How To Use Steeple In A Sentence

The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple. The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Celebrity steeplejack Fred Dibnah was supposed to end his days of felling factory chimneys with the demolition of the 175-ft Park Mill chimney in Royton yesterday.
With its two commons, Steeple Fritton was shaped much like a penny-farthing bicycle, Posy had decided in childhood. TICKLED PINK
Bert, pictured, who is the third generation of his family to work for the company, was the youngest steeplejack in the city when he started out on April 7, 1953.
It's bloody dangerous, riding a doped steeplechaser. The Elvis Latte

The steeplechase races will proceed four flat stakes with combined purses of $700,000.
Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
From his seat on the floor, he could see the church, its steeple glowing, soft and pale and ghostly.
Timmy Murphy, a leading steeplechase jockey in England, received a seven-day suspension on Monday for apparently throwing his whip at his mount after they both fell in a race at Plumpton.
She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
A little chimney jutted out of the back of the roof, beyond the steeple.
St. Mark's repair estimate replacing water-laden timbers and rotting boards on the facing, repairing the bell's carriage, and having the nerve and skill to do it all from four stories up on a scaffold came from veteran steeplejack Michael Hardin of Litchfield, Ohio. Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker
Xiaoming got first in the steeplechase contest.
Raised in a village in Pembrokeshire in southwest Wales, Mr. Francis was the son of a horse-dealer, steeplechaser and farmer. As Jockey or Author, a Success
Church steeples in parish kirks were used as jails.
As the chimes of twelve rang out from the steeple at nearby St Michael's, hands were joined and a ripple of unity spread along the Wall. WALL GAMES
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.
The church's presence on a major suburban road is prominent, not for a spire, steeple or traditional cruciform design, but for its textured walls in contrasting tan and blonde brick.
In recent weeks they trained together in Dublin where they were joined by the national steeplechase champion, Cormac Smith.
Now they are ready for the steeple chase.
Grant steepled his fingers and leant his chin on them, looking for all the world like he was evaluating her.
With Aintree announcing record attendances once again for its Grand National meeting, it seems hard to imagine that the famous steeplechase was perilously close to being axed as recently as the 1970s.
Originally a steeplejack, Fred became an unlikely celebrity and has been the star of more than 20 documentaries uncovering Britain's industrial heritage.
In what was at first thought to be stunning news from Europe, the horse is to be gelded and will embark on a new career in steeplechasing, not the breeding shed.
Originally a steeplejack, cloth-capped Fred became an unlikely celebrity and has been the star of more than 20 documentaries uncovering Britain's industrial heritage.
The two races are a $15,000 maiden steeplechase and a $20,000 starter handicap for horses that have started for a $25,000 or less claiming tag.
The steeple culminates in a slender shingled octagonal spire.
Vermont boasts steepled churches, classic villages, rural landscapes and spectacular vistas unspoiled by billboards, highways or malls.
I was next to last in the steeplechase.
Bookies estimate that up to 15 million people, a third of the adult population, will have a flutter on the four-and-a-half mile steeplechase.
Fauquier County hosts the upscale Virginia Gold Cup, a steeplechase race and Washington-area social event.
You cannot proceed a mile without starting a steeple, with its little patch of villagery round it, enverduring the waste. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
Almost every child grew up in an environment that included the call to prayer from the minarets of the mosques and the ringing of the church bells from church steeples.
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‘I've been with a lot of outfits over the years and my crew is one of the best,’ said Bates, formerly a steeplechase jockey, who rode for 17 years.
Gold foil is used for decorative gilding coatings in, for example books, church furniture, steeples and statues.
In Bethlehem, there are about as many church steeples as there are mosque minarets.
Holing him up in Steeple Fritton was supposed to have been a cure-all --- but the affair with Tatty was, apparently, still raging. TICKLED PINK
Improved as a handicap hurdler last season; is to revert to steeplechasing this season and he is very well weighted over the bigger obstacles.
Without the roads and tracks and the steeplechase to sober him up, he was somewhat overkeen.
