What is "belfries"

Usage examples of "belfries".

The spectator, on arriving breathless at that elevation, was dazzled by the chaos of roofs, chimneys, streets, bridges, belfries, towers, and steeples.

Setting out from the Tournelle, there was first the Bourg Saint-Victor, with its bridge of one arch over the Bièvre, its abbey, where was to be seen the epitaph of Louis the Fat, and its church with an octagon steeple flanked by four belfries of the eleventh century.

There was not a view in the world, not excepting Chambord or the Alhambra, more aerial, more impressive, more magical, than this wood of pinnacles, belfries, chimneys, weathercocks, spirals, screws, lanterns, perforated as if they had been struck by a nipping-tool, pavilions and turrets, all differing in form, height, and altitude.

Vast and deep as it is, it has not lost its transparency: you see in it each group of notes that has flown from the belfries, winding along apart.

I have no intention of boring you with a bird's-eye view of Danzig -- venerable city of many towers, city of belfries and bells, allegedly still pervaded by the breath of the Middle Ages -- in any case you can see the whole panorama in dozens of excellent prints.

We climbed belfries to survey our kingdom, and afterwards huddled in crowded coffeehouses for a little while merely to feel and smell the mortals around us, to exchange secret glances, to laugh softly, tete-a-tete.

The fat belfries, the garish posters over the door, the candles flaming inside.

She had been born and raised in a city six hundred miles away, a gloomy city where on ghostly nights the coaches of the viceroys still rattled through the cobbled streets, Thirty-two belfries tolled a dirge at six in the afternoon.