The straps tighten around my midsection, and Zeke slides me forward, to the edge of the roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She was negotiating the cheese, trying to figure out how to take that first bite without burning the roof of her mouth, when the scythes arrived. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It rains,” Burnham wrote to Margaret, on Tuesday, April 18, “and for the first time I say, let it. My roofs are in such good order at last, as to leaks we care little.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was just a great big roofed room and it belonged to a worried gentleman named Horace Abbeville. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft yellow emergency fights come on, strips that run down the roof of the train. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Or, sometimes, we would enter by windows from a fire-escape, or a roof. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to shout and jog around the house, maybe climb up onto the roof and spread my arms wide but not jump off, not even think about it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I clambered out the window and folded upward to grasp the slats on the roof. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My sisters shook the house from the roof to the floor with their playing and romping, but the handle never did fall. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could get out of either window onto the roof and down, or go down the hay chute if the stairs were impractical. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I nod, but I don’t leave the roof. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every house was roofed with thatch, and had walls of wattle and daub. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently when Mahmoud had gone up to the roof, the birds had flocked to him, alighting on his shoulders and arms, and he was so charmed that he couldn’t send them away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The moonlight was white on the roof next door and the sky was a gentle summer blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shinnying out onto a perilous but hidden spot, he gripped the roof with one hand and his stopwatch with the other. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They and others came shortly, and they stayed throughout the night to see that the burning brands were not blown onto the roof of the cabin. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had driven everyone under their roofs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was an arboretum on the roof of my apartment building. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He saw that the roof to his right was not joined to the one upon which he lay; that meant that no one could steal upon him from that direction. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later he rose out of the dust and shook off broken roof tiles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You and Muthu helped us stretch the other end of our tarp from the wall to the ground and weight down the bottom edge with stones to make a sloped roof. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One time her roof caught on fire and fell on her and burnt up her legs but not the rest of her. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a rope that swung out from the peak of the roof. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was white and rundown with a weathered tin roof and wood stacked on the front porch. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She could see thatched roofs just beyond the hedge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then, as I lay on the rooftops in my secret place where three roofs met, it came to me just as I was about to drift off to sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“At least here we have a roof over our heads.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Twist the chimney, slide off the three panels of the roof, look inside. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had God glued to the roof of my mouth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For a time we sent our children to play on the roof in the afternoons, so that they could alert us if she was having another attack. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the distance a police siren is whining, but it’s a pretty peaceful night otherwise, and I always enjoy being on the roof, getting a different perspective. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusty bell hung under the pointed roof, and barely a meter lower down a seed carried by the wind had grown into a stunted tree that now clung to the sand-colored stone. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once it was finished, Marcus helped install it on the roof. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They are now juxtaposing their typical day against this new feeling, what it feels like to not have cortisol going through the roof,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He shared the room with a teenaged Punjabi boy who, I later learned from one of the nurses, had broken his leg when he had slipped off the roof of a moving bus. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It looked queer among the tenements with its tiny small-paned windows, clapboards and steep slanting roof. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He invented an orchestra for the occasion, a combination of instruments never before gathered under one roof. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“How many times do I have to tell you not to mention that unnaturalness under my roof?” he hissed, his face now a rich plum color. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In my mind I stand at the edge of the roof again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She takes a hot cheesy slice in her hands and happily burns the roof of her mouth a little. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Clouds swirled over the largest temple, a round pavilion with a ring of white columns supporting a domed roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the roof of the house, a part of which had collapsed and sunk in, she saw a movement, a turquoise splash of feathers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jesper hated to give up the high ground before they knew what they were up against, but they were short on time, and they needed to get to the roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I know the difference, I think to myself, remembering the time on the roof a few weeks ago. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s just over this next roof,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes for a second, see the roof whip off the house, reel across the sky. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The roof isn’t burned through except right by the chimney. That means the fire probably didn’t damage the second story very much. What of yours was in there?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the dark, heavy look of the sky, visible through the roof of the fodder house, it would be an all-day rain. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Muttering and grumbling to justify himself, the King flew upwards to his court under the roof. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then come drums, cymbals, the gongs of explosions, drawing a crimson lattice over the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The snow goose dæmon wheeled and flew down toward the roof, beating his great wings inward to help him slow down, and landed with a clatter on the pantiles below the sill. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days and two nights later, as the sun was already disappearing behind the roofs, Mosca and Riccio packed the few belongings they had managed to salvage from the movie theater into Mosca’s boat. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He admires the colorful houses, the thatched roofs, and finds both the village and the countryside “gravely beautiful.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At Mr. Das’s workshop we listened to the rain beat steadily on the tin roof. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You got a thing about roofs or something?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I slid nearly to the edge of the roof before I came to a stop, heart pounding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In our new house, my room is on the roof. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I do not go up on the roof at dawn because I’m not leaving my bedroom until Brian’s back at boarding school three thousand miles from here. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The rain had finally started, gently tapping against the roof. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And I was trapped up on the roof, so I grabbed a bungee jacket and jumped off. I hover-bounced halfway here.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Weeds grew out of the tennis court; the tile roof of the house was patched with sheets of tin. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before he knew what he was doing, Hazel stamped on the hollow roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched her like we were waiting for the roof to cave in. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Demigod archers appeared on the roof above Luke. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She peered into the darkness and saw a form scuttling toward her across the roof tiles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They left the bakery roof and returned to the last place they saw the Golden Hours. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So when an ambulance went down the street, a big sign on the roof could flash DON’T WORRY! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plastic sheeting on the roof rose here and there, tugged by the wind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Over the roofs, I can see the tips of mountains way in the distance. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning shredded a huge crater in the roof, but an angry wail from inside told me Mrs. Dodds was not yet dead. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

From our roof deck I sometimes glimpsed a girl about my age who lived in the house behind us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Big Time walked slowly to the edge of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced up at the dried herbs hanging from the beams that supported the huts roof. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Because I was on the ledge of the roof at school.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the roof of the abandoned factory, the lonely drummer drummed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what if it didn’t have a fine roof or walls? It’s the best place I ever lived in. Except for Rukku and Akka’s palace.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They placed some of the monkeys directly underneath bat colonies in the roof of the cave, hoping that something would drop on a monkey that would cause the animal to break with Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

DRACO: I can see why—look at the thatched roofs. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Only the roofs were painted, and there weren't any statues or fine carvings around the grounds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

One night in late October, on my way home from Erin’s, Boy21 pops out from behind a tree and says, “Can we sit on your roof?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door’s padlocked, but it don’t take much to get in, ’cause the top of the building’s open where some of the roof’s blown away. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look, I am as excited as you are to be a rebel for the first time in my life—yay—train roof—fun — but now—oh. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The trees pressed close, leaning over the path to make a rustling green roof that shut out even the moon, so it seemed as though they were moving up a long black tunnel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After molding the bricks, my father spent days in the valley hacking the long-stemmed grasses to be used for roofing, then tied them into round bales. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thatched roofs clustered along the shore of the lake and the small stream that emptied into it, and a wooden pier jutted out into the water beside a low long building with a slate roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The low clouds caught the color of the burning river and roofed the sky in shades of shifting green, eerily beautiful. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was back outside, thirty floors up on a flat roof with a radio mast and a tall metal fence running around the perimeter. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Chino,” he said when he saw me start to walk toward the roof s door again. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A workman who had come to repair the roof on the hospital. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I'll see how well the battery harness holds up to a real journey, and how well the solar cells do strapped to the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at her desk one afternoon, listening to the pitter- patter of the rain on the roof. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Eaves are the parts of roofs that project over the walls. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay on its side in such a way that the solid parts of the block formed a roof and a floor, both waterproof, and the hollows made two spacious rooms. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All my life, I’ve stared at a gaping hole in the roof, the boarded-up windows, the slow, creeping forest that was starting to suffocate that house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A cat that had been sitting on the roof of a pickup truck across the street sprang onto the window ledge of our apartment and disappeared into the shadows. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could make out through the mist a church steeple, and around about it, clusters of dark-slated roofs; here and there, wisps of white smoke were rising from chimneys. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He trilled his tongue against the roof of his mouth and turned a backflip and a double spin in the air, accidentally knocking his head against the ceiling. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My vision tightens around the roof edge, trapping it in the center of a pinhole. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It clicked and whirred along a conveyor belt, got hooked on a rope, and ascended through a slot in the roof. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And she picked him up carefully, avoiding his spurs, and took him outside into the dark, where a loose piece of corrugated iron roofing was banging in the cold wind with a melancholy sound. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The climb of the sloping roof was extremely treacherous. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Get off the roof this minute! You're not supposed to be up here." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And they made the missionaries stand naked on top of the roof without any clothes on, and then they shot two of them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by stony fields, the house had a good flat roof they’d be able to read their books on, if they spread out blankets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A thatched roof had been layered with mud to keep the inside as dry as possible. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I let Johnny get halfway across the roof before I jumped, my legs together and slightly bent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Handclaps snapped in the roof and solidified the beat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some old rusted tools lying about and some desiccated straw lined the far left corner, but half the roof was either missing or about to fall off. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In Calcutta, from taxis and once from the roof of his grandparents’ house, he has seen the dead bodies of strangers carried on people’s shoulders through streets, decked with flowers, wrapped in sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe even on the porch roof itself, with stones, slingshots. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The idea of leaping out of a moving train onto a rooftop, knowing there is a gap between the edge of the roof and the edge of the track, makes me want to throw up. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But when I broached the idea of my working to Granny, she would have none of it; she laid down the injunction that I could not work on Saturdays while I slept under her roof. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my insides seem to have taken over my brain, and in seconds, we’re walking up a short flight of concrete steps to the roof of his house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He frowned in the direction of the school roof; then, with his fingertips, pressed some perspiration away from his forehead. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if any of them heard about the roofing tar, so they think I might be Swastika Guy. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Grasping the rope in her beak, Dunwing flew out on to the roof and braced herself. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At that hour of the morning there was not a soul on the wooden platform, its roof eaten away by inclement weather and ants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the edge of the roof and saw Auri standing there, a silhouette against the night sky, her fine hair made a cloud around her head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The roofs of the buildings here were tiled and arched, and the walls, windows, and doorways were in gold or red or green. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, Ma's English sounds odd, with tones that swing up and down and t's formed with a tongue-flick on the roof of the mouth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“As for going underground, I’d rather go back over the heather. The roof of that hall is made of bones.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while a bunch of them would come swirling around in sight above the roof, then go away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to find my grandmother. She’s out there, all alone, up on her roof. I need to get to her, I need...” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

"All right, Somkit, you ready? The guys are here to take everything up to the roof." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Why did the kid on the roof give me this? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That night a bat flew into the room through the open door that led onto the balcony and through which we watched the night over the roofs of the town. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He glitches back in behind the other player, and before the second player can react, the first one kicks him off the building’s roof. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a leak in the shed roof over the pantry, and she got up to empty the pan she’d placed under it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the flat, albeit minuscule, had windows and a shared roof from which the boys could watch a new city, and a new nation, being born. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he let Nipper out in the morning, he would watch the bird eat breakfast out on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Unless you want to jump from one roof to another.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The roof slopes down to two low windows on one side, letting in some light. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

That is what had pounded on the roof! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the hole in the roof, the place was just as I remembered. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Over the tops of the roofs a column of smoke still rises, higher now than before. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Club House sits in tired dilapidation, its roof no longer safe for telescopes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was like a landmark: People knew to look for the big yellow house with the green roof. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you didn’t stop filming. What if that cheese had burned off the roof of my mouth and it was the last morsel of food I would ever enjoy?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He toppled from the roof out into space. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hail was bouncing off the corrugated station roof. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buses had machine gun mounts on the roofs and undercarriages that could be converted into tank-style tracks. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They’re more like cottages sharing walls than apartments, two stories with steep, peaked roofs made of tin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jess had explained fully to the Abbot and the Council how she had witnessed Matthias’s fall from the roof with the sparrow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was scared when the wind blew, shaking the thatched roofs, and I felt as if I were out of my body wandering somewhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Babou hoisted himself onto the roof, teetering for a moment at the top, and I was convinced I was about to witness my grandfather plummet to his death off his own rooftop. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The walls were repainted, the red tile roofs cleaned and polished. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s literally the type that every little kid draws, a square with a triangle roof. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The roof is cold as hell in the nighttime, but in the day there’s a great view of the island and the sea beyond it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Among them all the youngest was Elpenor—no mainstay in a fight nor very clever—and this one, having climbed on Kirke’s roof to taste the cool night, fell asleep with wine. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house had a roof made of dried, thatched grasses and three rooms—a kitchen and two small rooms where we slept and, during the long rainy season, where we played. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rub my tongue on the roof of my mouth as if to clean it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was perched on the roof of her car, which was now parked across the street, on the grass bordering the duck pond. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mohamed, my best friend, couldn’t come because he and his father were renovating their thatched- roof kitchen that day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On either hand the land dropped more sharply; a broad flat dotted with small cabins whose weathered roofs were on a level with the crown of the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of falling from, or jumping from, the roof of my own building used to scare me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

"But we'll have time enough for - that. You'll be wanting to sleep beneath my roof, belike, and eat me out of pigs." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By the time Stephen’s window flew open, Bongo was already back on the roof, watching her efforts pay off. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maybe he and Cruz could ride the car to the roof of that house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sit, slowly inching our butts onto the roof, cradling the trunk against our chests and on our laps. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Edwin showed Cole how to install the stovepipe through the roof, and then he and Garvey prepared to leave. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was Battersea Power Station, standing proud with its four great chimneys still intact, even though much of its roof had long ago been eaten away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She told him he was too old to be spreading tar on his roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The lush gardens and red tile roofs of the Big House were visible now. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up just in time to see the woman leap off the roof, flying through the air with her arms outstretched like wings. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then there was a mad scramble to shift furniture and get pans and bowls and buckets in all the places where the roof leaked. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d screamed, whacked his father with his Smelting stick, been sick on purpose, kicked his mother, and thrown his tortoise through the greenhouse roof, and he still didn’t have his room back. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to count the number of roofs that bounced before me yet to be crossed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rills of water began to run down; soon they grew to a spate that splashed and fumed on the stones, and spouted out over the cliff like the gutters of a vast roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And Cade was there, struggling to pull himself over the roof of the van as the current tipped it toward him. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We had played a particularly good round of this game as we lay on the roof of our house just a couple of weeks before he went missing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The roof had been blown away bodily, the mud walls had crumbled. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

No feel of space, of size, a great starry roof overhead, a great wind blowing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’d been an occasion once on Jordan College roof when just to frighten him, she’d defied her vertigo and walked along the edge of the stone gutter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Children stopped their playing on the grass to stare, and nurses at the nearby hospital came out on the roof to watch, their white uniforms glowing in the now unveiled sun like lilies. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick clumps of yellow and deep pink flowers fringed the edge of the small dwelling with its hand-hewn beams and thatched roof. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The not-so-great news: the sagging porch and drooping roof make it pretty clear that just waltzing in and finding the right room isn’t the smartest idea. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She flapped her way to the top of a three-story red brick building and scuttled out of sight over the roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The streetlights shone on the treeless stretches of asphalt and cement and continuous old slate roofs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Stanley waited, he ran his tongue over the roof of his mouth and inside his cheeks. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They stayed on the roof until dawn broke, and Piper started to believe they could have a fresh start. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The roofs seemed undamaged from the snow—thanks, perhaps, to Luke Stevens. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had been on his way home from his first day in the Pipeworks when he’d come across the cluster of people gazing up at the roof of the Gathering Hall and laughing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes travel to the roof, to the spot where Will was standing earlier. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Ugwu knew that an army contractor had donated some corrugated iron for replacing the blown-off roof and that volunteers were camouflaging it with palm fronds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

How they’d made their way through the wreckage to that tiny dry patch of roof. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The roof above them was falling in, the floor below them had places where it had rotted completely away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The top of her head, wrapped in a silk rag, almost touched the roof of the car, as did theirs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles went straight for a ledge created by the edge of the porch roof. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The downpour had started while we were changing, and we found ourselves gathering on the veranda—which was sheltered by the pavilion roof—while we waited for it to stop. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was falling harder now, beating the roof of the refectory like the drums of war, running down the sluices in torrents. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even if I hit one of them, the rest would be on the roof in two minutes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Well beyond the gibbet, two men in mail hauberks stood leaning on their spears in front of the long low building by the water, the one with the slate roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“A bomb went through the roof of the Wuchang Y.M.C.A. building,” he went on, “but they continued to give out free rice as long as they had it.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pigeon lands on the edge of the roof. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I follow him to a flight of stairs that lead to the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The sea gulls come flapping in to sit on the cannery roofs to await the day of refuse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was autumn, and Laila could make out people in bright tunics on the roofs of mud-brick dwellings laying out the harvest to dry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Viola rubs her shins and looks up into the stars coming out thru the hole that was the roof. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There are two workers on my roof, right over the bunker in the attic, and a little crowd of neighbors in the yard, watching the spectacle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It seemed odd to think of her with a roof over her head. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the rain pounding on the metal roof. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Unless it was when he put wood on the fire and sat down and talked while it burned, and the steam began rising in white clouds once more under the little roof. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wavered on the edge of the roof and I thought she might fall, or even jump. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you see from the road are the two gatehouses, each a small empty pillbox of a building faced with flagstones and topped, like tiny pagodas, with shingled curving roofs. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few were large, but all had the same rectangular design with peaked roof. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he could lie flat on the roof and hide. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And I think it was only a couple months later that Fang walked off the school roof, so really it was no big surprise when the shoe box never appeared again. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In Treegap, the same moonlight silvered the roof of the touch-me-not cottage, but inside, the lamps were burning. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My people lived in small round mud huts with pointy roofs made of dried grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He stood by the door of our clay brick and tin roof house laughing and then asked, “Can you even understand what you are saying?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When she tries to slide ofF the first of the three wooden roof panels, she finds it stuck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Guiteau had been able to keep a roof over his head by skipping out on several boardinghouses without paying. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I made my way to the edge of the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger than the Artificery, it had elegant lines, a red tile roof, high windows, arched doorways and pillars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was a living treasure under our roof, and none of my brothers could see him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The distant roof was a tangle of budding branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Each renter was, in some ways, another dependent, another soul to worry about, to provide with shelter, a solid roof, air-conditioning, clean water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She managed another swipe with her umbrella but the blow glanced off the cars roof. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All I care about the cosmos is happening here on this roof. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He passes it by and then sees the roof of a cabin not five furlongs ahead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his tongue against the roof of his mouth, he made the repetitive muted clacking sound of the shuttle, and then the whisper of the threads turning into cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tired half hour later, he could see his own house, the roof of the barn canting as if leaning a bent elbow on a dark line of cloud. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bianca was standing near the door of the roof and she touched me on the arm as I went by her. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hopped across the alley to the roof of the bakery and smiled at her startled intake of breath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His palace, as it were, consisted of two large Western-style houses with tin roofs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I shriek loud enough to blow the roof as I duck behind the pew in front of me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls of the fort, small houses with roofs of thatch dotted the landscape, huddled close together as if for protection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But opening the door to Mom’s car, I glanced over the roof and saw that Digger was still standing there in the field. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Uncle Tom had taught school in country towns for thirty years and as soon as he was under the roof he proceeded to tell me what was wrong with my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The club-house roof and the top of the tote board were lined with newsreel cameras. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, roof!” he repeated in a voice of rapture. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars had old chairs and sewing machines and washtubs tied to their roofs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She saw a roof go up, flames licking at the belly of the night with hot orange tongues as the thatch caught. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Inej thought as she looked for the guards patrolling the roof above, trying to pick out their shapes in the dark. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Spare pieces of metal were propped up as roofs, and pieces of torn cloth were hung as curtains. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At one point Irene couldn’t pull her foot out and she fell forward, the melted roof burning her hands. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I pushed small stones into the earth with my thumb, creating a pathway to our front door, and lined the roof with twigs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ahead she could see the thatched roofs of the homes of her people, smoky cooking fires, and a chicken or two, scratching in the dirt. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somkit led Pong to a narrow structure that looked like a garden shed at the far end of the roof and swung open the door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He lifted his eyes and looked in all directions, watching roofs to the left and right of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see the city from the roof.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A plate was set out for her on the roof deck, sealed in plastic wrap, her name stuck to it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A woman whose wages she paid, whose rent she had subsidized, whose daughter spent hours and hours under this very roof every single day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stay on the roof until bedtime and then quietly slip down to my room without encountering anyone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roof of the car was getting hot, and Trip stretched his legs down the windshield, poking the wipers with the toe of his flip-flop. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He put his arms up on top of the station wagon’s roof. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

This roof is the best place in the world. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Even with no roof or door on the car, the usual tension between us fills the Jeep. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I did so, and saw snow whirling thick on a light wind down the street, over the whitened roofs; two or three inches had fallen in the night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their first perch was the swanky Raleigh Hotel, famous for its roof garden, tenth-floor ballroom, and Beaux Arts glamour. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The average height of the mine roof was five feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far around, on all sides, stood the orderly rows of beans, securing them against hostile approach, roofing them over and covering their scent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a roof and a door and a family who needed it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For one thing, he was not anxious to prolong his own torture, by keeping the Queen under his roof, whom he loved and could not have. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire trench had been dug down the middle of the earthen floor, with a row of smokeholes in the roof above. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the other spread the city of Venice—red-tiled roofs, metal church domes, steepled towers, and sun-bleached buildings in all the colors of Valentine candy hearts—red, white, ochre, pink, and orange. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All the same, Meggie slept well or, anyway, better than on Capricorn's damp straw or in the hovel with the ruined roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That wouldn’t be your fault. The owners should have built a stronger roof.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s sit on the roof and watch it fall all night.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they do that, supermarkets find that invariably the sales of the product will go through the roof, the same way they would if the product had actually been put on sale. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried after him, my helmet still knocking against the roof. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I scanned the roofs, expecting to see him peering down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about it while the rain picked up against the roof, the only sound breaking the silence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They stood hand-in-hand on the roof’s edge looking across the river to New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the delicious smell of meat cooking drifted through the air, everybody worked together, and soon we had a small house with mud walls and a thatched roof and a garden for vegetables nearby. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the trailer rocked so much, he had to hold himself up against the roof with both hands to prevent himself from falling. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, something hit his side of the car with the force of a charging bull, sending him lurching sideways into Ron, just as an equally heavy blow hit the roof. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The roof and walls are made of straw and the hut has only a dirt floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faint patter on the roof, and droplets slid down the window over their bed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

While passengers shouted encouragement from the rail, the men chased the birds across the roof, back to the dock, onto the rigging of the ship, and back to the warehouse again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she was in the trundle bed that night, Laura lay and listened to the rain drumming on the roof and streaming from the eaves, and she thought about what Pa had said. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wick stood at the far end of the roof, his arms raised toward the sky. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But on the hill, you could see beautiful things, like the peach orchards of the nearby farms, and the terra-cotta roofs of the town center in the distance. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was an elegant, or at least harmonious, cluster of yellow stucco houses with red roofs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This reverie was broken as more bolts and nuts bounded down the superstructure onto the car’s roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s how most guys drop the ball,” he said as we crossed March Ave, walked past the burrito spot with the huge sombrero on the roof. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I swung the binoculars back toward the burning house at the moment when the roof caved in and the final golden crown of flames rose up through the air. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But there's plenty of gravel around thanks to the crumbling cement of the chimney and building trim, so the birds on our roof are doing okay. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As the days go by, Alex catches himself remembering sometimes, just for a second, how much he misses having everyone under one roof. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After another burst of cackles she rolled backward and disappeared behind the lip of the roof’s gutter—one of the few homes that still had a roof. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I listened to the rain ping the tin roof. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every night Smith drifted off to the sound of raindrops ringing off the barn roof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos could hear the rain lashing at the walls, and a steady dripping where the roof had sprung a leak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The roof was made up of a series of triangular frames or trusses. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

I dangle my legs off the side of the roof and listen to her voice mail over and over and over again, just to hear her voice on the other end. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When she did her “Salty Papa Blues,” those people just about tore the Savoy roof off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge openings in the sides and in the roof were the gutted remains of former doors and skylights. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen storm troubles in New Orleans, too—flooding, a fallen tree, a roof blown off. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered praying for the rain to stay away even during drought season because his house had a hole in the roof right above his cot. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The roof was missing, and they emerged to a spectacular view. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph had run across the snowy roof and was knocking frantically on her window. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that Hercules arrived, to rest and enjoy himself under a friend’s roof on his journey north to Diomedes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the lights on the two prongs on its roof from my bedroom window. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Leaning down so my face is next to hers, I can see the arc of the car’s roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I want to talk about something from last time. Why the roof?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wide-open building that serves as church and school was built of concrete-block pillars holding up a roof of palm thatch and billowy clouds of scarlet bougainvillea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit with Jon at a table in the roof bar of the Park Plaza Hotel, drinking white wine spritzers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the roof at night, beside the golden ship I look across the city and I dream a wild trip. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She said that same thing, in her listen-to-me-or-else tone, every time they went to the roof. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was glad to get clear of those long stone streets overhung with black, steep roofs and innumerable towers, that sunless city where all my chances had turned to fear and betrayal. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I liked being high above the world, and I spent a lot of time either on the roof or sitting in a tree in the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The gray of the roof, the gray of cigarette ashes, matches the pavement of the sidewalk and the street. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hated the hollow sound of the rain pattering on the roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From there, she could see the roofs of the one-story houses on their street. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That’s why he was hurting so much himself up there on the roof. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

From the roof it looked like a colorful village of small buildings crowded close together. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I set to the dumpling on my plate while the rain fell steadily on the roof. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the hotel was built, they put an observation deck on the roof,” explained the little man. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then large vats of pitch were hoisted up to the roof and the timber was coated to prevent it from rotting. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They went to Irvington on Tuesday morning, August 27, 1895, aboard an electric trolley, a new kind of streetcar that drew its power through a wheeled conducting apparatus on the roof called a troller. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Knowing I could reach out and touch him—if he ever came down from the roof. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This week they ’re making a roof for a cafe in a shopping centre in Birmingham. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the side door to the auditorium, and we marched in behind her to what sounded like hard rain on a tin roof. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He nodded, then squinted while he like clawed something off the roof of his mouth with his tongue. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking out from some high windows, you could see a dozen red-brick walls facing different directions and the roofs of the many connecting corridors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though our receptors are not sensitive enough to hear it, there is comfort in knowing that the sound is there overhead, like the random noise of rain on the roof at night. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way through the wind-carved snow to the next roof and then to the next, going with swift caution. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Of course. All except Grandsire. He wouldn’t hide with the women and farm animals and he couldn’t go fight. He was sot on sitting it out under his own roof.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the building’s pitched roof and many windows, I thought it must be a manor of some sort, and told Frankie as much. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And if we kiss on my roof or hold hands—these things will most definitely take my mind off my goals. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon Volkheimer’s light is making a circuit of what is left of the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the bombs rain down on the roof, I bury my face in my pillow, looking up again at a brief clip of me at the end, after all the victims are dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Peeta and I walk to a railing at the edge of the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The music was loud enough for the Vanderbeekers to hear from the roof but quiet enough not to penetrate the Beiderman’s soundproof windows. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I have never had a King’s Hand beneath my roof before,” Lord Godric said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The soil no longer reached to the roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear the roof and the fire, and a snuffling outside the door. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one was even bold enough to enter his saloon, pulling on a youngster’s ear, demanding that Shady deal with the hoodlum under his own roof. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every Christmas since Ben could remember Bull had clambered out on the roof of mobile homes, quonset huts, Capehart houses to make Santa Claus laughs and reindeer noises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, the first thing Mama did was unroll the reed mats for the roof of the shelter, then the blankets, then take out new paddles and the cooking pot. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was forty-eight feet by fifty feet, with a slanted roof and wide, open slats in the walls. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there a light flickered under a snow-thick roof, and Lyra thought she saw pale faces behind some of the windowpanes, and imagined their astonishment to see a child riding a great white bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

His tongue, stained with berry juice, stuck to the roof of his mouth and he stared at the bear. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck bed is roofed with a canvas tent. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a double-decker, with armor plating, bulletproof windows, and solar panels on the roof. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I opened my window and went out on the roof and then swung down over the ledge, caught the windowsill, and dropped into the yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Snow lay piled upon the translucent roof, casting patterns of sunshine throughout. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then we constructed a wooden railing around the floor and that left only the roof to be built. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

"I want you to go up onto the roof and take off the tarp." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday we climbed up to the roof and cleaned out the gutters, since they were overflowing now every time it rained and the dirty water was staining the corners of the Perfect House. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They made the walls with branches of trees and grass that they covered with mud, and the UN gave us a big piece of nylon fabric to use as a roof. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inn was respectable though, two stories tall, with plaster walls and red clay tiles on the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because he was under the porch roof, in the shadow, it was hard to see just what he was doing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The first traces of daylight were glimmering through the broken roof of the Honeycomb behind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Slat wasn’t much, just another house in the worst part of the Barrel, three stories stacked tight on top of each other, crowned with an attic and a gabled roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a big enough hole in the roof for the winter sky to shine though, showing a dappling of snow on the wooden floor. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The pink house with the steeply pitched roof had been the neighborhood’s only house of that color in the old days. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was easily two storeys up from the unmown lawn and had a gabled roof with real shingles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Then I dug at a seam of tar on the roof with my fingernails and used some to stick the hair to a leaf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So William hoists the sacks above his head, his great arms like the pillars of a church holding up the roof. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The third floor is in bad shape. Part of the roof is caved in. There’s no way we can get to the door for the roof.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Here is mine: That evening, I stood on the roof of an apartment building with your mother, your aunt Chana, and her boyfriend, Jamal. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Inside, the kids and Joyce and his father were all under one roof, sitting in front of the fire right now, waiting for him to come in out of the rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Getting the lander off the roof was a hell of a lot easier than getting it up there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gat walks the slant of the roof, all the way down to the gutter and up again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The roof was now completely swallowed by the clouds of black smoke. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tear off the roof and light up the whole place so that I could see it all at once, instead of one flashlight beam at a time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, Fern gave thanks to Mr. Lucas for making our roof sturdy so we could all be underneath it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of room now for every one to sit on the seat, and the Basque who had been lying on the tin roof now sat between us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

No Locusts Stand I. She looked back at the looming, gabled, house-shaped Hole in the Universe and imagined living in the silver bowl that Baby Kochamma had installed on the roof. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could hear the fire and the roof. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick my way through trash—trees downed by storm and pieces of houses, sheds’ roofs ripped off. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It pounded on the tin roof of the porch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped through one by one and ran for the edge of the roof. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I remember this as the scar Luke got from working the Shear; however, it might have come from a roofing accident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s just the rain banging against the metal roof on the shed,” Dad said. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was white, with two rooms and a swaybacked roof. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance, the roof alarm goes off as Will opens the door to get back inside, distant but blaring as it echoes down the stairwell, reverberating in the hallway. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The roof of the box prevented her from seeing inside. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then she slides off three wooden panels that make up its roof, and turns it over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wind howled as it never had before and a tree fell right on top of the roof of our house and crashed into my room, narrowly missing me. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She threw up the screen, leaned out over the porch roof and yelled, “Hey, everybody, I have an announcement!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The children of these families wouldn’t look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Christmas decorations are on the roofs and all over the wide and tall trees that tower over the curving roads. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When he had parked his truck on the roof of the Van Ness Pet Hospital, he quickly carried the plastic cage containing the inert false cat downstairs to Hannibal Sloat’s office. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

With all of his strength, he heaved the bottle and heard it hit the roof of the car with greater sound effects than he had expected it to. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above these was a small balcony backed by a curtain and, above that, a thatched roof which covered the rear half of the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

No, the roof wasn’t leaking, it was merely her mouth watering. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys—all had crashed in. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every day they sent her to the roof to record inventory until lunch, at which point Haidar brought her receipts from the morning’s sales and a bowl of yellow split peas for her lunch. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had bay windows, a pitched roof, and an enclosed front porch on which I saw potted geraniums. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looked again to the roof on his left, wanting to run to it and hide; but was afraid. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She moved on to how she liked gardening, but hated harvesting the poor little plants, and how she was top in math, but had her grades lowered when she sunbathed naked on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four or five chimneys were perched on top of the red roof. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Taking advantage of their brief confusion, Jess clambered down on to the small side roof. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Today there is just one, the Mount Washington, still imposing and festive with its perky red roof but inescapably forlorn in its solitary grandeur. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and solitude I had passed beneath its roof! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

People start to get restless, standing on the roof like packs of meerkats, all trying to get a better view of the highway ahead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Last time I cut the roof on that teacher’s car, they said I would be expelled front school if I did anything like that again.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some were staring at the roof of the theatre. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing the fire escape to the roof, they found no stranger and no clue of where he might’ve gone. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Standing on the elevator’s roof, they were midway between floors. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He smiled and put his folder on the roof of his car, pulled a little notebook and pen from his shirt pocket. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The walls looked as if someone had piled up a number of stones in a hurry, the roof had collapsed, and where there must once have been a door only a black hole now gaped. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was misty, with heavy, lowering atmosphere, one afternoon, when Edna climbed the stairs to the pianist’s apartments under the roof. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Donnelly called Dad last night, which is funny because Mr. Donnelly has never returned Mom’s phone calls or responded to her letter about the row of lightning rods on his roof. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ralph climbed up the trap door to the roof, returning to report that the building really needed a turnbuckle or something to keep its corners from falling outward. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm was ripping the roof tiles clean off the house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two hundred yards farther on, they came to the Yambuku Mission Hospital, a complex of low, whitewashed buildings made of concrete, with corrugated tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the rain came, it hammered against the metal bodies around us, rattling a few of the weaker roofs and screens. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Gus handed him another egg, and Isaac hurled it, the egg arcing over the car and smashing against the slow-sloping roof of the house. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a porch. And I’d love to have a weather vane on the roof.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small village spreads out before her—ALTAMIRA, say the rippling letters on the corrugated tin roof of the first house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Under the shelter of the cafeteria roof’s overhang, Jessica was waiting, her eyes about to bug out of their sockets. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the announcer on the roof of the Broadcasting Building collapsed from the poisonous black smoke, Theodore’s eight-year-old son complained of “electricity in his stomach.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It looks like the tiniest castle ever built, with round stone walls and a pointed red-tiled roof. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The roof a series of glass plates above the science and art rooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Corinthians and Lena busied themselves picking them up, wiping the snow from the cloth on their coats, all the while peeping at the man in blue wings on the hospital roof. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs to the roof smell like old paint. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the roof finally caved, a piece of slate had cut off his foot at the ankle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's nothing more than a large canvas bag attached to the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain pounded louder on the tin roof, and she looked up from the note then, at the screen door and the cottonwood tree outside, its leaves beaten flat by the downpour. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pried up a thick shingle burning along one edge and took off running for the roof of the town hall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were only perhaps as high as they might be on the roof of Warings, but a long time seemed to pass before he hit the ground. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If they come and try to make me go up on the roof naked I will just disappear, and turn up some whole other place. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s perfectly symmetrical and has four massive white pillars holding up the rounded roof of the porch. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

