Belfry in example sentence

66 EXECUTIONIt was near midnight; the moon, lessened by its decline, and reddened by the last traces of the storm, arose behind the little town of Armentieres, which showed against its pale light the dark outline of its houses, and the skeleton of its high belfry.

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Now, if the idea of bats in your belfry terrifies you, and I know some people probably are feeling a little sick looking at very large images of bats, that's probably not that surprising, because here in Western culture, bats have been demonized.

Veronica Hurst is captivating and genteel, sort of a chic British Marilyn Monroe, still in love with Richard Carlson, who is hiding a family secret in his forbidding castle; there are even bats in the belfry!

An iron frame, like the high scaffolding of a belfry, supported the pulleys.

Above, the sloes and hawthorns growing among the fallen scaffolding of the belfry filled up the mouth of the hole.

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