La Merveille, or perilously lodged on the crumbling cornice of a tourelle, numerous rude altars had been hastily erected. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
His Majesty left me with him and retired into the tourelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
M. de Firmont appeared; the king took him into the tourelle and closed the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
I went to call him; he was already up, and he followed His Majesty into the tourelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
They both re-entered the tourelle, where they remained until half an hour after midnight. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
While the same search was made in the tourelle the king returned to his chamber and wanted to warm himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
The other tourelle, opening into the king's chamber, was made into a reading-room; on the floor above, it was turned. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
A municipal blamed me, ordered the door to be opened, and forbade me to shut it again; I opened the door, but the king was already in the tourelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
LAH Holdings Ltd - variations to works previously approved - to revise wooden door to glass and install stainless steel balustrade on external tourelle west elevation. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
After supper, His Majesty having returned to his cabinet in the tourelle, his confessor came out an instant later and asked the commissioners to take him to the council-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
On either side of the interior door of the antechamber was a turnstile or tourelle, which enabled the inmates within to receive anything from the outside world without being themselves seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
It was necessary to cross this room to enter the cabinet made in the tourelle, and that cabinet, which served as a privy to the entire main building, was common to the royal family, the municipal officers, and the soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
As the few exterior windows of the farm-house are grated heavily, and as from each of the rear corners of the square there projects a crusty tourelle from which a raking fire could be kept up along the walls, the place has quite the air of a testy little fortress -- and a fortress it was meant to be when it was built three hundred years and more ago (the date, 1561, is carved on the keystone of the arched entrance) in the time of the religious wars. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] Reference
The cabinet made in the tourelle was used by him. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
The king rejoined his confessor in the tourelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference
ô tourelle!. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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