[A] In the eighth book of 'The Prelude', (lines 468-475), this fragment is introduced, and there Wordsworth tells us that once, when boating on Coniston Lake (Thurston-mere) in his boyhood, he entered under a grove of trees on its "western marge," and glided "along the line of low-roofed water," "as in a cloister."

The dreary effect of the flat-roofed houses in the neighborhood of New York is due partly to the unrelieved height, and partly to the unfinished or truncated appearance of a thing without a top.

Two were in a pasture, so neatly roofed over with sod that a birdman might fly over the place until the cows came home without knowing guns were there.

Sophie and I walked on, whilst slowly the carriage proceeded to the gable-roofed, high-chimneyed house, that arose, well defined and clear, in the early sunlight.

Up to now he had known nothing of the sap, merely expressing satisfactionagain mingled with amazementwhen he saw the entrance to the sap, lightly roofed in with boards for a couple of yards and shut off beyond that by a curtain of sacking, and was told that the men were amusing themselves making a bomb-proof dug-out.

Inside, the tall pillars of a dark grey stone support at a great height a finely groined roof of the same red brick, lit by a clerestory so open that one wonders how it can carry the weight of the roof above.

The coils of straw are now plastered outside and in with a mixture of mud, chaff, and cowdung, and allowed to dry; when dried the hut is filled with grain, and securely roofed and thatched.

I went down Out of the chestnuts and the girl-filled town, Only a yard or two beneath the street, Haunted a little while by little feet, Going, did they but know, the self-same way As all those bones as white as the white May That roofs the orchards overhead with bloom.

The old house stands stately, high-roofed, almost unaltered, its great pillared portico before it; hard by are the Druids' Mound, and Preshute Church in the lap of trees.

It was new-roofed soon after the discovery of America, and, perhaps, done up to some show of decency and comfort.

But when the two explorers peered through the ragged aperture, they did not look into the open air, but into another chamber, very much larger than the others, with high, irregular walls, but with scarcely any roof, almost the whole of the upper part being open to the sky.

Trees of enormous height shot up by the waterside, and between them, as we approached, the little sharp-roofed houses of the village of Pritie could be seen scattered here and there amidst their gardens.

Along the pavement were set huge green boxes, in which white oleanders grew, and flaming pomegranates, and crepe myrtle thickly roofed with pink.

"To courtly roof and rustic cot Old comrades wend from far and wide; Now is the ancient feud forgot, The growing grudge is laid aside.

At one time you are rowing under a magnificent vault, and then, anon, you are forced to lie flat down in the boat, or leave your head behind you, as you float through a passage, the roof whereof grazes the gunwale of the boat.

President Roosevelt done 'tended to de roof over my head.

We may now either go through the Himmels Thor to the left, or keeping straight up under the old trees and passing the "Mount of Olives" on the left, approach the large deep-roofed building between two towers.

By Clytia from great Chalconhim who erst Planted one stalwart knee against the rock, And lo, beneath his foot Burinè's rill Brake forth, and at its side poplar and elm Shewed aisles of pleasant shadow, greenly roofed By tufted leaves.

The pit of it was about 50 feet in diameter and 4 or 5 feet deep, and it was so heavily roofed with earth that the interior was damp and somber as a tomb.

Little it profits to build the spire, the sea-wall, the dome, the bridge, the myriad-roofed town.

The church is a good, dignified building, with one or two features of interest, notably a splendid panelled roof, which will repay inspection.

The interior consists of a broad, ornamentally roofed nave (resting upon twelve high narrow pillars of stone), and two aisles.

You feel this in the air as soon as you see the white-painted wooden houses left out in the snow, the austere schoolhouse, and the peoplethe men of the farms, the women who work as hard as they with, it may be, less enjoyment of lifethe other houses, well painted and quaintly roofed, that belong to Judge This,

Thus Erech stood, where in her infancy The huts of wandering Accads had been built Of soil, and rudely roofed by woolly pelt O'erlaid upon the shepherd's worn-out staves, And yonder lay their fathers' unmarked graves.