By way of reprisal the men of Willenhall would raid Darlaston, and pretend to call the cock from the steeple there by scattering corn in the churchyard, in mocking allusion to an old tale of Darlastonian simplicity.
So, as they were left by the Reformers, they were probably small bells in the steeple or turret.
When the hour of ten had pealed from the neighbouringsteeple Mac- Guffog came prepared with a small dark lantern.
The bell from the town steeple tolled nine just as the ceremony was concluded.
Pulling down the old part of the steeple and those sides adjoining at 3d.
I did not go up to St. Rule's Tower as on former occasions; this is a falling off, for when before did I remain sitting below when there was a steeple to be ascended?
The act was a daring one, as the steeple is 168 feet high.
So that without and within, above the ground and under, over the roof and beneath, from the top of the steeple and spire down to the low floor, not one spot was free from wickedness.
The beautiful steepleof St. Paul's cathedral, the loftiest in the kingdom, had been stricken by lightning and utterly destroyed, together with the bells and roof.
As the solemn dirge from the steeple rang out upon the air, the king stood at the window of the palace trembling in every limb, but the demoniacal Catherine was aroused to a frenzy of delight.
The peal of alarm was to ring along from steeple to steeple, from city to hamlet, from valley to hillside, till the whole Catholic population should be aroused to obliterate every vestige of Protestantism from the land.
The buildings now remaining consist of a church with an enormous cloister on its western side, and a lofty steeple at the south-west angle of the cloister.
Of the western steeple I need not say very much, as my sketch shows the nature of its design, and the evidence as to its date is evidently very accurate.
The steeple is finished with a low square spire, covered with tiles, some green and some red, and each tile made of a pointed shape, so as to form a series of scallops.
The fine octagonal brick steeple is evidently a later addition to the church, and rises from the north-west angle of the nave.
The brick steeple of the cathedral is an inferior example of the same kind as that of la Magdalena, which I shall have presently to describe; its upper half is modern, and the lowest stage of stone.
Again, in the views of the cathedral from the east side the steeple has the effect of being, like that of Ely, at the west end of the nave, and here it groups finely with the central lantern.
The south-west tower has never been completed, but the north-west steeple is a very fine work of the same age as the clerestory of the nave.
The bell-tower, which is very high, is a great square tower to the left of the choir, surmounted by a steeple formerly covered with wooden shingles, but in recent times coppered.
No modern steeplecan compare with it either for beauty of outline or the appropriateness with which classical details are applied to so novel a purpose.
It only wants this slight revision to harmonize what little incongruities remain, and, if this were done, this steeple might challenge comparison with any Gothic example ever erected.
The reason generally assigned why the number was reduced, is, that the steeple was not strong enough to bear them.
The steeple is about 72 feet in height, is a good tower, and an excellent sea-mark; but is now somewhat in decay.
At this present time and for many years past, the steeple contains only one bell; but it is evident, from the appearances which still remain, that formerly it contained three.
It consists of two isles, built nearly uniform; the steeple stands at the west end of the south isle, and contains five bells.
No paint had ever stained its seats or casings, and no steeplefrom its roof had ever pointed toward heaven.
The bell was ringing from St. Joseph’s, and had shaken the swallows from their nests in the steeple into the clear air.
I'm liable to land on a church steeple if that motor cuts out on me as it did yesterday afternoon--for no reason at all.
He swung into the dark sky to the north and then dived down until he felt that any less altitude would be extremely likely to bring him afoul of some church steeple or factory smokestack.
They seem to me crystals formed from a stronger solution of humanity than the steeple of the new meeting-house.
If possible, bring the car to 'The Three Bulls,' Steeple Abbas, by noon tomorrow.
We'd better stop at the inn at Steeple Abbas," said Jonah.
It was another brilliant day, and at five minutes past twelve we ran into Steeple Abbas.
At twenty minutes past three the next morning I drove out of the courtyard of 'The Three Bulls', Steeple Abbas.
Four miles the other side of the old market town of Steeple Abbas, and twenty-one miles from Pallow, stood Bill Manor, where the Hathaways lived.
As for breakfast--oh, you and my high collar must get me through breakfast and out of here and over to Steeple Abbas somehow.
From the steeple of St. Nicholas the solemn music of a choral was heard, in which, according to an ancient custom, Grunwald bids every evening at nine o'clock farewell to the day that has gone by.
It stands in a farm-yard, and the nave made an excellent barn and the steeple a dovecote.
Moreover, the steeple and most of the church of St. John of Jerusalem, Smithfield, were mined and blown up with gunpowder that the materials might be utilized for the ducal mansion in the Strand.
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