At once they found themselves in a rock-chamber, wide and rough, with an uneven stooping roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My eyes followed the brown dusty path that continued down the hill to the thick forest, through which I caught a glimpse of the thatched and tin roofs of the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were no streets, since the houses had no doors; people apparently entered through the roof. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of the houses they tore up the roofs and hurled the beams down upon the Greeks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

While my father and I worked to clean the coop, my mother sat on the roof and sewed hidden pockets into the linings of our coats. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed this weird, hysterical laugh and rocked forward, and God, I was sure he was going to swan-dive off the roof. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A frail column of smoke was rising from the roof of one of the sheds, and I saw a horse tied to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think back to when we were on the roof earlier. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This new motor-car was an enormous long black French automobile called a De Dion-Bouton which had a canvas roof that folded back. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In court begging some judge to keep a roof over your hard heads...” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He talked about the roof he had built for someone’s house, the beautiful table he had to complete the next day by polishing it, how well my cousins were doing in school. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was flat and roofed by the bow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Fadi’s throat was dry, his tongue stuck to the roof of his mouth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Its boards were warped beyond hope, and its roof slumped in the middle like a fallen pudding—and there wasn’t a house in Phippsburg where she’d rather live. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’ve been on the roof of dozens of hospitals through the years. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was raining we could hear it on the roof, sighing through the high sweet emptiness of the barn. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my small delight vanished when we arrived to find that our morning's task was to whitewash the roof thatch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper took them up to the roof garden to catch whatever cool breeze might be blowing. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We know how to make the roof. The information is useless if we don’t understand the foundations on which it is to be placed.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tallest are nearly as tall as the truck, and their big dry heads drum the roof of the cab and the sides of the box. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It showed its face through the windows and the roof. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But above the roof of the cabin, the hills were veiled with rain clouds. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every now and then a bottle rolls off the roof and the glass smashes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Harry’s dead parents, who had been a witch and wizard themselves, were never mentioned under the Dursleys’ roof. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now it was slowly falling apart, but Nhamo could still lounge under the thatched roof and enjoy an afternoon breeze. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attic his pickpocketing crew rented could be accessed through the roof of this building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a tight fit, since there were only about ten inches between the rafters and the roof. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Not on the roof, not in the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Or, “Look, you have a roof over your head and enough food, why are you causing so much trouble?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain pounded against the roof and windows, steady and low, drumbeats announcing the presence of the sky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Canada was so far up north that the white snow drifted up to the roofs of the houses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They also inspected the inside track, the support timbers, and the roof bolts. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the door to the roof is in sight, cracked open under a bright red alarm just ready to go off. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Not even enough to drip through the palm frond roof. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke crept out of the tin chimneys and hung low over the shingled roofs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d be up high, somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be, usually like the roof of his school. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Up there. In one of those rooms. Where the trees are growing out of the roof.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I like it when it rains because the soft pitter-patter on the tin roof is soothing, but it never lasts more than a few minutes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked down from the edge of the roof, seeing nothing but shadows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A buttery ray of sunlight beamed through a crack in the roof. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The four jack-o’-lanterns shed a mellow illumination across the portion of the roof directly beyond the window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The Special swung himself onto the roof with an ease that made Tally shiver. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There were several tree roots running across the roof and it was these that supported the unusual span. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman like this would have no chance of swimming to safety, much less have the strength to cut a hole through her roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She got a cab to the Rio hotel and took the elevator to the roof. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The worst time was when Mack’s father called the cops because he wouldn’t come down from the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

People were living in stairwells and bathrooms and cellars and roofs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He climbed up to the roof, slipped through his window, and went down the few steps not underwater. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The students on the roofs of campus buildings were the first to spot him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She ran her finger from the basement up to the roof in a straight line. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun could see this one through the trees and over the roofs long before he could see the water below it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I arrive at Sofia’s house and see her father strapping suitcases to the roof of their Hyundai. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now he turns and bounds up the roof in a couple steps. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

By dusk, he had finished the roof and framed in the single window. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“The roof is fine,” I say, pointing upward. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A gray bird flew above them, above the electric wires for the streetcar line, and perched on the metal cornice of a roof. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes for a minute to see if I can feel Darius watching us from his roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I stand on the roof of the Hancock building, near the zip line where the Dauntless flirt with death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The circling beams lit the roof to a daylight brightness and he could see that one man held a gun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mami let go our hands and ran under the roof overhang, where water fell in a thick stream. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Young sisters in a bed under the roof of their childhood home. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the article doesn’t say anything about roofing tar or Duros Construction. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All round the place of assembly the grey trunks rose, straight or leaning, and supported the low roof of leaves. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On top of everything else, I had apparently managed to infuriate Master Elodin to such an extent that he had thrown me off the roof of the Crockery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t dare look up to the roof. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the roof there were little chunks of light between the slates. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Where a bomb had pierced the roof, sunlight fell down in broad beams. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mackenzie took one look at it and hit the roof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been her imagination, but she remembered that sound from the many nights Hylla would sneak out of her own locked room and creep across the roof to check on her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It would be hard to prove him wrong, as I didn’t know of too many other pie cherry trees in these parts, least of all any that grew from anybody’s roof. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The roof of the temple was a big open deck that had been set up as a command center. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a scrabbling sound from the roof outside the arches, and he ran to the windowsill to see the first pair of hands grasping the edge of the pantiles and pulling up. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane climbed over belts of forest and clusters of round huts and villages with tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our egg is strong,” Twig said as Charlaine announced the first egg and dropped it off the edge of the roof. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was still holding it against the roof of my mouth, half watching the movie, half not, when I glanced at the dollhouse, lurking, lurking, as always. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The late sun sifts through the bougainvillea trained to climb the walls of the patio, to thread across the trellis roof, to pour down magenta and purple blossoms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Under that uncertain roof, where was the place for my girls? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the same girl he’d spied in her room across the roof the other night. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Astonished and bewildered, the children on the roof felt all the aggression leave them in a moment, and horrible fear rushed in to take its place. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It had started very innocently when he pulled a guy over because a Christmas tree tied to the roof of the man’s car was falling off. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Drying her eyes, Lenina walked across the roof to the lift. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s deep enough she wants to cover it over with boards, for a roof. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robin watched while the silent whiteness covered the hills and the roofs of the town. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Another crack could open in that old roof. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

My aunt works hard just to keep a roof over our heads, so I chip in as much as I can to help out with everything else. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It would be better to run farther over the roofs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Boldly she began to climb down toward the ladder propped against the edge of the roof. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Commander Jameson leads the soldiers to a flat circular stand in the middle of the roof, a stand with the Republic's seal embedded in it and strings of heavy chains hooked around its rim. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They push open the heavy door and spill out onto the roof. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Being scared’s not going to help you get off the roof.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what this means: a new house with a concrete floor and metal roof for the family, an effort to improve their nutrition, school tuition for the kids. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The hall was long and wide and filled with shadows and half lights; mighty pillars upheld its lofty roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When I got home after making my rather scanty “observations,” I went up to the roof and decided to record what I saw on the street below. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She stepped, lightly, over the side of the building and onto the flat roof. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At its fiercest, such a whirlwind could rip a roof off a house and pick up the building’s contents. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fry twirls a finger by his ear as he says to Zephyr, “Someone’s Frisbee is seriously on the roof, bro.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It repaired roofs, walls, pipes, cars, furniture, and boots. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A flock of birds scurried through the broken roof as if sensing trouble. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Smoke lay in the valley, and roofs, a spire or two above trees. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling on my boots, I walk to the edge of the roof. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Powdered isinglass was pasted on the roof and it glistened more brightly than real snow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house has a roof deck, plus a patio out back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

People were having parties on the roofs of some of them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outside lights were fixed to their poles, or to the roofs of houses; inside lights were set into the ceiling or had cords that had to be plugged in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only seventeen people, seventeen untouchable people, know about the roof. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He went to the end of the hall and flashed the light on a dirty ceiling and saw a wooden stairway leading to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their feet and hands had been shackled, and they all wore iron collars that had been clipped to hooks in the wagon’s roof. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What if the footprints on the roof were Blink’s? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But even if they came soon, before next summer, I could not live without a roof or a place to store my food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a track in Arizona a monkey was a popular mascot until he began turning on all the shed-row faucets and tearing the shingles off the roof. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about the warehouse roof and started downstairs again. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking the string with her, the lechuza flew out of the barn through the hole in the roof, into the darkness and rain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I will not have you sleep under another’s roof,” he told him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was seen one day sitting 011 a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She’s called three more times while Daniel and I were on the roof. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t sleep a wink just knowing we were under the same roof. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the chicken coop roof slumped against the well pump. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Once the fire broke through the circle of engines, it pushed out fists of flame that ate up clapboard siding, shingled roofs, fences, trees, outhouses, and chicken coops. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I make my way to the top of my high-rise, until I’m standing alone on the roof with the wind whistling all around me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“No! Not while you are under my roof.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As they fell silent, Stella heard rain plinking steadily on the tin roof of the building. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had been scared, and I admitted it to Zohra that night on the roof. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Oye, pero did you see that there’s going to he a pool on the roof and one on the second floor? How sick is that?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

While the witch slept Yvaine would sit on the roof of the caravan and look up at the stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Take everything up to the roof. No one goes up there." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I wonder if I can take her to the roof and show her my pigeons and the amazing view of Elkton, my hometown. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Crowds stood in line behind police barricades waiting to be admitted and the policemen wherever one looked included numerous patrol cars and even sharpshooters on the roofs around the Unity Funeral Home. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t do their lawn, don’t paint the fence, don’t fix the roof. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Val stood on the tower roof, gazing up at the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I examine photographs of what the weather leaves behind: dried-up lakes, wrecked shanty towns, mud-slides, people rowing boats around the roofs of their houses. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls, roofs, domes, and arches could rise far higher, but by establishing this one point of commonality the architects ensured a fundamental harmony among the fair’s most imposing structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The roof of my cave is sound. i. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s three stories of towering stone, peaked roofs, and ginormous windows. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I broke it down the middle and dropped half to the flat roof below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stored it on the roof of the rover for the trip back. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The icicles hanging off the neighbor’s roof have gotten even bigger in the last few days. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone turned to me as if I had just dropped through the roof. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Whitewashed cottages, quaint except for the satellite dishes sprouting from their roofs, lined a small grid of muddy gravel streets. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sun had slanted over the roofs in such a way that Neeley was in the sun and his face was clear and bright, while Francie looked dark and angry in the shadow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gloved fingertips land on the small cartoon of Will, his sharp jawline, his unruly hair, his blue eyes, and the same burgundy sweatshirt he was wearing on the roof. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Katherine usually stayed in the schoolhouse, grading papers and such, while Sam worked on the roof. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

With cement roofs for their thatched houses, and geysers for their parents’ bathrooms. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night we climbed to the roof and looked north across the border.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workmen had patched up the house in a temporary way, covering the windows with plywood and draping the leaky roof with sheets of heavy blue plastic. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It happened in midafternoon, when she was helping repair the roof of a hut. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fang curled in a ball, bawling after stepping off the Jefferson roof. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

One rainy evening, the Blue Bird Inn skidded off the highway, plunged down an embankment, and flipped onto its roof. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the other buildings were well under way, including, incredibly, the giant Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, where hundreds of workers swarmed its scaffolds and roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The sky god turned away in disgust and paced the edge of the palace roof. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The next time he saw him maybe he would even hang out with him a taste, rap to him about staying away from the roof, getting home early, and other good-doing stuff. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A goat hopped up on one of the carts and then to the roof of the diligence. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We sat with our legs over the edge of the roof, surveying our Khaki Kingdom one last time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

To one side of the house was a rectangular concrete slab with a roof over it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the crack at the base of the screen widened; we pushed it open, and we were standing on the roof of Nimh, free. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The air was cool and wet and delicious to breathe: a slow, fine, soaking rain, a farmer’s rain, gentle on the roof. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was waiting for me to clear the roof line. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He tottered across the roof tiles, spraying his fig trees like it was the safest, sanest procedure in the world. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dressed and ready to go, he left his apartment and ascended to the roof where his battered used hovercar lay parked. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The houses there are old, close together, with frumpy little front gardens and pointed roofs and moldering wooden scrollwork around the porches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cats crept away, disappearing just as they had arrived or been bom in the cracks and crevices of the roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An entire tower standing on the roof of Priam’s palace was lifted from its foundations and toppled over. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he rounded the corner of the house, he saw the walls and roof of the school crumple. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Going to actually see something instead of looking at it from a roof or a window. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Dug deep into the coral ten yards back from the beach, roofed with coconut palm logs and concealed under a thatch of leaves, 300 Japanese had waited out the storm. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We inch like baby caterpillars along the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Just got dizzy for a sec. Let’s find a way to the roof.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

About the foresters bringing more rigs out to clear more trees, the enormous flatbeds that rolled across the field empty and returned with logs piled higher than the barn’s roof. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the tower Robin could look down upon the town and the church roof, and see clearly how the church was shaped like a cross. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It had been blown off the roof—probably, Zeitoun guessed, by a helicopter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I see her take in the white fence and the messy garden, then the rusted weather vane atop the ever so slightly lopsided roof. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people had crowded the roof walk of the Manufactures Building each day, but their only way down was by elevator. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The chamber was filled with a soft light; its walls were green and silver and its roof of gold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a run-down shack with a tin roof. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The roof leaks, the garage floods, and slugs or take her daughter to the doctor when she gets sick. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The balloon roof it has isn't exactly durable. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Oaxacan countryside, they explained to me, a house without maize growing in the backyard is like a house without a roof or walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had a peaked roof, hardwood floors, and a tiny backyard which ended in a sun deck and a fire pit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before the store had a complete roof, Jody had canned goods piled on the floor and was selling so much he didn’t have time to go off on his talking tours. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I gathered up a handful of leaves as I made my way to the roof of a livery overlooking the pennant courtyard near the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rain was only a faint sound on the roof, and the sound of the thunder was distant, and moving east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mags and Finnick have created a hut of sorts out of the grass mats, open on one side but with three walls, a floor, and a roof. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still it was no great feat to make it to the roof of the inn where I collected my boots. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the faint patch of light below the ragged hole in the roof, a rabbit was standing—no Efrafan, a rabbit unknown to the General. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reporter stands on the roof with the Peacekeepers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When she got out onto the roof under the night sky, she could see flames licking at the edges of a great hole in the side of the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“There were clouds,” she said simply as she walked around the edge of the roof toward the apple tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is afternoon, and the guys are in the backyard just as...Nipper swoops in to land on the porch roof. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon he would not be able to go much farther, for he would reach that point where the roof ended and dropped to the street below. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if it’s on the roof, it’s probably illegal in some way. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Sheet metal whipped overhead, flying like a kite—a roof, a bit of ship, it was impossible to tell. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This crow was a friendly, intelligent bird that liked to perch on the roof of Monet’s bungalow and watch his comings and goings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Empty of kids, Portable 16 fell right over, roof first, into the far end of the hole. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew which house it was because Alexander took a lamp up onto the flat roof and signaled to them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She lowered the aircraft delicately onto the roof, letting its six feet find their own purchase and adjust themselves to keep the cabin level. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A small, round person with a big, round laugh, neat in all ways, he is a maker of tejas, roof tiles, the kind I sometimes helped Papi make. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shingles were missing all over the roof, half the windows had the glass broken out of them, and the porch sagged in the middle. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Its door was gone and the grass roof looked unreliable, but Nhamo had no choice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shut the door and looked across the roof at him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

And everybody knows Jordie’s family runs the only roofing business in town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across part of the felted roof lay a torn piece of old blanket, wet with dew. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had to go on last, and she had to make sure everything else was perfect. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

They also noticed the roofs of a farm, but some distance off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the fire and the roof. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lenina, who had lingered for a moment to look at the moon, dropped her eyes and came hurrying across the roof to rejoin him. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took the cage to the roof one Saturday, where the wind blew and so did the musicians in shirts billowing out behind them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When a storm was on I thought the whole roof was going to lift off, like in The Wizard of Oz. Used to petrify me.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Massive gateways, temples, roofs and whitewashed walls rising thick along its crowded streets traced a long, angular pattern against the sky. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At their first halt they looked back, and they could dimly perceive the roofs of the forest they had left behind, lying like a vast dense shadow, a darker night under the dark blank sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The rain was thundering on the roof now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then Margo said, “Put an M on the roof for me.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The three of them sat on the car’s roof in order, as they had in all the family portraits that had once hung in the stairwell and were now reduced to ash. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It isn’t too, too far from the roof to the boat. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

In front of Mrs. Watson’s house, there are three cars with boxes and suitcases on the roofs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"A fishing village, just a little place, north along the shore. Twenty-six thatch roofs and one slate, I counted. I saw part of a wagon. Someone's there." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Above the cage was a roof, a freestanding shelter like those at gas stations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On the rue Vauborel, vast quantities of slate tiles have slid off roofs and detonated in the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The roof slopes down on one side to a brick chimney, and that is where I kneel, at the eaves, where the rafters meet the floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Kids funneled from their cars to the school, ignoring the men in black suits and red ties who stood at even intervals along the school’s roof. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Without further ado, he leans forward, catches hold of something around the side of the stock car, and climbs nimbly to the roof. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the spires sticking up from some of the roofs between us and the Masjid-e-Jameh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She would never forget the rattle of the rain on the jailhouse roof, or the smell of wet wood, or the darkness that had saved them all; or how difficult it was not to cough. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the two of them aboard, the patrol car zummed up from the roof and headed south. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the roof and we shared our meal. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not this roof of course, but a roof. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom clicks her tongue against the roof of her mouth. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remember it as a mighty house with turrets on its roof and with majestic lawns and terraces all around it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right foot rain barrel, left foot window ledge, left hand iron drainpipe, and I swung myself onto the lip of the first story roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You might feel what I felt on the roof that night. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t even a place. It’s a ruin. There’s no roof or door. Have you noticed?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s my parents’ house,” he said one day, pointing to a sliver of roof visible over a hill. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

At one end the loft was blocked off by roofing slates and old nesting materials. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he had landed on the roof of his building, he sat for a time, weaving together in his mind a story thick with verisimilitude. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I nod, still working the peanut butter off the roof of my mouth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I must have looked silly hurtling across the roofs, and like a black-face comedian shrinking from a ghost when the white pigeons shot up around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the roof and watched the darkening sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly the roof is just behind these doors. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The tin roof was rusted in large patches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s company, Duros Construction, does roofing and roof repair all around Chokecherry and Shadbush County. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Flames from the burning hay pushed against the roof and beams, almost as if they were struggling to break free. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once on the other side, we find shelter in an old abandoned warehouse with a low concrete roof, propped up by three remaining walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The men who put a roof over their heads. Food in their mouths.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He told me to fetch him his wire cutters, a hammer, and some roofing nails. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sloped roofs above shine golden in the setting sun. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke blotted out the stars and the thin crescent of moan, so the roof was dark and thick with shadows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

All around were the roofs of other houses and the green tops of trees. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When she couldn’t stand her hunger anymore, Tally stole upstairs to the roof deck, where they put out leftovers for whoever wanted them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Once she was sure it had settled, and that the roof was solid enough to support it, she took off the helmet and climbed down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know why she was on the roof, but he wasn’t surprised. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I run to the other side of the roof. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Everything—the people’s heads, the straining dogs, the roofs of the boxcars—was in black silhouette against the sickly light. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Other times their numbers swelled, and I’d see men hanging out of the windows, relaxing on the roof, urinating against the nursery’s mural wall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everything stood out separate from everything else, a rock, a rounded lump of sea-polished driftwood on a beach, a roof line. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grooms tramped on and off the train, loading a full car to the roof with rice-straw bedding, oats, and timothy hay. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned to Big Ma and said, “No thanks to anyone under this roof.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Grandfather lived under the same roof with us but was something of a shadowy figure. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The closest security guard bounded up the stairs from the sixth floor and onto the roof, in time to see the scythes stepping out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A large green tarp served as its roof, and we slept on the cement floor on tiny blankets that two people shared. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She fought to stay on the roof, her feet scrambling against the wood to slow herself down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He tilted his head and watched the slate-colored bird flap and wheel out of sight over the edge of a high roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She presses her whole weight on it, and the antenna makes a faint grating noise above the roof as it telescopes upward. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered looking down at them from the edge of the roof. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And the last stage was the clerestory, which consisted of sixty-foot windows that reached right up to the roof. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Under this roof, you will do what you are told.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Cinna, who will help dress me for the Games, accompanies me to the roof. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were put in a cramped yard with only the sky as a roof and a dim bulb for light, a space so small and dank that we remained standing all night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school had a colonial facade with a graceful cupola on its roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sawed wood and made a gable for the millhouse roof and shingles to cover it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around a bend was an aging colonial house, with two peeling white stories and a much-repaired tin roof in every variation of sun-bleached red. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even bear the thought of being under the same roof as him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The moment on the roof is still a little too fresh and weird to talk about. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He squeezed through and stood in the snow on the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The smell hit them when the wind shifted, just as they were approaching the first buildings, small huts made of logs with thatched roofs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The tin roof rattled as something struck it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Its floor was hard-packed dirt, and its wooden roof was an arched intertwining of roots, above which rose the tree itself, an oak. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In search of food, I made myself enter one of the better structures, an empty cottage with half a roof. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The main building, which stood in a cluster of pines on high ground, seemed to lean heavily to one side, like a cripple, the roof sagging toward Canada. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His relationship with his daughter had never been good, and after her unfortunate marriage it had deteriorated to the point where only the obligatory politeness Clara imposed allowed them to live under the same roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of reminds me of how I feel when I climb up to the roof of our building. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be no alternative, so I steeled myself and approached the roof’s edge. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A few were rushing to get out a special edition about the fire, while the rest were on the roof hosing it down with water. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few churches or public buildings still stood above the rest, though their roofs were holed or their walls cracked, and in one case a whole portico had crumpled onto its columns. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

