It was built by the Romans, of very strong material, tufa, concrete, and red-tile brick. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The narrow building itself was of the umber brick and had a cracked and faded red-tile roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Spellsong War]
In the intense sun of Chandler, the red-tile roofs common in California turn a pale, pale pink. From Wordnik.com. [In Praise of Chain Stores] Reference
The 60-year-old Spanish-style stucco home has a red-tile roof, copper gutters and several balconies. From Wordnik.com. [Restored in New Orleans] Reference
Beyond the gates, I caught a glimpse of red-tile roofs, manicured lawns, flowering shrubs, and tall trees. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Just visible through the trees and shrubs was the red-tile roof of a mansion built in the old Spanish style. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy]
They drove to Suzanne's place on Alhambra Drive, a white stucco twenty-room villa with a red-tile roof and palm trees. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
They're new arrivals in Israeli neighborhoods where freshly laid red-tile roofs and toddler toys dotting green lawns. From Wordnik.com. [Marwan Bishara: Obama and the Peace Process] Reference
Brenda Farrell's home, situated in an area ofSheffieldknown as the Village, wasa neat cream stucco with rust-red shutters and a red-tile roof. From Wordnik.com. [Laying His Claim]
It was San Miguel, a sun-baked little village of white casas and red-tile roofs, nested up against a hillside with a valley stretching out beyond it. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Loco Love] Reference
At last the red-tile roofs of the Chequers estate came into view beneath them, set amidst the thousands of acres of sweeping Buckinghamshire parkland. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
The red-tile roof and mission-style architecture look the same, but this time I can afford the meals and the room, and even though I have an Armani sports coat in the trunk, I don't need it. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bangs: Death Valley Daze, Part II] Reference
But I dared not rouse the night around me, the infinite night that moved out over the thousands of slanted red-tile rooftops, out over the hills and the country, out under the numberless stars. From Wordnik.com. [Vittorio, The Vampire]
Tony Burton's book said it is "a graceful, charming town of cobblestone streets, adobe walls, wooden balconies, old doorways and red-tile roofs, whose inhabitants make lovely woolen sweaters and ponchos.". From Wordnik.com. [Stitching a story] Reference
The house is a nice Florida place - red-tile roof, pool, boat dock. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Near it was the red-tile roof of an old mansion, half-lost in the foliage. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women] Reference
Saltine's little dwelling raised its red-tile roof above the high garden-wall. From Wordnik.com. [David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales] Reference
She loved the pitched, red-tile roofs; the pool and gym; and the sense of community. From Wordnik.com. [Miami New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
To the north is Upper Town, a pedestrian-friendly area with cobblestone streets and red-tile roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Winnipeg Sun] Reference
The house is one of a long row of low stone structures, with the red-tile roof everywhere to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
The Desmonds lived in Miller Beach, a middle-class enclave of Gary, Indiana, in a white stucco house with a red-tile roof. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
That didn't pan out, and Mesa jockeyed with GM and Maricopa County for much of this decade over whether the Proving Ground would become another sea of red-tile roofs. From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
New posters showed a Rambo-like masked Hamas fighter stepping on the red-tile roofs of Israeli settlement homes while small, black-clad settlers in side-curls fled in terror. From Wordnik.com. [CAMERA Snapshots] Reference
The streets are lined with apartment buildings, faced in rough-cut, yellowish-white stone, all with red-tile roofs, so alike they could have been turned out by the same factory. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Policy] Reference
The settlements, interspersed among Palestinian communities across the West Bank, are easily recognizable with their red-tile roofs, manicured gardens and neat rows of cookie-cutter houses. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
The renewed warmth of their wet feet on the red-tile floor, the scent of fried oysters, the din of "Any Little Girl" on the piano, these added color to this moment of Mr. Wrenn's great resolve. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference
They were for the most part of Moorish architecture, built of adobe, painted white, with red-tile roofs, long corridors and ever the secluded plaza where the friar might tell his beads in peace. From Wordnik.com. [Starr King in California] Reference
(Think red-tile roofs, cast-iron light fixtures, loggias, arches, columns and pilasters: the gracious, loopy feel of the Rice campus's old buildings, only channeling Barcelona instead of Tuscany.). From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
They're new arrivals in Israeli neighborhoods where freshly laid red-tile roofs and toddler toys dotting green lawns are a picture of the Israeli equivalent of the American dream, minus the white picket fence. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference
The large gardens of the Casa Gould, surrounded by high walls, and the red-tile slopes of neighbouring roofs, lay open before them, with masses of shade under the trees and level surfaces of sunlight upon the lawns. From Wordnik.com. [Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard] Reference
When I get there, I'm going to have a new red-tile roof put on. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
A very sharp little fellow, was astonished at the red-brick of the houses on the Isle of Wight, and at their red-tile or dark slate roofs, and was also much impressed by the big oaks and lofty elms. From Wordnik.com. [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference
The renewed warmth of their wet feet on the red-tile floor, the scent of fried oysters, the din of “Any Little Girl” on the piano, these added color to this moment of Mr. Wrenn’s great resolve. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
Lisbon is a labyrinth of red-tile roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
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