bell-towers

Seen at a distance, from the top of the mountain which rises at about twenty versts off along the Siberian highroad, this town, with its cupolas, its bell-towers, its steeples slender as minarets, its domes like pot-bellied Chinese jars, presents something of an oriental aspect.

Michael Strogoff 2003

There were peaks, pillars, bell-towers, wondrous forms molded by age, the ravaging wind and the sea mist.

Une Vie 2003

In Rome, from the convent, we saw nothing but roofs and bell-towers.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

Sometimes he brings really beautiful things, the last precious possessions of a family which has come down in the world -- a fine piece of embroidery, a priceless bit of lacquer, bronze and silver charms, little boxes of ivory, temples and pagodas and bell-towers in miniature, tiny but perfect in every detail and of the most exquisite workmanship.

Peeps at Many Lands: Japan John Finnemore

Nearer, torrid bell-towers pierced the shimmering reek, like stakes in a sweltering lagoon.

The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

The domes of the bell-towers are decorated with coloured designs that recall the patterns of India shawls; and, displayed thus on the roofs of the church, they recall the kiosks of the Sultans.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

In the afternoon we walked about to inspect the antiquities, and found several remains of Christian churches with bell-towers attached to them -- certainly not originally minarets.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

These are time-mellowed, mediaeval structures with bell-towers, cloisters and gardens, sunbaked, shadow-colored; and in spots they make

The Native Son Inez Haynes Gillmore 1921

No show-place in the world—not even Chambord or the Alhambra—could afford a more magical, more ethereal, more enchanting spectacle than this grove of spires, bell-towers, chimneys, weather-cocks, spiral stair-cases; of airy lantern towers that seemed to have been worked with a chisel; of pavilions; of spindle-shaped turrets, all diverse in shape, height, and position.

II. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris. Book III 1917

In Rome, from the convent, we saw nothing but roofs and bell-towers.

Chapter XXX 1917