spire

• By JULIA GODDARD A cleverly conceived quaint story, in which the golden cock on the church spire is the recipient of enchanting stories of enchanted people and places. —  The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition
• I carried straightway to the village the topmost spire, and showed it to stranger jurymen who walked the streets,--for it was court-week,--and to farmers and lumber-dealers and wood-choppers and hunters, and not one had ever seen the like before, but wondered as at a star dropped down. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. —  The Idiot
• The spire, added a few years later, is only exceeded by two in England--namely, those of Salisbury and Norwich Cathedrals There are many parish charities, which it would be out of place to enumerate here, and among them are several bequests for the cleansing and repair of tombs The fine shops on the south side of the street inherit a more ancient title than might be supposed. —  The Kensington District The Fascination of London
• Forming the different sides of this vast open space are some of the finest public buildings in the city: the Admiralty with its golden spire, the beautiful Isaac Church with its superb granite columns, the Winter Palace with its long rows of richly ornamented windows, the War Office, the Senate House, and many others. —  Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar

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