Citations:tower

English citations of tower

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• a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Fragment”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 720:

  Thy King O may I call him by that Name
  But he shall be the last that e’re shall bear it.
  No Man more heartily shall hate his wife
  Then he shall Thee. Nor fly with more Impatience
  Into a yeilding Mistress dear Embraces
  Then he to Belgia’s shore, Belgia thy rival
  In Empire and in Interest, she shall triumph
  Shal to the furthest East send forth
  New colonies and build her towring abodes
  On Ganges and in India, she shall have treatyes
  Made for her sake alone, and Kingdom given.

• 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.

  The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.