Of the old fortifications only one tower remains, converted into a campanile and pierced by an arch.
The four towers pierced the gray flesh of the swollen clouds.
The viewing tower pierced the rainforest canopy.
And to watch the towers pierced, to watch them crumble one after the other, was agonizing.
The citadel's tower pierced their low bellies.
The city was a haze of soft lamps and rooftops, of shining domes, and towers piercing the deep azure sky.
The tower itself is topped by a slate-shingled mansard roof pierced on all sides by round-arched dormers.
Halls and high towers pierced the upper air; slender spires were bound together by curving bridges and fairy buttresses.
No towers, just a sheer wall jutting out from the flat cliff rising behind it, pierced by a single visible gate.
Its towers pierced her grief, her introspection, giving her an unexpected thrill.