She drew nearer Sellanraa, saw the many roofs of the buildings; it was her home that lay there.

The river itself was alive with cascoes being poled about by half-naked natives, the families of the crews doing the cooking and primitive housekeeping on the half-decks, while the family fighting-cocks strutted on the roofs of the boats and crowed defiance to each other.

It also runs up to an unusual height, compared with other trees, before it forms a head, so that its lower branches are sometimes elevated above the roofs of the houses of common height

The chimneys are shaped something like ears and the roofs are all covered with fur!"

Some one in a company quoting the passage from "Henry V.," "So work the honey-bees," and each "picking out his pet plum" from that perfect piece of natural history, Wordsworth objected to the line, "The singing masons building roofs of gold," because, he said, of the unpleasant repetition of the "ing" in it!

The town of Alnmouth, viewed from the train just before entering Alnmouth Station, looks very picturesque, especially if the rare sunshine of an English summer should be lighting up the bay, bringing out the vivid red of the tiled roofs against the grassy hills fringing the links which lie on their seaward side, and lighting up, also, the yellow sands and long lines of sparkling wavelets edged with white.

It made the house seem doubly desolate to hear the wind howling and the rain beating upon the roofs.

The mills for rolling iron are simply immense tent-like roofs, covering acres of ground, open on every side.

Beneath these roofs Deborah looked in on a city of fires, that burned hot and fiercely in the night.

In the distance was heard the crash of falling roofs.

Its use in the manufacture of sugarpans and boilers, in the construction of roofs and gutters, is expected to be very considerable.

I soon took my last look at Ambialet, its rocks and ruins on which the wild pinks nodded, and its stone-covered roofs overgrown with white sedum.

The houses, built of dark stone, even to the roofs, looked scarcely different from their background of bare rock.

" So Fuzzy Fox ran until he came to the edge of the forest and then the three little gnomes saw a large castle away in the distance with bright red roofs on the tall towers.

The domed roofs rise in unplanned, beautiful disorder against a sky luminous with jewels.

About two hundred yards in front of us the Dome of the Rock glistened in the morning sun above the intervening roofs.

In the darkness he felt the trees, centuries old, and all the blank houses watching him.... To-night, stealing across the sleeping roofs, he felt the star-lit mosque towers watching him in secret, the pale, silent espionage of them who could wait.

The view was not intriguing, and yet she hung there: roofs and more roofs, a countless number reached out toward infinity, with pebbles and pieces of broken glass glittering in the sunlight; chimneys sharply outlined by shadow; and on every roof, except one, clothes-lines, from which white cotton and linen flapped in the wind at the side of faded overalls and red woollen shirts.

The view was not intriguing, and yet she hung there: roofs and more roofs, a countless number reached out toward infinity, with pebbles and pieces of broken glass glittering in the sunlight; chimneys sharply outlined by shadow; and on every roof, except one, clothes-lines, from which white cotton and linen flapped in the wind at the side of faded overalls and red woollen shirts.

Night settled upon the high roofs and dropped its shadow into the streets and alleys, and the windows began to glow.

And so, like a female Colossus, she strode slowly across the city, her head tilted, her eyes looking up from the cavernous streetsup beyond the lofty roofs of houses, her voice becoming fainter and fainter: "Rags ... old iron ... bottles and ra-ags ..." until the God of those who fall fighting in the battle of life reached down and, drawing the sword, threw away the scabbard.

Not only walls, roofs, and timbers, but the interior furniture and ornaments are assailed by moth, rust, and other destructive operations."

"Slates are stone and used to cover roofs of houses.

There were armed men standing inside them, armed men on the platforms and steps, armed men even on the roofs and it was indeed a strange sight to see Madeleine-Bastille and the Galeries Lafayette out here in the open country, jammed full of grim infantrymen preparing for the fray.

Through a gap in the trees I caught a glimpse of the roofs below.

"Perching within square royal rooves.