Steeples

Both parties seems to be fighting the city instead of each other; and this manner of firing from behind parapets, and from the tops of houses and steeples, is decidedly safer for the soldiers than for the inhabitants. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

Most of the churches of the Meseta lack steeples, which is the reason why church bells were placed in porticos formed by huge wooden trunks covered in tejamanil. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was like a sea, green and motionless, on which the steeples were the masts of anchored ships. ❋ Edmondo De Amicis (1877)

Those who only mind the raree-shows of the places which they go through, such as steeples, clocks, town-houses, etc., get so little by their travels, that they might as well stay at home. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Certain buildings on shore coming into line with other prominent buildings, such as steeples, chimneys, and windmills, were his infallible guides, and these declared that the buoy had not shifted more than a few feet. ❋ Unknown (1859)

We claim to serve a God who loves the poor in rich cathedrals and gold plated steeples. ❋ Jon Foreman (2011)

Three magnificent stories with towering steeples atop the roof. ❋ Nathaniel Tower (2011)

Dr. Gordon leans back in his leather office chair with a creak and steeples his fingers beneath his chin. ❋ Ann Wahlman (2011)

The window offered a gorgeous view across the church steeples of Racine and out onto Lake Michigan. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

The sparse trees are short and twisted, no buildings stand more than a story high, the road signs are bent, and the churches, what there are of them, have no steeples, for the spirits in that land of the dead suffer nothing to stand straight and compete with the Mountain itself, which rises in impossibly steep, unending layers above the highway. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Distant steeples and indistinct towers rise over the roofs and suggest the dimensions of the entirety of which this square is supposedly a part. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the landmarks they had memorized to give them their bearings in the dark—the church steeples, hills, road crossing—were now not there. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

The majestic steeples stood watch over the multi-tiered grandstand, which were teeming with the colorful fashion-forward display of expensive jewels and outlandish hats covering the heads of famous celebrities and wives of the well-to-do. ❋ Elle (2011)

I report this back to Rishi, who once again assumes a professorial expression and steeples two fingers on which he rests his chin. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

The drive between its two biggest cities, Zurich in the northeast and Geneva in the southwest corner, takes just three picturesque hours, past church steeples, rolling green hills and thousands of long-lashed cows. ❋ Christina Passariello (2011)