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The special obstacles are more like mini-fences than traditional timber hurdles and are designed to educate the young steeplechasers of the future.
This is a Tour de France type of drug, this is endurance marathoners, 3,000 metres steeplechase runners type of drug.
Meanwhile, seagulls the size of winged chihuahuas stare malevolently down from steepled sandstone spires.
A councillor is supporting calls for a memorial to be placed on the site of a former factory in Westhoughton where two steeplejacks were killed.
This used to be a well-known fact; and daily still, in certain edifices, steeple-houses, joss-houses, temples sacred or other, everywhere spread over the world, we hear some dim mumblement of an assertion that such is still, what it was always and will forever be, the fact: but meseems it has terribly fallen out of memory nevertheless. Latter-Day Pamphlets
I've seen only a few pictures of the town but from what I've heard and read, it's a nightmare of destruction, trees splitting houses and crushing cars, roofs blown off of homes and businesses, the steeple toppled from the First Baptist Church. Pecan Trees and Steeples
People in other occupations - say, steeplejacks, miners, deep-sea divers, anyone working with asbestos - may be exposed to higher risks of job related disease or death.
He had his hands steepled and the spired fingers were itching up and down a scar he had in the cleft of his chin. BLOOD IS DIRT
Jutting from the murky orange sunset behind them, the cathedral's three steeples, flanked by the cupola of the old colonial garrison and the little dome of the city hall, tower over the masts and the smokestacks of ships at anchor.
He was in a very good temper, however, for he had won what his companions called a hatful of money on the steeple-chase, and he stood to win on other races that were to come off that afternoon. Henry Dunbar A Novel
This racecourse, which is the home of steeplechasing, is the greatest jumps racecourse on earth.
In January this year steeplejacks climbed 100 ft above the minister floor and painstakingly removed sections, to assess what needed to be done and how much it might cost.
After repeating this feat two or three times, I "hulled" up a stone, which went clean over the tower, and then one, my right foot still on the ledge, which rising at least five yards above the steeple, did fall down just at my feet. The Pocket George Borrow
He had his hands steepled and the spired fingers were itching up and down a scar he had in the cleft of his chin. BLOOD IS DIRT
Sometimes there was a wry little aside to leaven the mix, such as a comment about the unflattering effect of the fashionable ultra-short men’s coat on a middle-aged courtier of ample girth, or the tendency of a two-foot steeple hennin those tall cone-shaped head-dresses worn by great ladies at the time to poke people in the eye. Daughter of York, by Anne Easter Smith. Book review.
He steepled his fingers and smiled at me over the froth of his latté. He smelled of verbena and tobacco flower, and there were fewer lines around his eyes than I remember.
It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower.
‘I could have died a happy steeplejack on that job,’ says Fred.
It had a steepled roof with a weathervane at the top of the steeple and a brass bell tucked within the open wooden tower.
The world's most famous steeplechase truly is the people's race. Times, Sunday Times
The Oxford races of that year were being looked forward to with exceptional interest because of the anticipated presence of a noted steeplechaser named Oliver, but at the last moment the college authorities forbade the undergraduates to attend them. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
He failed to qualify from his heat of the steeplechase in two world championships and again in Beijing. Times, Sunday Times
These steeples are symbolic representations of the stone monoliths that once dotted the landscape of Europe.
The dry quality of that church steeple, the dried flowers, … and the sea anchor wrapped in black crepe from the seamen’s funerals … totally New England. Norbert blei | six found-poems in the words and paintings of andrew wyeth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Visitors to the steam and vintage fair will be asked to make a donation to the appeal to provide a lasting memorial to the Bolton steeplejack who died of cancer last November.
England's racing scene emphasizes steeplechase events in the winter and Anderson said Fallon could do significantly better financially by competing in the U.S.
Carney, who lives a few miles from Donald’s parents in the Colorado mountains, said that the former All-American steeple chaser is flying under the radar: He’s a super talent … and I think he’s going to surprise a lot of people. Donald, Friedman join Creed at Kelly Benefit Strategies for 2011
The marquee piece: a three-foot tall late 19th century bronze of a steeplechaser by Isidore-Jules Bonheur. Post-Lehman, It's the Parts, Not the Sum
The current weather report is for, basically, the sky to collapse, typhoons, cataracts and hurricanes, spouting till they have drench'd our steeples, etc.
