84 Verbs to Use for the Word spire

The curtain was indistinct, but we knew it to be the Stratford Church and we dimly saw its spire.

At last, in the far distance there rose the spires and roofs of Brussels.

Little it profits to build the spire, the sea-wall, the dome, the bridge, the myriad-roofed town.

The brightest of sunshine gilded the spires and steeples of the village.

Soon after, the cathedral of Cologne appears, more grand than either,but left unfinished,with its central aisle forty-four feet in width, rising one hundred and forty feet into the air, with its colossal towers, intended to support the slender openwork spires, five hundred and twenty feet in height.

When this beauteous phenomena was gleaming in the horizon, and shooting up its spires of colored light far into the deep blue sky, bow ardently did Henrich desire the presence of his sisterof his Edith who used to share his every feeling, and sympathize in all him love and reverence for the works of God!

And when the day has journeyed to its rest, Lo, as I listen, from the amber west, Where the great organ lifts its glowing spires, There sounds the chanting of the unseen choirs.

The W. tower carries a lead spire.

Their footing was a lap of level not more than thirty yards in length by ten in breadth, strewn with pebbles and bowlders, and showing not one spire of vegetation.

Beyond the easternmost edge of the plateau stood great spires of stone, a dozen in all, several hundred feet high, and of solid granite.

I once ascended the spire of Strasburg Cathedral, which is the highest, I think, in Europe.

Pa said all he remembered was that the air ship was sailing over the town, and they threw him out for ballast, and he struck a church spire and bounded onto a warehouse filled with dynamite, which exploded when he struck it, and the neighbors picked his remains up on a dustpan and emptied them in here, Then he asked if his head was on straight, and the circusmen took him away to the hospital tent.

And the two spies went back alive to their mountains again, and as they reached them the first ray of the sun came up red over the desert behind Merimna and lit Merimna's spires.

For him sod-seats the cottage-door adorn; And peeps the far-off spire, his evening bourn!

Above the portico is a Corinthian peristyle, the base of which is also that of a fluted cone, which forms the spire, and is terminated in an acute point.

The next day at twelve o'clock we perceived the spires of Munich, and at two anchored close to one of the bridges from whence, having hired a wheelbarrow to trundle my portmanteau, I repaired to the inn called the Golden CrossZum goldenen Kreutz.

Upon this tower, a Spanish architect has placed a tapering spire, one hundred feet high, which fortunately harmonizes with the general design, and gives the crowning grace to the work.

England once boasted the loftiest spire in the world, that of old St. Paul's, London, whose summit, five hundred and twenty feet from the ground, seemed to sail among the highest clouds; but the great fire of 1666 destroyed it, and Sir Christopher's stately metropolitan dome now rises in its place.

Sure enough, after a few preliminary shellsa sort of here-we-come salvothe head of the German column had entered, and a party of staff officers, for purposes of reconnaissance, immediately mounted the spire of the only remaining church.

But lo! on ocean's stormy breast I see majestic VENICE rest; While round her spires the billows rave, Inverted splendours gild the wave.

I counted the church-spires that threaded the vault of night a little of the upward way.

And well he knew the spire of Sarum; And he had been where Lincoln bell Flings o'er the fen that ponderous knell A far-renowned alarum.

It lacked a spire and a cross, and the front door was gone, so we could see the wrecked altar and the splintered pews within.

The 'Ready about,' and soon after the 'Mainsail haul' of the pilot were answered by the cheering 'Ho, heave, ho' of the sailors, and, with the fairest wind that ever blew, we fast left the spires and shores of the great city behind us.

Far below him, looking like two-legged hats, so foreshortened they were from the aeronaut's point of view, were the people of Paris, while in front loomed the tall steel spire of the Eiffel Tower.

84 Verbs to Use for the Word  spire