| 单词 | church tower |
| 例句 | He’s even thinking about redoing old paintings, such as The Potato Eaters, and, if Theo likes, one of the old church tower at Nuenen, The Peasants Churchyard’ He thinks he can make something better now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Stop telling her such stories!” whispered Mo. He and Elinor never took their eyes off the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Once, she even thought she saw its pale church tower in a dark fold of the hills, and her heart beat faster though she knew that it couldn't possibly be Capricorn’s church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Not a sound was heard from the guard up in the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Even the guard at the top of the church tower could at least watch the show from a distance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Towering above the housetops and the trees of the town was the church tower. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Around two o’clock, Frightful’s church tower vibrated in the high wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Eventually, after many church towers had come and gone, the pigeons’ plans became so ambitious that it took an exceedingly long time to find a human intelligent enough to carry them out. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The moon hung pale in the sky above the church tower, and the night wore a veil of moonlight when the Magpie came back to fetch Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Behind them the church tower rose high above the rooftops, and there was nothing now to shield them from the sentry's eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I’m going to climb the church tower and cut the tongues out of those bells myself,” Eliza grumbled as she beat a dozen eggs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Heart thudding, he ran to the corner of the big house and looked up at the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There were moments every day when Carmen’s heart seemed to be crumbling apart, like the church tower in her village after the quake. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z The only other building that rose above the housetops to compete with the church tower was the yellow top of the schoolhouse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin looked up in amazement, for there, rising high against the racing clouds, stood a town with a church tower and castle complete. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She seemed to know a story about every church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “So far we have come safely. Soon Sir Hugh’s men will encircle the town. By then we shall be in the church tower to give the signal for attack.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Is it near to the village, where yon church tower stands?” asked Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Tea Cake with his shy grin and Motor Boat with his face like a little black cherubim just from a church tower doing amazing things with anybody’s dice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She knew a church tower well, found one of the open windows, and walked in. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It blurred the trees and buildings of the town, it hid the church tower and the schoolhouse top. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “See that man on watch up there?” he whispered, pointing to the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Frightful stayed in her church tower, Drum settled closer to the bole of the tupelo tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Long strings hang from bells hidden in the ceiling, rung by the performers as if in a church tower. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z X-rays have revealed that underneath the painting is another work, which is presumed to be an old church tower that the artist often painted and drew. For Vulnerable Art, Help Making a Fresh Start 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z His church towers do not lean back into the sky as they would if you were looking up at them or seeing a photograph made in a single shot. Viewing Europe’s Houses of Worship in Wild Detail 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Two miles away, a church tower stood on a hill, the houses of the little country town climbing assiduously up to it. The top 10 literary works about ancestors 2013-07-17T13:50:01Z Pardon my spoiler, but the church tower is magnificently devastated, and the town is saved. Wonder Woman Review: Patty Jenkins's Hard-Won Wisdom 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Among the New York contemporary music scene’s best-kept secrets, this group continues its mission to present music from the last 10 years or so, in the unusual setting of a church tower in Morningside Heights. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Legend has it that while overseeing the construction of a grand church, their Czech great-great-grandfather once pushed a stonemason off a church tower to his death in Prague. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Many visitors come in search of the perfect selfie, with the lake, the slim pale grey church tower and the stunning mountain scenery as a backdrop. Hallstatt: Austrian town protests against mass tourism 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z A woman has been rescued from the top of the highest church tower in Cornwall. Woman rescued from top of church tower in Cornwall 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Meanwhile in Edinburgh's west end, a peal of bells rang out at St Mary's Episcopal cathedral, which has Scotland's only twelve bell church tower. Scotland celebrates the Coronation of King Charles 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z A video taken by a panicking witness showed parts of an old stone church tower peeling off and falling in a cloud of dust on a hilltop. Strong earthquake kills 4, injures dozens in northern Philippines 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z The real fort had, except for a 17th-century church tower, gone the way of a Sir Walter Scott romance. Opinion | Is Jamestown worth saving? 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Images on social media showed that in nearby Hellinghausen, a steeple had been ripped off the roof of a church tower, with the rubble scattered in the churchyard. Tornado in Germany injures 43 people, police say 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z Mechanical clocks make it even better, and then you get public clocks—clocks on church towers with bells that ring out the hours. How Measuring Time Shaped History 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Holed up in the church tower and from its roof, they tried to defend the town against the incursion, leaving the church filled with bullet holes. In Mexico, a cartel is taking over: Jalisco New Generation 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z I kept thinking of the storks in the church towers of almost every Extremaduran town. Tabula Rasa: Volume One 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Paul Revere signalled the approach of the British at the start of the war by ordering two lanterns to be placed in a Boston church tower. The story of Trump's 'airport' revolution 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z As parishioners strive to make St. Patrick’s church tower stretch farther toward the heavens, the construction project serves spiritual symbolism well. Century-old Nebraska church to get new steeple 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z As it turned out, residents had organized a self-styled festival of intercultural understanding in the town’s idyllic main square, beneath a round church tower. How a German Teen’s Death Has Become a Political Weapon 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z In one case in northern Germany, where authorities prevaricated, local residents took matters into their own hands, broke into the church tower and removed the swastika with an angle grinder. A swastika on a church bell: Village splits on how to confront Nazi past 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The birds, which can live for decades, have settled comfortably in the city’s rooftops, church towers and ancient ruins. When in Rome, Sea Gulls Do as They Please 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z In one case in northern Germany, where the authorities prevaricated, local residents took matters into their own hands, broke into the church tower and removed the swastika with an angle grinder. A Swastika on a Church Bell: A Village Splits on How to Confront Nazi Past 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z Out in West Flanders, where windmills and church towers dot the countryside, the flat polder land runs through the battlefields of World War One. Racing through Flanders Fields 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z The village heron lumbers past occasionally, and right now there’s a red kite circling over the church tower. Philip Pullman: ‘I use coloured pencils to show which key I’m writing in – D minor, at the moment’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The Pixel’s is the most muted, having kept the most detail in that bright white church tower without losing any in the shadows of the buildings. This is the best smartphone camera of 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z They eclipsed church towers, famous views and, occasionally, the sun. Too Big to Sail? A Plan for Venice’s Cruise-Ship Armada 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z A daughter in the state of Guerrero, one of the areas most impacted, told her by phone that she’d seen a church tower collapse. Need information about loved ones in Mexico? Or just want to help? 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Officials charged with the maintenance of a historic Ulm Minster church tower in Germany complain that local revelers are damaging the integrity of the building by urinating on the structure’s stone walls, CNN reported Wednesday. ‘Wildpinkler,’ public urination, is literally eroding a historic church tower in Germany: Report 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It will be expensive, but Klein says he is looking forward to restoring elements such as the church tower’s boarded-up windows, which are visible from blocks away, to their former glory. Converting churches to condos brings logistical, social challenges 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The list is endless: ladders, boat hooks, looms, crutches, umbrella handles, bell stays in church towers, catapults, and arrows. Trees That Advanced Civilization Are Now Threatened 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z And a church tower in Denny was damaged after it was struck by lightning. Lightning storms hit parts of Scotland after hottest day - BBC News 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z His initials are depicted in the cobbles where he met his end while a face purported to be his was said to have melted into a stone on nearby St Salvator's church tower. Patrick Hamilton: Recreating the trial of the first Scottish martyr - BBC News 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z In the Alps, it’s still present in the shifting styles of church towers, village fountains, sheepcotes, hay barns. