Towers

Nothing can change the look of a city so dramatically as the sudden appearance of a block of offices which towers above all the surrounding buildings.

He towers above the rest of the class.

Storks tend to make their nests in the bell towers of churches.

The new skyscraper, which will consist of two intertwined 1212-meter towers, is expected to be completed in 2022.

The princess lives in a great copper castle, surrounded by many walls and towers! No one except the King may go in or out, for it is prophesied that she will marry a common soldier, and the King cannot submit to that.

It is very strange that no one can get to see the Princess. They all say she is very pretty, but what’s the use of that if she has to sit forever in the great copper castle with all the towers? Can I not manage to see her somehow?

Akebono was born in Hawaii but for fifteen years was a professional in Japanese sumo. At over two metres tall, he towers over the other athletes and weighs an astonishing two hundred and thirty-five kilograms.

These orders were not necessary; for in a quarter of an hour's time there grew up all round about the park such a vast number of trees, great and small, bushes and brambles, twining one within another, that neither man nor beast could pass through; so that nothing could be seen but the very top of the towers of the palace; and that, too, only from afar off.

After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.

Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.