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Sentences ending with roof

He asked me why I went on eating the food bought with such money, living under his roof? [9]
The mountain side was so steep that the entire town had a slant to it like a roof. [5]
The wretch's estate was not so contemptible; but I tell you plainly I should be unworthy to be the wife of the noble Mena if I allowed any one to vilify his name under his own roof. [10]
The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
But as he walked languidly along, some ladies saw him across the street, and seeing, were moved with pity, and pitying, spoke such soft words that he was tempted to accept their invitation and rest awhile beneath their hospitable roof. [6]
The constables of Vilray had twice visited the Manor to arrest him that day, but they had been led in another direction by a clue which he had provided; and afterwards in the dusk he had doubled back and hid himself under Jean Jacques' roof. [11]
Filled to the very roof! [10]
It was a very lovely family picture; a pretty house, surrounded by attractive scenery; scholarship, refinement, simple elegance, giving distinction to a home which to us seemed a pattern of all we could wish to see beneath an English roof. [6]
I'll have no upstart spilling his chemicals here, or devilling the stars from a seat on my roof. [11]
I know how to value his noble gifts, and I am his friend, but I am also his master, and I will find means of preventing my son from introducing the light conduct of the capital beneath his father's roof. [10]

Short sentences using roof

This was the roof. [5]
The roof is patched up. [4]
No father--no mother-no parental roof! [10]
And that under our roof! [10]
Over the roof? [10]

Sentences containing roof two or more times

They are sixty-five feet high and support a sort of porch or roof, which connects them with the roof of the building. [5]

