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Examples
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Eggs aer rownd, nawt spyres, sew kitteh will nebber egg spyre.
shelf life? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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February 9th, 2010 at 4:25 am water storage tanks at the BOTTOM of the spyre?
The Gyre: A Floating Underwater Eco-Skyscraper | Inhabitat 2010
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Eftsoon so too will our own sphoenix spark spirt his spyre and sunward stride the rampante flambe.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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At the sight whereof immediatly, my hayre stood right vp, and I would haue cryed out, but could not: and presently the Woolfe ranne away: wherevpon returning to my selfe, and casting my eyes towards the wooddie mountaines, which seemed to ioyne themselues together, beeing looked vnto a farre off, I sawe the forme of a tower of an incredible heygth, with a spyre vnperfectlie appearing, all being of very auncient forme and workemanship.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Wythe pillars large, and spyre full hyghe and rounde.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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The talle chyrche-spyre upon the grene shalle bende;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Thro some tall spyre the shaftes in a torn clevis flie.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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No aid yet for six million flood victims in Pakistan - UN photo: Creative Commons/DrJunge photo: Public Domain/FireLyte -- spyre photo: Creative Commons/Traveller
WN.com - Articles related to US clutches at flood relief opportunities 2010
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Pakistan flood victims return to their homes photo: Public Domain/FireLyte -- spyre
WN.com - Articles related to Pakistan to seek IMF help for flood-battered economy 2010
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