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The record is for the longest period ringing for 12 church tower bells in a method known as Cambridge Surprise Maximus. Bell-ringers in Somerset break 50-year-old bell-ringing record - BBC News 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Villagers who believe their church tower tilts more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa are hoping to see a rise in visitors after work to restore it. More tilt than Pisa tower could boost Dry Doddington visits - BBC News 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Villagers who believe their church tower tilts more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa are trying to get official confirmation. Dry Doddington church rivals Leaning Tower of Pisa - BBC News 2013-02-10T05:00:00Z Advertisement The remote control was on the floor in the church tower. As Albania Faces Serbia, Meeting the Drone Pilot Who Ended Their Last Match 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z In 2002 the Andalusian government banned the fiesta in Cazalilla, in which a live turkey is thrown from the church tower. 'We're a violent nation' – director tackles Spain's festival culture of animal cruelty 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The city of Yharnam, where you begin your brutal adventure, is a vast, dreadfully beautiful metropolis of jutting church towers and dark sewers, overcast by a melting sun, and later by the wondrous moon. 'Bloodborne' Review: Blood, Sweat And Nightmares 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z The team was called to free the unnamed victim from a church tower at Brailsford's All Saints Church after she injured her hip, as Amy Harris reports. Bell-ringer saved by mountain rescue 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The record they were trying to beat was for the longest duration of ringing for 12 church tower bells in a method known as Cambridge Surprise Maximus. Bell-ringing bid ends with clanger 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z No, it's not over for the Angels, but the guy in charge of the bell in the church tower is about to ring the death knell. Angels can't stand the heat in pressure cooker of Game 2 against Royals 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The bells in the 81-year-old church tower ring every 30 minutes, a harmonic, if striking, clangor that interrupts the usual hush enveloping a putting green. U.S. Open Coming to Merion, With All Its Bells and Whistles 2013-06-01T15:35:34Z In Boston, celebratory bells rang from a church tower after the capture. Boston pays its respects after bombings 2013-04-20T14:36:00Z “There are fewer than 35,000 left, which means there are fewer bistros than there are church towers.” Paris Journal: In France, Beer Lovers Chafe at Tax Increase Plans 2012-11-27T01:43:26Z More than 600 church tower beacons will also mark the occasion. Beacons to be lit to mark Jubilee 2012-06-04T03:44:23Z Religious buildings are also being encouraged to light a church tower beacon to mark the occasion. Diamond Jubilee: Guide to weekend 2012-05-30T00:56:13Z Then across the frosty air the parish clock fixed high in the church tower struck the hour of eleven. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Scarcely had the sounds died away, when out burst the bells in the church tower, the ringers having raced off to set them going as soon as ever the result was known. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The four great characteristics of Malta are soldiers, priests, goats, and bells—the latter not being confined to the necks of the goats, but jangling at all hours from the many church towers. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Here they had raised a rough barricade at the end of the street towards the country, and I saw a man on the church tower keeping watch. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z At noon bells in all the church towers were rung to the rhythm of "The Dead March in Saul." Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z For some time in the distance we saw the prominent church towers. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The blue mountains form a wide circle round it, and in the centre of the clustered houses a hill crowned with church towers rises grandly. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The church tower stands on the other side of a street. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z High against the church towers the great archway of the Porta Capuana, a fit gateway for the approach of kings. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Later the beautiful tower, which is unlike any other church tower in America, was painted black, lest it become a guiding beacon to the British fleet. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Thus in one landscape are united hardy uplands, leafy parks, a medi�val town with church towers and fortified castle, making a scene whose individuality is beyond beauty, whose profound charm never palls. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The Hall was built by Sir Nicholas de Tasburgh in the time of bluff King Hal, and the church tower is said to be Saxon. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z One can scarcely get out of sight of a church tower in any thickly settled, level country. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z But the bell, from the old church tower, begins to toll. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z The enemy knocked down the Albert church tower, the tower of the golden Virgin, who had bent head downward over that ruined city with her babe outstretched. Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 2012-02-04T03:00:16.443Z Looking eastwards from the Castle Hill, we see a wide, open green stretching from the further bank of the river, and beyond it a low church tower rising amid trees. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The soft wind brought to her ears the chimes of the clock in the great church tower at Ludsey. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The nearest neighbour to the church is the almost equally ancient “Six Bells” inn, which took its title from the ring of bells in the church tower. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z He went to the window again, and looked across the garden and the park to where the church tower showed between the trees. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The long, narrow, rectangular tower of St. Buryan, crowned with pinnacles, dominates all the landscape; exactly of this pattern are most of the Cornish church towers. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z That was the opinion of Travis and two ranger officers up in the church tower. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z The gratitude of Alice Arden has established her in the prosperous little Yorkshire town, the steep roof, chimneys, and church tower of which are visible, among the trees, from the windows of Arden Court. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z There yet remain a few ancient cottages in Crawley, and the grey, embattled church tower lends an assured antiquity to the view; but there is, in especial, one sixteenth-century cottage worthy notice. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The forest of spires thronged the air with strange stone flowers, silvered by moonlight as though white fire streamed from branch and petal; the old church towers soared; the cathedral touched the stars. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The church tower must have formed a mark for generations to men of the sea. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z Flags are floating gaily on the fort, on the little church tower, and on every eminence in or near the town, and the beach and snow-clad rocks are lined with an excited crowd. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z The church towers in Cornwall are for the most part square without buttresses, and with four pinnacles. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z The existence of Bolney itself is only hinted at by the pinnacles of its church tower peering over the topmost branches of distant trees. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z The town lay beneath and behind; an old church tower just glimpsed above tall bare elms. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Pastoral country is dear to him, and homesteads and flowering orchards, or villages with church tower half hidden by the elms, are part of his home country, the country he draws best. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z Here, again, the 74th Native Infantry distinguished themselves by their remarkable bravery, and once more their colour was displayed from the church tower as a recognition of their valuable and loyal services. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z Nodding assent, and directing his looks toward the church tower of “Our Lady,” in which were hung the alarm bells, the latter replied, “And know you what hangs within yonder tower?” Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z I thought I was falling from the church tower. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z It builds in old ruins, church towers, and rocky eminences, in which particular it differs from the rooks and the crows, who select the topmost branches of trees for this purpose. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Early in the morning a merry peal is sounding from the old church tower, and many hands are busy in decorating with flowers and evergreens arches placed at intervals between the church and the Hall. Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church 2011-11-11T03:00:36.693Z Among the architectural curiosities of the two counties may be noted the church tower of Kirkoswald. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z In Ica, which was devastated by the magnitude-8 quake in 2007, a cathedral wall and church tower collapsed, along with several mud brick buildings, said Juan Carlos Romani, a spokesman for the city council. Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake Rattles Peru Near 2007 Tragedy 2011-10-28T20:48:01Z He runs to the next house, drags the first man he comes across, who is sound asleep, out of bed, carries him to the church tower, and throws him down, head over heels. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z From the church tower, Reader, you can see beyond the mill and the long water meadows the little hamlet of Swale. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The mass of warm yellowish tint scintillating in the brilliancy of a Mediterranean sun takes shape, and the eye by degrees separates long terraced rows of buildings, church towers and domes from one another. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z It was a lovely summer’s evening; tall trees and a church tower not far off stood out dark against a crimson sky, for the sun had but just gone down. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Perhaps I might try a jump from the old church tower some fine day. Fast Nine or, A Challenge from Fairfield 2011-09-22T02:00:24.220Z The triangulation points may either be natural objects presenting themselves in suitable positions, such as church towers; or they may be objects specially constructed in stone or wood on mountain tops or other prominent ground. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z And his eyes passed beyond her to the familiar picture he knew so well, of Riff beyond the river, and the low church tower, and the old house among the trees. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z We were just over a quaint town with a curious church tower. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z ‘He went up into the church tower before you.’ Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z Several times each week he heard sacred music sung from the church tower. Stories of Great Musicians 2011-09-10T02:00:28.157Z He sent old Cserey up to the top of the church tower that he might keep a good look-out, and come and tell his master the moment he saw troops approaching. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The moon was not yet risen, and the church tower and the twisted pines stood as if cut out of black velvet against the dim pearl of the eastern sky. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z There was no sound on the air save the sighing of the wind, the low murmur of a dynamo, and the occasional clear quiet chime of a clock in the village church tower. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Around the house, and towering above the tiles, the elms stood as still against the evening sky as the square church tower but a little way to the right. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z "See, the church tower is gleaming in the moonlight." The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Its melancholy music gets somehow stamped on the brain of nearly all of us, and lends a poetic halo to every old graveyard that has the shadow of a church tower slanted over it. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z The sun had vanquished the mist, and lay warmly on the clustered cottages and the grey church tower, and on the old red and blue façade of Hulver among its hollies. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z It was the second day after the fête, and the bell in the Congregational church tower had just struck two. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z It is an ample structure with a church tower of bistre which forms a most pleasing note of colour in the landscape. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z From the church tower came solemn music unbroken. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z How came the jackdaw to make its nest on church towers in the first place? Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z From their constant selection of church towers as breeding p. 110places, may we not suppose that these birds have ears for music, or may even practice singing amongst their family parties, to the accompanying chimes? Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z She spoke in a low and thrilling contralto, a voice that had a ron-ron in it, something like the pulsing whisper of a bell after it has been rung in a church tower. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z At last the church tower of Heiligkreuz rose up before her, and from thence a giddy path led high over the torrent to a solitary group of houses on the farther side of the ravine. The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] 2011-07-25T02:00:17.960Z The bells are now ringing in the Christmas festival at home; I can hear the sound of them swinging out through the air from the church towers. The Romance of Polar Exploration Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the ?Discovery? 2011-07-22T02:00:16.487Z I thought the approach to the island very pretty on a still summer morning: quaint houses and church towers climbing the hill among trees and gardens, with a foreground of white sails and blue sea. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z I am twenty-six feet square, and I am also one of the tallest church towers in Norwich. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z “It was Harry Linney got teasing him, sir, and betting him he couldn’t climb up the outside of the church tower.” Adventures of Working Men From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon 2011-07-07T02:00:30.453Z From every church tower in the canton round sounded the dismal peal of warning, and the bells rang out quite distinctly, "Incendiary, incendiary." The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] 2011-07-25T02:00:17.960Z The bells from the church towers tolled out the mournful news, and the Church Hulk sent up to Heaven a requiem on behalf of poor Ben. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Presently the chimes from a hidden church tower pealed forth their sweet message to the world. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z A group of touring bellringers were locked in a North Yorkshire church tower by an irate villager who took offence at their noise. VIDEO: Bellringers barricaded over noise 2011-06-02T14:09:42Z One of the big guns gave tongue with a roar that seemed to make the church tower quiver above us. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z The clocks in all the church towers struck; scarcely a single house remained uninjured; numerous chimneys fell in, and the furniture and utensils in the rooms were overthrown and broken. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z A grey church tower, a windmill, or the dark-brown sail of a wherry in the distance breaks the sense of utter loneliness, but the scene is wild enough to enchain the imagination of many. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z "The church tower!" breathed the girl, after a moment. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z The blue curling smoke rose from the distant town into the clear afternoon air, the sun shone on the old church tower, the hills lay in soft violet shadow. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z What a host of ugly church towers have we in England, with pinnacles at the corners, and none in the middle! The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z The wind seemed to sigh through the trees and to howl about the church tower as he recited the mystic verse. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z The clock in the church tower in the market-place beyond was striking nine. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z No other music between heaven and earth is so touching and elevating, as the pealing chimes from church towers. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z They passed under an old church tower that rose white in the moonlight above them. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Between their tendrils, between the branches of the strong tea-rose and the Virginia creeper's autumn fires, one catches friendly glimpses of the church tower and the park, and the gentle deer. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Hark! from the old church tower Rings loud and clear, on the wintry air, The chime of the midnight hour. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z And from where he knelt Dan lifted his eyes, and by the light of the torches he saw the clock in the church tower; the hands still stood at five. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z It was all blurred, so that I could not see the white ruins of Zonnebeke as I saw them the other day in the sunlight, nor the broken church tower of Passchendaele. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Only the lime-tree showed faintly, and the church tower, glistening as the rays of the sun played upon it. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z The evening hour struck from the church tower of the little town on the shore. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z Sometimes the minister asks Claudius to play the chimes in his church tower which call the people to the services. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z All the young people," she said, "are burning to climb the church tower. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The church towers in both those villages still stand, though a little damaged, and some of the red roofs are still intact. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z Six o’clock could be heard striking from a score of church towers—every stroke as if the hammer were driving a nail into my heart! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z As she finished, the big bell in the church tower struck nine. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z The clock in the church tower struck six as she let herself out into the dewy freshness of the garden. Abington Abbey A Novel 2011-01-30T03:00:14.557Z And as they went through the street, he called her attention again to the church tower in a voice that seemed to her to be inexplicably charged with significance. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z He liked towers better, because the old church towers, he said, were like little laps, ready to catch God's blessing. Half-Past Bedtime 2011-01-23T03:00:13.247Z "You lazy fellows!" returned I; "give me the great clockwork out of a church tower, perhaps I might be able to relieve your labors." The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z From that he ran a wireless network, with transmitters in the church tower and one, powered by solar panels, on a dead tree to reach the outlying farms. How Cumbria's village halls are pioneering a hi-tech revolution 2011-01-02T00:05:32Z His gaze rested on the church towers of the old city, which resembled awkward, faithful, sleepy watchmen looking down on the wide-spreading clusters of house tops. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z "We'll go through the town and look at the ruins of the old castle beyond the church," said Mr. Magnet to Marjorie, "and then I want you to see the view from the church tower." Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z This the most southern parish in England has a curious church tower, the admixture of light granite and dark serpentine giving it a chequer-board appearance. Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z It increased till it was as big as a church tower, and decreased again till it was as small as a star; then enlarged again and decreased as before; and this it did several times. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Children play it under the church tower bell with their grandfathers. Rome Journal: Shedding the Collar to Lace Up Cleats 2010-06-16T02:36:00Z The skyline is pierced by minarets and church towers. 2010-02-01T00:55:00Z I want very much," said Mr. Magnet in Marjorie's ear and very confidentially, "to show you the view from the church tower. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z I can hear their sound as it swings through the air from the church tower. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 He gave a wild glance at the grey church tower looming—frowning, it seemed—cold and depressing. A Poached Peerage The church tower rose dark and forbidding against the sky, and the parsonage, too, remained silent and dark. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers In the E. E. style church towers were often crowned by low spires, becoming more lofty as the style advanced. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Then he became aware that the church tower frothed with his daughters. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Towering above these rose a lovely church tower, splendid with Gothic windows, rich ornamentation and an openwork parapet, with a small round turret at one corner. Glories of Spain His glance, however, travelled no farther than the church tower; anyhow, it could hardly have reached the other landmark which was five miles off. A Poached Peerage The clock in the church tower struck one. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Watchmen were placed on the church towers and elevations of the plain, who gave signals if troops were visible in the distance. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. Far off, between terraces of sand and the slopes of San Cristobal, one could make out the church towers of Lima. The Tempering Its church towers stand out conspicuously on the summit of the rock on whose slopes much of the town is built. Glories of Spain This occurred just as the bells rang out from all the church towers in the city, and a shout of joy from a hundred thousand throats announced the arrival of the advance guard. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II For a while he stood to contemplate this quiet scene, then started and glanced up at the church tower as a deep-toned bell began to chime the hour of midnight. Our Admirable Betty A Romance Roy and Chub were running fourth and fifth as they left the woods and found themselves on the edge of a wheat field with the church tower of Carroll a half a mile away. The Crimson Sweater Finally at some little distance off a clock in a church tower struck eight. The Loves of Ambrose Soon after this all the church towers and steeples of Valencia came into view. Glories of Spain The church tower, between choir and nave, has a Romanesque base, while the floor in slight recess and the spire are from the late 15th or early 16th century. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album It seemed that from some church tower far away a clock struck the hour of midnight when the sledge at last came to a halt. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel I climbed up to the top of the church tower to-day, and oh, the tulips in your garden, and oh, the emptiness of that garden notwithstanding! Plashers Mead A Novel On coming out I took out my watch to regulate it by the clock in the church tower. Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 I was already beginning to weary of expectancy, when I perceived, from the movement on the house-tops and the church tower, that something was going forward within the view of those stationed there. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The first floor and spire of the church tower. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album Jenny had no desire to talk to men, and if lanky youths with large tie-pins saluted her by the stage door, she passed on with her nose as high as a church tower. Carnival Half past ten struck from the church tower, and Guy became desperate. Plashers Mead A Novel Here and there red roofs clustering around a grey church tower, whose sparkling vane flashes in the sun; here and there a solitary thatch. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising It was a delightfully picturesque and retired place, with its one long steep street, and flat massive church tower; and seemed to deserve all the encomium which Bindley had bestowed upon it. A Veldt Vendetta The church tower - with its saddleback roof, its balustrade and its gargoyles - emerges above the roofs of the village. Romanesque Art in Southern Manche: Album They chattered like jackdaws about a church tower. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The Prince did no more than to order old Cserei to keep watch in the church tower and let them know when he saw the troops moving. The Golden Age in Transylvania Yonder is the town of Westbury with its factory chimneys and massive church tower in their midst,—below us the busy railway-station, and immense iron-stone quarry,—in front the great furnaces. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Just then, as the clock in the church tower struck twelve, Kay said, "Oh, something has struck my heart!" and soon after, "There is certainly something in my eye." Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series Every one in town says that the bells in our church tower are remarkable. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself Up at the top it was like the top of the church tower, only octagenarian in shape, instead of square. The Wouldbegoods The clocks of the church towers struck the midnight hour. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist She awoke to discover day was breaking, and a pealing of bells from some distant church tower was announcing the fact. The Mountain Girl The stairs are as broad as the staircase of a castle and as steep as if they led to a church tower. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series The sun was not shining into my room yet, but on the church tower it glowed like a fire. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself To-day there is only an old church tower to show where it stood. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read The poor monks were much edified by the sight of the patriarchal letter, and when I went away rang the bells of the church tower to do me honour. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant They only could not see why the law should take such a time to doubt and puzzle over a fact which to them all was as clear as the weather-vane on their church tower. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Presently, even the rising and falling murmur of voices ceased, but still the figure in the shadow of the church tower did not stir. Under Boy Scout Colors You could even see plainly a Calvinistic chanticleer on one of the church towers! Heathen Master Filcsik The market is a good two hours' journey from our hut, and the direction is marked by the church tower. Eyes Like the Sea The streets reeled; the houses fell; church towers dashed down in thunder across his path. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 She was between two villages, and only a straggling farm or two at either side broke the distant view; a grey church tower caught the sun far away. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon I have a photograph of Haddington church tower, and my father's tombstone in it—of every place I ever lived at as a home—photographs of old lovers! old friends, old servants, old dogs! A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Near by, all but hidden among trees in yon lovely hollow, lies an old, old hamlet, its brown roofs decked with golden lichen; I see the low church tower, and the little graveyard about it. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Every one hastened in the direction of the Calvinist church tower. Eyes Like the Sea Here, on the brow of a slope, they perceived the walls and the church tower of what seemed to be a small town. The Missourian A Trold lived in a barrow between two church towers, about a mile from each other. A Danish Parsonage Rain has beat all day on that church tower. Shirley The clock in a distant church tower chimed twelve. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly All the other church towers were in ashes, this one alone remained. Eyes Like the Sea As for Church Row, as most people know, it is an avenue of Dutch red-faced houses, leading demurely to the old church tower, that stands guarding its graves in the flowery churchyard. A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen He says he cannot bear the two ding-dong danging church towers.' A Danish Parsonage He followed the movements of the birds round the church tower—making long sweeps, hanging poised, or turning airy somersaults in fancy, and beating the wind with imaginary pinions. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) With the break of day the bells awoke in the church towers throughout the old city, and began to peal forth their noisy reminder of the virility of the Holy Catholic faith. Carmen Ariza The sound of the clock in the Calvinist church tower mingled with the peal of the alarm-bells. Eyes Like the Sea As builders and designers of church towers the masons of the Perpendicular era have never been approached, and all our finest English towers are of this style and period. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them In Carlslunde church tower there is a bas-relief of a lamb, to show that a living lamb was buried there when the church was built. A Danish Parsonage When the sky was serene and the atmosphere clear, the boys used to climb to the very peak of the old moss and vine covered church tower. Friars and Filipinos An Abridged Translation of Dr. Jose Rizal's Tagalog Novel, 'Noli Me Tangere.' On my way home to lunch I glanced at the clock in the church tower and saw that it was an hour ahead of time, having been made to coincide with Teuton pendulums. Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium The burning town was a grand illumination; in the midst of it was the Calvinist church tower—only it was now not one tower, but three. Eyes Like the Sea Our maps showed that the church tower was in the village of Erches. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone Now lean forward, and look away to the left a little way from the church tower. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam The position of an intended sun-dial having been selected—whether on church tower, south front of farmstead or garden wall—the surface must be prepared, if necessary, to receive the hour-lines. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Of all amusements, that in which he had most delighted had been in ringing the bells in Elstow church tower. Bunyan Farther away, small villages, each with its church tower, add interest to the scene, while the mellow notes of distant bells mingle and float upon the air. Aztec Land As a matter of fact I do not approve of the hoisting of flags on the church tower. The Red Hand of Ulster Between the church and the beach rose a high hillock covered with grass, and as high as the church tower. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose More than anything else, it reminded me of the boom of some ivy-clad church tower, warning the world without unseemly haste that another hour had, with leisurely completeness, accomplished itself. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences And at that moment, from the old church tower A knell resounded—"Man to his long home" Drew near. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 Attached to it is a tower, interesting as being the only Manoelino church tower now existing. Portuguese Architecture There certainly was a flag flying from the church tower. The Red Hand of Ulster He built a church tower with his blocks, like the tower he could see shooting up above the low roofs. Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly On the left was the whole black agitation of colliery and railway and the town which rose on its hill, the church tower topping all. The Rainbow But, most happily, the string of the kite caught in the vane on the top of the church tower, and the bicycle stopped by itself exactly opposite the butcher's boy to whom it belonged. Oswald Bastable and Others The next moment the huge black body broke through the seething foam with a lash of its tail, which, as Herrick said, "sounded like a church tower a-fallin' flat on an acre o' planks." Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Beyond was a fairy lake, where gondolas shot to and fro; a band was playing; from still farther away came a peal of chimes from a church tower. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series For a moment there were dim shadows of the wharves and the riverside houses, with a church tower dimmer still behind them, and then the billows of the fog descended and swallowed up all. Hurricane Island A few minutes before the hour for the service, when the bells had begun to roll out their invitations from the three church towers, the procession started. The End of the Rainbow Some years after, when Louis Philippe had ascended the throne of France, he sent a clock to the church tower in Hamersfeldt, in graceful recognition of his hospitable reception there as a stranger. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series But Time had mowed down their sponsors, and Henry the Eighth had melted down their mugs; and they now hung, nameless and mugless, in the church tower. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others They asked the Cure, an old man, for the keys of the church tower and he refused to give them up to them. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders I stood on the bridge at midnight As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose over the city, Behind the dark church tower. English: Composition and Literature The Annals of Waverley record that in 1248 a youth fell by accident from the very parapet of the church tower to the ground without receiving the smallest injury. Highways and Byways in Surrey There was a blue sky, and the rooks and jackdaws were circling in a clear air about the church tower and over the old Market-Cross. The Chestermarke Instinct The town clocks, that is the clocks in church towers, are all going and were not injured by the water. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The above directions would mean to fire from the church tower as the centre, five hundred yards towards one o'clock from the tower. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders When, on a clear day, the children climb to the top stage of the moss-grown and vine-clad church tower, there are joyous exclamations. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere He was Stephen Elmer, and a picture of his, "The Last Supper," hangs in the church tower. Highways and Byways in Surrey I looked around me and espied a gray church tower. The Birthright I remember with delight a view I once enjoyed just after sunset from St. Michael's church tower, toward the eastern end of the city. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy At the last town where we were quartered they were being run out by the English, and they wanted the church tower for a machine gun position. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders The church tower showed the same clock with transparent face. An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Oxted church tower is noble and massive; a great content is about its quiet, solid battlements. Highways and Byways in Surrey They turned homeward at last, and as they caught sight of the church tower, Charlie said, "What did you think of doing this morning?" The Girls of St. Olave's Early in the afternoon the watchers who followed the march of the women from the rare church towers reported that they had crossed the Seine without opposition. Lectures on the French Revolution When we approached, the Germans were busy throwing coal boxes at the church tower, or what was left of it. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders The sun is always the strongest light, and whatever comes against it, church tower, rock, palace, or ship under full sail, is the darkest object. Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 On the 29th of May, sacred to King Charles II of blessed memory, an oak bough used to hang from the church tower; the tower is bare throughout the year. Highways and Byways in Surrey Guards were on duty in all parts of the city, in church towers and every place that would give any advantage in keeping a lookout for any indications of trouble. A Soldier in the Philippines Accordingly, he at last drew back from all men, and became a hermit; but the church tower is the only place in a great city where hermitage, office and bread can be found together. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen But the same bucolic mind which can see in the most graceful church tower in the kingdom “Boston Stump,” gives the name of “Sewer” to a stream pellucid enough to be a fount of Castaly. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Once the bell hung in the church tower; but now there is no trace left of the tower or of the church, which was called St. Alban's. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Then she commenced repeating in rich, mellow tones: I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose over the city Behind the dark church tower. Stories of Authors, British and American Maker church tower was used as a signalling station during the French wars, in connection with another at Mount Wise; there is now a regular signal station at Rame Head. The Cornwall Coast Once the Bell hung in the church tower; but now there is no trace left of the tower or of the church, which was called St. Alban's. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen In the meantime more big clocks began to be put up on the church towers. Christopher and the Clockmakers Accordingly he at last drew back from all men, and became a hermit; but the church tower is the only place in a great city where hermitage, office, and bread can be found together. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Look how clear and steady the light of that star is, just over the church tower. Tom Brown at Oxford No four walls for him to settle down into; all levelled and burnt out, the villages turned into dumps of rubbish, churches and church towers laid out in ruins. Where the Souls of Men are Calling The storm swept over the town, carrying plenty of chimneys with it, and more than one proud weathercock on a church tower had to bow, and has never got over it from that time. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Mounted on the summit of an old church tower, a photographic artist obtained a good negative of the contest. The Story of the Kearsarge and Alabama Presently, too, to her horror she saw that the creature was growing bigger and bigger, and higher and higher; soon he shot up above the trees, then he was as high as the church tower. Cornwall's Wonderland The battery a hundred yards to the north of that ruined church tower. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War In London, persons who have got drunk are wont to mount a church tower, for the sake of exercise, and to ring the bells for several hours. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities It was the hour of the mother's sorrow, when there pealed forth from the church tower the sound of festive bells. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen It was on a New Year's day that I again ascended to the church tower. The Sand-Hills of Jutland Even the church towers showed like spires of thistledown, and the winding streets, which ran beside clear walls and dark shining gardens, trailed off from the ground into the silvery air. Virginia From a church tower in the town came the stroke of a clock. Simon At times, when low the water falls, The sailor sees the broken walls; The church tower peeps from out the sand, Like to the finger of a hand. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities There, to the NE. was the little town, sunlit and brilliantly white, with the church tower rising in the middle and the heather-topped cloud-capped hills behind. A Poor Man's House "This is the story of the glasses," said Olé, the watchman of the church tower; "and it applies both to those who use blacking, and to those who use only grease." The Sand-Hills of Jutland Now and again they could obtain a distant view of Grey Town, a blue smoke hanging about its roofs and church towers. Grey Town An Australian Story Six o'clock had chimed from the church tower, and already the sun's rays were falling slantwise across the water, and tingeing the kingly heights of Arran with a royal purple radiance. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls She shook her head, and glanced away from me—up at the old Gothic church tower, and then said hurriedly: "I must hurry on now, Gloria—I am wanted—at home." Fifty-Two Stories For Girls “The work of restoring the church tower at Cheriton Bishop has been completed, and Mr. Leach has been completed, and Mr. W. Leach has entertained the men engaged on the work at tea.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 "It is nine o'clock," she said, desperately, as they passed a lighted church tower. Vagabondia 1884 Skulls piled roof high in the vault beneath the church tower supply the only show thing Hythe possesses. Faces and Places "A church tower is something;—but I meant as to Beamingham Hall." Ralph the Heir He sat on the end of the bed, and gazed out on the veil of rain, slanting across the square church tower and the sky. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 "What's this?" asked Paul, pointing to a beautiful iron canopy in Gothic style, near the foot of the church tower. Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim Suddenly a shot rang out from the church tower above them. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France The bell in the church tower has struck eleven; the lights in the windows die out, slowly, one by one. The Goose Man The night was bright with stars, but there was no moon in the heavens, and the gloom of the old ivy-coloured church tower was complete. Ralph the Heir When the dial and the gnomon were understood, dialling became a popular science, and ere long the sundial on the church tower, in a public place, or in a private garden, told the time. Chats on Household Curios See that little village nestling on the hillside! see the old grey church tower almost hidden by the trees! "The Pomp of Yesterday" When we were in sight of the roofs and the church towers of the capital, he slackened his step to walk beside me. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille She heard the bell up in the nearby church tower strike twelve—and then one—and then two. The Goose Man Between it and the observing station was a church tower, twelve miles distant, and on this station an ordinary reflector was fixed, while the hill itself was seventy miles distant. A Yacht Voyage Round England So he pushed on by land to view the falls, ten or a dozen in number, each as high above the other as a church tower. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography I'm going to take you all up the church tower to get a bird's-eye view of the town. A harum-scarum schoolgirl The vicar of St. Thomas's Church, Exeter—at that time situated outside the walls—one of the leaders, was hanged from his own church tower. Exeter About 1857, or perhaps a year or two later, the unseemly custom was transferred from the church to the churchyard, the bread and cheese being thrown down from the church tower. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Facing Falmouth we could see Flushing, and church towers and villas on the shores of the river Fal away to the northward. A Yacht Voyage Round England Hence you hear of practised travellers, when they first come into a place, mounting some high hill or church tower, by way of reconnoitring its neighbourhood. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Far behind your right shoulder rise the spires of Rouen; away to the left is the church tower of Darnétal; in the opposite horizon the great slope of St. Catherine rises to the sky. The Story of Rouen Wakes were likewise very popular, and also the game of fives, so that at Ruerdean one side of the church tower was whitewashed for the purpose, and resorted to even on Sundays. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account Some domes are of respectable height, but none approach that of many of our church towers and steeples. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 Mr Grey might as well set about persuading the old church tower to go with him: and so he found. Deerbrook Down in the village lights faded from window and cabin; a cavalryman, signaling from the church tower, whirled his flaming torch aside and picked up a signal flag. Special Messenger The little bell in the church tower rang! Peter the Priest He was extremely ugly just then, ugly as the weather-worn gargoyle on some mediæval church tower; but his eyes were curiously compelling. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He paid as little attention to the tongue of the Leather-bell as he did to the clapper of the bell that hung in the church tower, perhaps less. The Day of Wrath “Grandfather won’t go home ever, till they have done here,” said a great-grandchild of the old man, running up from his amusement of hooting to the owls in the church tower. Deerbrook From every church tower sparks of sound leap out on the expectant air, mingling and clashing with a thousand others; and the purple spires fling themselves to heaven with the joy of a perfect thought. Nights in London I accepted the old man's offer with joy, and took up my dwelling in the other turret of the church tower. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Suddenly four strokes ring out slowly from the church tower. Sac-Au-Dos 1907 Well! so they agreed they would climb up the old church tower, and get the young ones, which accordingly they did. Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island It was all forest hereabouts, except a clear space round the church tower. Deerbrook He heard the clanging of street-car gongs, and the hour chimed from a nearby church tower. The Dead Are Silent 1907 When nine o'clock rang from the church tower across the park she laid down her tools with an air of great content. Miss Pat at School From the city walls, the terraces of houses, the church towers, and every available height, thousands of curious sightseers witnessed the brave defence and the complete defeat of the Spaniards. The Philippine Islands Look at a wooden spire, and your companion shakes his head, and says that it has been so ever since the Cavaliers were blown up in the church tower! The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 She proceeded till she reached a bench, whence she could gaze upon the grey old church tower, rising between the intervening trees, and at the same time overlook Mr Rowland’s garden. Deerbrook Though visited by very few persons, yet the relic-hunters have removed all of the tombstones, and have attacked what remains of the church tower. Colonial Records of Virginia It was Grey who hung the priests in Oxfordshire from their church towers. The Reign of Mary Tudor January 22, Canadian artillery and platoon of infantry left of Nikolofskia at 6:30 a.m., spent the day there establishing helio communication between church towers, here and there. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 When the war was ended the triumphant Parliamentarians attempted to revenge themselves on their sturdy enemy, and searched the country for 'Bishop Lane, the Traytor,' who was driven to hide in his church tower. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts The church tower had been knocked out of shape. Pushed and the Return Push And, as of old, the twilight breezes crept in and out among the leaves of the lime-trees, and round the grey church tower. Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge Amongst other abominations, they had, on arrival, demanded of the old cur� the key of the church tower, on which they wished to put a Maxim. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 The air happened to be coming from the direction of the town, so that when the clock in the church tower struck the hour he could easily hear the sounds. The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck Just as we were coming to the top, our street made its first turn, a sharp one, and in the bend was a church tower with a wee door under it. Riviera Towns The grey church tower peeping above the lime trees, and the rooks cawing and wheeling above the old trees. The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year On the straight road leading to the Norman church tower! The Sins of Séverac Bablon Hadria looked thoughtfully towards the church tower, in whose shadow the mother of the babe lay sleeping. The Daughters of Danaus The mist has cleared off, and the moat is glistening in the moonlight, and the old trees are silvered over and blackened alternately by its beams; the church tower stands out massively against the sky. Kate Coventry An Autobiography The church tower survived, and has resisted for over four centuries storm and tempest, fire and siege. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys The bell of a neighboring church tower strikes the vesper hour. Children of the Tenements Even the exquisite church tower, which has the semblance of holding aloft a carved goblet of old silver, did not appeal to him as it would if he had not been preoccupied. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon Professor Theobald stood in the road facing up hill towards Craddock, whose church tower was visible from here, just peeping through the spring foliage of the vicarage garden. The Daughters of Danaus Almost under the shadow of the church tower stands the house in which Jeanne was born and bred. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 Keep her head for the old church tower, Walter. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors “Now, look yonder at that church tower at Gullick,” said Will. Menhardoc "Come, come, old lady, you are as strong as the church tower, and will live till you are a hundred at least; you will be sure to see me put underground first." The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories The distant view is still there, from the top of Everton church tower, but how wonderfully is all the foreground changed. Recollections of Old Liverpool My nose is as straight as—as the church tower.” The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender Through the branches of the pear-tree a little to the left appeared the church tower, and a glimpse here and there of grey and white tombstones in the churchyard. The Hawthorns A Story about Children It was a long, low room, with French windows, through which a pleasant old garden, with a wide lawn and shady trees, glimpses of red roofs beyond, and a church tower, could be seen. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls This chantry stood within the memory of "the oldest inhabitant;" but it was pulled down by the owner of the land appertaining to the chantry, and of its materials was built the church tower. Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The instant we turned, we beheld the church tower give way, on the south-west side, and immediately afterwards the spire fell with a frightful and appalling crash into the body of the building. Recollections of Old Liverpool With the rents of the land bread and cheese were purchased, and thrown from the church tower to poor people on the Sunday before Christmas. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London She remained at the window pondering the subject, with her eyes fixed on the grey church tower, the top of which she could just see through the branches of the pear-tree. The Hawthorns A Story about Children Being nocturnal in its habits it is rarely seen unless one takes the trouble to climb into unfrequented church towers, the attics of abandoned buildings, or similar places which they seek out for roosting purposes. The Bird Study Book Out of that lake of rustling leaves rise, like the masts of ships crowding a port, church towers, the belfries of pious convents, the domes and turrets of great buildings walled into cities. Little Novels of Italy When the clock from the old church tower struck one, Sebastian awoke and roused his comrade, which was no easy matter. Heidi (Gift Edition) The star of the church tower glittered over the grave of her brother, and the look of the moon made her involuntarily think on the pale, mild countenance of her mother. The Home Part of the church tower remained and one hand of the clock still hung to the side facing the German lines. The Emma Gees A gilded statue of the Virgin and Child stood on an iron stalk on the summit of the church tower. The Old Front Line "Near the church tower southeast of L. where the railway bridge can be seen, are hostile riflemen, strength several companies." The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 The entrance to it will be by a flight of stairs, like those in a church tower. Real Ghost Stories The village clock in the old church tower at Wimbledon was on the stroke of ten when I laid my bundle of sticks in their accustomed place, and set my face homewards. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Tomorrow morning you can go into the village, whose church tower you can see over there, and find out whether the people there are for us or for the Blues. No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee Many of its walls and parts of some of its roofs still stand, the church tower is in fair order, and no one walking in the streets can doubt that he is in a village. The Old Front Line They alleged that one of the latter was found on the church tower in the village, from which he would have been able to exchange signals with our troops. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 We could now see the church tower, and Tish gave the signal to separate. More Tish The odious vice of bell-ringing he renounced; but he still for a time ventured to go to the church tower and look on while others pulled the ropes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" When avenging a chancellor's murder, the Nancians hanged 100 Burgundian officers on a church tower for the besiegers outside the city wall to see. Everyman's Land The chalk scarp on which they stand is by much the most beautiful thing on the battlefield, and the sight of Mesnil church tower on the top of it is most pleasant. The Old Front Line Perhaps the machine guns, whose monotonous rattle lashes our nerves to the snapping point, may be hidden there in the church tower. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 So far the church tower remained standing, as the Allies wished on taking the town to use it to look out from and observe any unfriendly actions on the part of the Germans. More Tish While he leaned, gasping, with a hand against the door-jamb, the clock in the church tower above him chimed and struck the hour of five. The Mayor of Troy Other church towers of early date appear to have been erected for a double purpose: that of a campanile, as well as to afford temporary security. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Many men in the field near Mesnil, enduring the mud of the thaw, and the lice, wet, and squalor of dugouts near the front, were cheered by that church tower. The Old Front Line As she thought, there was a sudden movement of the light on the church tower; it tossed violently up and down, and a moment later the jubilant clangour of the bells broke out. By What Authority? "If they were prisoners would they be signaling from the church tower for help?" More Tish The funeral knell was distinctly heard from the church tower, and greatly increased the effect which this simple and becoming service produced. The Annals of the Poor Many church towers were also capped with spires, which now first appear. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. The front steps were as broad as those to a palace, and as high, it seemed, as to a church tower. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs They had passed the bonfire now, and were coming up the avenue, the crowds still streaming after them, and the church tower bellowing rough music overhead. By What Authority? She knew then that she was in the church tower, but she didn't dare to come down. More Tish The funeral-knell was distinctly heard from the church tower, and increased the effect which this simple and becoming service produced. The Dairyman's Daughter The Mexicans gave way, but volley after volley was poured down upon the advancing Americans from the roofs of houses and from nearby church towers. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes The church tower was close at hand, visible through the trees, and the field itself was green and soft, though never splashing with mud or heavy with holes. Can You Forgive Her? There sounded one note from the church tower a couple of hundred yards away. By What Authority? He said that he could not shoot, but that he would be valuable as an observer, from church towers and things, because he was used to being in the air. More Tish A shrapnel had just destroyed the top of the copper church tower, which the Japanese were using as a lookout. Banzai! by Parabellum I hear wondrous stories of bees getting into cracks of church towers or upper stories, and bulging out the buildings with their accumulated stores—positively cartloads of sweetness. A Truthful Woman in Southern California The stoker grunted and the clock belonging to the Anglo-Norman church tower of the village struck six. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers The battle, it must be remembered, raged within easy sight of the city, and roofs and church towers were crowded with spectators. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Southward from her high-built battlements and church towers the eye can sweep a circuit of the Apennines unrivalled in its width. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series "But I never could climb church towers," I cried, "I am subject to dizziness in my head." A Journey to the Centre of the Earth At Alcazar de San Juan, in La Mancha, I found a few remnants of the Moorish town, as in the church tower, but the name is now almost the only Moorish thing about it. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond The chimes from the old church tower again sang the half hour and then it came—a sudden sword leap of red flame on the horizon! The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis To this day the sky-line of Berlin is more unbroken by church towers than that of almost any other city. Lectures on Modern history A few miles inland, to the southwest, in the middle of the plain of Flanders, were the houses of Furnes, grouped round the church tower of St. Nicholas. Bruges and West Flanders Had the church tower been standing, and one could have got into it, a glorious view of a large part of Northern France would have been obtained. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 How many church towers in Spain were built for the call of the mu�dhdhin, and how many houses had their foundations laid for hareems! Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Far down a white bridge spans the river: on the shore red-tiled and gabled houses crowd to the very edge; and behind them a church tower stands out clear against the sky. Nature Near London There was nothing of very great interest to see in Dropwick itself, though it was a quaint enough old-fashioned market-town, with a fifteenth-century church tower, and a few black and white houses. A Popular Schoolgirl A red, pulsing planet, shining high over a nearby church tower, caught her eye and brought a throb of comfort to her—a tender thought of home. The Place Beyond the Winds Just then the clock in the little church tower struck ten. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Little heeds it how the seaward banks may stoop and slide, How the winds and years may hold all outer things in thrall, How their wrath may work on hoar church tower and boundary wall. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems This hint of day gave rest to the tired ringers in church tower and convent belfry. Old Kaskaskia One can see the tall, battered church tower rising against the mist, with the gilt figure of the Virgin hanging at right angles from the top like the arm of a bracket. Letters from France The church tower rises above them, quaint and curious, in the Renaissance style. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 In almost every valley sleeps a little French hamlet, with its red tiled roofs and its neat stone cottages, clustered about the village church tower. With Our Soldiers in France When the leaves were arranged in whorls of four, the floral spires were quadruple, like the pinnacles on a church tower; if the green towers were hexagonal, then six white minarets pointed to the sky. Some Summer Days in Iowa The tiled roofs formed a reddish mass, and above them rose the squat church tower. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry They are in the background behind Albert church tower. Letters from France No one could see them except the chattering starlings in the church tower, for they stood in the soft mist between the dewy yew trees and the red-budding hedge by the vicarage lawn. A Dozen Ways Of Love Bailleul is mean in comparison, though it has a notable church tower in which there are traces of some Byzantine imagination brought hither, perhaps, by a Spanish Army of occupation. Leaves from a Field Note-Book The sea looked quite green, and large icebergs were floating about, each one of which looked like a pearl, she said, but was much bigger than the church towers built by men. Stories from Hans Andersen A glance over the city to-day from the Walls or the top of a church tower emphasises the dominance of the cathedral over the whole city. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century He was watching, too, the strangely unreal appearance of the sunlit fields, the long shadows, the golden smoky light, and the church tower, set among cypresses half a mile away—yet without any conscious sentiment. None Other Gods That great round dome that stands up so high must be Saint Paul's; and look how many other church towers and spires there are. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars The Saxon stonework exhibited in a few buildings like the church tower of Earl's Barton, Northamptonshire, is an attempt to imitate timber with stone, and has been called "stone carpentry." The Leading Facts of English History As it was, the "George" floated proudly from the church tower, and the Fife and Drum Temperance Band stood ready at the corner of East Street. The Astonishing History of Troy Town What you can do is to lead them off to gather things of look at church towers. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" They reached the outskirts of the bay, just as a clock in the church tower half a mile away struck out nine, in deep-throated, sonorous tones. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame As she fancied herself—starving but scientific, chilled to the bone, yet undaunted—discovering a north-west passage at the upper end of the goose pond, the clock struck three from the old church tower. A Great Emergency and Other Tales I see the windmills on the hill, and below the church towers, and the tops of the castle towers in the vale beneath. