He pointed with a smile to a
turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed.
Some of these cabins were
turreted, some had false windows painted on their rotten walls; one had a mimic clock, upon a crazy tower of four feet high, which screened the chimney; each in its little patch of ground had a rude seat or arbour.
We landed under the walls of a little fort, armed with batteries of twelve-and-thirty-two-pounders, which Horta considered a most formidable institution, but if we were ever to get after it with one of our
turreted monitors, they would have to move it out in the country if they wanted it where they could go and find it again when they needed it.
He continued his flight as long as he could see, when he turned round, the
turreted enclosure of the University, and the rare houses of the suburb; but, when, at length, a rise of ground had completely concealed from him that odious Paris, when he could believe himself to be a hundred leagues distant from it, in the fields, in the desert, he halted, and it seemed to him that he breathed more freely.
That Perry had chosen this type of vessel seemed rather remarkable, for though I had warned him against
turreted battle-ships, armor, and like useless show, I had fully ex-pected that when I beheld his navy I should find considerable attempt at grim and terrible magnifi-cence, for it was always Perry's idea to overawe these ignorant cave men when we had to contend with them in battle.
All round were high and
turreted walls, with at the corner a bare square-faced keep, gaunt and windowless, rearing up from a lofty mound, which made it almost inaccessible to an assailant.
Here we find a fairy city, towered and
turreted, dark woods, wild wastes and swamps, slow gliding rivers all in a misty dreamland.
Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by
turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip.
Usually visitors flock to the small village to visit its historic
turreted castle, but last weekend the 16th Century attraction took a back seat as a collection of classic cars came to town.
A spokesman for Fine and Country said: "It's a simply stunning
turreted property.
This fantastic 18th century
turreted home was once owned by Lord Burton and was part of the Rangemore Estate.
The breakfast room views to the garden and has a
turreted timber clad ceiling.