Out of that lake of rustling leaves rise, like the masts of ships crowding a port, church towers, the belfries of pious convents, the domes and turrets of great buildings walled into cities.
The western tower was the prototype of the Romanesque belfries of the region and should be preserved.
From the highbelfries spread the warning, and no one worried now to refuse to God, to the Inexplicable, the right of speech.
The placing of belfries on either side of the choir was a Rhenish trait.
Taken with the central tower, the belfries of Coutances compose an unequaled group.
In the Renaissance day the façade's twin towers were gracefully topped; deux beaux bijoux, Henry IV called the belfries of Tours.
Beneath them could be set the belfries of Notre Dame of Paris.
In comparison with the transept towers, the western belfries of the cathedral appear meager.
It served as model for belfries throughout the duchy and in Brittany.
And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The unbroken song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
From the dark belfries of yon cloud-cathedral wafted, Your sounds aerial seem to float, O Bells of Lynn!
Behold yon line of roofs and belfries painted Upon the golden background of the sky, Like a Byzantine picture, or a portrait Of Cimabue.
As belfries the towers must have been failures, for the small bells of those days, hung a hundred feet above the ground in a chamber with only four tiny openings, would be all but inaudible.
The open cupolas with belfries which are at present seen over the three apses were built in the year 1682 by the Katholikos Eleazar.
The native inhabitants who were Christians erected belfriesnear their churches and heard with joy the sound of Christian bells.
One could see the clustered roofs of eleven hamlets and villages; and all the belfries of the coast were visible several miles away, standing high that they might serve as beacons to the sailors in time of need.
From some of the belfries a red flag was floating, bearing a white chalice; this meant that some newly-ordained priest was singing his first mass.
You don't go looking atbelfries with Charlie Thesiger.
Already they descried in the distant horizon the numerous spires and belfries of the churches of Paris.
Other engines of bombardment are mounted upon the platforms of all the belfries that are strong enough to support the weight and shock of artillery.
Then they appeared as mere belfries of moderate height, with pyramidal roofs and effectively arranged openings, the germs of the noble Gothic spires of later times.
The most complete and perfect of these square belfries of the Renaissance is that of the +Campidoglio+ at Rome, by Martino Lunghi, dating from the end of the sixteenth century, which groups so admirably with the palaces of the Capitol.
In that sort of rag-fair, witch-burning ground limited only by the island and the belfries of Trastevere which I used to look down upon from Palazzo Orsini, the Jews are building a colossal synagogue.
There is nothing about them of the strength and defiance expressed in the great "halles" and belfries of Ypres, Bruges and Ghent.
The belfry remains the living symbol of this rapid and widespread transformation, and the few mediæval belfries which remain standing in Belgium date from that period.
From the plain one sees only the rocks and the walls of the fortress, and beyond the wall the tips of the belfries and the towers.
The belfries no longer sounded the alarm, because there were no bell-ringers.
The onset of the French was terrible, and that the resistance might not be less terrible the belfries summoned men unceasingly.
The noise of the drums and the bells in the belfries of the city were sounding the call to arms.
Already, before hearing them, his head is half stunned with the unaccustomed sounds ringing in his ears; which ears seem to him likebelfries full of tocsins.
A bright winter night; the high houses and belfries standing out against a deep blue heaven luminous, shimmering like steel with myriads of stars; the moon has not yet risen.
The moment a shock is felt the Cathedral bell begins to toll, all the belfries in Lima take up the sound, and summon the affrighted population to their devotions.
In front, to the right and left of the façade, rise two tapering belfries covered with sculpture from base to summit, ornamented with open-work carving and stone embroidery of charming grace and delicacy.
Closely connected with the subject of bells andbelfries are the bell-gables or bell-turrets, so frequently found at the west ends of our smaller churches which have no towers.
These words, at the time they were written, were doubtless true of the majority of belfries in the country; but I fear there are still not a few of which the same may be said.
And when we speak of the bells in this connection we must not forget the belfries also.
It may be fairly claimed as one of the far-reaching effects of the Church Revival that the conditions of our belfries and the conduct of our ringers will compare very favourably with what it was some forty or fifty years ago.
Sweet melody roams Through its blossoming bowers, Sweet bells usher in from its belfries the train of the honey-sweet hour.
Written in a Volume of the Comtesse de Noailles Be my companion under cool arcades That frame some drowsy street and dazzling square Beyond whose flowers and palm-tree promenades White belfries burn in the blue tropic air.
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