2. Verb. (third-person singular of spire) ¹
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Definition of Spires
1. spire [v] - See also: spire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spires
Literary usage of Spires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1870)
"How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut ...
On the great steeple—surmounting the myriad of spires—inside of the spires —over ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"That there were spires on buildings of Norman form, before that of Salisbury was
built, cannot be doubted t some of them bear the date of nearly 200 years ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"That great prototype of spires, which ascends from the lower of Sa- lisbury
Cathedral, is clearly ascertained to have been achieved in the latter end of the ..."
4. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1909)
"Until near the end of the thirteenth century all spires in England started slightly
in front of ... In the 1 Wood spires are covered by lead, slates, tiles, ..."
5. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"And these later spires, eg Coventry and Louth, were as noble as any. Hut as in
its beginning, so to the end, spire building was curiously sporadic and local ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The spires, as already said, are octagonal in shape; a gallery runs around the
eight sides near the top, upon which rest the graceful points of the conical ..."
7. Philip Melanchthon, the Protestant Preceptor of Germany, 1497-1560 by James William Richard (1898)
"CHAPTER XV spires AND MARBURG Diet of spires—The Protest and ... THE Diet of
spires of 1526 had given the rulers permission to execute the Decree of Worms ..."
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