When a cry of "Land ahoy!" rings out, Jim sees a distant outline, at first "no more definite than a breath on a windowpane," then acquiring substance and becoming "an almond shape, like half an eye," then transforming into a mountain, then "three mountains, running up clear in spires of naked rock".
Many of the later are serviced by the Howard Clock Co, In the case of the clock in the spire of Trinity Church, the Howard man will have to put the governor and trip levers into no-strike position, pull the clutch, move the hands forward eleven hours, then snap the clutch back and release the trip levers and the governor.
He plays an architect who, in the movie's con- clusion, battles with Barney in the spire of the Chrysler Building.
Since discovering the pair of red-tailed hawks nesting in a spire of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, she has been enraptured.
Q (Larry Cohen, 1982) New York crook Michael Moriarty discovers the lizard-like winged Aztec god Quetzalcoatl residing in the spire of the Chrysler Building and holds the terrified city to ransom.
Windows was spat out whole by a faceless organism, something like the afterbirth of robotic coding grubs hidden in the spire of the Space Needle.
But necks are now craning for the new vertical shock in town: a spire of glass and steel shooting brazenly from the top of the Unicredit Tower, a 231-meter, or 758-foot, skyscraper that is the tallest building in Italy.
Happy hour had long passed when a first-time visitor to Dominie's, and to New York City, found herself gazing at a sliver of the Manhattan skyline through the window: "Whoa, you can see the Empire State Building!" It was, in fact, the spire of the Chrysler, but no one corrected the pilgrim.
At Dove Cottage, Grasmere, until 30 October Salisbury Cathedral There is no more profound aesthetic experience in Britain than the spire of Salisbury, rising in medieval sobriety above the city and the plain.
