Belfry

How can you have a belfry without bats?

I hear the storks clacking from up in the belfry.

And Mary was buried in the rural graveyard, under the shadow of the belfry tower.

He has bats in the belfry.

He exhausted himself climbing the belfry.

Unlike most tourists, the Professor seemed to be in no hurry to inspect the famous Belfry, although we had passed it a score of times during our stay.

“You know, this house does have a belfry filled with local bats. Maybe Laszlo went up there.” “Oh, so like my darling perverted husband, to sniff out the local bordello immediately upon arrival. [chuckles] Could you take me to the belfry?”

From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.