Eave
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Examples
- A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It was lit within by slits under the eaves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Let him take care also that he avoid in the darkness the drippings from the overhanging eaves or windows, and falling upon the slippery steps of the dim doorway he may be about to enter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Ah, yes, he cried, here's the end of a long light ladder against the eaves. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- In comparing, too, the poor man's situation with that of the great, there is (always according to Mr. Eaves) another source of comfort for the former. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Take it as a rule, this sardonic old Eaves would say, the fathers and elder sons of all great families hate each other. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The drawing herewith presented shows an ideal two-room silo 16 feet wide, 32 feet long, and 16 feet to the eaves. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Those intended for stairways, eaves, cornices, windows, doorways, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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