Halo of water, tongue of wood. Skin of stone, long I've stood. My fingers short reach to the sky. Inside my heart men live and die. What am I ?
Answer: A Castle
I reach up to the sky and back down to the ground. Sometimes I reach far to the sidesto touch my brothers. I conceal people and things. What am i?
A shrimping boat is at the docks with a lifeboat hanging off the side 5 meters above the water. If the tides rise at a rate of 1.5 meters per hour.
How long would it take for the water to reach the lifeboat ?
My neck it extends and sometimes it bends down into the water or up to the sky.
In cities many consider me friends. With long slender legs, so graceful am I.
Hint: One bearing my name is known to have fled from a man with no head