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.

The horizontal wind vane on the roof of this building is to assist the prisoners when there is not a sufficiency of them sentenced to the tread-wheels; by shutting the louvre boards of the arms it then produces employment for the prisoners when there is no corn in the mill to grind.

Large sums were spent in the closing years of the nineteenth century in the repair of the roof and walls.

It is said that it was originally thatched, the lead roof being placed by Bishop Edyngton in 1340.

But the town, with the long leaden roof of the cathedral among its guardian elms, makes a pleasant and very English picture as we ascend the long road to St. Catherine's Hill, which rises directly east of St. Cross.

Another advantage which these large towns have for the ordinary tourist is that he may generally count upon getting some sort of roof to cover him when in the smaller coast resorts lodgings are not merely at a premium but simply unobtainable at any price.

This Anthony Etricke was buried half in and half out of the church in pursuance of a curious whim that he should lie neither in the open nor under the church roof.

This chantry served a double purpose, prayers being said by the priest within and a beacon lit upon the roof without, for the succour and guidance of sailors.

The carved grotesques under the eaves of the roof are worthy of notice.

Particularly noteworthy is the grand old roof of the nave with its gorgeously coloured and gilt figures, also the ancient pews and Transitional font.

The fine stone roof is greatly admired and is a wonderful piece of work.

Alterations at various dates have given the building thirteenth-century transepts and a roof and aisles dating from two hundred years later.

"Perching within square royal rooves.

It was empty; it was a shell, and its roof was damaged.

There the house stood, with holes in its roof, empty.

Of its roof only the rafters were left.

In the roof two thin arches of the groining remain, marvellously.

'You will not stay under your father's roof?' 'No; I have to live under my husband's roof.'

'You will not stay under your father's roof?' 'No; I have to live under my husband's roof.'

He has also consumed two hammocks, a tennis racket and the tar paper roof of the auto shed.

Yet there is no knowing the capabilities of a London lodging-house in an obscure quarter, and there might be some vacant garret in the roof, or some dreary two-pair back, dignified by the name of "apartments."

Suddenly she remembered an old disused alarm-bell which hung in the roof.

On each of the sides, which overlook the gardens, ten little windows project from the roof just above the eaves.

Near its southwestern corner stands the Tabernacle, a long, one-storied building, with an immense roof, containing a hall which will hold three thousand people.

There the Mormon religious services are conducted during the winter months; but throughout the summer the usual place of gathering to listen to the sermons is in "boweries," so called, which are constructed by planting posts in the ground and weaving over them a flat roof of willow-twigs.