His expression suggested that the spectacle before him, the emerald grass, the white wooden bleachers, the school in the distance with its blue slate roof and ivy, pleased him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He felt his body being dragged across the snow of the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three men climbed on top of the truck, hanging on to the cables that fastened the canvas roof to the metal sides. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From the back window he could see that the roofs of the Afric Queen were white with frost. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house is sturdy, with a concrete floor and a tin roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

TaShon’s legs are dangling, his hands holding tight to the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And the men dug the earth from the fields and made the walls and beat them down, and Wang Lung sent to the town and bought tiles for the roof. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“They’re next in authority to the mayor. Though I don’t like them much,” she added, remembering how she’d been so roughly hustled down the stairs from the roof of the Gathering Hall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I curl my legs under me so as not to crowd Izzie and peer up at the roof of the car. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Crosby perched on the roof with Oscar Otis, who would call the race for a national radio broadcast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the post the camera focused upon several square feet of the rusted interior of the factory’s roof. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Belknap declined this offer as well, but feeling perhaps that he had been overly rude in avoiding the roof, he relented. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We had enough logs for a roof, but what would we do for heat? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Half the tiles on the roof were broken, and a wild tangle of vines had grown through the windows and covered most of the outside wall. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I could stand in the wind on the chapel roof and not tilt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He asked no questions, for he was accustomed to seeing total strangers living under his roof. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has a tower with a red roof on each corner. Every morning the girls raise a flag in the garden.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heap of stones, planks, rubble, boards, and roof tiles lay there instead, illuminated flickeringly from inside the building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He held up his arms and Sarah jumped off the porch roof. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then I stuff that frizz into my black hijab, cover my body in black layers, and take the roof key from Tats’s pencil case. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign— DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here there was nothing, not even the wind over the poppy fields or the murmur of doves in their nests on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores them-selves had fared little better: it was a single-story building with a flat roof, and bare cinder block was visible in places. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He passed a quaint old synagogue on Freiheit street, a bright Star of David rising above its peaked roof. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The bedlam in the street rose higher; more men climbed through trapdoors to the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rain gushed in from the cracks in the roof. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk slowly to the roof’s edge and take a seat on the icy stone, dangling my legs off the side. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

By the time I stopped I was high enough to see over the squatter pines and over the roof of the barn where Miig and Chi-Boy were scouting. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We ended up there in the throng under the thatched roof and I almost screamed when I realized the hand I held was not my mother’s but a thick brown claw, a stranger! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quick jump, and I'm out on the roof. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Finally I pulled them out onto the roof and showed them the pigeon coop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers were climbing out of troop carriers and continuing on foot, stumbling over brick and roof tiles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I keep picturing him standing there at the edge of the roof, about to plummet seven stories to his death, fear painted onto every feature of his face. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

No one had thought to design the roofs to resist such extreme loading from snow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The roof tiles were slick with a late evening rain. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I thought it would be just perfect for the blog. Such a beautiful house and in this kind of magnificent ruin. Plus peacocks on the roof.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The darkness had already terrified me, but now the strange pounding noise on the roof made me seek Ultima’s hand. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy rain pelted against the tin roof of the school building. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He heard a soft, wet sound, the kind that is made when one is about to speak and the tongue unglues from the roof of the mouth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The knee throbbed, the leg hurt, but he got his foot up on the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It may have once been a storeroom, but its roof and doors had been blown off during the civil war years ago, and it had remained that way. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The mist retreated and he was back in his grandma’s yard again, the monster still sitting on her office roof. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And, under the same roof, we spoke our first words. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The family’s badly burned ’78 Camaro was discovered last Saturday on a north Long Island road with the roof ripped off and the front axle broken. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not sitting on its roof like a normal upside-down car would be, but flipped tires-to-the-sky, in midair, high enough to roll a basketball beneath it. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I resisted the urge to kick out at the roof’s ledge again. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

As the seasons changed outside the windows, as the weeping willows shed their million leaves, as snow fell on the flat roof and the angle of sunlight declined, Desdemona remained in bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The central jade green lake mirrored the arching tiled roofs of the pavilions and the rough beauty of large weathered rock sculptures. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a pretty full train and I kind of forgot about it when I saw goats being handed up to the roof and people coming on with their chickens. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no roof overhead; they were in a sort of courtyard. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I grab the edge of our roof, then swing up onto it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As usual, Hugo headed first to the big glass clocks on the roof, because they were the hardest to reach. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Right now my expenses are minimal, and my new hydration business has taken off, launched through the roof, and shot into the stratosphere. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They used a doubled segment of rope and the grappling hook to cross to the roof of the drüskelle sector. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

What about the rights of one girl, right here, under her own roof? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I went back to the roof,” I say. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t they something, especially that Nellie? She really ripped the roof off.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mother’s shack is the mere peak of a roof surrounded by a blaze of pinks, blues, oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed up the ladder and climbed on the roof of somebody’s garage. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The loudspeakers that line the roofs of the buildings crackle and pop, and JumboTrons pause in their ads—or, in some cases, warnings about another Patriot rebel attack—to show a video of our flag. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And if the dog jumps on the hood with you, climb to the roof. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

We were shoved up the stairs, through a door and into strong daylight, onto the roof. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Here and there, Ivy saw shingles ripped off roofs and windows busted right through. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But ever since the night I sang on the roof with Zohra, words to my own song—fragments and phrases—have been dancing through the back of my mind. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were bats in one room that still had part of its roof. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the red roof of the barn sticking up above the oak trees, and he could hear a dog barking unemotionally near the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched darkness fade through the bluish skylights in the roof. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as quiet as if the roof had been lifted off and the new snow falling outside had blanketed them all in soft down. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He stood once more and again in his high flat house without sides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing upright in his hand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could understand how I came to be sitting on this roof at the beginning and at the end of everything. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rain rattled on the rusted tin roof, and rainwater leaked out of the rain gutter and splashed off the porch railing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ardeshir Bahrami—my grandfather—had leaned a ladder against the side of the house, right next to the little round window above my bed, and he was halfway up to the roof. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Beyond the roof of the warehouse the ’hood lay in smoldering darkness, the amber lights of the sleepless glaring, forming odd patterns of bothered art. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result was the Stone Gate, three arches of Lemont limestone roofed in copper and displaying over the central arch the carved bust—Root’s touch, no doubt—of John Sherman’s favorite bull, Sherman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He shrugs at me, casually, motioning over the edge of the roof to the ground below. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Neither of them noticed the ferret scrambling up the roof of Mrs. Asher's car. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He might stumble upon the little cottage in the cove and he would not be happy beneath its tumbled roof, the thin rain beating a tattoo. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I rapped the roof of the car twice and Eduardo moved it slowly through the crowd before squealing off north, through the red lights, for Queens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the same brutal wind that had ripped the roof thatch and swirled the snow. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A match had been dropped in and the fire had shot straight up to the roof. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The bus stopped in front of a posada and many of the passengers got down, and a lot of the baggage was unstrapped from the roof from under the big tarpaulins and lifted down. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The mission: Start with fully charged batteries and solar cells on the roof, drive until I run out of power, and see how far I get. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The structure had a roof, an old hospital blanket that sealed in the idea of privacy if nothing else. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Two doors down, I reached the new shul scheduled to open by summer’s end, a two-story structure of wood with a pitched roof, skeletal as though burnt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Pike thought to look up just as I was pouring the bucket of dreg onto him from the edge of the low roof above. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The straw walls and roof of the hut rustle and shake. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This has got to stop. You’d better not hurt her again. Not under my roof.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Malawi we like to say, “One head cannot lift up the roof.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Gypsies always came in August—telling fortunes, selling lace, tarring barn roofs, trading horses and mules. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Thor took the drinking cup, hefted it in both hands, then threw it with all his might against one of the granite pillars that held up the roof of the banqueting hall. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“We have no choice. We have to take the risk of talking to newspaper people. Who is going to feed us and put a roof over our heads if I don’t get my job back?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had blown some tiles off the roof of Señor Aguilar’s hotel. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Did he have to go on the roof of the hospital without any clothes? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I will sleep well in Toño’s home, my brother here with me, a roof of tejas over my head. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Blackbird Pond had been swallowed up, and Hannah’s house, had it still been standing there, would have been flooded up to its thatched roof. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It is one thing to ask people to jump off a train, but a roof? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The rain was heavy on the roof and the overcast sky cast a pallor over the dining room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were Sudanese players on the team whose villages had been bombed, and Liberians who’d lived through mortar fire that pierced the roofs of their neighbors’ homes, taking out whole families. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Blue Bill rolled down the roof and fell to the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Looking down, Harry saw Grawp the giant meandering past, swinging what looked like a stone gargoyle torn from the roof and roaring his displeasure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Soon they reached the wooden ridge at the bottom of the roof curvature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They remained silent for a while, sharing the plate of crackers and looking at each other in surprise, for they had been living under the same roof a long time without seeing each other. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sleeping on the rooftops, snugged tightly into my secret place where three roofs met. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A patchwork of solar cells covered the RV’s roof and most of its body, along with a liberal amount of rust. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As he approached, he saw soldiers in the alleyway, on the roof, on the ramps and balconies. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So I grab my cell phone, plug in my earbuds, and head upstairs to the roof. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Another lodged itself in a window frame, and more ricocheted off the roof. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My friend is on the roof. He’s trapped!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“On Dasher and Donner and Comet and all you other guys with the weird names,” Bull called out from the roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the roof, Nasser was already asleep in the tent. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then, turning back to Lenina, “Ten to five on the roof this afternoon,” he said, “as usual.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new battle cry starts up: The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Nails were not used by the carpenters in the construction of the roof frame. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

