I had recollections of a succession of great cellars, and of one, greater than the rest, the roof of which was upheld by pillars; beyond that my mind was hazy, and predominated by a sense of cold and darkness and shadows.

The governor is getting to be more like a bear than a human being, it's a dog's life for everybody unlucky enough to be under the same roof with him.

They have much to fret about, now, have these old windows; and that makes us think whether the larmiers of the roof over them do not run real tears.

The night-wind began to blow soon after dark; at first only a gentle breathing, but increasing toward midnight to a rough gale that fell upon my leafy roof in ragged surges like a cascade, bearing wild sounds from the crags overhead.

First a long, straight shaft of white light shot straight up through the cabin roof to a great height.

So the boys went to their beds, the elder conveying special injunctions to his junior to be civil to all the guests so long as they remained under the maternal roof on the morrow.

In Denmark many an anxious lover places the St. John's wort between the beams under the roof for the purpose of divination, the usual custom being to put one plant for herself and another for her sweetheart.

"We have to have our roofs at a sharp pitch, to let the snow slide off in winter," said Stephen, apologetically, "we have such heavy snows here; but that doesn't make the angle any less ugly to look at.

A great roar had broken upon the ears of the sailors; the invisible roof above them, the water heaving beneath them, the walls that hemmed them in, called, with a multiplication of resonance, upon the name of Darrow.

I was beneath the same roof as Elma, although she was in ignorance of my presence.

Towards the right hand, across the plain, there seemed to rise out of the gray distance a cluster of towers and roofs like another habitable place; and who could tell that something better might not be there?

I guess I could drop to the roof from there.

" Marcos thanked her, and explained that they wanted nothing but a roof under which to leave his horse.

Among the rushessheltered only by the darkness, without roof between them and the skyI came upon a crowd of several hundred human creatures whom my movements roused from uneasy slumber.

"I can just touch the roof by standing on tiptoe.

It no longer patterned itself on the inn-yard, but was roofed against the rain.

And then, very suddenly, all became quiet again, save for the rain-water pouring off the roofs into the street below.

It was meant by the primitive man to be a picture of his primitive house, this house being, of course, hut-shaped, and consisting of a conical roof without walls.

Wilbur, chase the roof off a jug of suds for the Lieutenant.

Our Mess, indeed, had no other roof than this, for there was seldom any rain, and, as we sat at meals, we faced a broad waterfall, a curving wall of white foam, stretching right across the stream, which was at this point about seventy or eighty yards wide.

Almost immediately the rectangle on the roof through which the light made its passage began to splay out, like lighted oil, although the column retained still the integrity of its outline.

Other things may be put upon the roof after a while, for space is abundant there.

The village, he knew, might be fifty miles from land, for these Eskimos lived on the ocean's roof during the entire winter and hunted seal and great-seal, moving only now and again when game became scarce.

"Ida left our hospitable roof about a fortnight ago," said Mr. Heron.

And the houses shoved their roofs among the stars in the sky, and the clouds drifted by them, and everywhere was much smoke.