More example sentences with the word roof in them

If you hope, you transform a pleasant garden into the Elysian fields; if you fear anything you behold in a burning roof the conflagration of a world. [10]
I know our Xanthe better than you, and she no more cares for her playfellow than the column on the right side of the hearth yearns toward the one on the left, though they have stood together under the same roof so long. [10]
But suddenly the woven roof parted; invisible hands drew away the two halves. [10]
Now, under that worthy old man's roof everything was in the best order. [10]
Now, not another word; and, come what may, so long as the Roman visitors dwell under this roof, beware of it! [10]
It was of wood (for use in summer only), octagon shaped, with a thatched roof, open in the centre. [4]
He found that with regard to the Grosvenor Green apartment he had not allowed for his wife's willingness to get any sort of roof over her head again after the removal from their old home, or for the alleviations that grow up through mere custom. [8]
The roof, thatched with palm-leaves and reeds, had begun to crackle when Antinous rushed into the tower only a few paces off crying: "Fire--fire! [10]
Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed. [2]
It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
But she evidently wished to display herself to the people in all her finery and be admired, for she presently went up on the roof of the deck-house. [10]
Who in the wide world would come from under the respectable Ortlieb roof, at this hour, to tell a stranger anything whatsoever concerning one of its daughters? [10]
She and all who have a voice in the management of court affairs look first at the roof and then seek anything to raise and support it, though it should be corpses, ruined lives, and broken hearts. [10]
In the roof were two oil lamps which gave a light strong enough to read by; each had a green-cloth attachment by which it could be covered when the light should be no longer needed. [5]
Just as they were reaching the end of their walk, the trumpets rang out once more, reminding her that she was under the same roof with him. [10]
The yellow leaves were fluttering about the school play-ground, the starlings were gathering in flocks on the church roof to take their departure, and Ulrich would fain have gone with them, no matter where. [10]
You too, Beloved, were born somewhere and remember your birthplace or your early home; for you some house is haunted by recollections; to some roof you have bid farewell. [6]
In desperation he went inside and climbed to the roof, where he could see the circle of the enemy. [11]
I wish that we might be comrades under the same roof till--" He paused and smiled strangely. [11]
The King's flag was flying from the roof of one of the cottages, and His Majesty was probably within. [5]
The mourning banner was already waving on the roof of the Town Hall, towards which he turned. [10]
With its massive walls and heavy, red-tiled roof that sloped steeply to many points, it seemed firmly planted for ages to come. [9]
One need not wait to see the smoke coming through the roof of a house and the flames breaking out of the windows to know that the building is on fire. [6]
Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles. [5]
There was as usual a furious "zephyr" blowing the first night of the brigade's return, and about midnight the roof of an adjoining stable blew off, and a corner of it came crashing through the side of our ranch. [5]
Hospitably he drew us out of the wind and rain into his little hut, and sat us down beside the stove, cheerfully informing us that, only the night before, the gale had blown his door in, and his roof had started for the German lines. [9]
Polly is picking up chestnuts on the sward, regardless of the high wind which rattles them about her head and upon the glass roof of her winter-garden. [4]
As Daphne's husband, under the same roof with the wonderfully invigorated Myrtilus, his Uncle Archias, and faithful Bias, Hermon found in the new home what had hovered before the blind man as the fairest goal of existence in art, love, and friendship. [10]
Alexas led me under a roof, where no missiles could reach me. [10]
His habitation is under a poor thatched roof, distinguished from his barn only by loop-holes that let out the smoke. [4]
The ordinary chalet turns a broad, honest gable end to the road, and its ample roof hovers over the home in a protecting, caressing way, projecting its sheltering eaves far outward. [5]
Their path lay towards it, for Pango Dooni hid in the hills, where the sun hung a roof of gold above his stronghold. [11]
The high-priest has told me that you did not sleep beneath the same roof as I. [10]
We were urged to treat the princesses with the utmost courtesy and consideration, and we perceived that their reception really demanded respect; for the palace, which we had found empty and desolate, was refurnished from roof to foundation. [10]
He was not to think of making the journey to his own home in Bohemia during this winter season, and at this farewell drinking bout we held council as to whose roof he might find lodging under. [10]
I was surprised to see it as a tree, standing by itself, and making the most delicious roof a pair of young lovers could imagine to sit under. [6]
He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof, for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. [5]
I told him to put up eight "points," and put them all on the roof, and use the best quality of rod. [5]
Then he came to himself and heard voices; daylight was streaming through a hole cut in the whale's roof. [5]
It was difficult to begin the conversation anew, and when, spite of many efforts, it would not flow freely, the shout of the overseer, which reached his ear through the opening of the roof, urging the men to work, was like a deliverance. [10]
The water appears to be as deep as the roof is high, and is of a light, beautiful blue, in contrast with the deep blue of the bay. [4]
The roof appears to be a discriminating sieve. [4]
Then he pointed to Amminadab's house, from which no ray of light gleamed through the darkness, and asked Hosea to spend the remainder of the night beneath his roof, as he probably would not wish yo disturb his aged father at so late an hour. [10]
Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof. [9]
After a considerable time--he could not tell how long--his senses struggled to a half-consciousness, and as he lay with closed eyes vaguely wondering where he was and what had been happening, he noted a murmurous sound, the sullen beating of rain upon the roof. [5]
In the mean time there were several flats which they thought they could almost make do: notably one where they could get an extra servant's room in the basement four flights down, and another where they could get it in the roof five flights up. [8]
But about the time of the equinoctial a great gale came out of the south so strongly that the water rose in the river over the boat landing; and the roof was torn from one of the curing-sheds. [9]
I ran tunnels till I tapped the Arctic Ocean, and I sunk shafts till I broke through the roof of perdition; but those extensions turned up missing every time. [5]
At first I thought there were about ten pillars to support the roof, but my impression before I left was that there were about ten thousand. [11]
By one of those accidents which make fatality, a small wooden house some distance away, with a roof as dry as wool, caught fire from a flying cinder. [11]
