belfry

How To Use belfry In A Sentence

• Their rights were shown by the gallows erected at the gates of the town and by the belfry, whose bell called the burgesses to arms when the city was threatened by the enemy. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
• The news that he had been awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List was considerably more predictable than the result at the De Vere Belfry, which uplifted the nation and led to the biggest boom in the sport for generations.
• Under the willow shade, and from one of the branches, I had hung a miniature "belfry," containing a tiny brass bell, and had led the string into the water, letting it go down to a considerable depth. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories
• In this he found a group of green lights burning upon a kind of basaltic altar, and a bell-rope from a belfry overhead hanging down into the centre of the place. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
• a church with a shuttered belfry and spire
• It is simple, decorated only with flat, low pilasters in brick, and has a belfry and pyramid above.
• I imagined we would be going to some creepy old house with bats in the belfry and stone gremlins on the gateposts.
• To the top of the eighth storey, which is the first addition, dating from the sixteenth century, now used as a belfry, the height is about 220 feet. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond
• The symbol atop of the Šentilj church belfry is quite unusual for a Catholic region: it forms a patriarchal cross with three crossbars standing atop of a recumbent and somewhat stylized crescent.
• What makes St Michael's church particularly fascinating is that in the belfry there are two friezes which seemingly depict rare and exotic creatures.