Although Emily had never been to White Cross she knew the parish house when she saw it—a fine, tree-embowered residence near the big white chapel with the flashing gilt cross on its spire and the four gilt angels, one on each of the little spires at the corners.
She saw a big house peering whitely through a veil of tall old trees—no mushroom growth of yesterday's birches but trees that had loved and been loved by three generations—a glimpse of silver water glistening through the dark spruces—that was the Blair Water itself, she knew—and a tall, golden-white church spire shooting up above the maple woods in the valley below.
Beneath them, in front, stretched a maze of roofs, dominated by the gold angel of the Town Hall spire.
I tried to reach the porch of a great building near, but the mass of frontage and the giant spire turned black and vanished from my eyes.
I had seen that golden sign with the dark globe in its curve leaning back on azure, beside an old thorn at the top of an old field, in Old England, in long past days, just as it now leaned back beside a stately spire in this continental capital.
" interjected Peter, who had been gazing intently at the slender spire showing darkly against the fine blue eastern sky.
The building, which dates from 1615 and is named the Boersen in Danish, is known for its green copper roof and distinctive 56-metre (184-foot) spire in the shape of four intertwined dragon tails.
With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of home.
But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism.
To the west a dark church spire rose up against a marigold sky.
Brave souls may climb the 150 stairs winding outside the spire to its top.
Brave souls may climb the 150 stairs winding outside the spire to its top.
The gloom of the dim and dense line of trees, the thorny bushes scattered in the bare heath like floating heads of swimmers with bedraggled hair, the smell of the damp grass and the wet earth, the spire of the temple rising above the undefined mass of blackness grouped around the village huts--everything seems like notes rising from the heart of the night, mingling and losing themselves in the one sound of ceaseless rain filling the sky.
It has an immensely high tower and spire; how it is reflected in the clear water!
Holstein castle will still be glittering its golden spire, but the castle will look as if it moved 1 mile to the inland.
