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- noun Plural form of
steeple . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
steeple .
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Examples
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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.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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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.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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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.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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It was like a sea, green and motionless, on which the steeples were the masts of anchored ships.
Holland, v. 1 (of 2) Edmondo De Amicis 1877
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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.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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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.
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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.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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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.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Three magnificent stories with towering steeples atop the roof.
The Fortune of an Accident Nathaniel Tower 2011
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The window offered a gorgeous view across the church steeples of Racine and out onto Lake Michigan.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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