The gleaming cylinder rose slowly against the pressure of the water outside until finally the foot of the periscope cleared its well.

The lower part of the tower seemed much like that portion visible from outside the garden - a perfect, gleaming cylinder, with no apparent openings.

Blade stared at the gleaming cylinders and the gold boxes.

The gleaming cylinder arrived in its slot with a click.

The gray monster cast shadows over the valley, a huge, gleaming cylinder.

"We know that in this universe there is logically no place for man," the gleaming, now immobile cylinder upon the table droned abruptly.

At the same time he noticed nearby the slender, gleaming cylinder of the frequency absorber, which was the main thing he'd been searching for.

A large, gleaming cylinder appeared on the viewscreen, floating in the blackness of space.

The gleaming cylinder pointed a few degrees off vertical, just as they had left it after that final bracketing run.

And in the center loomed a gleaming cylinder, anchored in bedrock.