So after this I would yet go to see them ring, but would not go any farther than the steeple-door; but then it came into my head, how if the steeple itself should fall? And this thought (it may for aught I know) when I stood and looked on, did continually so shake my mind, that I durst not stand at the steeple-door any longer, but was forced to flee, for fear the steeple should fall upon my head.英文原著 · 《Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners》
Adieu!--I am just informed that my horse has been waiting this quarter of an hour. I now venture to ride out alone. The steeple serves as a landmark. I once or twice lost my way, walking alone, without being able to inquire after a path; I was therefore obliged to make to the steeple, or windmill, over hedge and ditch.英文原著 · 《Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark》
From yon dull steeple's," etc. The MS. has "From darkened steeple's" etc. See on v. 558 above.英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
A steeple-chase. What made thee think of that? I'm for the steeple--not to ride a race, Only to get there!--nor alone, in sooth, But in fair company.英文原著 · 《The Love-Chase》
"Well," he said, looking about uneasily, "we're supposed to get a fiver for a losing mount and ten pounds if we win, but a lot of the steeplechase-owners are what I call `battlers' -- men who have no money and get along by owing everybody. They promise us all sorts of money if we win, but they don't pay if we lose. I only got two pounds for that last steeplechase."英文原著 · 《Three Elephant Power》
Walking aft, I seated myself among some bales and contemplated the town's frontage. Over one end of it rose, tapering like a walking-stick, a factory chimney, while at the other end, as well as in the middle, rose belfries, one of which had a gilded steeple, and the other one a steeple either green or blue, but looking black in the moonlight, and shaped like a ragged paint-brush.英文原著 · 《Through Russia》
To have on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a Rolling Stone Ahh, princess on a steeple And all the pretty people They're all drinkin', thinkin' that they.美剧 · 《Billions》