They saw the glint of the sun on lance-tip and spired helmet.
The former is the cast of a Trigonia shell; the latter, that of a tall spired univalve (Cerithium).
That light, the breaking day, which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse!
More to be noted of this church, which had sometime a fair spired steeple of stone.
The small spired steeple of this church was overthrown by a tempest of wind in the year 1362, but was raised of new, as now it standeth, to the beautifying of the city.
It has this one virtue, however: it forms a setting to Limburg's many-spired cathedral that is truly grand.
And yet the fruitful meadows through which I took my daily way were as forests to me; the grass-stems spired up to my fired fancy like great trees.
The wool fibers are white and glossy, and beautifully spiredinto ringlets.
Externally the church is a cruciform building with a central tower, characterized by two tiers of double windows and spired octagonal turrets at the corners.
It has triple belfry windows, and a spired stair turret, but the shallowness of the buttresses detracts from its impressiveness.
The numerous churches have gained for it the title of "Many-spired Gloucester," and no place could disclose more picturesque sea views.
And that at the entrance of this said Strait, there is on the Northwest coast thereof, a great Hedland or Iland, with an exceeding high pinacle or spired Rocke, like a pillar, thereupon.
It sweeps down magnificently from the snow peaks which form its fit setting and pushes out into the sea in a solid wall of spired and pinnacled opal which, ever and anon breaking off, flings over it clouds of color which dazzle the eyes.
Bancroft and some other historians consider the story of Juan de Fuca's entrance to Puget Sound the purest fiction, claiming that his descriptions are inaccurate and that no pinnacled or spired rock is to be found in the vicinity mentioned.
It is a high-spired shell of ten heavily ribbed whorls, with a series of revolving ribs on the body-whorl.
It has a high-spired shell, with an acute black tip.
The train would plunge into a black tunnel and emerge to look down at a little valley among vineyards with old red-tiled cottages clustered around a high-spired church.
Another tunnel would succeed, and another red-tiled village and high-spired church would follow.
Leaving half a dozen men in the boat, he took the rest, ten mighty archers of Khawarizm, in spired helmets and tiger-skin cloaks.
He drew his scimitar and advanced, confident in his spired helmet and close-meshed mail.
Up they thrust--domed and arched, spired and horned, pyramided, fanged and needled.
North and south, the horizon was a chaotic sky land of pinnacles, spired and minareted, steepled and turreted and domed, each diademed with its green and argent of eternal ice and snow.
The highest of the Terraced Plateaus, the Markagunt and Paunsaugunt, in which Cedar Breaks and Bryce Canyon lie, break down in spired palisades of the Pink Cliffs, endless in sculptured variety.
Beside them, the stems of the bronze wheat stalks rose up through the fist and spired another fifty feet before breaking into clusters of golden grain and leaves.
He saw a road which led between spired cedars, he saw an old house with a wide porch.
Imposing, even in its shabbiness, stood the old house, at the end of an avenue of spired cedars.
Instead we have two exceedingly graceful and lofty spired towers flanking the north transept, and yet another single tower, lacking its spire, on the south.
The south porch is the most highly developed feature as to Mediæval style, but the attraction lies mainly in its ensembled massiveness, with its two sturdy towers and a ridiculously spired south clocher.
Were the men who picked out the in- spiredbooks inspired?
An "inspired" book should excel all other books; an inspired statue should be the best in this world; an in- spired painting should be beyond all others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
