many-towered

The team garnered international headlines in 1992, after announcing the discovery of Ubar, which scholars say is mentioned in the Quran as "the many-towered city of Iram whose like has not been built in the entire land."

Hollywood Legal Rainmaker Helped Discover Long-Lost Arabian City of Ubar 2009

The drawing showed a fortress, many-towered, filled with all the corridors and chambers, armories and meeting halls one would expect to find in a place of defense.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

The land swept down to the shining river and rolled back upward on the farther side in familiar curves sculptured by wind and rain, but from one slope jutted a many-towered bulk of clay and small stones that had been the nest of animals now extinct.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

It was Kellen's own mother, the Zhentarim lord Ravendas, who discovered the crypt beneath the Tor — the crag upon which perched Iriaebor's many-towered Old City.

Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

The dinner was a limited affair, only forty-eight in the huge room and only one silver service in the center of the table: a sculpture from Verona showing the many-towered town of San Gimignano under siege, with little soldiers moving to and fro as the silver springs unwound.

Poland Michener, James 1983

Far away it seemed. and beautiful: white-walled, many-towered, proud and fair upon its mountain-seat; its battlements glittered with steel, and its turrets were bright with many banners.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

They had topped low ridge now, and below them the whole scene sudden opened out; a little, many-towered castle with its gate towards them.

The Horse And His Boy Lewis, C S 1954

Far away it seemed, and beautiful: white-walled, many-towered, proud and fair upon its mountain-seat; its battlements glittered with steel, and its turrets were bright with many banners.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

They had topped low ridge now, and below them the whole scene sudden opened out; a little, many-towered castle with its gate towards them.

The Horse and His Boy Lewis, C. S. 1954

On the far side of the lawn, its weather-vanes glittering in the light, rose a many-towered and many-turreted castle; the most beautiful castle Jill had ever seen.

The Silver Chair Lewis, C. S. 1953