" "It's not so dusty," said Peter; "look at the Aqueduct straddling slap across the valley like a giant centipede, and then the towns sticking their church spires up out of the trees like pens out of an inkstand.
After the meal was over they would sit there and talk for hours—or sit and say nothing, in all the languages of the world, Barney pulling away at his pipe, Valancy dreaming idly and deliciously, gazing at the far-off hills beyond Mistawis where the spires of firs came out against the sunset.
Muskoka cottages might be charming, but beyond, in the sunset skies, among the spires of the firs, her Blue Castle towered.
Welcome and home were mine within this State, Whose vales I leave—whose spires fade fast from me And cold must be mine eyes, and heart, and tête, When, dear Alabama!
At first his companions trusted him implicitly, and so great were the delights of flying that they wasted time circling round church spires or any other tall objects on the way that took their fancy.
And Oxford's dreaming spires aren't terribly representative of global universities as a whole.
The hills ran up clear above the vegetation in spires of naked rock.
From the harbor you can get a feel for the attractive"city of green spires.
From the harbor you can get a feel for the attractive "city of green spires.
It was not long before the tailor saw the sun rise behind the mountains, in the plain before him lay the great royal city with its magnificent gates and hundred towers, and the golden balls and crosses which were on the spires began to shine.
