But the housetop was my especial admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
"Once I sat with him upon the housetop," she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
When a great daub of snow fell from a nearby housetop. From Wordnik.com. [Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse] Reference
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms 102.] Reference
Sunrise -- and again Naomi stood alone upon the housetop. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
The words floated gently out on the air from the housetop. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
From housetop to housetop the news of the invasion spread. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
Two or three times I climbed on the housetop for fresh air. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
There's a screech upon the housetop, a creak upon the plain. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 10, June 4, 1870] Reference
This terrace formed a pleasant housetop in the cool evenings. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
One day, in the summer of 1841, the sentinel on the housetop at. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But it sounded to Craven as if she had shouted it from the housetop. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
This was the Egyptian's first day on the housetop, and she was not happy. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
But we sat up on his housetop every day and watched the helicopters fly over. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Wind driven snow spumes off the ridge of the housetop across the gray street. From Wordnik.com. [Mars] Reference
‘All well!’ said the Lieutenant, coolly looking about him on the housetop. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
It is the pulpit of the reformer and the housetop of the fanatic, this soap-box. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Another night, when I went up to the housetop, a large wolf sprang over my head. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference
Mr. Pike paused at the for'ard end of the housetop and stood in a listening attitude. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XXXII] Reference
And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference
And for an hour after they roosted on the housetop and trees, and laughed like human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers Third Book] Reference
Before they turned from the housetop, Mary picked a blossom from the branch on the arbor roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. From Wordnik.com. [Proverbs 21.] Reference
` If the French capture you, Richard, they'll crow their victory from every housetop in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop: than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Hath Mary carried the last of her boughs to the housetop?" she questioned, glancing into the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
In the serpent-spotted light under the vine on the housetop Habib muttered, too, and twitched a little. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
The water gurgling through the gutters and falling on the housetop makes a monotonous music which courts sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864,] Reference
The mother, seeing this, went and threw herself headlong, from the housetop, and the father followed her example. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house nor enter therein to take any thing out of the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
It was the goat, for example, that taught Sonny Sahib to walk on the extreme edge of the housetop and not tumble over. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
One noon Rachel, resting on the housetop with her hostess, saw him leisurely returning, by starts of interest and recollection. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Hats went into the air as we passed, handkerchiefs fluttered, flags waved in the gentle summer breeze from almost every housetop. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
On a housetop in Memphis, a gentlewoman, in a single gauze slip and many jewels, lounged on a rug and gazed at nothing across the city. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
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