Careful Words

steeple (n.)

At leaving even the most unpleasant people

And places, one keeps looking at the steeple.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 14.

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,

As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.