Lady Thrum, whose figure is something like that of the shot-tower opposite ❋ Unknown (2006)
His words falling from a shot-tower hit the water and up it spurted. ❋ Unknown (2003)
But a steeple starts up from its green thickets; not one of the hideous objects which the architects of our district churches perpetrate, to puzzle the passer-by as to the purpose of its being, -- whether a brewer's chimney, or a shot-tower, -- a perch for city pigeons, or a standing burlesque on the builders of the nineteenth age of the fine arts in ❋ Various (N/A)
The container remained on the ground near the shot-tower during the detonation. ❋ Carl R. Maag (N/A)
Of the remaining two, one is the old brick shot-tower in the lower part of town, which legend tells us was put up without the use of scaffolding nearly a hundred years ago; while the other, a more modern, if less modest structure, proudly surmounts a large commercial building and is itself capped by the gigantic effigy of a bottle. ❋ Julian Street (1913)
Willows became elms, a settler's shanty rose like a shot-tower -- towns hitherto unseen swam and palpitated in the yellow flood of light like shaken banners low-hung on unseen flagstaffs. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)
Elsa suffer the worst torments of a woman's fear in the Red Mill on the marshes; and Foy and Martin play their parts like men in the shot-tower, the Gevangenhuis and the siege, and Mother Martha the Sword find a grave and rest in the waters of the Haarlem Meer. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The tank beneath the shot-tower, when it was not in use, was closed with a stone cover, and around this they piled firewood and peats from ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The sentence seemed to flash through the rift over the shot-tower -- to tingle down from the stars. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it. ❋ Unknown (1884)
In Pisa he designed every thing but the old shot-tower, and they would have attributed that to him if it had not been so awfully out of the perpendicular. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Think of the monotonous execrableness of the thirty that went before it, to leave this one simple breakfast looming up in my memory like a shot-tower after all these years have gone by! ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Old Hank Bunker done it once, and bragged about it; and in less than two years he got drunk and fell off of the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
They don't think nothing of pulling a shot-tower up by the roots, and belting ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
In the magical moonlight the shot-tower loses its angular outline and practical relations, and becomes a minaret from whose balcony an invisible muezzin calls the Faithful to prayer. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
Tower of Babel was destroyed for being a shot-tower, in which ammunition was prepared to be used by the heathen. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
