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With an excruciating groan, all 190 ft. of trunk and green spire crash to earth.
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St. Olav's Church is notable for what was once the tallest spire in Scandinavia.
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Critics quipped that IIT's only church spire was the chimney of its power plant.
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Due to structural weakness, the spire of St James church was demolished in 1980.
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All three towers had spires until 1549 when the central tower's spire blew down.
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The Tower with its spire is a commanding feature rising to a height of 170 feet.
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They have also prevented rescuers getting into the rubble of the cathedral spire.
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A narrow spire will reach 188 feet above street level and be lit by spotlights.
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I'm now faced with a majestic church spire, which bursts up next to the courts.
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- Steeple: a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
- A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "spear".
- Spire is a 453ft (138m) tall skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built from 2004 to 2005 and has 27 floors. It is tied with the Equitable Building as the 21st tallest building in the city, and has 392 units.
- Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. ...
- A spire is a descriptive term for part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc shell or gastropod shell. The spire consists of all of the whorls of a coiled gastropod shell except for the body whorl.
- A Spire for Mansfield, sometimes shortened by the artists to 'A-Spire' is a 13 metre (42.7 foot) sculpture, which lies within the centre of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. It was officially endorsed by the former local mayor Tony Egginton and Mansfield District Council. ...
- The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire of Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. ...
- (SPIRES) The Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) was originally developed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1969, from a design based on a 1967 information study of physicists at SLAC. ...
- (The Spires) Church House in Belfast, Northern Ireland is the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Although there was a decision taken to move to a new location the General Assembly, in 2005, voted to overturn the decision. ...