A roof of corrugated tin was supported in the front by a few wooden posts, and on the other three sides walls were formed by the tall boards of the fence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped a few feet from us and raised her free hand—about to bring what was left of the roof down on our heads, maybe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be like camping, only nicer because there’s a roof. Well, except that we don’t have our sleeping bags. But we can make another nest with our clothes like we did in the barn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba had been fighting to get one for four years, and they delivered it just when he did not even have a roof to protea it from inclement weather. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge banner with the seal of Panem hangs off the roof of the Justice Building. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Images from my videos of her in action, pointing out sights from a rickshaw, telling me a story on the roof, and laughing so hard that we both gasped for air. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Once his slice of pie is gone, Erin and I go up to my bedroom and climb out onto the roof. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pianos had to be bundled up, roped and hoisted out of the windows with an enormous pulley on the roof and with much shouting, arm-waving and brass-hatting on the part of the boss mover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The taps began to leak, the pipes to sweat, the roof tiles to'crack, and green stains to spread across the walls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors of the Great Hall were charred and smoldering, and inside the rafters had given way and the whole roof had crashed down onto the floor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beto stared at the roof of the building, now on the ground. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d even found this dog, which was now happily eating food at Todd’s feet, on a roof and had taken him in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Her divine powers surge as she leaps up to the roof of the old café. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Their dark slate roofs and tall hedges gave the buildings an atmosphere of solemn dignity, like matrons sitting shiva. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Last Saturday after school, one of the men who worked in the Griffin, a former tobacco hand named Martin, told her that the door to the roof was unlocked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All of the homes had been burned, their roofs of thatch and walls of reeds consumed by the fire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I heard that the swastika on the dumpster was painted in roofing tar. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The doors open, and I follow her down the hallway to the door marked roof access. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They did as he said and directly afterward the roof fell in. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant is called Big Chuck’s, and there’s a wagon wheel on the roof. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As the enemy marched through the occupied streets, a few desperate Loyalists fired upon them from gables, then slid down roofs on their bellies, and fled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Workers in hard hats were hoisting big metal containers on ropes and hooks up to the roof of a building. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The patter on the zinc roof was loud and grew louder as they stood under the awning outside and watched the water sliding down from the roof in parallel lines. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I imagine the beams gone, the roof pulled away, only the endless night sky above me, full of stars. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, glancing once more at Frightful, he strode down the trail, wondering how the peregrine of the Delhi Bridge and her eyas had ended up in a box on Sam’s mill-house roof. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It rained in slants here in Port Harcourt so that the water hit the windows and walls rather than the roof. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Heart has huge windows that go from the roof to the floor, but I duck behind the dumpster and into the bushes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were many marks, from the roof to the floor. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually he managed it by leaping up, getting one paw over the top of the thing, and with his weight, snapping the twine that held it to the roof. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I flatly refused to sit under some leaking roof listening to a demagogue out to make money by sending people on guilt trips and pretending to speak in tongues. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the roof was on fire, and from there the blaze spread to the main house, and the whole thing burned and burned and burned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They fell outwards into space from the topmost point of the Abbey roof. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the same moment, the bell in the tower above the roof began to ring. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I climb to the roof of a nearby building. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I’m on the roof, the best surveillance spot, and Fry and Zephyr are paddling through the break on their surfboards. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A small window looked out onto the roof, where blue moonlight bounced off the snow. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As Marlene and the other Dauntless girl step off the edge of the roof, I dive at Hector. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Quickly, the face of her sister fell away like water down a slanted roof. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure my blood pressure is through the roof in this moment. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There were always two guards from the stadwatch posted on the roof of the Exchange. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The wind threatened to tear off the roof. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mullet Fingers had lasted less than forty-eight hours under the same roof with Lonna, who’d spent most of that time on the telephone trying to drum up more TV interviews. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jumped from the roof to the hacking porch, scattering that pile of snow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The horizon was still visible, with the dark shape of the hut and its light snow-covered roof standing out, but the complexity of the instruments was hidden in darkness. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the roof, overlooking the street, was this chick. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We open the screen window, hop out onto the roof, and lie down. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses were built of whitewashed stone, with steeply pitched roofs of dark grey slate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the only snow I got to touch was on the roof of my mom’s Mercedes rental. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She was overshooting the building Flailing in the grasp of the jacket, flying helplessly upward and then down again, she passed the roofs edge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Saw them on the roof together, near the Owlery with Scorpius playing the gooseberry. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

By an unwritten agreement, the roof belonged to the people who lived on the top floor as the yard belonged to the people who lived on the first floor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now Boori Ma could see some light from the roof spilling into the stairwell. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Its high roof stood above all the other cars, its best feature. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead, the golden arches hovered high above a McDonald’s, its roof covered with splotches of snow. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Big Time felt his chest hit the edge of the other roof and his legs go over the side. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others were brick and stone with wooden roofs towering over her head. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The teenager was shoving the torch at the thatched roof now, because all the wall was doing was smoking. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mechtild’s small house with its thatched roof huddled at the edge of the woods. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The players had set a ladder on the uppermost landing of the outside stairs, and several of them were now on the roof, beating at the smouldering thatch with their capes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to one of his fellow workers who had been able to get up on the roof of Number 3 freight house to escape the flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The torrent overflowed the gutters, and a curtain of rainwater leaped off the roof. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Travis hopped out and bent down to look in the car, his hand on the roof. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Darin and I spent countless nights on the roof of our grandparents’ house tracing the path of the Great River, the Archer, the Swordsman. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It looks like a giant meteor crashed through the roof, obliterating stone into dust. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Now, there is only silence from the remaining walls and dangling roof. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As it passes the roof, I count, “One ... two ... three!” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This beam struck the glass roof of the greenhouse. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were four poles on each side, set in the earth, and twice that many for the roof. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The well had a little wooden roof over it and a simple winding device and there was the rope dangling down into a dark bottomless hole. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rain began its blitz, tranging bullets off the roof and strafing the puddles round the barn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he’s done he climbs to the roof, taking the Bundt with him, and it’s another hour before he swings back into his room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It came tumbling down the slope of the small roof, dropping to earth like a stone, the arrow sticking in its leg just above the knee joint. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The boy tipped his head towards the rusting tin on the roof as he prepared to recite his lines. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Pipes and conduits stuck up out of the roof here and there. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We wait on the roof of the Justice Building with a clear view of our target. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Reyna listened for more sounds from the roofs, but heard nothing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We had known that beforehand—we could tell by the lateness of the light through the windows, though it was dark when we finally stood on the roof. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We’d think of romantic scenes from movies and try to play them out, climbing out on the roof to look at the stars. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bigger house had been set on our roof and was imperceptibly pushing us into the ground. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do. Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With gun in hand, Bigger crept across the roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was a string of domes all made out of glass. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Outside we climbed the cottonwood next to the garage and then swung over to its roof, something my parents had told me again and again not to do. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She motioned me to help her stretch the second sheet across the roof of the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large piece of tar-paper roofing sailed through the air and scudded along the fill until it hung against a tree. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There is a pen-and-ink drawing on page eleven by her father, an illustrator for the magazine: a view of the North Calcutta skyline sketched from the roof of their flat one foggy January morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mother began to talk again, and to smile, but every now and then I would catch her staring at the door to the roof, and I knew what she was thinking. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, her hoverboard still lay on the roof, unfolded and charging in the morning sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Next thing I knew, His Kingdom was coming down upon the very roof of that retreat house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detering meant to outwit them: he fastened a thin wire to the roof and suspended his bread from it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would Old Chao do if he saw them, hit the roof on his way into outer space? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firefighters now directed all their attention to adjacent buildings, hosing down nearby roofs with fire retardant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“You were on the roof of the ogress’s lair,” explained the redhead. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The only icheku tree I had seen was huge, with branches grazing the roof of a duplex. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A cleverly built home, with one wall, a sloping roof, and two entrances. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Our entire public performance will be staged outside on what Effie refers to as the verandah, the tiled expanse between the front doors and the stairs that’s shaded by a roof supported by columns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And now here were Tizerkane, and the answers he sought were under this very roof, and new questions, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Yes; those in the streets knew now that the police and vigilantes had trapped him upon the roofs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes flames burst through the building’s roof and leaped thirty feet into the air. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he started clicking his tongue against the roof of his mouth. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

One foot almost touched down onto the roof, but Tally was pulled up again, still barreling forward with the momentum of her leap off the hill. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And they climbed the ladder to the roof, Sarah with wisps of hair around her face, her mouth full of nails, overalls like Papa's. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Just beyond the overhang of the roof were the long wooden dinner table and benches, the well, and the fire circle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I waited for the girl to speak again, but for a long moment there was only the sound of rain banking off the roof, like a thousand fingers tapping way off somewhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

So I fixed on the steady, domed light in the center of the roof and told myself to hold on, just hold on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

This time he’s on the flat roof outside my window, so I have to open it and let him in. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

See the batey, the dirt road leading through, the shacks made of cornstalks roofed with banana leaves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole in the roof, moreover, was a recent development, unknown to the Student Referral Office. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Except for the funerals I can’t say I remember my great-aunt and great-grandmother being under the same roof or together under the same piece of sky. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But instead I stay hidden behind a chimney on a roof, crouched like a coward. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed onto his own bed and stared up at the dark canvas roof, listening to the pounding of the rain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The beat of the rain against the roof of the fodder house, against its sides, would be their only Christmas greeting. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered bracing her back against the roof. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

And then all that was left was that tin roof, halfway covering the gaping entrance of the silo. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was called the Farmers’ Market, a great square of a place with a roof over part of it and no walls to speak of. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was filling her bucket from the coal heap on the other side of the roof. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had the raw ingredients and a test subject, all under the same roof. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is nothing but a long table, with no chairs or benches, and under a thatched roof with no walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If this is shelter, then one wall and no roof make a house.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Why should you take it upon yourself to mend a roof for the Quaker woman?” demanded her uncle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If she could make it to the roof—and if from the roof she could jump to the roof of the Prison Room and from there to the street—then maybe she could escape. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn had had floodlights installed after the escape of his captives—outside the church, on the roof of his house, and in the parking area. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Let me think a minute. Oh yes, I do believe we have a rule about not letting any donkeys on the roof.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some hit the road like hard rain, one punctured the roof of the red car, and another hit the front tire. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Over the years he’d learned every trade he could get close to—fishing, ship rigging, painting, framing, masonry, plumbing, roofing, tile work, even auto repair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Junior said, “This is a good thing. You both are like partners, Daddy, and if it does get published maybe there will be enough to fix your roof.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up into the rafters above us, wishing I could see the dark roof beams above the mosaic light. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His tongue was dry and stuck to the roof of his mouth, as if he’d licked an entire jar of peanut butter. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

From a fire in the center of the bark house a thin curl of smoke rose, then vanished through a crescent of sunlight in the roof. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gun-man raps on the cab roof with his rifle stock, and I am so surprised, I scream, “You go hurt him, bro’!” And then I know that gun-man aimed to hurt him, kill him maybe. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would a baby be on the roof?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Here the roof, latticed through and through with fine roots, was very strong. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He landed on the cabin roof, so heavily that the Shy Maid seemed to rock, and roared a word down at them in a tongue that Tyrion did not know. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Water cascaded off roofs, splashed loudly onto the sidewalks, and ran in burbling rivers through the streets. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Scattered on the grounds are clusters of small houses with sloped roofs. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Graybeak brought us to the roof windows, and we looked down into the factory and saw machines building sparkling heads and torsos and limbs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two Step was still on the roof and the theater was still burning, and... Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Spider plants let down vines from the glass roof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I say, and I’m on my feet and ready to rush down from the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The oldest kind were, indeed, no more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moist soft flakes are falling out of it, piling up on roofs and branches, sliding off now and then to hit with a wet cottony thunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham imagined terrified men, women, and children trying to slide down the glass flanks of the roof and breaking through, then falling two hundred feet to the exhibit floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She looked out across the veranda roof to the wide lawn below, with its bushes and little clumps of trees wound around with mist. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And to make things worse, spiders and scorpions peeked out at us from under jutting rocks and fallen pieces of roof. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We passed an Olds, its roof crumpled beneath an uprooted tree. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In every chase scene we’d ever watched, the hero always climbed up to the roof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tonight we would have thick walls, a warm fire, and a solid roof to shield us from the snow. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Weren’t her rafters strong and straight, holding aloft the roof and keeping everyone below safe and dry? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

One Saturday afternoon when Timmy was in bed with 'flu, I decided to make a start on the roof all by myself. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself falling off the roof, falling backward to a sure dying and laughing all the way. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, we saw the light from the cross perched on the chapel’s roof, which was only fifty yards away from our barracks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He could hear tree limbs succumbing to the wind, great exhalations as their trunks fell on streets and roofs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The automobile had a black canvas roof, slotted rubber tires, and a brass horn, and was shimmying and shaking and backfiring to beat the band. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure stands on her tiptoes and presses her ear to the roofing beneath the slates. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t very deep, not a cave, but it was smooth and made a perfect roof and he could almost stand in under the ledge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to make her parents rewind it over and over again, laughing herself sick at the idea that a roof could go and resettle itself. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Must be a lot stronger than the one on the Training Center roof,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hold-Your-Nose Billy pushed aside a low branch, revealing a rickety timbered hut with a moldy thatched roof. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In truth, he said this with so much delicacy, that I felt the subject done with, even though I should be under his father’s roof for years and years to come. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The roof’s all tree roots, you know, and of course the tree outside keeps the rain from coming through. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The remains are still in my car, up on the roof?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I use my glove as a handkerchief as I watch the shadow of the dugout roof creep down my outstretched legs as the sun rises to the top of the sky. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Was just hanging out on the roof for a bit. Going to bed.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Above the humongous oval-shaped room, thorny branches arched like the roof of a dome, with creeper vines and yellow seed pods hanging down like streamers from rafters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Finally the great clock on the roof of the court-house struck twelve. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I ask the man about it, he tells me it’s solar-powered and launches into a lengthy explanation of how the panels on the roof convert sunlight into energy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was a skylight about a third of the way down the roof and he made his way to it in a walking crouch. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Paqo selected a cluster of dried grasses hanging upside down from the roof beam. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

