A tower house is a particular type of stone structure, built for defensive purposes as well as habitation.
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Famous quotes containing the words tower and/or house:
“The King’s name is a tower of strength.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner. At last it strikes you that they grew up, house by house, on the devious tracks of the old green lanes; and if you follow on to the existing fields, you may often find the change half complete.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)