1 At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes.
2 Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
3 I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.
4 There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
5 He needed some solace, doling out preachments to asthmatic elders, perpetually repairing the perpetually falling steeple, by means of placards nailed to Barns.
6 It was as old as the church, and built of the same stone, but it had no steeple.
7 The solitary exception was the New Church; a stuccoed edifice with a square steeple over the door, terminating in four short pinnacles like florid wooden legs.
8 The Congregational chapel, which thought itself superior, was built of rusticated sandstone and had a steeple, but not a very high one.
9 And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.
10 He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess.
11 Upon that the lean, long, and red-bearded Uncle Mitai mounted the shaft horse; in which position he looked like a village steeple or the winder which is used to raise water from wells.
12 Indeed, only when the sunlight touches a steeple to gold does one realise that each such patch is a human settlement.
13 Ambition was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 14 One o'clock was striking from the Vaugirard steeple when Enjolras reached the Richefeu smoking-room.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS 15 The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple.