenya coffee trees, which towered over the other plants. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even seated, he towered over everyone else in the room. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘Beyond all towers strong and high,’ he began again, and then he stopped short. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That same insistent pull she’d felt in the zoo had guided her through the lemongrass fields as the zoo’s towering brick walls grew distant, and the city of Lkossa’s outer slums rose to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Training Center has a tower designed exclusively for the tributes and their teams. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The vuvv compound rises out of suburbia, a collection of towers, buttresses, and bulbs of green metal. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From there they made their way to the tower and climbed stairs another seventy feet to the tower’s exterior balcony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"This tower was where my father's men were slain. Their ghosts would give me terrible dreams, and I would see their blood wherever I looked." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That show’s Library was a monumental edifice, with towering marbled halls and tinkling fountains, like the lobby of some five-star hotel. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

"Shall I name my longship after you, and play you the high harp, and keep you in a tower room in my castle with only jewels to wear, like a princess in a song?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He rushed upon the crooked man, towering with passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, at the center of the web high above us, in the middle of all seven towers, sat the palace. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

No footsteps were clomping up the stairs of the tower. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What happened. All of it. How could a plane by itself make the towers disappear?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And yet here was a monster, clear as the clearest night, towering thirty or forty feet above him, breathing heavily in the night air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“This malfeasance must be stopped” was what the unassuming janitor Alfred T. Slipper always said before he was transformed into the amazing Incandesto and became a towering, crime-fighting pillar of light. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Besides the guard tower, there’s water all around, black and shiny like tar. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the cost of the tower and its slides is of secondary importance,” McComber noted, “I do not mention it here, but will furnish figures upon application.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She smiles sweetly at Michael, who is towering over all of us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had the entire tower to himself, though his chambers occupied only the upper level. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A heavy timber framework was constructed in the north tower. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

But from the moment the fever first began to claim victims, Dr. Rush had been a tower of energy and care, an ever-present Good Samaritan. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Roses grew along the iron fence, and near the house towered a gigantic elm tree, perhaps older than the building itself, its green leaves tinged with the first yellows of autumn. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was still an hour off when Jon glimpsed the towers of Castle Black ahead of them, dark against the pale immensity of the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Part of the tower had fallen, and the flood surged and foamed against the great heap of stones at the entrance to the street. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Celia stops walking as she reaches the open square, halting next to the towering astronomical clock where carved apostles are making their scheduled hourly appearance despite the weather. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, the skyline has changed: the Park Plaza is no longer the tallest building around, but a squat leftover, dwarfed by the svelte glassy towers that rise around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Meet me at the top of Miss Wren’s tower.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the garden, the queer, off-kilter clock tower began chiming the hour. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Commons clock tower: ivied brick, white spire, spellbound in the hazy distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He is both brilliant and problematical, and it is fair to say that his towering legacy has had more impact on the worlds of literature, philosophy and politics than, strictly speaking, on musical development. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Daddy hobbles two steps forward, towering over me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Violet looked into Count Olaf’s eyes, and then at the small parcel that was her sister, hanging from the top of the tower and moving slowly in the breeze. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The highway is lined with towering blue- gum trees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their height could not be guessed, but they stood up in the twilight like living towers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They went from a walk to a trot, wheeling wide around the base of the tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He glanced outside the window, where the first vague light of dawn was just brushing the towers of Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I cross scims with the soldiers coming down from the top of the tower while she battles those heading up from the base. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A great howl of wind moaned its way round the big dark tower above us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing looked like it could transform into a towering sixty-foot robot at any minute. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The block tower, too, seemed to leap in surprise. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the north the view was bounded by the long chalk ridge of the Hog’s Back, from behind whose eastern extremity rose the towers of the seven skyscrapers which constituted Guildford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The tower rose to an overall height of 423 feet, making it the tallest building in the world at that time. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

At six foot three inches, Washington towered over Dinwiddie—and just about everyone else. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ged was aware that the highest tower slowly changed its shape, bulging out on one side as if it grew an arm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The tower still grinned across the valley, but the light was fading in it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few feet away from her, three towering golden shrouds stood glowing in the middle of the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The tower sits at the edge of the cliffs and overlooks the dunes to the east and the school to the west. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was light enough for her to see the iron stairway curving around and around up to the tower, and the little door at the top. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I held a porcelain castle no bigger than my two fists, with six wee towers, each ending in a miniature candle holder. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roza took the dog and the pies to her chambers in the tower, broke the pies into pieces, and offered them to the dog. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you cover that nasty tower with every wild monster you can imagine, Sierra,” Mr. Jean-Louise said. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Patty’s boy, Honor, was kneeling beside the cot on which a pregnant girl lay, and a golden-haired man towered above them both. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The introduction shows a page-wide photo of a forearm and hand squeezing pliers around a length of taut barbed wire strung beneath one of the towers. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped at their assigned spot, Compana Hill, a rise in the desert twenty miles from the blast tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the great tower that reached up, up, up into the blackness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

All philosophers prefer to live in towers, as may be seen by visiting the room which Erasmus chose in his college at Cambridge, but Merlyn’s tower was even more beautiful than this. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the right, winter-slumbering gardens were partly obscured behind a low wall; within the garden, across wide lawns of short brown grasses, was a wide tower made of white stone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They’ll get their chance. Now if you are refused three times in the course of running from the tower to the river, you go all the way back to the tower and start over. Naturally.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the oldest building they’d seen: a simple battlemented tower four stories high. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last haint rose directly from the floor, a sudden tower of fury glaring down at her, heaving with sharp uneven breaths. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The only dry road through the Neck was the causeway, and the towers of Moat Cailin plugged its northern end like a cork in a bottle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The little towers at the ends, those that moved so honestly and directly, were Omakayas’s favorite pieces. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had not emerged since ... though from time to time His Grace was glimpsed upon the tower roof, outlined against the beacon fire that burned there night and day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tower her brother had set aside for her use was the very same that she and Lysa had shared as maids. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Now imagine trying to stand on top of those two towers of soda cans and balance in your big shoes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Frightful caught one of several wet rats that had retreated to the church and crawled up to the bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Barefoot and injured, Danny's mother carried him up the steep canyon wall that towered above their homestead. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of him was the real Hades, towering in his black robes and scowling down at his son. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When the city appeared before her, its walls and towers shimmering white behind a veil of heat, it looked so beautiful that Dany was certain it must be a mirage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the base of each tower were businesses ranging from supermarkets to dental offices. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hades rose from his throne, towering to the height of a football goalpost. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The high hairdo towered over her thin face like dunce cap, the white-blond hair utterly incongruous with her olive skin. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Circle some spots on the route and draw in some doodles—cowboy hat, roller coaster, giant tower of death—just for something to do. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The silver towers of the partially completed Bay Bridge rose dramatically from the water before them, elegant spires stretching with surprising grace across the bay toward Treasure Island and San Francisco. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The West Door to the Glade towered over them and it was open. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If I know Embryo—as I call him to myself—like I know Embryo, he’ll want to know just what the hell I was doing in the bell tower. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Zola shouts up at the tower, “Can’t you do anything about these morons?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The structure wound down into the opposite chair, then onto the floor, emptying at the base of a three-level cat tower, otherwise barricaded from Fig’s access. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her voice cut through the afternoon quiet of the tower room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was attached to something at the top—a giant rock, a towering tree, something. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Billows of smoke poured out, rising and rising, like a black tower building itself into the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The palace was in the center of the city, towering over all other structures. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Winging the heavy air in a straight flight a crow, maybe, would have flown but a furlong from their hiding-place to the black summit of the nearer tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

