steeple

• This steeple is an old grey turret, ivy-mantled, modest, and with that look of venerable age which instinctively makes us feel, that it has witnessed memorable things in its time And it has witnessed them. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
• Make all fast, and return here in time for the steeple-jack. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
• They haven't the faintest idea of dignity These 'low Italians' were more than probably fellow countrymen and women of the speaker; but they may have been 'low' all the same in her social barometer, for they pitched and flung, hurled and threw all the missiles they could lay hands on into the carriage of their unmistakable compatriots, with hearty delight; since the gentleman, who was not gentle, sat upright as a church steeple, never moving a muscle, and looking angry and worried at being flung at; and the milady also sat a la mode de church steeple--throwing nothing but angry looks. —  The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• It was raining in torrents and as the steeple was removed the floor was deluged. —  Molly Brown's Orchard Home
• Looking up through the cracks in the little steeple, they could see flash after flash of continuous white lightning. —  Molly Brown's Orchard Home

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