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Eiffel Tower

noun

A wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889; for many years it was the tallest man-made structure.

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"Eiffel tower" Quotes from Famous Books

... narration. In large measure it determines what to exclude and what to include. When a writer has assumed his point of view, he must stay there, and tell not a thing more than he can see from there. It would hardly be possible for a man, telling only so much as he saw while gazing from Eiffel Tower into the streets below, to say that the people looked like Lilliputians and that their hands were dirty. To one lying on the bank of a stream, it does not look like "a silver thread running through the landscape." Things do not look the same when they are ...

— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... G.K. Chesterton has written a brilliant booklet on Eiffel Tower Lemonade, and that the Attorney General has been commissioned to write a highly interesting brochure on ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... obelisk; and the currents of summer life ebbed and flowed with a normal beat under the trees of the radiating avenues. The great city, so made for peace and art and all humanest graces, seemed to lie by her river-side like a princess guarded by the watchful giant of the Eiffel Tower. ...

— Fighting France - From Dunkerque to Belport • Edith Wharton

... crosses first the Esplanade des Invalides, and then the Champ de Mars, to end at the Boulevard de Grenelle, in the black factory region. How majestically it spread out, what fine old leafy trees there were round that bend of the Seine from the State Tobacco Works to the garden of the Eiffel Tower! The river winds along with sovereign gracefulness; the avenue stretches out under superb foliage. You can really saunter there amid delicious quietude, instinct as it were with all the ...

— Fruitfulness - Fecondite • Emile Zola

... progress if the conceit were not so widely diffused, and where we are all conceited there is no one to whom it will appear unpleasant. If there was only one person who knew about the telephone he would be unbearable. Probably the Eiffel Tower would be stricken down as a monumental presumption, like that of Babel, if it had not been raised with the full knowledge and ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner