Martello

For a long time people supposed they were called martello towers from the man who built them, but I found in a book that the name came from a vine that grew over this one in Corsica. ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

Southward, the high ridge of the sea dike, and the grim, massive circle of a martello tower reared high on its mound of grass, closed the view darkly on all that lay beyond. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At its opposite extremity the street leads to a deserted martello tower, and to the forlorn outlying suburb of Slaughden, between the river Alde and the sea. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Something in his look and manner took her memory back to the first night at Aldborough, when she had opened her mind to him in the darkening solitude — when they two had sat together alone on the slope of the martello tower. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What juts out on boundless marshlands are abandoned factories, while emptied martello towers and collapsed jetties and wharves line the gray waterfronts of a country that Michael Hamburger, whom Sebald so beautifully evokes in The Rings of Saturn, would have called Novemberland. ❋ Andr&233; Aciman (1998)

The vessel she had chased ran on a sand beach under the protection of a martello tower. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)

Soon after we were on our oars the martello tower began blazing away at us. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)

The bulk he had encountered was not the martello tower on Noirmont ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

Win cast a glance at the deserted castle of St. Aubin's, a miniature Castle Elizabeth on its isolated rock off shore, another at the martello tower on the point. ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

"One of those martello towers would make a fine wireless station," commented Roger. ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

St. Helier crouches at the base of a lofty rock that forms the eastern cape: the village of St. Aubin is similarly placed near Noirmont Point, the westward promontory, and between the two, stretches a sandy shelving beach, studded with martello towers. ❋ Various (N/A)

The beauty of this country is that no turbulent sea confines its borders, nor are martello-towers needed to guard its coast: no jealous neighbor threatens its frontier, no army oppresses its citizens, and no king can usurp its throne. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the foreground stretched an expanse of jagged red reefs and shining pools with a single martello tower rising in dignified grandeur. ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

Granting that the French did not take alarm and incontinently drop their hostile designs upon the tight little island, there would be a small outlay for pay, a trifle of a shilling a day on exercise days, but nothing more -- except for martello towers. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

At the north end of the islet a curious round rock, exactly like a martello tower, but rather higher, rose out of the water, separated from the sea-wall by twenty or thirty feet of deep water, dark blue, transparent; sometimes rolling and rushing and tearing at the sides of the rock, sometimes gently lifting the seaweed that clung to the sides. ❋ Various (N/A)

The fortifications of the City of Quebec had been much improved during the summer of 1808, and the foundations of the four martello towers, which now stand outside of the fortifications, on the land side, at the distance of nearly a mile, were laid. ❋ Charles Roger (N/A)

They sent rockets from their martello towers, and they maintained a perfect storm of musketry from their advanced trench and from the city walls. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)

The bay, like that of St. Aubin, is defended by a regular line of martello towers, several of which are built far within flood-mark, on reefs that form part of the Violet Bank. ❋ Various (N/A)

STEEP streets and the ringing of church bells; the distant sea; sunset, and the lovely irregular lines of masts and spars and rigging; the view of a hazy hill topped by a martello tower; – these are some of my pictures of St. John. ❋ Unknown (1922)

The very titles accorded to him by his contemporaries speak volumes: "II Santo", "Apostle of Rome", "Il martello dei Carbonari" (Hammer of Italian Freemasonry). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)