The Princesses walked with the ladies and I walked with an elderly Prince, with a jolly and kindly wrinkled face-it felt so very odd to be walking in Western modern garments beside this very old-world costume; his wings touched my shoulder, and the vane of his pagoda-Spired crown or hat waggled above my head.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
A splendidly Spired church stood almost shoulder to shoulder with the Ashton-Kirk house.
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre
And, as he did so, there looked over the parapet six feet above him, at the top of the trellis up which presently he would ascend, another resolute little head and blunt-Spired cars, and a soft indescribable voice spoke a gentle insult.
"The Necromancers"
Robert Hugh Benson