Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word steeple-top.
Examples
-
And he flew alongside of Mercurius to the steeple-top: BUT THIS
-
Finally, as no one else could reach the steeple-top, Aunt Rive tte flew into the air and circled slowly around the ball.
Queen Zixi of Ix Baum, L. Frank 1971
-
The trouble has been that the foundations have not been properly laid; an infinite amount of philanthropic money, the sacrifice of lives, loss of time, has occurred through the fallacious methods of beginning at the steeple-top instead of building a foundation, letting the superstructure be a gradual evolution in a wholesome, natural, and steadfast manner.
-
Otherwise he would have done so -- ay, would have thrown himself, head-foremost, from the steeple-top, rather than have seen them watching him with eyes that would have waked and watched, although the pupils had been taken out.
A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1892
-
For this act he was hurled from the steeple-top by some unseen instrument of righteousness with such force that his hoofmark was stamped into a solid stone near by.
Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879
-
Meanwhile, the steeple-top hat was giving some silent astonishment to the house-servants, assembled to gaze upon it from the foot of the hall.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
-
The joke went on till Jimmy Phoebus, Judge Custis, and some others prompted Jack Wonnell, with the promise of a gallon of whiskey, to ask Meshach to trade the steeple-top for the bell-crown.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
-
The next thing you will be walking through Baltimore on your bridal tour, followed by a mob of small boys, to see Meshach's old steeple-top hat.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
-
But he paid no attention to anybody, until once, at court time, some carousing fellows hired Jack Wonnell to walk up to Meshach Milburn and ask to swap a new bell-crown for the old decrepit steeple-top.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
-
Milburn had been willing to be hated for his hat, but Jack Wonnell made all unseasonable hats laughable, the more so that he was nearly as old a wearer of his bell-crowns as Milburn of the steeple-top.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.