rooftree

1 O an I knew she woke   I could not look, the sacred moon sheds out So many blessings on her rooftree low, Each more pathetic that she nought doth know.

2 Young families often remain under the grandfather's rooftree until another house or two becomes absolutely necessary to accommodate the overflow.

3 Economise as he would, the money would still slip away in the countless little claims which a man never understands until he lives under a rooftree of his own.

4 How many of our honest rooftrees would not that sum keep standing?

5 Aix will have gone to bed, and in bed it will peacefully stay unless a military Zeppelin sails over its rooftrees, making a noise like ten million locusts all buzzing at once.

6 Through a silent, sleeping house Georgiana and Stuart stole, the only member of the family up to see them off being Mr. Thomas Crofton himself, the oldest person under the great rooftree.

7 Its rooftree was leaning askew under rotting shingles.

8 Nevertheless I long day and night to see her face, and to sit beneath the shadow of my own rooftree.

9 His rooftree was the Arizona sky, and his home the place where his adopted master camped at night.

10 Elizabethan London was a musical city, and part-singing was cultivated beneath the rooftree of every well-to-do burgher.

11 Further, it produces sufficient for stores and granaries to be filled to the rooftree for years ahead.

12 Only that week she had been reading in one of the Dean's early English histories of real rooftrees.

13 "Nay," said Clelia Alba, "if the earth opened, and took us, it would be kinder; it would bury us at least under our own rooftree."

14 Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses; look if your ain rooftree stand the faster.

15 At that one of the women, mad with anger, made as if to catch him by his beard, but she forbore, and said: "Liar—the men shall hang you to your own rooftree!"

16 And so along the base of a round hill, Rolling in fern, He bent His way until He neared the little hut which Adam made, And saw its dusky rooftree overlaid With greenest leaves.

17 She had seen the photograph of the place hanging in Betty's room, and had heard scraps of information about the various house-parties that had frolicked under the hospitable rooftree of the fine old mansion.

18 He was alone under his own rooftree, alone with an oppressive silence and his own thoughts.

19 Both the wanderers were filled with inexpressible joy at the prospect of living under their own rooftree, and at once plunged with ardour into the business of furnishing and gardening.

20 Storks have been known to have abandoned the rooftree on which for years they had built their nest, and in every case the forsaken house was burnt during the summer.

1 屋顶

fabric roof rooftop roofing garret housetop roofage covering

2 栋木

ridgepole

3 栋梁

pillar ridgepole ridge beam ridge piece

4 家庭

home domestic fireside family household hearth hearthstone menage house and home