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But gone are the gates, and instead of belfried battlements and prisonlike mullions, there is geometric functionalism and airy spaciousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rejoice, ye happy people, And peal the changing chime From every belfried steeple In symphony sublime: Let cottage and let palace Be thankful and rejoice, And woods and hills and valleys Re-echo the glad voice!

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

Up Park, in Sussex, a square house, with two symmetrical belfried pavilions on each side of the great courtyard, belongs to the Right Honourable Forde, Baron Grey of Werke, Viscount Glendale and Earl of Tankerville.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor

With its mediæval streets, that crook, And its gabled houses, it has the look Of a belfried town in a fairy-book.

From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin's voice drowned them.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith