Which preposition to use with housetops
It is the pulpit of the reformer and the housetop of the fanatic, this soapbox.
As early as 1847, Watson had erected a line some two miles in length, extending over the housetops in London, and operated it by means of discharges from an ordinary frictional electric machine.
Mr. Boolpin pointed to a swamp which could be distinctly seen over a housetop toward the east.
Now as Beltane stood to watch this, grim-lipped, for it needed but few to man the barricade, so narrow was it, Roger caught his arm and pointed to the housetops above them; and what he saw, others saw also, and a cry went up of wonder and amaze.
It is thou, then, O runner on the housetops by night!"
She pondered the matter for a dozen steps, swinging her hat at her side and looking away across the housetops to the mountains.