Tower

Tower

A tower is a tall structure, usually taller than it is wide, often by a significant margin. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires.

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Famous quotes containing the word tower:

    “The King’s name is a tower of strength.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Resignedly beneath the sky
    The melancholy waters lie.
    So blend the turrets and shadows there
    That all seem pendulous in air,
    While from a proud tower in the town
    Death looks gigantically down.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “The tower said, “One!”
    And then a steeple.
    They spoke to themselves....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)