Taj Mahal spires

Usage examples of minarets.

The minarets caught fire, the sea flushed, Murzuflos rang the trinity of bells.

Suddenly the houses were again shaken, the minarets reeled like cypresses, and the wall against which Captain Polyxigis was leaning split right down the middle.

Megalokastro undulated beneath his feet like some mottled net for snaring partridges on which houses and minarets and gardens and seas were painted.

The muezzins climbed the minarets for the midday prayer and announced the loving-kindness of God.

The clock downstairs struck again and again, and from the minarets there rang out, passionately and harmoniously, the voice of the muezzin.

New York Museum of Natural History, past the cupolas and minarets and gargoyle-haunted towers, across the leafy expanse of Central Park.

And here, encased in a mausoleum bedecked with quartz minarets, was Eduard Pendregast, a well-known Harley Street doctor in eighteenth-century London.

Tejmol were sloped or domed, like minarets, but a few had niches and cornices where two lithe young people could climb and hide, observing the whole city below them.

Leaving the cement towers, the minarets and spires of the city behind, it rattled down the shore road, between landward banks in mourning with cypress groves, and the tumbling western edge, which in places dropped sheer to a glittering afternoon sea.

It was gone in an instant to be replaced by a flashing city of slim towers and improbable minarets, connected by countless bridges and walkways, clouds drifting among them, no sign of ground anywhere.

Domes, minarets, graceful porticoes, these and the great buildings they adorned were of shimmering glass.

Copper-sheathed domes, minarets, poetically winding streets overlooked by ornate balconies riotous with flowering plants.