That morning, at the tower at Trinity, Oppenheimer watched as scientists and army engineers worked together to attach a steel cable to the test bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towering magnet weighed 220 tons, its sixty-inch pole faces nearly twice the diameter of its predecessor’s at the old Rad Lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was even worse in the A-block yard, where certain areas were invisible to any tower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor any of them knew how far it was to the Sea, past the old towers beyond the western borders of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had lost all sense of how long she had been imprisoned in this cell, high up in one of the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Over the trees, occasionally, between them and the hills, she caught glimpses of what must be the roofs, perhaps a tower, of Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘I would rather see him than all the towers and palaces in the world.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was like an iceberg—if an iceberg could form in such a way that towers erupted from it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The shuttle slowed and hovered above the O-shaped tower, then spiraled down to a small landing pad on the roof. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A tower stood in the center of the ruin—though it didn’t look as if it would be standing much longer. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was the spidery end of the grappling hook, which after several attempts had finally stuck onto something on the tower. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nailer turned and peered down the length of the train, looking ahead to where the towers of drowned Orleans would eventually rise. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the boys, grossly obese, was attempting to climb a flagpole that towered high above him. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At the top of the tower is an open balcony with a low wall all around and a tile roofling overhead. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I stood there trying to contain it as they brought Tod Clifton's coffin into the tower and slowly up the spiral stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the towers by the sea, crumbling as the dark tide came sweeping over them, rising from the depths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our apartment was in the American building; there were so many teams from the United States that we had an entire tower to ourselves. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Iron spikes were set along the tops of formidable stone walls, and two fat round towers overtopped the keep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seven sits on the side of the lower bunk, an open computer tower at his feet. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He towers over me as he slips his jean jacket over his hoodie. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That would make the tower very difficult to assault; attackers would need to wade through the water or bridge the little channel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s some crazy project. We start with home. End up talking about the two towers in Manhattan. Something about history.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We drop farther and farther, and a tower and the ocean come into focus. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They ate it on the tower steps, giggling and gossiping and sharing secrets, and Sansa went to bed that night feeling almost as wicked as Arya. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Since then, the battle-scarred temples with their beautiful statues, stone sculptures, and multilayered towers remain one of the seven man-made wonders of the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His rooms were in the city’s highest towers so he could see any attack long before it came to be a threat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She turned away and they went out through the doors and passages till in the torchlight of the broad stairs of the tower she blew out her candle. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad talks about the towers all the time—it’s why he joined the Marines. Why he went to Afghanistan.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sophia laughs and directs her teacup monkey, Singe, to roll the die for her on the circular board that hooks around the champagne-flute tower. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you just love the name I came up with? Riverview Tower. Because it’s a tower. With a river view.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

There were little fantastic bridges, covered like the Bridge of Sighs, from this chapel to that tower. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from the guard towers, banners of frozen blue cloth shimmered in the arctic sun. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It is, sir. Two students are trying to break into the tower!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, once upon a time Elodin the Great found himself locked in a high tower.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to think again of the suffering of the last war, the news of burning towers and legions dead. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Piles and stacks and towers of books were everywhere. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever been to the top of the tower?” said Raymie. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The sides of the great mesa ship towered over them, three hundred feet to the gunwale. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In round two the contestants were given dozens of inner tubes and instructed to stack them into tall, puffy towers, which were immediately knocked down by the afternoon's second vachette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Eril-Fane had wanted to know, squinting up at the tower to gauge the feasibility of such a feat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Will walked off to the right, following the wall of the tower. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, far far off, beyond the godswood and the haunted towers and the immense stone walls of Harrenhal, from somewhere out in the world, came the long lonely howl of a wolf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hulls lay like chunks of cleavered fish: a conning tower here, a crew quarters there, the prow of an oil tanker pointing straight up to the sky. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She came to the tower, held so tightly in the embrace of the house, in the straining grip of the house, and walked slowly past its gray stones, not allowed to touch even the outside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then: “On top of the tower an unbearably bright light blazed up,” one of the Soviet physicists recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the inner shell-keep. with its eight enormous round towers which still stand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the belfry to the top of the tower it was another thirty feet of climbing. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Over thirty rats were in the high reaches of the burning tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But the stations didn’t have much new to report, and watching the towers fall again and again wasn’t making him feel any better, so he turned it off. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Today the lecture is in the tower, my least favorite location. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He towered over us, at least seven feet tall with biceps the size of cannonballs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It became three-dimensional, a towering monster glistening with fresh paint, long arms stretched out in front of it as it raced back and forth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The tower behind was crumbled into dust, the window gone; the ruined stair was choked with burned and broken stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Two huge towers flanked the castle’s main gate, and smaller ones defended every angle of its walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After their wedding, Lord Ramsay had locked her away in a tower and starved her to death. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The visitor center was huge inside, with high, towering ceilings and great open spaces filled with displays about Mount Rainier. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Summer padded across the tower floor to Shaggydog, and began to lick at a mat of bloody fur on the back of his brother's neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He stood up, towering over her, and said, “You must go back the way you came. You took an enchanted path, and you cannot remain here.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you stop at the tower lookout spot at night, the lights of the city unintentionally spell ZERO. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter’s cry resounded through the little chamber at the top of the adamant tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The last Bran saw of them was the direwolf's tail as it vanished behind the broken tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I tug Ben’s sleeve, whispering, “These are graves, too. Holes where the towers collapsed, where people died.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It looks like a giant shoe box next to the shiny curved dome of the mosque with two towering minarets. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"I do not think Bran fell from that tower," she said into the stillness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Running off it were two chutes topped by water towers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To my right and ahead the church spire towered high, crowned with a red light of warning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side television towers had been constructed with cameras focusing in as Sayle spoke. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the first part of the tower, there was the steering room where the periscope was operated. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Darker it loomed, and steadily it rose as they approached, until it towered up high above them, shutting out the view of all that lay beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after five, George Kistiakowsky stood below the steel blast tower, a flashlight in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was answered right away by a loud, inhuman growl, which seemed to come from the shadows beneath the tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been lolling around in the stone tower of Casa Rosa, waiting to find out. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was, Harry knew, for he was fighting to resist the vision, in some strange, fortresslike place, at the top of a tower. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A flagpole jutted from the side of the Institute’s tower, supporting a long red banner that rippled in the breeze. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Archimedes was married, and brought up several handsome families of quilly youngsters in the tower room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered white cliffs towering over the ocean, swarming with seabirds nesting in high caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The belling tower struck the hour outside, and Kilvin looked around, marking the faces of everyone there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Stick tried to stop it too—I was sure that’s what he was doing—but his foot followed mine, arcing across the face of the tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“SHUT UP!” the policeman hissed, a hazy shadow of terror towering in front of me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We granted you the comfort of a tower cell befitting your birth and station. You repaid us by trying to escape." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn’t about dying. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Six of the monsters were yoked like oxen, pulling a two-story-tall siege tower fitted with a giant scorpion ballista. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The top of each tower disappeared into the sodium-vapor-drenched cloud layer above. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When we climbed to the top of the tower, however, the basket wasn’t there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred made his way past the first tower on the bridge and was able to get a good view of the people up ahead. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Pale green flags drooped from fire - squat comer towers, each emblazoned with a shoal of silvery fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Something that makes the tower rise higher and higher.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

