Of course, with the amount of light given by my candle, it was not possible to examine each place, minutely, but I was enabled to notice, as I went along, that the walls appeared to be built with wonderful precision and finish; while here and there, an occasional, massive pillar shot up to support the vaulted roof.

If you want I should leave this roof, just come and put me off.

Jack and Barney slipped through the low lattice, and by means of a narrow shed reached the low roof.

"That's what he has," said Mr. Batch, stroking her forearm, but still gazing through and beyond whatever roofs he was seeing.

Wat or WalterTyler, because of his trade, which was that of covering roofs with tileswould seem, however, not to have been a Dartford man at all.

With the mud he capped this over, forming a little arched roof.

Nor his accepted brethrenwhom, tyrant, he calls freelay the bound or build the roof!

" "Alone, father?" "Is the Donna Violetta to quit the roof of her father with as little warning as an unfavored dependant?" "Nay, Signor Monforte, you could not, in reason, have expected more, in this interview, than the hope of some future termination to your suit- some pledge" "And that pledge?

The deep shade of the eaves contrasted brilliantly with the bright light outside; and contrasted too with the wooden pillars which held up the roof, and which seemed on their southern sides white-hot in the blazing sunshine.

The Argo-robber raised the whole roof with his powerful hand as easily as a woman cooking a dinner raises a cover from a saucepan, and pointing to a woman sitting in a store, closed from the street by a copper gate, said: "Look!" Apollo looked and was astonished.

They did not see me in the beginning, because I entered by the door of a house threescore and five paces farther down the street; and having by that means gained the roof I descended to a gallery built of stone above one end of the coffee-shop, and there lay concealed among evil-smelling bags.

All was now silence around them, the enemy batteries having ceased sending over even occasional shells; and they were able to enjoy a few hours of rest undisturbed by having the roof of their shelter damaged by a chance explosion.

We put the first out with four buckets of water, all we had in the place, but soon another shell struck the roof and the wind drove the flames along the rafters inside of the nave.

A few months later a big storm tore off the roof of her house and again she was soaked as she worked to save the children.

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

cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage (anger) 900. break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode^, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump^, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.

The children were glad to find the forest roof beneath them again.

If thou shouldst leave me, and roam forth again Seeking another's roof.

And o'er the whitened wave their shadows fling The pathway leads, as round the steeps it twines; And Silence loves its purple roof of vines.

He came to a place where the explosion at that time had blown out the props and shaken down the roof until the passage was entirely blocked.

I went the old way; and the old longing recurring at the one charmed spot on the road, I cast a quick look at the towering sycamore and the desolated house beneath, which, short as it was, roused feelings which kept my head lowered for the remainder of my walk north and to the very moment, when, on my return, the same chimneys and overhanging roofs came again into view through the wintry branches.

] 95 Broad ponderous piers sustain the roof, and wide Branch the vast rain-bow ribs from side to side.

In one of the fairest of the West Indian islands a simple but elegant villa lifted its gabled roofs amidst a bewildering wealth of tropical beauty.

With what spirit they resumed the war may be understood from the facts that they pulled down their roofs and houses for the equipment of a new fleet; that gold and silver, instead of brass and iron, were melted in their forges for the construction of arms; and that the women parted with their hair to make cordage for the engines of war.

There are two sects of idolatrous priests, called Chebeth and Chesmu, who ascend the roof of the palace in the midst of storms, and persuade the people they are so holy, that they can prevent any rain from falling on the roof.