Roofs

Examples

• The roofs fell away from the castle on the hill. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They were of darkened red brick, brittle, with dark slate roofs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Outside the sun was up over the roofs and I could see the points of the cathedral with the sunlight on them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Over the shrubs, before her, were the pale roofs and tower of the old church. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• There were the piles of city roofs and chimneys, more free from smoke than on week-days; and there were the distant masts and steeples. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He would be used to climbing, and his head wouldn't fail him on the roofs of the houses. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The swallows circled around and I watched them and the night-hawks flying above the roofs and drank the Cinzano. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They were put up cheaply, as I used the roofs of houses, just as the Western Union did. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The girls descended between the houses with slate roofs and blackish brick walls. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This in time makes the immense columns, many of them thousands of tons in weight, which serve to support the roofs over the vast chambers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I looked out over the tiled roofs and saw white clouds and the sky very blue. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The windows of the room were open, and looked southward, and a dull distant sound came over the sun-lighted roofs from that direction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We had a telephone line running across the roofs to the basement of the building. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They are well protected by substantially built roofs and side walls so that the animals are not exposed to the weather at any time of the year. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That night a bat flew into the room through the open door that led onto the balcony and through which we watched the night over the roofs of the town. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typed by Elinor