Founded in the 1120s around a powerful Norman great tower, the castle was significantly enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century.

The 12th-century great tower occupies the knoll itself and forms the north-east corner of the bailey.

Ruined during the slighting, the great tower is notable for its huge corner turrets, essentially hugely exaggerated Norman pilaster buttresses.

Although Kenilworth's great tower is larger, it is similar to that of Brandon Castle near Coventry ; both were built by the local Clinton family in the 1120s.

There was an early attempt at symmetry in the external appearance of the great hall – the Strong and Saintlowe Towers architecturally act as near symmetrical " wings " to the hall itself, while the plinth of the hall is designed to mirror that of the great tower opposite it.

Gaunt's kitchen replaced the original 12th-century kitchens, built alongside the great tower in a similar fashion to the arrangement at Conisbrough.

The building was intended to appear well-proportioned alongside the ancient great tower, one of the reasons for its considerable height.

The keep | great tower is one of Kenilworth Castle's earliest surviving structures.

It has been suggested that it consisted of a motte, an earthen mound surmounted by wooden buildings ; however, the stone great tower may have been part of the original design.

The great tower ( left ) and John of Gaunt's great hall ( right ).

One wall of the great tower, various parts of the outer bailey and the battlements were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian William Dugdale, who published his results in 1656.

To prevent this he imprisons his only daughter in the Tór Mór ( great tower ) of Tory Island, cared for by twelve women, who are to prevent her ever meeting or even learning of the existence of men.

" In Hebrew מגדל Migdal means " tower ", " fortress "; in Aramaic, " Magdala " means " tower " or " elevated, great, magnificent ".

The architect conceived the great square tower as the keep of a legislative " castle " ( echoing his selection of the portcullis as his identifying mark in the planning competition ), and used it as the royal entrance to the Palace and as a fireproof repository for the archives of Parliament.

117-129 ), God overturns the tower with a great wind.

Antennas for the 80m band frequently involve large or complex designs typically mounted on a tall tower with great distances needed between buildings and thus the transmitter.

In this period the construction of the great tower of the male, referred to as " Saracen " and the introduction of tuna fishing that will develop in later centuries with more modern techniques.

* The fortress with its keep and its 16th century bell tower protects Terra-Nova and offers great views over the old port, Terra Vecchia, the mountain and the coast.

In their report, they noted that some of the rocks in the Canyon were " bigger than the great tower of Seville.

When Elizabeth arrived, time stood literally still, as the great tower clock of the castle was stopped for the time of her visit.

: Which Jared came forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families, from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth ; and according to the word of the Lord the people were scattered.

Su Song was best known for his horology treatise written in 1092, which described and illustrated in great detail his hydraulic-powered, tall astronomical clock tower built in Kaifeng.

`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.

-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.

Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.

It is a great spectacle.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.

We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.

Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.

He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.

`` My doctors assure me that this increased percentage of risk is not great ''.

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.