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  • Opposite stood the church, a plain, low, square-towered building.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Nothing could be seen moving on the nearly treeless hills around the city, a great mass of gray stone sinking toward the River Alguenya on the west, square-walled, square-towered and stark.

    A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

  • High gray, square-towered walls in a perfect square against the river mocked the hills 'flowing curves.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • Yet there was much around to interest us, for we were passing through as singular a countryside as any in England, where a few scattered cottages represented the population of to-day, while on every hand enormous square-towered churches bristled up from the flat green landscape and told of the glory and prosperity of old East Anglia.

    The Adventure of the Dancing Men. 1993

  • We passed through various little villages, each one with a pretty little gray, square-towered church.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • Sassari was entered by an arched and embattled gateway in the square-towered wall surrounding the place; and, passing through the best quarter of the town, the dark mass of the citadel contrasting well with the white

    Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

  • The clock of the square-towered Norman church, a mile away, was striking the hour of four as I let myself out into the morning.

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Pearson produced a special cut of costume for this ceremony, and Tembarom walked with Miss Alicia across the park to the square-towered Norman church.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • Sometimes she saw sweet wooded, rolling lands made lovelier by the homely farmhouses and cottages enclosed and sheltered by thick hedges and trees; once or twice they drove past a park enfolding a great house guarded by its huge sentinel oaks and beeches; once the carriage passed through an adorable little village, where children played on the green and a square-towered grey church seemed to watch over the steep-roofed cottages and creeper-covered vicarage.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • There were the farmhouses, the square-towered churches, the red-pointed hop oasts, and the village children.

    The Shuttle 1907

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