26 collocations for roofs

"Only this," answered the Koli, "that Government will grant me the exclusive privilege of roofing my house with silver tiles.

We re-roofed our camp with its old covering of hemlock-bark, spreading over a light tent-cover we had provided.

He did something more and better than roofing the choir of a ruined cathedral.

Knowing the limited means of Saint Marks, he expected to supply the cheapest roofing the Farwell Hardware Company had in stock, but Pastor Driver had a surprise for him.

Mr. Browning goes on to liken one solitary poem to a Chapel in the house, in which is found 'from floor to roof one evidence Of how far earth may rival heaven.'

The church itself is a burying ground; its walls are tombstones, and its floor roofs the forgotten and the unforgotten dead.

Oh! when the sleety showers her path assail, 270 And like a torrent roars the headstrong gale; No more her breath can thaw their fingers cold, Their frozen arms her neck no more can fold; Weak roof a cowering form two babes to shield, And faint the fire a dying heart can yield!

Cancut the Unwearied roofed with boughs an old frame for drying moose-hides, while Iglesias sketched, and I worshipped Katahdin.

" [033] Napoleon, it is said, once conceived the plan of roofing with glass the gardens of the Tuileries, so that they might be used as a winter promenade.

He roofed a hundred hills and valleys with a larch-and- fir work that will make them as glorious and beautiful as Lebanon forever.

The excavators had gone down into the hard earth well beneath the deep strata of sand, and they roofed these holes with six, eight, and sometimes ten layers of palm logs.

Their dwellings are spacious excavations in the earth, roofed over with turf, as many as 150 individuals sometimes residing in the different divisions.

The rich had built small houses or pagodas to roof their loved from the torrential rains, and, from my distance, only these buildings and the trees could be seen; but as I was about to cross the road to enter the gate, a figure approached.

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 PALACE From roof to roof the spacious palace halls Glitter with war's array; With burnished metal clad, the lofty walls Beam like the bright noonday.

And, as they sing, the young man makes a motion with his hand, there is a sort of glowworm flash, and a few seconds later, away down there among the Paris roofs a puff of red smoke and fire.

The sun rose brightly, and its gleam Fell on that hapless bed, And tinged with light each shapeless beam Which roofed the lowly shed; When, looking up with wistful eye, The Bruce beheld a spider try His filmy thread to fling From beam to beam of that rude cot:

The men used their immense leaves, some of which were twelve feet long and two and a half feet broad, to roof the flimsy shelters under which they hung their hammocks.

Thick clouds, the colour of dirty sheep's wool, packed tight by their own movement, roofed the sky and walled it round, hanging close to the horizon.

Does anybody suppose that Michel Angelo, when he undertook to raise the dome of the Pantheon into the air, was thinking of the most economical way of roofing a given space?

Christianity forbade an image of the living God; consequently the Church had another object than to roof the statue of a deity.

And there rose twelve of Benjamin, of the party of Ishbosheth, and twelve of the children of David; and when they met together each took other by the head, and roof their swords into each other's sides and were all there slain.

From bamboos split in half, gutters, troughs, and roofing tiles can be made.

Company H was in small huts made of poles and roofed variouslysome with cloth or canvas, others with slabs or boards rudely riven from the forest trees.

V The southern road was the shorter, but he wanted to see Moran and to hear when he proposed to begin to roof the abbey.

26 collocations for  roofs