If so, he had been wrong....Snape had seen to that....Snape, the sleeping snake, who had struck at the top of the tower... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ahead, the pines towered up, promising long, cool pools of shade. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was glad to get clear of those long stone streets overhung with black, steep roofs and innumerable towers, that sunless city where all my chances had turned to fear and betrayal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It stood before them like a piece of raw green stone towering forever into the sky and disappearing into silver mist. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes flicked to Bridge’s, then back to his sugar tower. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Forget baseball or swimming at the public pool, which was just an excuse to stare at the college girls who spent their summers guarding from those tall towers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My right foot caught the block tower right in its base. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“How many guard towers are on the White Island again?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let that young giant come near me, he worries me worse than mosquitoes,” whispered the old lady to Amy, as the rooms filled and Laurie’s black head towered above the rest. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever steeper and narrower it wound inward from the north under the shadow of the Thrihyrne, till the crowhaunted cliffs rose like mighty towers on either side, shutting out the light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The tower bells were singing, summoning the city to bear witness to her shame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She watched her tower wobble more and more and more and more! The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Most days he'd woken up in a sweat, unable to shake the image of her towering over him, dragging him back to prison. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After half an hour we came to the dirt road Addison had pointed to from the top of the tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At around dawn, the two scholars stumbled out of a broken tower on top of the Bonecruel Mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He went west with the quick magewind in his sail, and came in sight of the rocks of Pendor, the still streets of the town, and the gutted, falling towers. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I rebuilt the tower, smoothly aligning its walls to toughen it against future invasions. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No, Foaly! There isn’t something! None of your bright ideas, thank you very much. Captain Short’s life is in danger, so push the button before I climb that tower and push it with your face!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At twelve stories, it was one of the tallest buildings in the nation, certainly it towered over any structure in the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What in the hell were you doing in the bell tower?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They had reached a snowy white building that towered over the other little shops. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He towered over us, so close that his shadow fell across you. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They all looked out the window at the towers of New Pretty Town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There is no television or twirling tower of cakes with cream pompadours. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“There,” he finally said, pointing at the water tower that served the residents of St. Catherine’s Island, the first and the largest of the sea islands separating Ravenel from the mainland. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how would I feel, locked away like Rapunzel in her tower? Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben’s got a computer. One plane hit, then another hit the towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Cypress trees towered to the left of the car, an ink-black creek paralleled the highway, full of rotten winter vegetation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed the electrical fence topped with coiled barbed wire, the wooden barracks, the guard towers, and a redbrick building with huge chimneys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally spied Castle Black, its timbered keeps and stone towers looked like nothing more than a handful of toy blocks scattered on the snow, beneath the vast wall of ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I'm on the rooftop of a high-rise tower. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When she got close, she saw a flash of white light at the top of the volcano, like a signaling tower of some sort. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I sucked on the tassels of my hoodie as he led me around the tower, following the crumbling wall that enclosed us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Atop these, on railcar wheels or “trucks,” they erected a “traveler,” a giant derrick consisting of three tall towers spanned at the top by a platform. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once armed and armored, Theon climbed die watch- tower at the angle where the eastern and southern walls came together to have a look at his doom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The towering tents are striped in white and black, no golds and crimsons to be seen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soldiers in uniforms and helmets, cradling their rifles, towered over her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountains, towering above her after three nights’ travel inland, seemed suddenly crystal clear, their snowy peaks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was said that Rhaegar had named that place the tower of joy, but for Ned it was a bitter memory. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the sun moved, the shadow of the tower moved as well, gradually lengthening, a black arm reaching out for Theon Greyjoy. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first level that Hideo’s committee has created for our game looks like a world of glittering ice and towering glaciers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry’s body became instantly rigid and immobile, and he felt himself fall back against the tower wall, propped like an unsteady statue, unable to move or speak. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sturdy Victorian bricks tower into the night, framing the courtyard, and Alex thinks, Oh. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Elgon forest towered around their campsite, a web of gnarled African olive trees hung with moss and creepers and dotted with a black olive that is poisonous to humans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He just never bedded her, is all. When they made him king, he locked her up in a tower. His other sisters too. There was three.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Yossarian, astounded, hauled her up into the plane and held her motionless on the floor in a double armlock while Hungry Joe radioed the control tower for permission to return to Rome. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He swung the dead knight against the grey stone of the tower, again and again and again, until the man’s head was red and pulpy as a summer melon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We ride the elevator up to the tower. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even the bosslings wouldn’t stand a chance against the giant floating towers that guarded the foothills. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

You could hear the report as the tower guards fired the gas gun, and then watch inmates disperse as the clouds of tear gas drifted toward the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark patches grew darker, but they shrank; and suddenly he saw, towering ominous before him and leaning slightly towards one another like the pillars of a headless door, two huge standing stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One new legend towered above all the rest Maddy had decided that the brain lesions couldn’t be kept a secret anymore; every ugly had the right to know what the operation really entailed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d told them all about the Manchurian Fire Thrower, the untimely demise of Junior Haskell, the explosion at the water tower, and the unfortunate dousing of the victory quilt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The stone towers thrilled under them, trembling bodily like the bass strings of musical instruments. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if a guard in one of the towers saw him and decided to shoot him? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ran to the tower and found the entrance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Papadimitriou peered down at the flooded quadrangle, where a slight figure clothed in oilskins was wading waist-deep towards the tower. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The two rectangular towers in the photo are gone, replaced by one glittering tower with a pointy top pricking the sky. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It hung down from a glowering sky behind London’s tower blocks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found her guide in a tower she passed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded thin and quavering in the cold dark tower: the voice of a forlorn and weary hobbit that no listening orc could possibly mistake for the clear song of an Elven-lord. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel sat in the adamant tower facing his spy captain across a mass of scattered papers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I gazed up at the towering robot, admiring the attention to detail Halliday had put into coding it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Even in the dark, the buildings that towered over us were impressive. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The top crates towered high above him, and the whole slatted, gobbling tenement occupied more space than the boarded-up station. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His room was high up indeed in the tower that rose like a sharp tooth from its hilltop. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman looks at the crowded tower room and the dirty childrens and he hears the noise outside and inside and he says, “I don’t know. It’s a bigga mess.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Most of them, they think it was some battle. A siege, a burning tower, an enemy with a torch. One fool asked if it was dragonsbreath." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Under those sturdy towers of legs are spindly shanks, thin and not too straight; with his chest ruff removed one can see the sagging stomach of the middle-aged. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single shot from Mr. Flux’s camera could freeze them all, so Otto made sure to approach the clock tower from an angle where they couldn’t be seen from some high window, easy targets. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And I felt that moment when we left the ground, and the fair fell away below us, and ahead of us was nothing but the towering white clouds. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My parents spend all of Sunday unpacking, and the towers of boxes around the apartment begin to disappear. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So, maybe you might think it is nothing specialful, this tower, but to me it is the finest of all the towers in all the world. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a book and climbed the tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went down the long, dark aisle of the church to the door of the tower. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The houses they passed were all fenced off or hidden behind towering hedges, so he could barely see any of them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It towered over them as they sailed nearer and nearer to the cliff on which it stood. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A church came into view on my right, its tower rising up past a bridge heavy with traffic. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just for a minute, I could focus only on the tower, only on the placement of each block. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

On that same night the searchlights went on in the guard towers and swept across their single window. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Snape stumbled; he was wearing a long, lace-trimmed dress and a towering hat topped with a moth-eaten vulture, and he was swinging a huge crimson handbag. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"There is that," Tyrion admitted as they passed under the shadow of a covered walkway between two towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They pay a coin to climb the tower of the chateau. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the foot of my bed, the block tower loomed, jagged and leering. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In a short time the siege tower, its wheels muffled with sacking, stood completed, ready for use. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Now we’re all right. I can already see the towers and chimneys of New York.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

The creature came clumping into the cave and stood towering over the BFG. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of our usual spots, the wooded area next to my father’s fields where our towering green stalks of sugarcane met the orange groves that dotted the landscape into the horizon. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The towering structure rose a good live stories tall, topped by a weather vane in the shape of a bull. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She had summoned me, and I stayed in the tower watching over her until another angel came and took her away. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the center of town, it is a simple, two-story Victorian in the Queen Anne style, with a big cottonwood towering over the front yard. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guard tower rose from the fence line about a quarter mile to the north of where the prisoners chopped wood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re too young to know about”—Pop swallows, his Adam’s apple bobs—“the towers falling. What kind of school are you going to?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Kisty pointed a beam of light at a metal box beneath the tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Olfatrix smell tower in the corner was capable of generating over two thousand discernible odors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Singe peeks out at me from behind her towering hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With each explosion, every bone in my body vibrated and hammered, clanging violently against the bell tower that was my flesh. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two lean dark shapes emerged from behind the bro-ken tower, padding slowly through the rubble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Robb opened the window and let the night air into the stuffy tower room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a castle made entirely out of food, except that on the highest tower of all a carrion crow was sitting, with an arrow in its beak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pigeon that came to the tower is gone, leaving behind only a stray feather and some white slopping. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Out of the wreck rose the Black Rider, tall and threatening, towering above her. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Only then, after we had collected our weapons from the wall tower, were we, our guns, and our inmate all finally united inside the van. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn had never been so glad to see the twin tower badge of House Frey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finally he climbed the steps to his cozy garret beneath the bell tower. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So the old man in the tower had told them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I feel like I am going to bust into the tower walls and crimble into a thousand pieces. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They repeated the process for each of the eight 140-foot towers that would support the Ferris Wheel’s giant axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Gables and towers and little turrets bristled up at them, blue and vague in their night-vision. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Big Rose’s tower was about two feet taller than mine was. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

All happened, of course, as the tower had foretold. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The unfortunate explosion of fireworks in the water tower—and subsequent dousing of the president and the newly signed victory quilt—was a somewhat surprising turn of events. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The population is barely one thousand, and the most remarkable thing about it seems to be that it’s known for its large number of TV and radio transmitter towers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After leaving the highway, we crossed the Alafia River, passed some strawberry fields, then turned into a shaded lane where a long driveway led to a yellow house surrounded by towering trees. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Lighthouse was so well constructed, however, that it was among the last Wonders to vanish: Arab travelers describe at least part of the tower surviving well into the medieval period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Mark sits on a seat at the tail end of the vessel and twists backward to look up at the towering skyscraper, where the dwindling glow of the day’s sunshine reflects an amber sheen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Velaryon galley exploded like a child's toy dropped from a tower, spraying splinters as long as a man's arm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At intervals a complicated system of hydraulic tubes and pumps would cause the towers to telescope slowly upward, a journey of several hours, then allow them to sink slowly back to their original configuration. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The door to the roof of the tower was stuck so fast that it was plain no one had opened it in years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After several twists and turns they came out into the square in front of the stone tower they’d seen that morning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gaze into the distance at Imbabura, the mountain that towers over the potato fields and sheep pastures of my home. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a giant cylindrical boulder was gleaming as brightly as the towers in the valley. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And Gram had been just like Rapunzel, locked up in her tower. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Something flashed down low where the dark water swirled around the base of the tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the early morning of Friday, June 9, as his train passed through the South Side, Gronau saw how the great wheel towered over everything in its vicinity, just as Eiffel’s creation did in Paris. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At the top of a spiral staircase — they were obviously in one of the towers — they found their beds at last: five four-posters hung with deep red, velvet curtains. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“I put on dark glasses and turned away from the tower,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the dropped object ought to land in front of the tower. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then both he and Ben scouted the terrain beneath the water tower half expecting the tubercular, sallow face of Junior Palmer to appear as an apparition before the long climb to the catwalk could begin. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the waves began, huge sheets of ice shoved against each other, pushing towers into the air. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He dreamt an old dream, of three knights in white cloaks, and a tower long fallen/ and Lyanna in her bed of blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Just before the opening of his murder trial, Jackson was shot and killed by a tower guard at San Quentin, where he had been transferred. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I towered over the guys in front of Freddie, and he looked up at me, a snarl in his upper lip, as if I'd bit him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In two or three weeks towering clouds with swollen purple bottoms would rise out of the east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kneel together and disassemble the castle towers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We decided to put the Dark Mark over the tower and get you to hurry up here, to see who’d been killed,” said Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Only towering Parnassus was not quite covered, and the bit of dry land on its very topmost peak was the means by which mankind escaped destruction. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their shoulder was another familiar sigil, the twin towers of House Frey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My family was living in an apartment in a tall tower in Birmingham and visiting me every day. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dad's swivelly chair's a lot like the Millennium Falcon's laser tower. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The trio of towering shrouds emerged from the pines. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There was a plate of fresh herbs and radishes and little towers of feta cheese. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The train crawls along; it judders past warehouses and water towers, bridges and sheds, past modest Victorian houses, their backs turned squarely to the track. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while he sneaked a look at the tower, but there was no sign of the dwarfs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She frowns at the picture of the crumbling tower and the falling figure. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stands, towering over us with broad shoulders and muscles that strain the seams of his uniform. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“If it comes, that attack will be no more than a diversion. I saw towers by the sea, submerged beneath a black and bloody tide. That is where the heaviest blow will fall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Others sported sigils he did not know; broken lance, green viper, burning tower, winged chalice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was so tall, even squatting, he towered a full head above Rachel, who was the smallest of them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blowing up the street from the south, where the towers once stood. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

This tower felt different from the first, older, its rough-hewn stone walls blackened by smoking torches. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He turned and nosed open the door to the tower’s little shack. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His towering frame, slick suit, and dark skin put him in stark contrast to everyone else around. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Footprints. These are the tower footprints. I mean, what’s left. The foundations.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A dazzling bolt of electricity strikes a towering tree and then a lightning storm begins. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the Ferris Wheel the pumps meant to drain the tower excavations ran twenty-four hours but could not conquer the volume of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She allowed herself to be dragged from the garden, away from the shadow of the clock tower and into the marble halls of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“This is it. The Virgin’s sanctuary, her home,” I said, taking in the beauty of the ancient cement building with its stained-glass windows and tall central tower. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He tried to glamour me into jumping out of the tower,” I say. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We crossed the fountained courtyard, staring up at the minarets and the huge, pointed archway that towered above us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was the word traditional that got to me, the thought that inner-tube towers had been constructed for years and that it just wouldn't be the same without them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Root caught up with Foaly at the base of the north tower. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Standards had been raised atop all three towers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Thick fog rose from the whitecapped waters and engulfed the bridge’s towers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She seemed to know a story about every church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tally pulled out her binoculars and trained them inward, toward New Pretty Town, where the party towers were just coming alight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My heart lifted at the sight of John Henry towering over everyone as he took a head count. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

From the guard towers surrounding the camps, guards could keep careful watch on prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

An empty parrot cage, a mangle, a towering dresser, a scythe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Working in a giant tower with hundreds of people was almost beyond his imagination. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friendly faces came into view, some familiar—Gran; my favorite teacher, Miss Kirker; the vet assistant with a tower of pumpkin-orange curls—along with gobs of strangers gathered in the parking lot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When the next day dawned on the blackened towers of the city, Selitos found he could move. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Above it all, the glass castle loomed, so high she had to tilt her head back to see the uppermost towers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She could see the angel Xaphania gliding above the landing ground, and then rising and wheeling up to the tower as the craft made for the ramparts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Attendants trail behind her, holding stacked towers of dress boxes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mother Water Monster took ten steps and was towering over Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Together we stack the hubcaps back into a tall tower of metal pancakes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They were going away, back to the tower rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here were two artists, one black and one Puerto Rican, standing beneath a 115-year-old chandelier, bracketed by towering antique portraits of George and Martha Washington, singing about feeling “at home in this nation we’ve made.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Will the castle look like heaven, such as Saint John saw? Will it have towers sparkling with gold and bright gems?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The shortest of them was half again as tall as the highest tower in Winterfell, but they did not soar the way a proper tower did. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Closer to the towers, corpses littered the ground on every side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It consisted of three mirror-surfaced towers—two rectangular skyscrapers on either side of a circular one. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It's a shot I could make with my eyes closed—except that the legionnaires are hauling the harness back up the cliff face and into the tower. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her stomach clenching, Celaena averted her eyes from the prisoners, keeping up with the captain as they headed to a caravan of horses near the towering wall. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A flash of lightning showed Malcolm a great domed building, walls of stone, towers, and treetops. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even now I mind the coming and talking of wise men from towers Where they had thought away their youth. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard comes over to my desk and towers over me. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I sat there and sank into the tower and didn’t think. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The city darkens as I reach its border, a wide dirt clearing a few yards wide that separates Lkossa from the first of the Greater Jungle’s towering black pines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Great towers topped with rooms of glass and mirrors, they sent beams of light across the dark water, guiding ships into the smooth harbor of the capital on the hill. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Abdulrahman and Ahmad often ran up the smooth stone stairs of the lookout tower by their home, pretending they were spotting invaders, sounding bells of warning, planning their defenses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They visited its site and found a tower block of offices. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It led to wooden steps built up to a lookout tower that gave a view of the deep valley and the surrounding hillsides. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of them all together, forming a large circle around the solitary tower. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It towers over the train he is riding. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

As Ser Kevan made his way across the inner ward, the castle seemed an alien place, where every keep and tower had grown icy teeth, and all familiar paths had vanished beneath a white blanket. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s right near the water tower, which is emblazoned with the word WARREN. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It had no sail, just a single bare mast that jutted up mid-ship, a daggerlike tower that cut through the curtains of steam. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The transport rolled into a parking garage at the base of the circular tower and descended a series of concrete ramps until we arrived in a large open area resembling a loading dock. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She flew down to the sill of one of the four glassless windows in the church bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was gargantuan, a vertical city of shimmering, crystalline towers and bridges, chambers and turrets, domed ballrooms and long, endless hallways. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Schaffer was showing some visitors around the tower when one of them pointed to smoke in the distance. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Telemakhos went across the hall and out under the light of torches—crossed the court to the tower chamber where he had always slept. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the carriage trundled toward a pair of magnificent wrought iron gates, flanked with stone columns topped with winged boars, Harry saw two more towering, hooded dementors, standing guard on either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I mean, what curse causes a water tower to explode?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The baobab trees tower over us, and I start to feel their soothing energy settling over me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

In one movement he hoisted her into the tower room and, with a flick of his hook, sent her rescue device clanging to the ground. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A tall, wide man with one eye and trembling hands towered over her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

From the middle of the crowd, all she could see were arms and legs and stomachs, and the seven slender towers of the sept looming overhead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Raheem towered over the table, a bowl of oatmeal in his hand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can see the guard tower now, but I don’t think the guard can see me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes us past the old tower and the view of the city. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Had the king had them carved when he built the clock tower, or did they predate it? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Denuded mountains are visible to the west, towering sternly above the rooftops of adjacent double-wides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One as towering as the Golden Gate Bridge. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Hill House has a tower, or a secret chamber, or even a passageway going off into the hills and probably used by smugglers—although what could smugglers find to smuggle around these lonely hills? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And revealed through the trees is HOGWARTS—a splendid mass of bulbous buildings and towers. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The rock of the tower makes me feel safe. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