A former steeplechase rider, Francis has based most of his work in the world of horse racing.
Holing him up in Steeple Fritton was supposed to have been a cure-all --- but the affair with Tatty was, apparently, still raging. TICKLED PINK
Once the track is finished, Kempton will no longer offer flat racing on the turf, which will be reserved for steeplechase events.
Mention of the hammer, race-walking, the triple jumps, even the steeplechase hardly against the glamour of the 100 or 1500, or indeed most of the track distances.
His victories include two wins over jumps in a brief steeplechase career that spanned five races, four in 1995 and one in 1998.
I could see the steeple of the church rising gallantly toward the untainted sky.
The Steeplechase event is a two-mile run around a track, which includes four hurdles and a water obstacle.
The roof was curved upward, with a steeple at the top.
It came on the heels of nearly eighteen miles of hard work for both horse and rider, including the breakneck steeplechase. REMEMBER SUMMER
the steeplejack, exhausted and unnerved, couldn't hold on to his dangerous perch much longer
The tin tricolor flag swings at the top of the church-steeple; the two chintz streamers still flutter in the wind from the linen-draper's; the chemist's fetuses, like lumps of white amadou, rot more and more in their turbid alcohol, and above the big door of the inn the old golden lion, faded by rain, still shows passers-by its poodle mane. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
Perched on the top of a mountain, Letefoho sports a majestic cathedral with a steeple of praying hands mounted on the roof.
He was an avid polo player and rode in amateur steeplechase races.
Blonde Olympic hopefuls in the athletics 2000m steeplechase - but it is their good looks that are rumoured to have already brought in seven-figure modelling offers.
Three men were fined a total of £17,000 today after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety regulations that led to the death of two steeplejacks.
There were stone walls with cactus plants on top of them on the steeplechase course. Times, Sunday Times
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He slammed down a chair across from me and sat on the edge, his elbows and forearms on his legs and his hands steepled together.
Over each the plane swooped low, so that the photographer might make pictures of the garlanded streets, the bannered steeples, the white marquees and tents in the opens fields, prepared for Jubilee teas. Writer With a Cause
To Jim Phelan, a third-generation steeplejack in Pacifica, Calif., knocking off a steeple just doesn't look right. Church steeples, aging out of fashion, meet their maker
It was only the sixth time the great horse had been beaten in a steeplechase, and he struggled to recover.
The neat frame building bore a skin of immaculate white clapboard, the tall, pyramidal steeple above the front door shingled with new cedar shakes.
After the gate guards cleared us, the bus turned into a sideroad that wound down off the main road and ended up entering a big driveway that wound up a hill, passed a very military-looking building, painted white-flesh white with olive drab trimmings all topped with a steeple with a cross on top; Jesus, a church right here in the middle of this army base. Kill or Be Killed
For once-a-year punters who do not want to go to a betting shop, placing a bet on the world's most famous steeplechase can be done from the comfort of an armchair these days.
Christy stared mutely out the window as the church's steeple loomed into view over the rise of the next hill.
In the harbour the winds tore the boats from their moorings and sent them waltzing out onto the open waves, where they were flung higher than the kirk steeple, only to be toppled down again and smashed to matchwood on the skerries.
Friday's Sandown card will be all steeplechases, combining three chases from tomorrow's abandoned card and the three from the planned Friday schedule.
They may be miners or steeplejacks, bank clerks or civil servants: it's just that whatever they do for a living and however hard they work at it, they are never going to become multimillionaires.
Guyana, from the crashing waters of Kaieteur Falls to the tip of the steeple atop St George's Cathedral, waits to celebrate this glorious day! Stabroek News
[EE] "He is a great derider of schollers and censures their steeple hats for not being set on so good a blocke as his. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
He hurried into the street and looked back at the church, then up to the tall steeple which was faintly visible in the feathery flakes. THE OUTSIDER
Over each the plane swooped low, so that the photographer might make pictures of the garlanded streets, the bannered steeples, the white marquees and tents in the opens fields, prepared for Jubilee teas. Writer With a Cause
You certainly couldn't have wished for a better spectacle than either the men's 3,000m steeplechase and 400m final.
