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  • As the tower-top lightning streaked to ground with the sound of berserk electrical snapping.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • To power mobile networks in remote areas today, telecommunications operators pair base stations — the tower-top radio transmitters that form the backbone of mobile networks — with diesel-powered generators and batteries.

    Start-Up May Aid Telecoms’ Reach « Isegoria 2008

  • Much of the television coverage had been so calm and distant that even with such an intense focus, it was not completely clear how awful it was, or had been, for people trapped on those tower-top floors.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • Much of the television coverage had been so calm and distant that even with such an intense focus, it was not completely clear how awful it was, or had been, for people trapped on those tower-top floors.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • Much of the television coverage had been so calm and distant that even with such an intense focus, it was not completely clear how awful it was, or had been, for people trapped on those tower-top floors.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • Much of the television coverage had been so calm and distant that even with such an intense focus, it was not completely clear how awful it was, or had been, for people trapped on those tower-top floors.

    Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010

  • To power mobile networks in remote areas today, telecommunications operators pair base stations -- the tower-top radio transmitters that form the backbone of mobile networks -- with diesel-powered generators and batteries.

    Start-Up May Aid Telecoms' Reach 2008

  • Then she hurried up to the tower-top, when the afternoon was wearing into evening; and abode there a long while looking over the waters, till it began to dusk, and then came down miserably and went to her women.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Leonard drew aback scowling, and went out of the door, and so slowly down the stair, and withdrew him into the cover of the door of the first chamber down from the tower-top, with the mind to waylay Sir Aymeris as he came down; and meanwhile he cursed him for

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • But at last she clad herself in haste, and went stealthily from the chamber, as if she feared to meet anyone; and she stole up to the tower-top that was nighest, and looked through the door on to the leads, and saw no one there; so she went out, and stood by the battlement, and gazed long over the water, but saw neither boat nor burning mountain coming towards her.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

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