water-tower

In the film, green hillsides are flattened and raisedlike a cake knife to fresh icing; a wonderful,glacial skin sits atop a wintery ocean made of a paint-like substance; inside of a giant mechanical penguin—approximately the size of a water-tower—a vat of snow is used by mad scientists to launchweaponry snowballs, andappears to consist of sugar.

Movie Review: A Town Called Panic (My Choice for Best Animated Film of 2009) | /Film 2010

Well, not officially a visit to the school....in the grounds is a magnificent and unique water-tower, built by a former owner of the property, Sir John Fellowes, in the early 18th century.

auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

Love the old buildings, that water-tower is great.

Pabco Paper william wray 2006

A "giant virus" has been discovered in a British water-tower.

Boing Boing: March 30, 2003 - April 5, 2003 Archives 2003

That's more believable, but then why is the water-tower one so common?

languagehat.com: TERAZIJE. 2004

After the looting, the engineers fired charges under the two engines, against the water-tower, in the pump, and between the points of the sidings.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

At dusk, charges at the foot of the great water-tower spattered it in single stones across the plain: Buxton a moment later called ‘Walk — march!’ to his men, and the four-hundred camels, rising like one and roaring like the day of judgement, started off for Jefer.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

For every house, workshop, water-tower, railway embankment, wall, cellar and every pile of ruins, a bitter battle was waged, without equal even in the first world war with its vast expenditure of munitions.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

Whilst two of their number went off at once to alarm the garrison of the water-tower and the men on the neighbouring fortifications, the rest of the courageous little band took post around the vaulted entrance of the tunnel, in readiness to give the enemy a warm reception.

The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War Anonymous

Thereupon arose a short, sharp contest among the entrapped Swedes, in which the smaller and more courageous section wished to fire the petard already sunk in the foundations of the water-tower, and bury all in the ruins; while the other party did their utmost to prevent this design from being put into execution.

The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War Anonymous