Kharl felt as though he were more staggering than anything else as he followed Hagen down the gate-tower steps, back across the courtyard, then around the north side of the Great House. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (2005)
So I established myself in its southern gate-tower, and set my six Haurani boys (for whom manual labour was not disgraceful) to cover with brushwood, palm-branches, and clay the ancient split stone rafters, which stood open to the sky. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
The green and gold flag still hung over the gate-tower, but Wellesley could see no defenders there. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
And at the very top of the topmost bluff he could just see a streak of dark wall broken by a gate-tower. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1999)
Cadfael abandoned his mule to a stable boy, and crossed to the deep doorway of the guardroom in the gate-tower. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1989)
Sharpe put five of his Riflemen on the gate-tower, the rest in front of the trench, and he added Brooker's company to the Fusiliers lined on the rubble. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
At half past eight the Colours were lowered from the gate-tower and the sentries disappeared from the Castle ramparts. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
An Ensign in the stairway that went up towards the gate-tower top called down to Sharpe. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
The bullets had stopped flickering about the gate-tower and Sharpe risked a look, saw the surge of men coming from the valley and turned back. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
The Union flag on the Convent had been taken down in the night, and the two Colours on the gate-tower hung heavy and wet above the rain-darkened stone. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
The musket balls flattened on the gate-tower, pecked at the cobbles, and Sharpe went backwards. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
He was tempted to leave them there, but he knew that he could defend the summit of the gate-tower far more easily than this room. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
It had been a piece of pure bravado to hang the Colours on the gate-tower, each one fixed by driving an enemy bayonet through the flag and into the crumbling mortar of the battlements. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
Bullets made the air above the gate-tower a deadly place, bullets fired from both sides, from keep and from valley. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
To his right was the gate-tower, huge and massively turreted. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
He climbed the stairway in the gate-tower, laboriously cleared of the windlass, and walked the circuit of the battlements towards the keep. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
She returned to her room in the gate-tower, to crouch over her little fire. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)
You wife has gone to the huge gate-tower of Troy to see what she can see, to learn if her master and husband still lives. ❋ Simmons, Dan (1981)
He's in charge of the southeast third of the harbor wall, from the gate-tower to the castle. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1974)
We surprised the gate-tower, let in the army which had been waiting behind a hill, and were almost at the Citadel before the land was roused. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)
