| He drew his scimitar and advanced, confident in his spired helmet and close-meshed mail. |
| Founded in the eighth century, its soaring, spired silhouette is as celebrated an image of France as the Eiffel Tower. |
| Leaving half a dozen men in the boat, he took the rest, ten mighty archers of Khawarizm, in spired helmets and tiger-skin cloaks. |
| Imposing, even in its shabbiness, stood the old house, at the end of an avenue of spired cedars. |
| To the West a great wall towered over the spired building, acting as a shield to the temple itself and to the city. |
| So he went to where a single blackthorn limb spired above a briary thicket, rayed with fine spikes. |