On each side of the depression there were large trees—white pines that went towering up and shaded the whole place to make it feel like a quiet garden. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It is said that Galileo demonstrated that Aristotle’s belief was false by dropping weights from the leaning tower of Pisa. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make good time, and I practice with my sling on the steel tower struts. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their shadows, and the shadow of the tower on which they stood, and all the spectres of the burning trees, stretched over the parkland in broad strips of indigo. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this vantage she could just see the top of one of the Tidemaker towers, where lights always burned. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The possibility of lightning striking the tower was very much on my mind.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai was reeling with visions of explosions and contraptions and impossibly tall towers—and girls climbing impossibly tall towers—and magnets and saws and bridges and flasks of miraculous chemicals and...and...and flying machines. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Darkness towered over him, making him feel as small as the turquoise in his bow guard. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I want to get in his face, to tower over him. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jack was the first to get a clear view of the guard towers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there I was, on the Cramps’ couch, so soft and so scared I’d have made a blob of whipped cream look tough, and Teds towering over me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You could say ‘I don’t’ instead of ‘I do,”’ Klaus said, “but I’m afraid Count Olaf would order Sunny dropped off the tower.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

She stands a few feet away on the other side of the tower, also out on the ledge, dark-blond hair waving in the breeze, the hem of her skirt blowing up like a parachute. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In addition to towering walls of books, there was a whole planetarium of stars and constellations projected on the ceiling. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She rode it down toward the crumbling towers, her nerves growing jumpy as the ruins rose up to blot out the half-moon. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The blacksmith was only a head taller than Anya, but at that moment he seemed to tower over her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Under the stout, gray cylinder of the water tower on its commanding hill, the sandbar curved out into the sea. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her two towers seemed to touch the belly of the clouds. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

‘He wasn’t looking at Manhattan, Kat. Or the sun. He was looking at something that reminded him of Manhattan. A big tower block. He was looking at the Barracks.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Jon found him in the maester’s tower, bent over a pile of parchments, with maps spread out all around him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stepped through for the last time and looked down over the silent city, the tiled roofs gleaming in the moonlight, the tower above them, the lighted ship waiting out on the still sea. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He towered over me, but he kept his distance so I wouldn’t have to crane my neck to look him in the eye. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Antlers of great elks and the huge face of an elephant towered over him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Rose and me had done a lot of repair work after the great tower quakes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the most amazing feature was the braided silk that linked each tower in a glittering web. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The white walls and towers of the Convent of Santa Clara rose out of bougainvillea hedges dense with violet and crimson flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their rooftops had been his secret places, and the crows atop the broken tower his special friends. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nan said that fiery spirits still haunted the blackened towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On an unusually warm day in early November, she stepped to the open sill of the bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe seeing where the towers stood, I might help Pop, Ma, all of us, get unstuck? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tower room had once been an indoor garden, with small trees in wooden pots. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a light, misty rain, and across the river, I see the new sparkly tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Serret shrieked, seizing his arm and pointing to the tower that stood behind them like a tall white tooth in the dusk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The estate was ringed by a ten-foot crenellated stone wall, complete with the original guard towers and walkways. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They walked together silently up the hill to the pele tower, except that the major explained the situation as they went. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, in the library tower of the wibbly-wobbly village dug into the rocks, there might have been a librarian. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes, however, were fixed upon the ground at the foot of the tallest tower. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Once on the ground he towered over the angry people. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two thrones made of gold stood on the upper level of a towering stage decorated with silver. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

As a result, the rebels who were on guard in the little tower saw him and opened fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The moon picked out crystals in the broken tower of glass. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Round the very edge of the island, so that the water lapped against the stone, ran high walls strengthened with so many towers that he soon gave up trying to count them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

From the clock tower of the Gathering Hall came a deep reverberating bong. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

These towers, joined together by what looked like floating arches, were emblazoned with countless embellishments and statues that seemed as real as life. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He dodged the block tower and slid inside. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Reverend towered over the rickety altar, his fiery crew cut bristling like a woodpecker’s cockade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the guards passed him, he took the tower steps two at a time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As they entered the second tower, a figure emerged from the shadows, and Nina barely stifled a scream. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The truck backed up to the steel tower that was built to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been taller than her for a long time, but he felt like he was towering over her. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Each of the towers rested on a single column no wider than an elevator. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the adjoining tent there is a towering tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A team of scientists climbed the tower and began attaching wires and detonators all over the bomb’s surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its mate had been decapitated at some point, but still, the statues towered over us, mute sentinels of a fallen empire. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He should have rested before. Send for him, would you? Oh, one more thing: please ask Madame Oxentiel to come to the tower as soon as it’s convenient. I must give her my condolences.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The drüskelle around the ash left off their rituals and began shouting orders, and a wave of guards descended from the towers to spread out over the island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The tower was made of wood and housed a large iron smokestack, which vented three boilers located in the main building below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All that was left of the great stronghold of the First Men were three towers . . . three where there had once been twenty, if the taletellers could be believed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A series of chisel-cut handholds made a ladder in the granite of the tower's inner wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Mariela, on opening night, is simply towering—“a different actress,” Volpe says, from the one who had struggled in recent weeks. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Henry’s yelling now, and he’s out of his chair, hands shaking, towering over Philip, and Alex notices that he’s actually taller. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The loud speakers in the tower of the Stoke Poges Club House began, in a more titan human tenor, to announce the closing of the courses. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shape began to appear in front of them, something high and towering and dark. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The valley in which the;, had come down was in the heart of the mountains; snowy heights, one of them looking rose-red in the reflections of the sunset, towered above them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the horizon below, a radio tower rose into the indigo sky, its red lights blinking lazily. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then he landed at the base of the three-story cat tower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They were safely stashed in the abandoned cages below the old prison tower at Hellgate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It would be lovely to cuddle up beside her while Georgie sat nearby, building block towers and pretending not to listen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Two towering white men, utterly out of place in that neighborhood and at that time of night, have confronted him. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Its square tower stood above the trees in sign of welcome to the travelers, who were most grateful for the hospitality of the abbot. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Daddy and her carefully stepped over one of my small towers and slid down onto our living room couch. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She leered at the fairies and glanced confidently at the towering demon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Chestnutt squealed in fright, and I clenched every muscle as the tower began to lean to one side. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The party towers were dark under the almost full moon, and the fireworks all shimmering hues of blue, climbing so high that they exploded in silence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The concrete guard towers were turned into headquarters for service clubs like Interact and Junior Achievement. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Just across the street is the New York Times building, a towering sheet of metal, and—my God, it’s like nirvana—to my left, an Applebee’s. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When finally I return to my tower, I fall asleep in the hammock and hear nothing until the church bells at noon. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Are sought in vain, and o'er each mouldering tower, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then she looked up at the towering beast and found it glaring at the unfolding carnage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But this tower is too smooth, with no footholds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It hath been agreed that we shall give the signal from the bell tower of the church. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The next morning I whiz south, back to my tower in the Ticino. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Lord Renly turned away and went back across the moat, to the tower where his brother lay dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Like all the others, this one was surrounded with electrified barbed wire and had towers where guards with searchlights, binoculars, and machine guns kept watch on the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get as high as he could, up beside the tower. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the autumn towering brown dust storms sometimes blew in from the rolling wheat country to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember leaving the clock tower, or how I passed the afternoon. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the bell tower the pigeons cou-rouing made a mournful sound. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alby stopped walking, and Thomas was surprised to see they’d reached the South Door; the two walls bracketing the exit towered above them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The young men raced about the field attempting to construct their separate towers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Zola, she keeps asking me time questions, like: How long will the childrens stay in the tower? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

By day, it towered above men's heads like a second sim, so bright were its walls and roofs. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain had informed him that the image of the porcupine on the side of the sub's tower was technically against regulations. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the room stood a metal tower taller than a person. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Groundbreaking began August 1966. The tall towers needed a strong foundation. Workers had to dig deep through silt to find firm soil.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls of her secret garden, it is our town, with rain falling on houses in rows and on the distant, metal towers of the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The engineers had built a stone fortress with an iron portcullis, guard towers, scorpion ballistae, water cannons, and no doubt many other nasty surprises for the defenders to use. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We’d stack our gifts—along with the sacks of flour and sugar, blankets, and trunks that other families were taking— on top of the bus in a great towering pile. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A new smith tower had risen from the ruins of the old, its stone a paler shade of grey, and as yet unmarred by patches of lichen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The giant figure towered above the men-at-arms, who galloped behind him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The carriage picked up speed on the long, sloping drive up to the castle; Hermione was leaning out of the tiny window, watching the many turrets and towers draw nearer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Still dark and tall, unbroken by the storm, the tower of Orthanc stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The garden stretched up into town, winding like a black river through the bright party towers and houses. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

To the left, the unmistakable shape of a church rose up, the teardrop tops of its towers glowing in the sun. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

So he listened, and she told it all, from the fire in the library tower to Varys and the guardsmen and Littlefinger. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was taller than the siege tower—thirty feet, at least—with scaly reptilian legs like a Komodo dragon from the waist down and green-blue armor from the waist up. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Not for many years did Ged set foot on that land or see the white towers of Havnor Great Port at the center of the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked searchingly at the towering mountains—ridge after ridge after ridge until at last there was the ocean. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fischers enjoyed the amenities of a relatively opulent suite, with two bedrooms and an unobstructed view—across Mokhovaya Street—of the Kremlin, Red Square, and the splendor of the towers of St. Basil’s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Raymie wondered what she could have seen from the top of the tower if she had been there at the right time. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The first time he was down, when Lancelot was coming towards him to accept his surrender, he became flustered and thrust at the towering man from below. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have him tape the money on the catwalk at the top of that water tower. Hell, yes, then there won’t be any monkey business.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He motioned for me to wear my mortarboard, and took a picture of me with the school’s clock tower in the back­ground. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of Bran, clambering up a tower wall, agile as a monkey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the second line swept past the twin towers, Davos took a closer look. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had come under attack as well, but the round tower had only one entry, a second-story door reached by a ladder. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora shrieked “No!” while James toppled tower after tower of books. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His very first class with tenure, due to a shortage of space, was in a tower. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jeremy circled over it one more time, looking at a certain mark three-fourths of the way up the towering main trunk. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I even fall asleep in the tower during a demonstration of moth summoning. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was clinging to a tower miles high, and his fingers were slipping, nails scrabbling at the stone, his legs dragging him down, stupid useless dead legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There were moments every day when Carmen’s heart seemed to be crumbling apart, like the church tower in her village after the quake. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I took off to the garage and hastily examined the tower of CDs. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But within a short time, the surrounding landscape began to change from towering trees to rocky hills. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When he was all afoot his scaled head, spike-crowned and triple-tongued, rose higher than the broken tower’s height, and his taloned forefeet rested on the rubble of the town below. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A high-backed choir bench in the center of the room towered above them. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She recalled that the House of the Undying Ones had seemed to have no towers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas looks toward the tower and tries to see what I see—the broken third-floor stairwell window, the taped-off section right below it, the soldiers searching alleyways, the lack of ambulances. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo swept his arm toward the corner where, sure enough, the tower of coffee cups was teetering like it was about to topple. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Robin looked up in amazement, for there, rising high against the racing clouds, stood a town with a church tower and castle complete. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Early in the evening, Oppenheimer climbed the steel tower alone. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You enter the wall tower through an ancient gate outside the prison wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you? Were you really going to jump off the bell tower before Violet talked you down?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The only other building that rose above the housetops to compete with the church tower was the yellow top of the schoolhouse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty of them played together shake one’s reason, shake the towers of Erhenrang, shake down a last spatter of rain from the windy clouds. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It filled the space between a pair of party towers, a squat teapot between two slender glasses of champagne. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The robot towered upward slowly and Donovan’s head craned and his puckered lips whistled. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But now Emma could make out the dim shape of her little brother beyond the door, halfway up the towering stairs to the stage. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I want the monster out of there. Him and his wet nurses. You cannot leave them in that same tower as the dead girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever names Harren the Black had meant to give his towers were long forgotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance between the buildings she could sometimes see the white stone towers of the palace. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the tower windows we can see the rest of the campus, a panoramic view. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He turned and lobbed it toward the bell tower of old First Congregational. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

He looked at the towers of the little clean Martian village, like sharply carved chess pieces lying in the afternoon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at the end of class, more bad design — he discovered that it was hard to get out of the tower. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing like a bird,” said Hermione, frowning at the tower. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I want yesterday and Theodore Finch and the bell tower to go away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had been adding on more and more towers and buildings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A noise of tramping feet and harsh shouts: Orcs were coming up to the Cleft from the far side, from some entry to the tower, perhaps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sandi turned to see the maître d' heading in their direction with a tall, dressed-up woman, and behind her, a towering, preoccupied-looking man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I think of the satisfaction on Valerian’s face when he told me to jump from the tower. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sun was behind them and their long shadows stalked ahead, and they seemed to carry two towers of darkness with them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

This inventor, who gave his initials as R. T. E., envisioned a tower four thousand feet tall from which he proposed to hang a two-thousand-foot cable of “best rubber.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A towering cylinder of stone sat in the center of the cave. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

More than two dozen had been driven at spearpoint from the nests they had made amongst the castle’s half-ruined keeps and towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But there, in the Conqueror’s tower, a constant ebb and flow of cockneys would be livening the frost. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tower of the church looked as if wind and weather had been wearing the masonry down for a dangerously long time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Before long they met every day to talk, long, quietly, idly, a little apart from the serving-women who always accompanied Serret, by the fireplace or at the window of the high rooms of the tower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had taken my place, crouching over the VCR, groping for the wires, as Dad towered over her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hustled back into the kitchen and braked a few inches before slamming into my dad towering in the middle of the room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A tower with a black-haired woman leaning out, reaching her hand to a bird. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But Thomas and Kira both held him and finally he allowed Thomas to pick him up and carry him on his shoulders, towering over the crowd. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of shining eyes watched as bright flames crept down the sides of the tower and embers floated away on the breeze. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A life-sized Nativity scene has been set up on the lawn below the towering statue of El Jefe on his horse. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

With the toe of my regulation black sneaker I nudged a single box from the tower’s foundation. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The tower was steady and unmoving under the weight of twisted steel and plastic. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly Roy made his way through a forest of towering lodgepole pines. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed his gesture and found herself looking at the forbidden tower. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

With one arm around each man's shoulders, Ned managed to descend the steep tower steps and hobble across the bailey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sansa was wondering what it might mean when a second bell joined in, and a third, their voices calling across the hills and hollows, the alleys and towers, to every comer of King's Landing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had drawn a picture of a stone tower—one that she had drawn before—with high walls and an observatory pointing at the sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was even more imposing towering over me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Behind him the broken tower stood, its summit as jagged as a crown where fire had collapsed the upper stories long ago. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cliff towered into the night, the countless stars were kindled, the wind blew cold, and the doors stood fast. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The block tower's hulking presence across the room distracted me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The tower might as well be a tree for all she cares. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that the sword which Frodo still held unsheathed was glittering with blue flame; and he saw that though the sky behind was now dark, still the window in the tower was glowing red. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Out the window, the sun was just beginning to turn the towers of New Pretty Town pink. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The police are out hunting for the childrens, but the childrens have managed to hide themselves well, and as soon as it is dark they slip into the tower one by two by one. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

There is a silver dragon that curls around part of the now visible clockwork, a tiny princess in a carved tower who paces in distress, awaiting an absent prince. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The outer wall, raised many centuries later, was twenty feet lower, but thicker and in better repair, boasting octagonal towers in place of square ones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stood in our bedroom and looked at Arturo’s clothes folded in neat towers on the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

On the highest rampart of the fortress was a tower of adamant: just one flight of steps up to a set of rooms whose windows looked out north, south, east, and west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In it we heard a shrill laugh from a high window in the tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I look around me—at folks whispering, pausing beneath trees, some folks, silent or crying, looking into square tower graves. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The towers had a single door, set a good twenty feet off the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

John lay on his back in the narrow street, looking up at his father, that burning face beneath the burning towers. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

By the time he turned eleven, he towered over the other kids his age. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Henry studied an old loblolly pine that towered behind Pastor Tom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up there, for once, were clouds, great bulging towers that sprouted away over the island, grey and cream and copper-colored. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It made no difference to me if the money was going to support throwing puppies off thirty-story office towers. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

With its rising towers, limestone columns, and jutting gables, it resembled a small fortress, as inaccessible as it was foreboding. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Manhattan was a towering mass of skyscrapers on their left. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The two hobbits gazed at the towers and the wall in despair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

This postern was the least of Harrenhal's gates, a narrow door of stout oak studded with iron nails, set in an angle of the wall beneath a defensive tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had worked up an image of Orion as a towering ugly demon, even worse than Polybotes, the giant who had attacked Camp Jupiter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nor could he see any way at all of getting up as far as the tower. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Waiting for my teammates to arrive, I sat with my feet hanging over the abyss, staring across the clouds, looking down on the tops of 22,000-foot peaks that a month earlier had towered overhead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You fill out a flight plane for one place and then you go to another. Don’t the people in the control towers ever raise hell?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had mementos of the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915—little towers of jewels. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dead, of course: wet, chargeless, and fifty years from the nearest cell tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When his brother Robb burst into the room, breathless from his dash up the tower steps, the direwolf was licking Bran's face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“When they built the new tower, they left this one standing.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Shall was a storybook word that Uncle Darnell never used in bedtime stories of Arabian Knights or princesses locked in the tower. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She knew a church tower well, found one of the open windows, and walked in. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The raft jerked to the right just as a polished rock tower the size of a skyscraper appeared in our path. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She went what she thought must be the great part of the circle around the house, and then she saw the tower. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart almost turned the jeep over when he slammed the brakes on at the control tower. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

This guy named Hoffman has kidnapped Alicia and locked her away in a tower, and I'm going nuts looking for a way inside. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It ended in an outdoor passage to a tower. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she knew—just as one knows when piling on one final block that the tower will fall—she knew they couldn’t make it. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I was leaning back to see the top of the tower and I got dizzy.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t I know terrorists flew planes into the towers? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I leaped across the room, throwing my body into the tower, thrashing my arms and legs until it was nothing but a cascade of blocks upon the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And because they were high in the tower, they were high above north Oxford. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The splendor before us has taken clearer shape now, forming a towering column of white-gold light that seems to stretch into a realm beyond the sky. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wonder what she would say if I told her that an hour ago I was being talked off the ledge of the bell tower. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had borrowed Ma’s tape measurer from her closet so we could keep track of our towers’ heights. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It stood like a tower of solid gold. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bright fur shone at the base of the large pine that towered over the meadow, the pine under which her sister had died. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He may tower over Clyde, but he still didn’t want to be alone in a dark alley—or a computer room—with the guy. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My dad called my mom from the diner, where, on the television above the counter, he had just seen the second plane hit the second tower. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The red eye of the tower had not been blind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Exhausted by her lack of sleep, shivering from the cold that stole into the tower cell each night, feverish and famished by turns, Cersei came at last to know she must confess. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Violet had guessed, during her climb, that it had found some notch in the stone, or part of the window, or perhaps a piece of furniture inside the tower room, and stuck there. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He thrust his pole out ahead of them and pushed them away from a towering green obelisk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was too dark and foggy to see the porcupine painted on the side of the submarine's tower. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

His voice reminds me of the days with my Aunt Fannie Mae, of the towering trees and Georgia’s glistening stars, of the rooster that woke us to the morning sun. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘And now for our manger,’ said Beregond, and he led Pippin back to the citadel, and so to a door in the north side of the great tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The last and biggest Time Suck clambered down from the clock tower with Mr. Flux himself stuck on its back like a tick. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the tower, a wolf began to howl. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She lit on the tower of a church in a small town. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a strangely shaped metal one with a tower on top. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She had climbed the stairs to a vine-covered palace across the street and stood peeking through the towering front gate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Dad was now moving along the line as well, towering over Mom’s shoulder but saying nothing. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Colonel stood up, towering over the rest of us as we sat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

This guard tower and the electrified harhed-wire fence at Auschwitz were typical of towers and fences at all the concentration and labor camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each window was given a person who leaned from it and waved slowly, as if under a timeless water, at some moving form in the fathoms of space below the moon-silvered towers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is said that he threw himself from a tower." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sculpted by the intense solar rays, glowing a radioactive shade of turquoise, the towers reared like giant shark’s teeth out of the surrounding rubble as far as the eye could see. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Forty feet tall, he towered over his brethren. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Dressed in pressed khakis and a crisp, blue button-down, Dad towered over Mom’s petite frame. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The clock in the tower began to chime. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The guard towered over her, and she twisted her head sideways and squinted up at him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then, sudden and terrible, from the tower above, the sound of the great horn of Helm rang out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Is it near to the village, where yon church tower stands?” asked Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he said, “we shall see the tower from a window”—and shivered as he passed through the door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later that morning they came to the glass tower. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Amaze me!” cried Mr. Lemoncello as he dashed toward the towering fiction bookshelves and disappeared through another secret door that whooshed sideways in the shelves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was no one to be toyed with, for she could shape icebergs into towers so high they scratched the sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m standing there, towering over his scrawny little behind, wondering where this voice came from. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tins hole commanded the outer doors of the tower, of which there were two, and people could drop stones through it when they were besieged. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seventh room enters into a hallway with stairs spiraling up and up into what must be the tower. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The towers of a castle on the cliffs peek through the distant mist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think of the people falling, leaping from the towers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

We make for the tower, sticking close to the walls and the shadows. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then my father shouted, “Look!” and I raised my head to see a towering mountain of rock emerge from the blank canvas before us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The old fire was there and the indelible image of Boobie towering over hapless tacklers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bell tower rose from the long roof, making the building seem even taller and more forbidding. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The casa is pink, like so many other casas, but the stone tower that rises three more stories above it is the color of its stone—how you call it? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The third kind were large wooden houses with broad porches that ran around the buildings; they had odd shapes, round towers, octagonal bays, balconies. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dream that I’m naked and standing in the bell tower at school, in the cold and the rain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lights from the guard towers came on in a bright flood. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her feet touching the side of the stone tower and her hands grasping the rope, Violet closed her eyes and began to climb. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Summer followed them up the tower steps as Hodor carried Bran back to his bed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Christmas decorations are on the roofs and all over the wide and tall trees that tower over the curving roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Panicked, I look at the towering trees, the brown undergrowth. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here there were dead office towers, brought to life at night by restaurants buried within that served small kegs of beer and Korean fried chicken. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The tower itself is a series of platforms swooping in odd, diaphanous shapes, quite similar to clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Here, just below one of the guard towers in the yard’s corner, the prison designers had installed a basketball court. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Beyond that tower, through a guava orchard Tía Mimi had planted, lived my grandparents, in a great big house we went to for Sunday dinners whenever they were home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He ducked into the nearest doorway where he could keep an eye on the towers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Jesse has been in an office tower since October,” I added, as I prepared to leave. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames were leaping from the two towers now, reaching into the blue sky. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The grappling hook hit the tower twice as it bounced back down to the ground. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some red paint and white numbers that seemed to tower over him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled on their bathrobes, picked up their wands, and crept across the tower room, down the spiral staircase, and into the Gryffindor common room. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He did not look back as he rode away from Bliant Castle—and Elaine, standing on the barbican tower, did not wave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gran shuffled over to another towering pile and removed the top two boxes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Greyback smelled as he had done at the top of the tower where Dumbledore had died: of dirt, sweat, and blood. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One structure, rejected at first as a “monstrosity,” became the fair’s emblem, a machine so huge and terrifying that it instantly eclipsed the tower of Alexandre Eiffel that had so wounded America’s pride. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But then my dad says, “Why didn’t you tell us he was the one in the bell tower?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Castle Black was still and silent, its halls and towers dark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their faces had a likeness a blind man could have seen; several wore the badge of the Twins, two towers connected by a bridge. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two silage towers shone like Victorian Apollo spacecraft. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Enormous ice monuments tower in the landscape, erupting from the glacier at random intervals. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Considering how tightly packed these pines—which look suspiciously like towering dragon-giants in this moment—are, moving even the slightest bit in the wrong direction could be disastrous. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He opened the postem door and led her into the castle, his burned face twitching and his eyes brooding, and he was one step behind her as they climbed the tower stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he saw them: Malfoy with his arms around the unconscious Goyle, the pair of them perched on a fragile tower of charred desks, and Harry dived. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They hit the river with a towering splash, and Mother Rhoyne swallowed up the two of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the bell tower and uttered a single word. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

