A spire is part of one

Usage examples of steeple.

They then descended the Steeple until they reached the bartizan beneath which the lindworm slumbered.

Monmouth held a last council of war upon the square tower out of which springs the steeple of Bridgewater parish church, whence a good view can be obtained of all the country round.

German student already has his mansard roof, so he goes there to add a steeple in the nature of some specialty, such as a particular branch of law, or diseases of the eye, or special study of the ancient Gothic tongues.

Nowhere did he see a cross or crucifix, but at the far end of the narthex, beneath a stairway that probably led to the sanctuary balcony, a smaller replica of the same star that adorned the steeple shone with a dim light the color of a hazy Autumn moon.

On every side are seen venerable trees overtowering its not unpretentious steeple.

The rehearsals and the skull practices paid off, as each squad went for its predesignated palm tree, church steeple, or bridge.

The psychopomp who had visited North Steeple in his courses, these long years, was a follower of the Cult of the Nameless--an ill-defined deity, the prayers to which were so general as to serve in virtually all circumstances.

The North Steeple would be left in silence for a season or two, at least until the concentration of revenants, eidolons, and ghosts of the dead ensnared by the architecture grew too dense again, and then North would soldier through in bitter silence until the psychopomp again appeared.

Winter Solstice, some weeks since the psychopomp last made his way to the North Steeple on his annual rounds.

At the end of its four-mile reins, coddled by the rockmilk engine, held tight by hooks like recurved steeples, the avanc progressed steadily and curiously through what was, to it, an alien sea.

The High Septon made a steeple of his hands and raised his eyes to heaven.

Suydam was a lettered recluse of ancient Dutch family, possessed originally of barely independent means, and inhabiting the spacious but ill-preserved mansion which his grandfather had built in Flatbush when that village was little more than a pleasant group of colonial cottages surrounding the steepled and ivy-clad Reformed Church with its iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones.

I climbed gentle hills from whose summits I could see entrancing panoramas of loveliness, with steepled towns nestling in verdant valleys, and with the golden domes of gigantic cities glittering on the infinitely distant horizon.

Arnold steepled his fingers, more a thoughtful gesture, I judged, than a prayerful one.

I do itv He dropped his hand from his head and steepled his fingers between his knees.