Also on the 26. daie of Januarie, there chanced a maruellous earthquake in Northfolke, in the Ile of Elie, and in Suffolke, so that men as they stood on the ground were ouerthrowne therewith, and buildings so shaken, that the belles in stéeples knolled: the like had also chanced in the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
Last Tuesday, they emerged without the slightest scalding after the handicapper handed them a serious invitation to test the top steeplechaser of the past five years in the world's best-known race.
Bookmakers in England will be forced to make large pay-offs after champion steeplechase jockey Tony McCoy won five races at Ascot on Saturday.
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.
Smith, the Irish steeplechase champion, is improving every year and got his place on the Irish team, alongside Seamus Power and Peter Matthews, in the absence of Mark Carroll.
He steepled his fingers on his chin, thinking about how much work would be lost if the gravity wells couldn't withstand the stress of the wormhole.
As one commentator said, the organizers have had to negotiate more hurdles than the competitors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
An independent review panel has concluded that steeplechase racing is an integral part of Victoria's country race meetings in Australia and should not be discontinued despite protests of cruelty from animal rights activists.
Immediately, she began to roam, examining the stalactites that hung from the ceiling, still forming, still dripping with water, each drop leaving a minute quantity of calcium which would harden and lithify, gradually growing the inverted steeple of mineral deposits longer and longer. Mosaic
His grandmother was a widow whose steeplejack husband had died in a tragic accident, and who subsequently lost two of her four sons in the war.
Thomas sits opposite to him, flashes him a quarter-second smile, and steeples his fingers.
The neat frame building bore a skin of immaculate white clapboard, the tall, pyramidal steeple above the front door shingled with new cedar shakes.
The base of the steeple in face brick, is surmounted by a circular campanile of columns which house the carillon system.
Upon this information, Crawford was seized, and being examined, it appeared, that when the mob begun, as he was comeing down from the steeple, the mob took the keys from him; that he was that night in several corners, and did indeed delate severall persons whom he saw there, and immediately warrands were despatched, and it was found they had absconded and fled. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Five or six buildings, a white house, a church with a crooked steeple, a slide of clapboard, old stages and tilts. THE SHIPPING NEWS
To keep herself in that trim she must have had the heart of a steeplechaser. A DARKENING STAIN
The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench. Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds'
the church steeple provided a convenient landmark
The cliffs, with their buttes and mesas and steeple-like ridges, were a study in complexity. Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
Following is a listing of steeplechase racing dates for spring 2003.
For maximum excitement and variety a mixed card of flat, hurdle and steeplechase racing has been organised.
Lord Danesbury read Atlee's letter with an enjoyment not unlike the feeling an old sportsman experiences in discovering that his cover hack -- an animal not worth twenty pounds -- was a capital fencer; that a beast only destined to the commonest of uses should actually have qualities that recalled the steeplechaser -- that the scrubby little creature with the thin neck and the shabby quarters should have a turn of speed and a 'big jump' in him, was something scarcely credible, and highly interesting. Lord Kilgobbin
The event could feature the best sprinters, milers, middle-distance Flat horses plus the best hurdlers and steeplechasers from around the world, with the leading two or three horses from each country taking part.
Henry Daly's six-year-old, a useful hurdler last season, made a winning debut over the major obstacles at Market Rasen three weeks ago and looks to have an exciting future as a steeplechaser.
These modern-day steeplejacks do something I would never contemplate - climbing towers and literally hanging off them.
Opening the 137th Saratoga Race Course season with a steeplechase race resulted in three jockeys being unseated from their mounts and two of those riders suffering broken bones.
D.J. steepled his fingers against the neck of his guitar, and then bent them over the chords.
All I could see of it was the church steeple and point of the roof of Town Hall.