These rock gardens had outlived the barracks and the towers and would surely outlive the asphalt road and rusted pipes and shattered slabs of concrete. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fire and fury of the summer of 1940, Maddie sat in a tower of iron and concrete taking bearings over the telephone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We’re on a balcony at the very top of the tallest tower, one higher than the tree line. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His solid form towered over the pair of them, and the expression on his face was still indecipherable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At once, he was a little boy again, staring at a monster as it towered over his father’s body. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Greek historian Herodotus described it as a stack of eight stepped towers, with gates of solid brass and 120 lions in brightly colored, glazed tiles leading to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just a walk through miles of snow and ice and glaciers and boulders and crevasses to the towering top of a sleeping volcano. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Watch. He’s going to climb the tower. See? I told you.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“During the spring and autumn bird-migration season, the lights that illuminate the tower are turned off on foggy nights so they won’t confuse birds, causing them to fly into the building.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he climbed into bed that night, C.P.'s thoughts lingered on the upcoming game at the newly built ballpark, with its unique round tower that reminded the boy of a castle. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was able to go about easily from keep to tower, from hall to chapel, from turret to dungeon. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lady Whent had held the castle as bannerman to House Tully, but she'd used only the lower thirds of two of the five towers, and let the rest go to ruin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Darrell was the biggest kid in the whole school, towering over everyone with a greasy, meaty face full of hills, valleys, and potholes. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Riders of Rohan sat uneasily upon their horses, on either side of the stair, and looked up darkly at the great tower, fearing what might befall their lord. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, check this: I’m legit gonna pick him up from his house, like he’s some prince stuck in a high tower in need of rescuing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I need to get up to the tower, to go through all of Prince Balekin’s correspondence and hope I find something to do with Locke’s mother or Dain or the coronation, something I overlooked. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At least my plane didn’t slam into a tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A great ring-wall of stone, like towering cliffs, stood out from the shelter of the mountain-side, from which it ran and then returned again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I kept holding on to my tower to keep it steady. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

So the odd towers of crisscrossed boards dotted the landscape, taller than most trees but not near as pretty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were to blow up the steel towers carrying high-tension wires to the plant to cut off the power supply. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Gaines could stomach the police cars, but he wasn’t necessarily prepared for the towering antenna rising up from the KMID-TV van. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came to a settlement of a few goblin houses and a squat guard tower overlooking the kingdom of the elves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Shading his eyes against the westering sun, he peered at those towers more closely.. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Giant windows, cut into facets that held the light like prisms, climbed up the tallest towers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She pictured Sunny toppling from the tower and onto the ground, pictured her sister’s last thoughts being ones of sheer terror. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the time I had finished the decimals that Ms. Ling had assigned, Big Rose had already laid the first story of her tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The drawbridge was up and the portcullis down, but Catelyn saw lights burning in the gatehouse and spilling from the windows of the square towers beyond. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She towered over me, shaking with anger, while I struggled to fit all the letters back into the box. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The white fireball engulfed the tower, and expanding rapidly, changing color, it rushed upwards.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The new tower will be twice as tall as the one you burned, he says.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Right across from Brooklyn, something left a gaping hole in the tower. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Long, two stories high, and crowned with a giant clock tower at its center. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This main wall, some twenty-four feet high, is punctuated by twenty-one distinctive wall towers but is otherwise as blank as a cop’s face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, the bells of the clock tower toll eleven. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

An entire tower standing on the roof of Priam’s palace was lifted from its foundations and toppled over. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We would have been here earlier, but Penn Station's shut down because of a water-main break. And they've closed the Brooklyn Bridge because of some cracks in one of the towers." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ivy trails the sides of the tower the way melted ice cream oozes down the side of a cone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She makes the most of what she has, filling the window nook with houseplants of all kinds, a bonsai weeping willow, a towering ficus with drooping fronds, a fiddle-leaf fig. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had a view of the legs of Fort Detrick’s water tower. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you build a tower next to the rostrum?” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The southern California drive-in restaurants of the early 1940s tended to be gaudy and round, topped with pylons, towers, and flashing signs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

‘A dead end,’ muttered Sam; ‘and after all my climb! This can’t be the top of the tower. But what can I do now?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The world spun black and mist and blue as Cain grabbed her and shoved her against the clock tower once more, her face smashing into the stone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One great tower rose from the center of the roof, crested with an American flag that billowed in the wind. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

To distract myself and her, I talk to her like we’re on the bell tower ledge. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They hurled stones and shot arrows from the towers. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I got Mrs. Able to an ambulance. Both towers down, just gone. Crippling smoke. Pulverized concrete. This bag”—he holds it high—“holds some of the dust. Ashes, too.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were in a place the size of a cathedral with the appearance of a city, its towering walls built of objects hidden by thousands of long-gone students. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Born to a German mother and Afghan father, the blond, blue-eyed Assef towered over the other kids. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton, restless as always, was standing on an ice hill that the men frequently used for a lookout tower. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Benton, he thought, wouldn’t do such a thing as jump off a bell tower on Christmas Day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Like a sword in sharpness but five times the length of any sword, the point of the dragon's tail arched up scorpion-wise over his mailed back, above the tower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like a king in his own domain, it towered far above the smaller trees. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then a second flight was on its way, and arrows were falling as well, hissing down from the archers' nests that studded the towers above. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A little way off, towering over their heads, they saw a tree which had certainly not been there before. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As Klaus walked down the tower stairs, he felt a heavy sinking in his heart as all hope left him. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take much for her to figure out who Big Dub was, since he towered over everyone else. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Cyclopes’ siege tower cast a shadow across the feet of the giant Polybotes, who grinned down at the Roman camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His grandmother, the queen, lived in a high tower, where she spoke only of the other princes, past and present, who were born whole. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the center was a raised dais, and on that dais, towering above the dancing politicians, stood Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Soon, we could see the little matchbox houses of the Cape Flats, the gleaming towers of downtown, and the horizontal top of Table Mountain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him up a spiral staircase and into the clock tower itself, where there was a well-lit room with simple furnishings: two chairs and a wooden table. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The final credits of “Petticoat Junction” were rolling past, over shots of the Hooterville water tower, the Cannonball express. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Instead his steps led him up to the roof of the east tower, die tallest at Griffin’s Roost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, illuminated by the shivering flames in Lupin’s hand, was a cloaked figure that towered to the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It stopped beside a towering marble headstone, only six feet from them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The church isn’t as big as the one Dad drags him to every Sunday, but a wide set of steps leads to a covered porchlike area set between two square towers with domed roofs. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

But what really catches my attention are the towering cliffs of blue ice on either side of us, forming our path. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bobby was guided into a strange round office, about the size of a small living room and positioned in the tower of the building, with windows on all sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of me, towering, not even a hint of a smile, only worry and sadness and something verging on panic. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Forty-foot hull with a high tower on top for spotting fish, and a bow pulpit near as long as the boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Robin left the north side of the tower and joined Adam, looking toward where he pointed. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I’m stuffing schoolbooks into my backpack the next morning when I see that Dad’s Scrabble-tile towers have been razed. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The best I could do was go back to those BinarTREE phone tower logs. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Don’t fall, don’t—” Arrows streak toward us from the tower, and the legionnaires have dropped level now. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Clang! grappling hook hit the tower, and fell down again, hitting Violet hard in the shoulder. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a brick chimney towering over a flat-roofed building where a thin line of smoke curled lazily into the air. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small town in Minnesota that I’ve passed through countless times en route to family reunions has a prison with a massive brick wall and turretlike guard towers, which I have spent hours thinking about. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Standing on the wide veranda that encompassed the obsidian clock tower, Celaena tried not to shiver. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If there was to be a tower at the fair, it would be an American tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The whole tower seemed to be nothing but an excuse to build a staircase. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He turned a corner and saw two ancient stone towers jutting into the sky, side by side, much taller than anything else in the neighborhood—maybe medieval watchtowers? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to climb the church tower and cut the tongues out of those bells myself,” Eliza grumbled as she beat a dozen eggs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I reach Times Square, screens tower above me, surrounding me in a world of neon and sound. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Indeed it was, Patricia. Because I’m going to completely finance this tower with what we find in the caves underneath your ramshackle old school!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She turned back and caught a glimpse of the towering creature taking a slow, ungainly step in her direction. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I see a folding table stacked with towers of small green cups and a water cooler that's nearly as tall as me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If you dropped an object from a tall tower, it would fall towards the west. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My eyes settled on a clock tower with stone carvings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I guess you work in those towers, in one of those cubicles. Cubicleville.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Brooklyn, Sierra realized, spotting the clock tower from downtown. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The luminous tower fascinated him, and he fought the desire that was on him to run up the gleaming road towards its gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z