The gray spire reared into the sky, squared and broad enough despite its height to seem massive, almost squat.

Thatched roofs of poor men's homes were in the distance; and an old grey spire, surmounted by a Cross, rose up between him and the coming night.

In the background I perceive shops and houses; also the grey spires of a city church.

Jolanta Kwasniewska, the new president's wife, joined me in Krakow, where Gothic towers and gray spires grace one of Europe's best-preserved medieval cities.

The grey spire of Norwich rises serenely from its surrounding city, to be a focus of the Norwich School of landscape painters.

It was a grey spire, a vast towerlike thing ramming into the greyness of the sky.

A few miles from the Colorado River, the mountains change dramatically from light-colored granite to dark red and gray volcanic spires and mesas.

Shark pointed across the gray ruffled waters of the Hudson, to the gray spectral spires of Manhattan.

A pattern of fields, dark smudge of woodland, the sly grey spire of a church.

Past them, in the distance, other trees had not yet begun un leaving and they remained bright and various behind the bare, gray spires, punctuated by the thick evergreens.