Belfry in example sentence

The thought had occurred to him of ascending to the southern belfry and sounding the alarm, but before he could have set the bell in motion, before Marie's voice could have uttered a single clamor, was there not time to burst in the door of the church ten times over?

More example sentences with word belfry

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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