Usage of "black tower"

russo

чёрная ладья

espanhol

torre negra

Chess piece.

black marquess

чёрная ладья

Synonyms

Examples for "black rook"

What's wrong with you? The black rook captured Matthew's last knight. 
 The Queen of Bedlam 

Brown partridge, and black rook, and yellowhammer, all hues and degrees, come to the wheat-field. 
 Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies 

The black rook passed me on my left. 
 Carrion comfort 

Then it must have been the black rook. 
 The Flanders Panel 

He pointed to the black rook on c1. 
 The Flanders Panel 

James realized where they were even before he saw the black castle. 
 James Potter and the Vault of Destinies 

A red lacquer screen had a black castle sitting atop a black mountain. 
 Micah & Strange Candy 

Out there, on that little islet, green and low, stands the black castle in which they prisoned her. 
 A Walk from London to John O'Groat's / With Notes by the Way 

After some time he saw in the distance a huge black castle which commanded a view of the whole forest. 
 The Green Fairy Book 

We climbed a little hill and on the top of it stopped at the door of a big black castle. 
 Greenmantle 

After a period of time, the man in black comes back to reclaim the player. 
 The Irish Times 

I shuddered even there as I took hold of it, not quite free from the juvenile idea that "the black comes off." 
 The Englishwoman in America 

In Which a Little Lady in Black Comes to Washington to Witness the Swearing-in of a Gentleman and a Scholar. 
 Contrary Mary 

Most of us learned early in life that living while Black comes with more than its fair share of challenges. 
 Ebony 

Tony stared contemptuously at the black Marquess. 
 The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2 

Usage of black tower in inglês

Mist, mist, rolling mist with a square black tower above it. 
 The White Company 

He saw now: it was a black tower poised above the outer pass. 
 The two towers 

I gazed into the distance, where the looming black tower stabbed into the clouds. 
 The iron king 

A tiny black tower of rock stood alone on the northern end of the snow-ridge. 
 Running Water 

Now, the quarter-mile wide and five-hundred-feet high black tower cut off all vision straight ahead. 
 Dayworld Breakup 

It started with a definite swelling of the dull fumbling sounds inside the black tower. 
 The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft 

But the black tower proved as hard to leave behind as the skyscrapers were to approach. 
 Night gate 

In minutes they were approaching the black tower. 
 Night gate 

The door to the black tower was a great heavy slab of what looked like marble. 
 Night gate 

Perhaps he would use it in his new family crest, a black tower on a field of white. 
 Shadow's son 

And then, as they approached, Bellis saw that it was a huge black tower that reared from the sea. 
 The Scar 

At Carris, Raj Ahten had seen glue mums erect a single black tower that leaned at an odd angle. 
 Wizardborn 

She wore her hair on the top of her head, built up in a black tower, with red coral combs. 
 My Antonia 

The two men, equally stubborn and willful, stared at each other as the black tower drifted silently through untroubled skies. 
 Masked 

And silhouetted against the sky, a jagged black tower stabbed up from the earth, wreathed in smog and billowing smoke. 
 The iron king 

The shining black tower of the larger blast-furnace rose overhead out of the mist, and its tumultuous riot filled their ears. 
 The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories 