...Domes, towers, minarets and spires may be seen onevery side, which assume a great variety of shapes whenviewed in the distance... 
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...Wherever there is a little winding stair, or projecting bowwindow, or any other irregularity of form, the steep ridges shoot intoturrets and small spires, as in fig...
John Ruskin 「Lectures on Architecture and Painting」
...Many church towers were also cappedwith spires, which now first appear...
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 「The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.」
...They are finished bytwo partly Norman turrets, with later pinnacles and spires...
H. J. L. J. Massé 「Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury」
..."The outline of this front forms a regular square of 156 feet, that being the height of the side spires, and also the extreme width of the building...
George S. Phillips 「The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral」
...Of the spires which surmount these towersthat on the south is by far the more elegant...
W.D. Sweeting 「The Cathedral Church of Peterborough」
...It is a variety of the Valonia oak, with delicate,downy, pale-green leaves, much serrated, and contrasts beautifullywith the dark green spires of the cypresses behind...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
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Likewise the deep-set windows, stain’d and traced,Would seem slow-flaming crimson firesFrom shadow’d grots of arches interlaced,And tipt with frost-like spires...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
...It opened in a sub-cellar of a structure in the Golden City itself, the city of towers and soaring spires Denham had glimpsed long months before...
William Fitzgerald Jenkins 「The Fifth-Dimension Tube」
...Thered-green spires and minarets of Ferrok-Shahn...
Raymond King Cummings 「Wandl the Invader」
...A forest on fire sends its spires of flameone hundred feet in air, the sun sends its spires of flame twohundred thousand miles...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
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