Steeple-chasing derived from horses racing each other cross-country to the nearest church steeple. |
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I could see the steeple of the church rising gallantly toward the untainted sky. |
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The steeple of the priest's church stood tall, its four stained-glass windows unbroken by winds that lifted houses. |
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From his seat on the floor, he could see the church, its steeple glowing, soft and pale and ghostly. |
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In the hot summer months, when the water level drops, a rotting church steeple can be seen poking up accusingly above the water line. |
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It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower. |
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After leaving school, he did a seven-year stint as a joiner, switching to steeple jacking after national service. |
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Perched on the top of a mountain, Letefoho sports a majestic cathedral with a steeple of praying hands mounted on the roof. |
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Christy stared mutely out the window as the church's steeple loomed into view over the rise of the next hill. |
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The one room building was lop-sided now, and a portion of the roof had collapsed in on itself, causing the steeple to lean and crumble. |
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He pointed at the end of the road, about a quarter-mile down, where a small church steeple rose above the maze of jagged red roofs. |
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The base of the steeple in face brick, is surmounted by a circular campanile of columns which house the carillon system. |
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All I could see of it was the church steeple and point of the roof of Town Hall. |
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Bronwen stopped and brought her hands together, forming a steeple with her long fingers. |
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The steeple, built in the 13 C, is the most characteristic and most noted element of the church. |
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The green maple leaf symbolizes the Canadian character of all whose lives revolve around the church steeple. |
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It is divided into three levels, and the uppermost is crowned by a pyramidal steeple. |
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We are looking to put in a camera obscura or a viewing tower in the church steeple as a tourist attraction to complement the Botanic Gardens across the road. |
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He could see the Presbyterian Church's steeple over the low roofs of the office buildings and warehouses, and he could hear cars, so he knew where to go. |
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If you raise your eyes, you can see wax steeple painters perched on a beam, replicas of the workers who paint the Tower every seven years. |
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From the top of the Church steeple, the highest point in this prefabricated settlement, I could only gawk at the carnage below. |
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With everything she had left, Amie pulled herself around the turn, down the backstretch, past the steeple chase pit, and finally down the homestretch and across the line. |
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The tall steeple had to be removed so the building could pass underneath overhead wires along the route. |
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The neat frame building bore a skin of immaculate white clapboard, the tall, pyramidal steeple above the front door shingled with new cedar shakes. |
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A little chimney jutted out of the back of the roof, beyond the steeple. |
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That inexperience is put down to the death of the time-served artisans who created the body of the church but did not survive to give us the steeple. |
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On the exterior, the attention is drawn to the two-level tower, whose belfry is crowned by a pointed pyramidal steeple covered with glazed tiles. |
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A steeple in a church or a minaret in a mosque also serve as connections of earth and heaven. |
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He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop. |
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A steeple, in architecture, is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components. |
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Mr Jacques White, our architect, created the look of a chapel by adding elements that we find in a church: a sacristy, rood screen, apses and a steeple. |
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At times, the steeple clock face in the lower right becomes an imperturbable timekeeper, a sort of pictorial timecode, reminiscent of the clock in the corner of the shots of Robert Nelson's Bleu Shut. |
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The 427-yard par four ninth is another hole of stunning beauty, punctured in the distance by Slieve Donard Resort and Spa's ethereal steeple. |
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Cloud of quail, eying steeple heights but failing, her covey backlit and looming, huge as buckshot when it balloons down, scribbling earth with its landings. |
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With its magnificent steeple, arched roof and harmonious proportions, this important parish church is a major landmark, which can also be seen from the Ontario side of the Ottawa River. |
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Among them was Robert Napier, whose side level steeple engine of 1835 signalled a major advance in the industry. |
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A statue of George I in classical garb looks down at the chaos from the steeple of St George's Bloomsbury in the distance, neatly serving as an indictment of Britain's uncaring political establishment. |
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The story seemed like a modern version of Baron Munchausen's tale of hitching his horse to a post in the winter night and waking up to find the snow had melted and his horse hanging from the church steeple. |
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If two stakes can not be established on each line, another alternative is to pick a prominent feature, e.g. church steeple, lighthouse in the distance that aligns with the survey line. |
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Part of the church steeple of Bernières-sur-Mer, which had been used as a landmark for the men coming ashore, appears suspended in the sky through thick greyish-yellow smoke. |
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The belfry Lakenhalle and the steeple of the St Matin's Cathedral, Ypres. |
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Martin's church steeple, in Arbon, Switzerland, is a good example of such an early church tower. |
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Paul in Blandford Forum, and St George's Church on the Isle of Portland, which has a steeple and tower inspired by the works of Christopher Wren. |
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The stone is so named as its silhouette resembles a church steeple, 'kirk' meaning church in old Norse. |
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When they were up in the steeple they found rotted wood that needs to be replaced, the dome and the weathervane will be regilded. |
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This is not to say that a hallmark Wren steeple was universally applied. |
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George's Church stands proudly within the town on a small hill and with its steeple is the biggest landmark of the town being visible from quite a distance. |
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Their canoe will fly through the air, on condition that they not mention God's name or touch the cross of any church steeple as they fly by in the canoe. |
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In one place, there was a new wooden church, which, having no steeple, and being yet unpainted, looked like an enormous packing-case without any direction upon it. |
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The steeple is then clad with wooden boards and finished with slate tiles nailed to the boards using copper over gaps on corners where the slate would not cover. |
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He replied that he knew it well, recognising the steeple of the place where he first preached and he declared that he would not die until he had preached there again. |
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The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent a fane to them. |
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When Steeple Langford was unable to fill the vacant post of headteacher, it was decided to approach other local schools with a view to federation. |
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The route, which would have bypassed the traffic-choked villages of South Newton, Stoford and Steeple Langford, has been deleted from the Wiltshire and Swindon structure plan. |
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From behind her cottage in Steeple Langford, she and five other women hand stitch beautiful altar frontals, which take about 18 months to complete. |
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The first combination that set off brought down the telephone wires in Steeple Ashton but after that there was more room and it all went according to plan. |
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At the time of its construction only the Old Steeple was taller in the city. |
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