Cartwright was a top steeplechase jockey before he became an assistant trainer for Mike Freeman in the early 1960s.
On the other side of campus, the sun beats on new red-brick buildings with modern angles and minimalist steeples.
He leaned back and steepled his fingers together over his chest.
The well-connected Church family had steeplechase races named after them and summered in Nantucket. Two young rebels with a runaway plan to meet Elvis
Whether this represents a good return or a missed opportunity, only time will tell, but the suspicion is that the home team will be happy with their day's work, especially given their habit of starting Ashes series more slowly than a four-mile steeplechaser. England Fails to Push Home Ashes Advantage
In Ireland, where the large majority of our hunters come from, the snaffle is the bit used in breaking and hunting, as it is in steeple-chasing; and although our Irish neighbours find the curb has its advantages, we must admit that they keep it in its proper place and do not allow it to usurp the snaffle when riding over fences. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Ultimately, the computer doesn't care how we get to a final software design any more than the steeplejack building a bridge cares how the bridge design was refined and validated.
The Nieuwe Kerk's carillon came streaming around me, and then the cold breezy air was filled with the celestial silvery noise of thousands of bells ringing out midday from all the towers and steeples of Delft.
The admiral steepled his fingers in a poise of deep thought.
Incapable of finding any satisfaction in mercenary intrigues, they succumb to an indefinable sort of languor, which is called home-sickness, though, in reality, love with them is indissolubly associated with their native village, with its steeple and vesper bells, and with the familiar scenes of home. Recollections of My Youth
The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench. Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds'
Near 80 degrees steeple staircases make you look surprisingly supernatural.
After leaving school, he did a seven-year stint as a joiner, switching to steeple jacking after national service.
The world's most famous steeplechase truly is the people's race. Times, Sunday Times
`And now, first Steeple Fritton Letting Off Steam Princess, and runner-up to Miss Letting Off Steam is, Lola Wentworth! TICKLED PINK
`Actually, Gran reckons I'm going to be Steeple Fritton's answer to Robin of Locksley, but I prefer to think of myself as a highwayman. TICKLED PINK
She glanced around the room again, now that she'd lost interest, and steepled her fingers in her lap.
After repeating this feat two or three times, I 'hulled' up a stone, which went clean over the tower, and then one, my right foot still on the ledge, which rising at least five yards above the steeple, did fall down just at my feet. The Romany Rye
Before the 1960s, Ireland had earned a reputation for stallions which produced fine hurdlers and steeplechasers, but not many Flat champions.
(Soundbite of birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: Steeple Jason is two-peaks rising out of the South Atlantic and are home to the largest breeding colony of black proud albatrosses in the world. Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield
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.
Like the steeplechase where Vronsky breaks his mare's back with reckless riding, you can only wait for the pistol shot.
It would be like saying you were a steeplejack who was afraid of heights. Stage Fright . . . trancework
Interesting and obscure sports like the omnium and the steeplechase might finally get their due, not to mention insanely popular but strangely neglected ones like soccer.
Dublin-based company Rainey and Co have employed the steeplejacks who braved last week's high winds.
He'd found her, knew she was all right, and he had loads of things to do in Steeple Fritton. TICKLED PINK
The great thing about all of this religious or "culty" guff, is that all the sheeple groveling in their steeple, they all have "opinions" about what their deity is "saying" and righteously so, but the deity in the last few thousands of years of "omnipotence", has never once put in a personal appearance. Computerworld News
Atop one of the lower hills, a lone building shaded by a grove of oaks stood watching over the rest; a white steeple protruding skyward from the shingled roof as if reaching for the heavens themselves.
(Soundbite of a birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: And this sound comes from a bird survey I worked on in the Falkland Islands - specifically, from a remote island called Steeple Jason. Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield
The bell still clanged madly from the steeple, and the vibrations seemed to shake the very flesh of the trembling children as they clung to their mother's hands and tried to keep up with their father's rapid strides. The Belgian Twins
Ornate buildings, gracious parks, spires and steeples which jab like fingers into the sky - all these vie with each other in the downtown area.
