peel-tower

Zarká from her Utum, or peel-tower, saw the army three marches off and cried, O folk, either trees or

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The mighty peel-tower of Jock o 'the Park loomed up ahead, arrogantly sitting on a pasture at the confluence of the waters a spot known to both the Scots wardens and the English as the very cockpit of the Borders, where the writ of neither side ran.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The mighty peel-tower of Jock o 'the Park loomed up ahead, arrogantly sitting on a pasture at the confluence of the waters a spot known to both the Scots wardens and the English as the very cockpit of the Borders, where the writ of neither side ran.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

The Mamilian tower, to which the Suburans nailed the horse's head when they succeeded in carrying it off, appears to have been a peel-tower or keep of the old Mamilian family, the magnates of the village.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The Mamilian tower, to which the Suburans nailed the horse’s head when they succeeded in carrying it off, appears to have been a peel-tower or keep of the old Mamilian family, the magnates of the village.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 5. Virbius and the Horse 1922

THE sun stared brazenly down on a gray farmhouse lying, long and low in the shadow of the Muir Pike; on the ruins of peel-tower and barmkyn, relics of the time of raids, it looked; on ranges of whitewashed outbuildings; on a goodly array of dark-thatched ricks.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

The Mamilian tower, to which the Suburans nailed the horse's head when they succeeded in carrying it off, appears to have been a peel-tower or keep of the old Mamilian family, the magnates of the village.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

This little peel-tower, with its tiny rooms, overlooked a county that is desolate enough now, but which then was finely wooded, and watered by the river

Raleigh Edmund Gosse 1888

Rossetti and Morris would shelter themselves securely, and even serenely, from the obloquy of criticism, within a slender peel-tower of the praise of friends.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

He is of degree befitting a Stewart, and even were he not, oh, sisters, sisters, better to wed with a leal loving soul in ane high peel-tower than to bear a broken heart to a throne! 'and she fell into a convulsive fit of choked and bitter weeping, which terrified her sisters.

Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862