towery
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Origin of towery
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He saw, and gently rose above the stream; His shining horns diffuse a golden gleam: With pearl and gold his towery front was dress'd, The tributes of the distant East and West.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes!
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
A window space Just from their towery refuge let them look Over familiar earth now tranced.
From Preludes 1921-1922 by John Drinkwater
Far in the north Himálaya, lifting high His towery summits till they cleave the sky, Spans the wide land from east to western sea, Lord of the hills, instinct with deity.
From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa
When now Minerva saw her Argives slain, From vast Olympus to the gleaming plain Fierce she descends: Apollo marked her flight, Nor shot less swift from Ilion's towery height.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
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