"Leaning Tower of Pisa" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mail chinked beneath vestments: sallies became processions: sentinels cried "Pax vobiscum".... Plainly most venerable, the tiny city and the tremendous church made up a living relic, of whose possession Memory can be very proud. Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges ranks with the Leaning Tower of Pisa. There is nothing like ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... had disappeared in a few moments,—its prow sinking in the waters and then its smokestacks taking on a vertical position almost like the leaning tower of Pisa, and its rudders turning crazily as ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Becket's tomb; he defeats and captures the King of Scotland, and quells the insurrection of his sons. The Leaning Tower of Pisa commenced. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various
... I did not expect that every house in Liverpool must be a Leaning Tower of Pisa, or a Strasbourg Cathedral; but yet, these edifices I must confess, were a sad and bitter ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville |