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars Ellington had been told long ago that he must keep the church tower and the flagstaff in one if he wanted to hit the gap fairly. The Romance of the Coast Little Trotty Veck, dreaming to the sound of the bells in the old church tower, is a bad substitute for Scrooge on his midnight rambles. Life of Charles Dickens The splendor of the sky Repeats its glory in the river's flow; And sculptured angels, on the gray church tower, Gaze on the world below. Pulpit and Press How dark the old church tower looked amid so much whiteness! A Great Emergency and Other Tales I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose o'er the city, Behind the dark church tower. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Formed in battle array, you advanced to the stone fort against volleys therefrom, and rifle-pits in front, and against a galling fire from blockhouses, the church tower and the village on your left. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army Midnight had long since sounded from the old church tower before they parted. Four Weird Tales Two men broke into a church tower one night to steal the bell-ropes. Amusements in Mathematics Silhouetted against the sky behind him was the gaunt wall of the one-time church tower, its windows looking like the empty sockets of a skull. Fanny Goes to War When twelve o'clock sounded from the bell in the church tower, dinner was on the table at Mrs. Hawkins's boarding house. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life They advanced against volleys from the fort and rifle pits in front, and a galling fire from blockhouses, the church tower and the village on their left. The Colored Regulars in the United States Army One spy of this kind was found by our troops hidden in a church tower. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 The bells that hang in our church towers are but modifications of the drum; for what is a bell but a metal drum with one end left open and the drum stick hung inside? Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Over this isthmus the “Greate Road” ran, and its traces have been discovered on the island as far as the brick church tower. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America Indeed, architects are of opinion that church towers and steeples are mere survivals of the old Egyptian obelisks, which furnished the original conception. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood She laid her cheek over into the shadow of the green church towers. Stories of Childhood It is good to live in the church tower," cooed the white doves to each other, "for the bells are up there; and then we can fly down here and see the dear Christ's face. Mother Stories Strange to say, as showing the marvellous potency of primeval instincts, bells placed in church towers were supposed to have much of the supernatural power that the savage in his wilderness ascribed to the drum. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University This location is marked today by a permanent “in-place” exhibit on the shore near the old church tower. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America His appearance was peculiar, for he seemed, like New Romney church tower, to be built in stages. Joanna Godden "Heaven bless it!" said the Lady of Shalott, with her face hidden under the church towers. Stories of Childhood At last the golden weather-vane on the church tower called down:— "Foolish child, it is the wind from out of the east." Mother Stories Just then the bell in the church tower nearby began chiming the midnight hour. The Day of the Beast A grindstone was found in a refuse pit not far from the historic church tower. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America In many instances the soldiers of the allied armies used church towers and private houses as cover for their operations. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 About fifty civilians were concealed in the church tower, and from there fired on our troops with a mitrailleuse. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 I heard you all," said Fleet Wing, the other young pigeon; "for I sat and listened on the high church tower. Mother Stories The church towers ring their holy anthems forth, To hush the thunders of the cannonade. The Littlest Rebel A church tower loomed up, and then a blaze of light issued from its arched doors. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays One favorite form of this allegation was that priests had fired from the church tower. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 The largest bell in the church tower is dated 1755 and bears the inscription, "First I call you to God's word, and at last unto the Lord." The Evolution of an English Town While he slept, the sunbeams came through the window and made bright circles round his head; and the white doves that lived in the church tower flew through an open window to look at him. Mother Stories It is about nine P.M.; in the West, a faint saffron flush is lingering above the green and opal sea, while the upper part of the church tower still keeps the warm glow of sunset. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 Structurally the town is round: the streets curve, the Abbey curves; seen from a balloon or the summit of the church tower, the plan of the city would reveal itself a circle. A Wanderer in Holland Nothing daunted, the patriot troops landed without firing a shot, through the fire of the guns, whilst the Spanish infantry from house tops, and the church tower, thinned their ranks at every step. Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 All was gray, the church tower, the trees, the pointed gables of the Vicarage, set small together, as in a Christmas card, against the still red sky. Red Pottage Return to Table of Contents A clock in the church tower chimed the half-hour. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate From Langona church tower you see nothing of the Atlantic but a wedge between two cliffs of a sandy creek. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales The river, as I have said, must be still much the same as in Grotius’s day; while the two towns Gorcum and Worcum cluster about their noble church towers as of old. A Wanderer in Holland The devil's passing-bell tolls on Christmas Eve from the church tower at Dewsbury, and a muffled peal bewails the slaughter of the children on Holy Innocents' Day. Vanishing England It was a high windy place, seeming higher and windier on account of the numbers of pigeons that were always circling round the church tower. The Altar Steps Over the veiling whiteness, over the red roofs, and high above the church tower, the sky of a glorious July morning rose unstained to measureless arches of blue. The Devil's Garden Now and again, at a corner, he would glance back, his mind on Julie in the following car, while every church tower gave him pause for thought. Simon Called Peter Soon he was asleep; but, even as he dropped off, the absurd phrase wove itself into the midnight chime from the church tower and passed on to weave itself into his dreams and vex them. Hocken and Hunken Cirencester possesses a magnificent town hall, a stately Perpendicular building, which stands out well against the noble church tower of the same period. Vanishing England Almost behind the church tower was the moon, which shed its light upon the grassy plot with the sundial and the heliotrope beds. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 For in the top of that church tower for months a Capuchin monk has held his position alone and unrelieved. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front The church tower at one time contained the Cornish Stannary Records, but in the time of the Civil War they had been removed for greater safety to Lostwithiel, where they were unfortunately destroyed. From John O'Groats to Land's End Beneath the shadow of his own church tower, in the midst of his own flock, he used to be the mildest, the meekest, and most modest of parish priests. The Roman Question Even the church towers of Herefordshire, with their walls seven or eight feet thick, such as that at Ewias Harold, look as if they were designed as strongholds in case of need. Vanishing England There are other regions where they are not at all strict and where things go topsy-turvy—But just see, Effi, there we have the Kroschentin church tower right close in front of us. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Some day the church tower will fall and he will go with it, or it will be captured; one or the other is inevitable. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front The church tower was one hundred feet high, surmounted by an unusually tall pinnacle at each corner, the figure of a saint appearing in a niche, presumably for protection. From John O'Groats to Land's End It was so embedded in green that the church tower only just stuck up out of it. Invisible Links Nor did their music come, he thought, from any church tower, from any belfry, summoned by the tugging hands of men. Flames You say you would prefer not to build walls as high as a church tower of smooth cobblestones. Homes and How to Make Them "I was in a church tower at ——," he said. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Meanwhile two Cavaliers, supporters of the King, and gentlemen of some repute in the county, had hidden themselves in the church tower and drawn the ladder up after them. From John O'Groats to Land's End On Christmas afternoon, when three o'clock had just struck from the church tower, Hugh and Mr. Pidgen met, as though by some conspirator's agreement, by the garden gate. The Golden Scarecrow Here the bell in the church tower began to ring. The Nameless Castle Looking round to see if there were no bridge or ferry, he caught sight of the grey church tower which he had observed from afar while sailing. After London Or, Wild England As we looked across shells were bursting round the church tower of Messines, and the batteries beneath were sending out ear-splitting crashes of noise. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front His figure and coat-of-arms were still to be seen on the church tower, which was 120 feet high, with the words in raised stone letters, "I made the Tour." From John O'Groats to Land's End On a church tower this would be felt even more. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men Just as the great clock in the church tower began chiming the hour of nine, a group of children gathered on the granite pier opposite the King's Palace. Gerda in Sweden The church tower on the slope of the hill was a landmark by which he easily discovered the direction of the spot where he had hidden the canoe. After London Or, Wild England |
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