"Turret" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they met in his turret-like office room in the Bryson block, examining a tattered book under a microscope. He learned that Davis had a private library of more than 8,000 volumes and was one of the rare old book lovers of the city. His office room was stacked with books he had purchased, several of which ...
— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson
... moment we saw her turret, A little heel she gave, And a thin white spray went o'er her, Like the crest of a breaking wave— In that great iron coffin, The channel for their grave, The fort their monument, (Seen afar in the offing,) Ten fathom deep ...
— Poems of American Patriotism • Brander Matthews (Editor)
... o'er tower and turret, In foul weather and in fair, Day by day, in vaster numbers, Flocked the ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
... formerly New Street, and later Chancellor's Lane. In Old Square, the first court we enter, are situated the ancient hall and the chapel, the south side being occupied by chambers, some of them ancient. The turret in the corner, and one at the south-western corner, behind the hall, are very like those at St. James's Palace, and probably date very soon after the gate. Here at No. 13 Thurloe, Oliver Cromwell's Secretary ...
— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant
... after, we went down, dressed in our other suits, feeling very little the worse for our adventure, and just as we reached the big schoolroom, the big clock up in the turret chimed. ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
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