When I realized this, I was so angry that I had to sit down on the floor and take hold of something to keep from lifting the roof off with an explosion of opinion. [5]
Why, even in this house, which the gods have filled to the roof with gifts and favors, misfortune has crept in through the key hole. [10]
The hospitality of this classic mansion is well known, and we added a second pleasant chapter to our previous experience under the roof of Professor Max Mueller. [6]
In low water these neat narrow-edged dikes project four or five inches above the surface, like the comb of a submerged roof, but in high water they are overflowed. [5]
In five minutes there was not a spectator within half a mile of my place; but all the high houses about that distance away were full, windows, roof, and all. [5]
How much truth there was in it all I will not pretend to say, but I seem to remember stamping over every rock that sounded hollow, to question if it were not the roof of what was once Basil's Cave. [6]
The roof of the whole long structure had originally consisted of palm branches, upon which mud and turf had been piled; but this, too, was now in repair only on the central building. [10]
This man carved the walls of his prison house from floor to roof with all manner of figures of men and animals grouped in intricate designs. [5]
The curves of the tiled roof enfolded the upper windows; the walls were thick, the note one of mystery. [9]
So heavy was the surf that now and then the spray of some foiled wave broke on the roof, but she only nodded at that, as though the sea were calling her to come forth, tapping on her rooftree in joyous greeting. [11]
And there was the streak in the wall-paper caused one night by the rain leaking through the roof. [9]
And is not the sky that covers us one roof, which makes us all one family? [6]
It was in the shade of this tree that Polly Ann sat watching Tom and me through the mild spring days as we barked the roof, and none ever felt greater joy and pride in a home than she. [9]
Do you want the roof to fall on you? [5]
We climb to the roof of the quaint old building, and sit there to drink in the strange oriental scene. [4]
This was from the priests of Osiris-Apis who were performing the sacred mysteries of their god, at midnight, on the roof of the temple. [10]
Philip stood upon the platform and watched for the Boltons' house, fancied he could distinguish its roof among the trees, and wondered how Ruth would feel if she knew he was so near her. [5]
Well, I left the paternal roof and wandered in other lands, and learned to think in the words of strange people. [6]
Little Mary and the other patients under Rufinus' roof were on the way to recovery; still there was much to cast gloomy shadows over this happy termination. [10]
He strode to the open window at the back of the office, and looked out, There was a roof under it. [9]
The roof of the main building was capped by a lantern, the home of countless pigeons. [9]
We came to the little church, of upright logs and plaster, with its crudely shingled, peaked roof, with its tiny belfry crowned by a cross, with its porches on each side shading the line of windows there. [9]
Ay, he permitted the horror to enter beneath his own roof. [10]
On its top the Hindu brackets and monolithic architraves of Sikandra are replaced by Moorish carped arches, usually single blocks of red sandstone, in the Kiosks and pavilions which adorn the roof. [5]
The "Introducer" commanded the guard to admit no other visitors, and soon the little white marble, circular room with its vaulted roof received the Queen. [10]
On each of the gate-posts a crouching lion was outlined dimly against the fainting light, and, by crossing the street, we could see the upper line of a latticed gallery under the low roof. [9]
He ascended to the flat roof, hoping to be able to cool down his spirit there and get back his tranquility. [5]
The roof is the first part to show the distinct signs of age. [6]
By 6 P.M. the face has dissolved and gone, and the goatee has become what looks like the shadow of a tower with a pointed roof, and the shoe had turned into what the printers call a "fist" with a finger pointing. [5]
The mosaics and the exquisite arabesques on the roof of the choir, taken together, are certainly unequaled by any other early church decoration I have seen; and they are as interesting as they are beautiful. [4]
Do you remember the day I climbed out on the rotten branch of the big pear tree yonder to get you that pear--when I fell on the roof of Alfred's cabin? [9]
Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky. [2]
Hear him, concerning the church of Ara Coeli: "In the roof of the church, directly above the high altar, is engraved, 'Regina Coeli laetare Alleluia. [5]
His head-dress touched the ceiling, and the narrow streak of light, which fell through the opening in the roof, streamed on his handsome head and his breast, while all around him was veiled in twilight gloom. [10]
And something of the agony of the woman's soul as she lay in torment, facing the wall, thinking of her son under the same roof, of a life misspent and irrevocable, I pictured. [9]
The point is that the roof shall stand until the architect, the Queen, sees and approves it. [10]
It seemed incredible that that thing should creep straight up a sharp slant like the roof of a house--but there it was, and it was doing that very miracle. [5]
He congratulated himself that he was not personally incommoded by it, like some of the fellows who lived uptown, and had not everything under one roof, as it were. [8]
I should have supposed him incapable of any heedless word, any warm emotion, until I afterwards met him under his own roof and enjoyed the warm-hearted cheerfulness of the father of the family and the graciousness of the host. [10]
Hodder took in, subconsciously, that the house was a dingy grey, of three stories and a Mansard roof, with a bay window on the yard side, and a fly-blown sign, "Rooms to Rent" hanging in one window. [9]
He was a strange man, Jock, who whistled all day on roof and steeple and meddled with nobody's business, as a rule. [9]
It was of stone, floor and all, and tile roof was oven shaped. [5]
Think of the stone shingles of the roof eight inches thick! [5]
The lad was still living with his mother under the rich widow's roof, and only spent his working days at the governor's house, he was industrious and clever during office hours, though between whiles he busied himself with things altogether foreign to his future calling. [10]
Just then Sherburn steps out on to the roof of his little front porch, with a double-barrel gun in his hand, and takes his stand, perfectly ca'm and deliberate, not saying a word. [5]
Horses broke from stables, and a frightened dog rushed up a short attic ladder and out on to a roof, and when his scare was over had not the nerve to go down again the same way he had gone up. [5]
There was a stable with a tarred roof in the rear, to be discerned beyond the conventional side lawn that was broken into by the bay window of the dining-room. [9]
The four great square piers or pillars that stand equidistant from each other in the church, and support the roof, I could not work up to their real dimensions by any method of comparison. [5]
Also an Essay, spoken at the great final exhibition, held in the large hall up-stairs, which hangs oddly enough from the roof, suspended by iron rods. [6]
The storm, having spent the intensity of its passion in those first moments of heavy downpour and wind, had relaxed to a gentle rain that pattered on the roof, and from the stream came recurringly the dirge of the frogs. [9]

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