church-steeples

Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass.

Main Street 2004

The church-steeples were booming eleven when they emerged; it did not seem worth while going home and settling down to work.

Maurice Guest 2003

Here the mountains are by degrees lost from sight in the distance; on the horizon one may however distinguish the towers of the castles of _Geroldseck_ and _Hoh-_ (High) _Barr_, in the vicinity of Zabern; then nothing more is seen but meadows, forests, fields, from the centre of which you see now and then the modest church-steeples of the numerous villages that cover the fine plain of Alsacia.

Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg Anonymous

Looking down between the toes of his boots he seemed to listen thoughtfully to the receding wave of sound; to the wave spreading out in a widening circle, embracing streets, roofs, church-steeples, fields -- and travelling away, widening endlessly, far, very far, where he could not hear -- where he could not imagine anything -- where ...

Tales of Unrest 1920

The walls of Mrs. Cass's parlor were plastered with "hand-painted" pictures, "buckeye" pictures, of birch-trees, news-boys, puppies, and church-steeples on Christmas Eve; with a plaque depicting the Exposition Building in Minneapolis, burnt-wood portraits of Indian chiefs of no tribe in particular, a pansy-decked poetic motto, a Yard of Roses, and the banners of the educational institutions attended by the Casses 'two sons -- Chicopee Falls Business College and McGilllcuddy University.

Main Street 1920

Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass.

Main Street 1920

The walls of Mrs. Cass's parlor were plastered with "hand-painted" pictures, "buckeye" pictures, of birch-trees, news-boys, puppies, and church-steeples on Christmas Eve; with a plaque depicting the Exposition

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

I counted fifteen church-steeples; and I saw several gentlemen's houses peeping out from the midst of green woods and plantations; and I could trace the windings of the river all along the low grounds, till it was lost behind a ridge of hills.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

On the horizon, the blue sky met the sea; and, behind us, the red roofs, the church-steeples and the tiny white houses of a Dutch village slowly vanished from sight.

The Choice of Life Georgette Leblanc 1905