But landowners were not content with one process alone; they closed on the people with ejectments, turned them out on the roads, and plucked down their rooftrees.

At last he said, in a deep, husky voice, "Now, if aught of harm befalls thee because of this day's doings, I swear by Saint George that the red cock shall crow over the rooftree of this house, for the hot flames shall lick every crack and cranny thereof.

The people who paid for its construction saw in its growing walls and rooftree only the few hundred dollars they hoped to gain.

" 5 GUERRILLA WARFARE "There are few pleasures," said Psmith, as he resumed his favorite position against the mantelpiece and surveyed the commandeered study with the pride of a householder, "keener to the reflective mind than sitting under one's own rooftree.

Aix will have gone to bed, and in bed it will peacefully stay unless a military Zeppelin sails over its rooftrees, making a noise like ten million locusts all buzzing at once.

But before that old rooftree was laid low, he wrote beneath it, quite offhand, a little poem, 'The Night Before Christmas,' that blends with childhood's dreams anew each Christmas Evea few short verses holding more vitality than all his learning.

I could have crawled out of the window to the rain gutter, but before I had reached the rooftree I would have been shot.

I saw the Gobelin tapestries, more precious than spun gold, intact, while sparks fell about them, and lying beneath them were iron bolts twisted by fire, broken rooftrees and beams still smouldering.

The little white-throated sparrows came familiarly about the palm cabins and whitewashed houses and trilled on the rooftrees.

This is what that spirit, in its purity, did for the home, when there was no Bible to read at its hearthstone and no New Testament to put into the hands of young lovers departing to make a new rooftree.

When we're frae hame we dinna lik it; it's a day we'd fain celebrate under our ain rooftree.

Stars on the rooftree.

Stars on the rooftree.

It was under the family rooftree that I now set up my literary shop.

"'My love is foiled, My rooftree rent, Mine honour soiled, In exile sent!