Such scampering, such leaping off the shed, such running away over the eaves of the outbuildings, over the tops of the wood-sheds, were never seen before.

Take, for instance, it's been a plan of mine to paint the house, with the shutters green and a band of green shingles runnin' up under the eaves.

Already manifest were the advantages of the stockade, running at a foot's distance round the cabin to the height of the eaves, made of spruce saplings not even lopped of their short bushy branches, but planted close together, after burning the ground cleared of snow.

The heavenly gourds rise to the eye, With their fruit hanging under the eave.

Thus "a continuous stretch of forest"; "the continual drip of water from the eaves.

There were two storeys above the ground-floor, and above them a projecting eave of carven stone that threatened the uplifted eye like a menace.

'Eave up, Reddy, and skip for it.

Watching the pulse of the oars die down, as her own died with them, Tearless, dumb with amaze she stood, as a storm-stunned nestling Fallen from bough or from eave lies dumb, which the home-going herdsman Fancies a stone, till he catches the light of its terrified eyeball.

Morning, noon, and night the eaves of the shacks dripped steadily, the gaunt limbs of the hardwoods were a line of coursing drops, and through all the vast reaches of fir and cedar the patter of rain kept up a dreary monotone.

It stood at the cabin eaves before the break came, six feet on the level.

The sound she heard was the drip of eaves, the beat of rain on the charred timber, upon the dried grass of the lawn.

" This bears the appearance of being a natural eave, for the upper part does not exhibit any marks where the tool has been made use of, but the lower part does; and here, tradition says, this mighty warrior was interred, and also his wife, fair Phillis.

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We see a Teddy-bear left on what remains of a flight of stairs, a bedstead buried to the knobs in debris, skeletons of birds in a cage hanging under an eave.

The rain continued to drip, drip from the eaves, and the Cleft was still clogged with mist.

She can't even stand it to hear the water running down the eave spouts during a heavy shower.

Under the shelter of the projecting eaves, whence broken water-spouts were belching streams as thick as a man's arm, loungers in the cafés would slip along the streets toward the river-front; and after glancing at the flood from the scant protection of their umbrellas, would make their way proudly back, stopping in every drinking place to offer their opinions on the rise that had taken place since their previous inspection.

From a convenient bin he took out a generous feed, and from a stack beside the eaves he brought them hay for the night.

The farmer watches for the frozen thatch to drip; the gentleman visiting the stable looks up disconsolately at the icicles dependent from the slated eave with the same hope.

'Ereyo get oonder un, Jimmy, and 'eave un oop.

T' think that 'is poor feyther's not in 'is graave aboove a moonth, an' 'e singin' fit t' eave barn roof off!

The eave boards were of soft poplar.

The houses in the market place just beyond were all little one-story buildings with bow windows and wooden eave troughs ending in carved dragon heads.

The man in the red cravat was threatened with the strappado, with the water-torture, with the brodequins, and finally with the devil's cannonwhich, according to our man-at-arms, was to be planted on the opposite bank of the ravine, and which would infallibly bring the whole of their wretched town tumbling down into the gulf like swallows' nests from under the eaves.

And Benoni laughed that horrid laugh of his, till the court rang again, as though there were devils in every corner, and beneath every eave and everywhere.