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 tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two, since when I once take pen in hand, I must say what comes uppermost, or fling it away.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)