290 examples of roosted in sentences

If Gray Stoddard marries Johnnie Consadine, you and me will just about roost in the penitentiary for the rest of our days.

Beside him, on the arm of his great chair, roosted his favorite falcon, for the Prior was fond of the gentle craft of hawking.

Mine too, thy lofty Justice Hall, with its one chair of authority, high-backed and wickered, once the terror of luckless poacher, or self-forgetful maidenso common since, that bats have roosted in it.

The various churches are ruled by "leaders"men of a deaconly frame of mind, invested with power sufficient to enable them to rule the roost in ministerial matters, to say who shall preach and who shall not, and to work sundry other wonders in the high atmosphere of church government.

Dowthwaite made himself unpleasant about his broken wall, the Askews turned the grouse back, and then I found the Allerby cottage children, ransacking Redmire Wood when the pheasants were going to roost.

Perchance snug-roosted o'er some brazier's den, Or stall of nymphs, by courtesy not men,

z THE LETTER Z, OR ROOST.

It must serve as a roost, Or lose the last place.

[Illustration: THE LETTER Z, OR ROOST.

As long as he was winnin' Sandy was the king of any roost.

* From Wolfert's Roost.

Some rain fell during the night, but this inconvenience was trifling compared to the discordant screams of a bird which had roosted over our fires, and which the people called the cat-bird.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Old mistress had two peafowls roosted in the Colonial poplar trees.

The cormorants roosted there; and they must be hungry, for the lake had been too windy for fishing this long while.

There orthodox classicism still held sway; the manner and metre of Pope or Thomson ruled the roost of singing fowl.

In America, the "boys" get up so early, that it is said they frequently "catch the birds by their tails as they are going to roost;" and it is no doubt owing to this that they are so 'cute.

A yard, across the upright mast, and a rope stretched along it, and reeved through a block at each end, formed an extempore crane, which afforded the means of lowering an arm-chair down to the flat shelf on which the sufferers had roosted.

Our Greek professor, Doctor R., was a bit of a snob, and the plebeians of the class, much the largest part, always held him in ill will; and as his garden bordered on our section, and his fowls roosted in the trees overhanging the green, we one day decided to mulct him in a supper.

My word for it, Cecil, she's found a safe roost.

In the furthest and darkest corners roosted those black birds who by night flew down into the church through the shafts in the vaulting, and the eyes of the owls glowed with phosphorescent brilliancy, while the bats flew sleepily about sweeping the faces of the lads with their wings.

All your daintiest Dells too I will deflower, and take your dearest Doxyes From your warm sides; and then some one cold night I'le watch you what old barn you go to roost in,

This big fellow hopped up from limb to limb of the huge dead pine, and he bobbed around as if undecided, and tried each limb for a place to roost.

In the midst of all these fears, it began to be whispered about, that if any chickens were concerned in the motion, it was Cary's chickens; and that the attack, though nominally on the hen-roost, was in reality on the wood.

They thought nothing of spending a whole night going from one turkey roost to another, if half a dozen fine birds were the reward.

290 examples of  roosted  in sentences