Also a new steeple or "fleche" to replace the original that had been removed in the 1950's because of wind damage. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
And there's the Steeplechase mode, which is a kind of kart racer on horseback with just one terrible track and slippery controls. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
The fact that the route over the mountain began with the ascent of the steepest face, and that this was the route of frequent steeplechases, was not coincidental.
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.
The Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Stanford featured a couple of notable debuts in the men's 10,000 meters — miler Alan Webb and steeplechaser Anthony Famiglietti, both competing against young but experienced distance runner Dathan Ritzenhein. USATODAY.com - Davis, double threat in jumps, takes Athlete of the Week honors
From behind her cottage in Steeple Langford, she and five other women hand stitch beautiful altar frontals, which take about 18 months to complete.
When his first wife walked out on him, she accused the eccentric, chimney-toppling steeplejack of living in the last century.
That boy can climb like a steeple jack.
Leaning forward, Hrold rested his elbows on his desk and steepled his fingers against his chin.
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.
They formed a long procession straggling on endlessly through the valley towards the distant roofs and church steeples of the Suburbs ahead.
Do you have information on what these measures look like in horses that have been racing, race horses, or steeplechases?
In a few weeks the females will lay as many as five eggs each in nooks of old roofs, in church steeples or in ancient walls surrounding Muslim and Jewish holy sites in the Old City.
Smith ranked as champion jumps trainer in 1968 after saddling Red Alligator to win that year's Grand National steeplechase.
She steepled her fingers, and leaned her head against the top ones thoughtfully.
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.
Anders had steepled his hands and rested his chin on them.
Huge umbrellas of black vitrodur atop turrets ... umbrellas that could, and indeed were closing up into cones and steeples.
He flexed his narrow shoulders and placed his elbows on the desk, steepled fingers resting against his chin.
He leaned back in his chair and steepled his fingers.
He has always looked the type to improve as a steeplechaser and judged on his hurdling form, it's hard to see why he shouldn't make a winning start today. Talking Horses
Maidan, then seventeen, was sold, taken to England and put to steeple chase racing.
All this life through which the electric car whirred seemed remote and unreal, and he would have experienced little interest and less shook if the great stone steeple of the church he passed had suddenly crumbled to mortar-dust upon his head. Chapter 40
John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end.
At the time, Gatewood Baptist Church was a ragged, tumbling wood frame structure with tilted steeple, sinking foundations, and loose planks bowing from the ceilingor in real estate jargon, a bona fide “fixer upper.” The Reverend (copy)
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On British racecourses that year the steeplechasing scene had been sizzlingly dominated by the improbable trainer - jockey allegiance of a long-haired descendant of true gypsies with the aristocratic nephew of an historic house. Field Of Thirteen
And the winning Irish trainer Jimmy Mangan admitted the horse could line up again for the world-famous steeplechase again next year.
He rode his first winner at age 14 at Agua Caliente in Mexico, where his mother Clara Adams, trained Thoroughbreds for flat and steeplechase racing.
These stones, or these steeples, are working in tandem with the earth's telluric energies coming up from the wells.
The two steeplechase races will be billed as preps for the annual Far Hills Race Meet at the Moorland Hills complex in Far Hills, New Jersey, on October 26.
Steeplechase jockeys will be paid 3 % more, about $140 per horse.
The woman leaned forward, steepled her fingers.
He has rightly suggested Ascot, who would welcome the move as they hold a lingering suspicion that interest is waning in steeplechasing.
He failed to qualify from his heat of the steeplechase in two world championships and again in Beijing. Times, Sunday Times
The layout is theatrical and the steeplechase track, in particular, is a visual treat. Times, Sunday Times
The same architect has been engaged lately on the repairs of the cupola of the Exchange, and the steeple of Bow Church; and, fearful to relate, the dragon and the grasshopper actually lie, cheek by jole, in the yard of his workshop. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
The world's best time is more than 50 sec lower, but these times were an important breakthrough, having begun her career as a middle-distance runner before the gradual arrival of the steeplechase provided a greater incentive.

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