Slowly, like a man grown old, he took Eli's hand and led him below to the tower study, guiding him to a chair beside the little hearth where a fire still burned.

The tower erected there guided mariners at night, through its fire.

This not only gave them a place to hide after the gunfight began, but put Snipers 1 and 2 in the line of fire of the other three snipers on the control tower.

As mentioned earlier, " Sniper 2 ", who was stationed behind the signal tower, wound up directly in the line of fire of his fellow snipers on the control tower, without any protective gear and without any other police being aware of his location.

A siege tower, a substantial structure built to equal or greater height than the fortification's walls, could allow the attackers to fire down upon the defenders and also advance troops to the wall with less danger than using ladders.

The impact and subsequent fire caused the South Tower to collapse 56 minutes after the crash, resulting in hundreds of additional casualties due to the collapse of the tower.

Right before boarders arrive, Tyler has Rabbit fire a shot from the deck gun right into the ship's radio tower, preventing the destroyer from reporting that the Enigma code has been compromised, and dives underneath her.

It was mostly destroyed in 1670 and again in 1856 by fire, which only left the choir and tower undamaged.

Until then the church had escaped undamaged, but in the final sortie a firebomb got stuck high up in the tower, and beautiful wooden church was obliterated by fire.

The London water tower, fire department, and London High School were featured in a Nike commercial promoting the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Example: an airport control tower to the airport's fire station or fire dispatch center.

The upper portion of water is skimmed off the top for everyday use while the water in the bottom of the tower is held in reserve to fight fire.

In 1200, a fire destroyed part of the old Romanesque cathedral, leaving St Romain's tower, the side porches of the front, and part of the nave.

The official symbol of Helena is a drawing of " The Guardian of the Gulch ", a wooden fire watch tower built in 1886, that still stands on " Tower Hill " overlooking the historic downtown district.

A steeple, added sometime after the mission's original construction and secularization, had been demolished following a fire, so Hitchcock added a bell tower using scale models, matte paintings, and trick photography at the Paramount studio in Los Angeles.

The United States Coast Guard built a three-story home at the lighthouse tower in 1871, but it was destroyed by fire on March 15, 1976.

A bastion, a large earthwork projecting eastwards from the Bastille, was built to provide additional protective fire for the Bastille and the Arsenal ; the bastion was reached from the fortress across a stone abutment using a connecting drawbridge that was installed in the Bastille's Comté tower.

An accidental fire in 1840 left the nave, south west tower and south aisle roofless and blackened shells.

The resulting fire destroyed the bell tower of the county courthouse and county office building.

An open fire was lit at the top of a circular stone tower.

CCC camps were at Mondeaux, Perkinstown, and near the current Jump River fire tower.

The high brick tower is the oldest part of the church and its wooden top was destroyed during the fire in 1982.

Although vulnerable to antitank fire, they can often be repaired or replaced in the field.

Crossbows were eventually replaced in warfare by more powerful gunpowder weapons, although early guns had slower rates of fire and much worse accuracy than contemporary crossbows.

Eventually, the paper and bamboo of which fire lance barrels were originally constructed came to be replaced by metal.

Although the worship of images would eventually fall out of favour ( and be replaced by the iconoclastic fire temples ), the lasting legacy of the Achaemenids was a vast, complex hierarchy of Yazatas ( modern Zoroastrianism's Angels ) that were now not just evident in the religion, but firmly established, not least because the divinities received dedications in the Zoroastrian calendar, thus ensuring that they were frequently invoked.

The original predecessor of all firearms, the Chinese fire lance and European hand cannon were loaded with gunpowder and the shot ( initially lead shot, later replaced by cast iron ) through the muzzle, while a fuse was placed at the rear.

In the current M16A2 and M16A4 variants of the U. S .- made M16, continuous fully automatic fire is not possible, having been replaced by an automatic burst of three cartridges ( this conserves ammunition and increases controllability ).

" This Oscar was lost in a fire in 1983 and replaced at the 1984 Academy Awards.

In his book, Becher eliminated fire and air from the classical element model and replaced them with three forms of earth: terra lapidea, terra fluida, and terra pinguis.

The Parma IGA was destroyed by a fire in June 2000 and was replaced in 2007 by a Dollar General.

In the final stages of filming, the forest set was destroyed by fire ; Jerry Goldsmith's original score was used for European release, but replaced in North America with a score by Tangerine Dream.

Usually built of timber, lath and plaster and with thatched roofs, the early theatres were vulnerable to fire, and were replaced ( when necessary ) with stronger structures.

Foremost in the Scythian pantheon stood Tabiti, who was later replaced by Atar, the fire-pantheon of Iranian tribes, and Agni, the fire deity of Indo-Aryans.

The memorial in St. George's Cathedral, Kingston, was destroyed in the fire in 1899, and has not been replaced.

Before this development, firearms used flintlock ignition systems which produced flint-on-steel sparks to ignite a pan of priming powder and thereby fire the gun's main powder charge ( the flintlock mechanism replaced older ignition systems such as the matchlock and wheellock ).

According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.

When a fire destroyed the costume in 1988, a decade after he debuted, he and American segments of Oscar were both replaced by a Grouch named Rumpel.

The roofs of the transepts are of wood, that of the south transept was burnt in the fire of 1984 and was replaced in the restoration work which was completed in 1988.

Throughout the night, the Zulus kept up a constant assault against the British positions ; Zulu attacks only began to slacken after midnight, and finally ended by 2: 00 am, instead being replaced by a constant harassing fire from the Zulu firearms-a fire that in turn only ended at 4: 00 am.

The Romanesque cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1131, but soon replaced by the present cathedral, Notre-Dame de Noyon, constructed between 1145 and 1235, one of the earliest examples of Gothic architecture in France.

It was built over about 60 years from the 1430s to the 1490s, and replaced a smaller 13th century church that was destroyed by fire.

The 1872 courthouse was destroyed by fire and replaced in 1884 with a new building designed by Alfred Giles.

It would eventually be replaced by skirmish order at the time of the invention of the breech-loading rifle that allowed soldiers to move and fire independently of the large scale formations and fight in small, mobile units.

By doing this he replaced 70 pounds of broadside with 136 pounds ( assuming that both 68-pounders would usually fire on the same side ), and ensured that Raven would have less dead-space to her front and rear.