church-towers

I thought, if you could build the highest church-towers in the world, you could surely manage to raise a kingdom of one sort or another as well.

The Master Builder 2008

I thought, if you could build the highest church-towers in the world, you could surely manage to raise a kingdom of one sort or another as well.

The Master Builder 2008

I disdain even to note that the Moors took the city again from the Christians, after twenty-five years, and demolished it, for I prefer to remember it as it has been rebuilt and lies white by its bay, a series of red-tiled levels of roof with a few church-towers topping them.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The very drive from the station was full of impressions, from the narrow and crooked streets, the houses of yellow, blue, and pink stucco, the flowered and fountained patios glimpsed passingly, the half-lengths of church-towers, and the fleeting facades of convents and palaces, all lovely in the mild afternoon light.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

But outside a great storm was raging, and blowing so hard that he could scarcely keep his feet; houses and trees toppled over, the mountains trembled, rocks rolled into the sea, the sky was pitch black, and it thundered and lightened, and the sea came in with black waves as high as church-towers and mountains, and all with crests of white foam at the top.

Household Tales 2003

On the church-towers, where the bells had been, there were fires flickering, and white forms of men, the noise of a heavy drum, then again, the chant.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The sun shone brightly, and all the bells in the church-towers were pealing; the people were dressed in their best clothes, and were going to church, with their hymn books under their arms, to hear the minister preach.

The Yellow Fairy Book 2003

As the road rises we get views of the broad valley, with its lakes and green meadows, and the great white haciendas with their clumps of willows, their church-towers, and the clusters of adobe huts surrounding them -- like the peasants 'cottages in feudal Europe, crowding up to the baron's castle.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

So we find that the first church-towers that arose in such

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

Morwenstow vicarage is curious for its chimneys, which Hawker himself designed from church-towers in his neighbourhood and at Oxford.

The Cornwall Coast