There was a Flint police car right behind us with the red light on top of his roof flashing on and off, on and off, and with the sireen blasting. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Little curls of her hair lay on the bill like vines on a green roof. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What if I throw you off this roof for being a liar?” he said with a laugh. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

From this spot, you could spy Jim’s soddy—at least the roof, from which grew a cherry tree that Jim swore bore the best pie cherries in all of Montana. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We were on the roof, neither of us able to sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gutters carry rain off the patched tin roof into two barrels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Water dripped from the dirt roof or ran in rivulets down the wall. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We walked past the rows of brick structures with corrugated iron roofs to a big grey building in the back of the compound. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are going to climb out the back window and onto the roof, as low down as you can get.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When he graduated, her brother handed over the key, dangling on an España key chain, to the old teacher’s storage room, through which you could access the roof hatch. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A bitter wind blew in through the open garage door, and rattled the corrugated roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet in back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is asleep and I’m sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleep in. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing in my room after a day of roofing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Papa then threw the mattress on top of the car roof and tied it with ropes to the front and rear bumpers. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That I now understand what he was trying to say on the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Most stood by watching the yellow-orange flames leaping from roof to roof and listening to the horrible crackle pop of dry pine being consumed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way over to the flat roof of the town hall and climbed the ladder to the cistern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The roof was not a safe place for them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you coming to do the primary school roof?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The laughs and howls and hoots must have raised the roof of the tent five feet, all ’cause Sammy was naked as the day he was born. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The wind tore a forty-square-foot segment from the dome of the Machinery Building and lifted the roof off the fair’s Hungarian Café. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If the roof crashes on your head, no need to cry over this bad luck. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tea burned the roof of her mouth, but somehow the burning almost felt good. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But the pigeon owner, a youth of seventeen, stood on the edge of the roof with a long bamboo stick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got dressed and we went up to the roof. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You believe in everybody. Someday if you don’t watch, or I don’t watch for you, someone will steal the roof.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes have adjusted to the darkness by now, and across the roof I see three figures standing on the ledge, facing me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After what felt like hours, the clattering against the roof slowed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their chests heaved from their run and I could hear their breath from the roof above. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to lie on the garage roof and stare up at the few stars I can see,” I say. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yandry pulled up the anchor, slid one of the long poles off the cabin roof, and pushed them off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One day, not long after Terryl and Alan were married, he came home hurting after one of those long, rough days roofing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some swear it was Jack Ford, with his Hendrix records and split-level room attached to the roof for late-night smoke breaks. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was peering down at us from the center of the gaping hole in the roof. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We had no roof or walls to keep us safe, and that probably should have worried me more, but you seemed content. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The unpaved roads, the scrubby bushes and trees, the huts roofed with sticks bound together—everything was just as Salva remembered it, as if he had left only yesterday. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, the neighborhood of roofs, black-tarred and A-framed, and in their gutters, the balls that never came back down to earth. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go up to the roof,” I say. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then he declared, “Plus, I couldn’t live under his roof. He’s the most pigheaded man on the planet.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Julie tosses a blue patient folder onto the desk behind the nurses’ station, shaking her head and murmuring to herself, “The roof, Will? Really?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It had sloped up so high onto Mr. Newton’s house that when Turner got there the next morning, Mr. Newton had crawled out the second-story window and was shoveling off the roof of his porch. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m happy to have a roof over my head for one more night,” Con said, and no one disagreed with him. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A single 60-watt bulb hung from the roof of the open metal shack. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had buckled again just enough to free him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The grand palace rose above the rest of the city like a mountain, the thick snow lying on its tiered roofs like heavy clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Oily smoke hung above us like a net, drooping under the thatched roof. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They removed the last of the lamb from the freezer and barbecued on the roof, recounting what they had seen and what they had heard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My lungs burn from just the thought of it as I remember my exhaustion from my trips up to the roof. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Love to help ya, I really would,” he said, “but I don’t have enough for my roof as it is.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sets his fingers atop the roof of the apartment house in which he kneels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The bomb had blown away the roof of his house and the walls of his bedroom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe they had other people decorate their house,” I say while stepping closer to the edge of the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The boy climbed even better than he did and proudly offered him a hand once he was up on the roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d been training with the guards at seventeen, but he’d still lived here, still had a roof over his head and good food and friends. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Lenina enquired, with significant archness when they met next afternoon on the roof, “did you think it was fun yesterday?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard landed on the roof of Propaganda House and stepped out. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the flight in a bound and cautiously opened the door, and suddenly the sun flared on the roof and it was windy cold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all hard angles and harsh tones, and he soon felt his tongue stick to the roof of his mouth, everything dry once more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Not even in the oldest recorded writings was there any mention of a creature venturing to climb as high as the Abbey roof. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want your money,” she said, a little sharply, keeping her eyes levelly on the sunken roof of the abandoned house. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been mending the shingled roof of their little house when the ladder had slipped sideways. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were under the shelter of the cafeteria roof now, so I could more easily look at his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a house that needed painting, one that seemed to cry out for habitation and laughter beneath its roof. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constant whoosh'mg of the rain and wind across the roof wouldn’t fade into the background. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Captain Fitzpatrick grabbed a rope and swung down through the fire to the main roof below, where he lay with a fractured leg and internal injuries, half his huge mustache burned away. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She would sit on the veranda and look up at the thatch roof and say, “Do you remember, Ugwu, how we used to throw away soup with meat after only a day?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Bowmen on die roof of the northern tower were firing down at Prayer and Devotion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a flash as if lightning had cloven the roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I shuffled across razorlike slices of rock that had fallen from the roof, and came to a fresh elephant dropping. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going down to help with the school roof. I’ll be back to make Baby’s food.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then the darkness above Luke began to crumble, like a cavern roof in an earthquake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Shutters slanted off, wild grasses bowing from the roof. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The roof of the classroom block was crushed into a jumble of wood and metal and dust. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Well, this village was no Winterfell, but those thatched roofs promised warmth and shelter and maybe even food, if they were bold enough to risk them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Using bottled water, Zeitoun cleaned up and prayed on the roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He felt his feet leave the roof as the maddened sparrow heaved away at the belt, causing the scabbard to become disarranged. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Flames had made gaping holes in the roof. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The day they buried her the wind blew gusts of sand past the house and rattled the loose tin on the roof. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

No rain came through the roof; it had the best bed I had ever slept on; and there was a shower in a building near the dormitory. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go up on the roof and shoot some videotape,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Start of my second week on Beechwood, we discover the roof of Cuddledown. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They’d cook all the meat that remained, and have some grim semblance of a party on his roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

While Sherman kept looking through the telescope, I wandered to the edge of the roof and looked out over my little town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the clock, and I could hear Caddy standing behind me, and I could hear the roof. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved idly in my direction and crouched down to sit cross-legged on the edge of the roof as casually as if we were meeting for a drink in a pub. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rain is falling and night is falling in Moca as we pass, the palm roofs sagging, the soil soggy with drowned seeds, the drenched jacarandas losing their creamy blossoms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since her birth, Ira no longer slept under our roof. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light had been dim in the room and when the shutters were opened it was bright sunlight and I looked out on a balcony and beyond were the tile roofs of houses and chimneys. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Most of them won’t be able to stand up, there’s going to be no privacy, and beneath the summer sun and the tin roof, it’s hot as the devil’s stove up here. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The darkness crept down and the rain drummed on the steel roof of the cab and the windshield wipers sobbed their arcs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monaco took out a cigarette lighter and lit the roof. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Picturing the almond Hershey bar roof and the shutters made of cinnamon licorice sticks, Dicey did fall asleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rented them a shack, and had just left the hostel to live with them under the same roof, when the summons came. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, he danced on the Ford’s roof, leaving footprints of steel in his truculent clog across the top of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great one who lived in the straight house like a platform without sides to it, and without a roof. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As the roof of the cavern collapsed, sunlight blinded her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The elevator ceased rising; its doors slid back, and there, spread out ahead of them, deserted except for empty parked vehicles, lay the police station’s roof field. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

These roughhewn logs were filled with sap, and as they dried out, the wood contracting and expanding with changes in temperature, the roofs sagged, the walls buckled. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched my brothers run up to the roof to launch their kites, I wondered how free I could ever really be. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Stands and walks back down to the edge of the roof. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At one end was a vent, easily unscrewed, that led out onto a flat section of roof. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He could see the roof of the house in the distance. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

That grey, silent cottage, with the rain pattering on the roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He followed Kaz to the lip of the roof where Inej had secured a tether that ran from the top of the prison to the embassy sector roof below. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Thirty feet from the edge of the highway, we caught sight of the roof of a dark green van through the tangles of buttonbush along the river’s shore. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Which of you tore away my door and which of you have my rake and my hoe and which of you burned my roof in his oven?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the door of his lock-up and called to a lounging couple of Delta-Minus attendants to come and push his machine out on to the roof. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even see the cavern roof—just blood-colored clouds floating in the hazy gray air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sander pointed out the roofs of the queen's London residence far off to the west, and the Tower prison to the east. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the guttering torch, shadow wolves twenty feet tall fought on the wall and roof. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the Savage stepped out of his taxicopter a convoy of gaily-coloured aerial hearses rose whirring from the roof and darted away across the Park, westwards, bound for the Slough Crematorium. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sands were all ribbed, like the roof of your mouth. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t eat it like that! You have to eat one piece at a time, faceup, so that the cinnamon and the sugar hit the roof of your mouth.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The chimney pots on the roofs...and on some, the shadowing looming of pigeon cotes...sometimes, faintly heard, the sleepy cooing of pigeons...the twin spires of the Church, remotely brooding over the dark tenements …. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

After parking the department’s speedy beefed-up hovercar on the roof of the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Lombard Street, bounty hunter Rick Deckard, briefcase in hand, descended to Harry Bryant’s office. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Of course. Their great-uncle had five pools with swans. And falcons in the roof.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I positioned myself where Uncle Robert pointed, under a roof bolt, and kept watching until Dad led me back to the man-trip. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she stood concentrating in the dusty light that filtered through the glass roof and slanted down past the upper galleries, she didn’t notice that she was being watched. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was round with no windows at all; a metal roof covered most of the opening at the top, but a gap could be seen leading into the depths. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The flag that fluttered on the roof had grown limp and old. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One ladder leads down to the next floor, and another heads up and up, as high as the roof. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The helicopter is now parked out back, and my father is already halfway up the ladder on his way to the roof. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a guard tower on the roof and a fence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My fingers tap away on the metal of the cart as I look at the sea of bottles, and then out the window again at the roof, and then back at the bottles. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The linoleum was stained and curling from the leaking roof. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cautiously, I take a seat right at the edge of the roof and let my feet dangle over the side. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The one up on the roof. Scrappy. But we will want to mate it if we can get our hands on a male. And any offspring will be ours; that has to be absolutely understood.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every house has only a single square room and a thatched roof, under which might dwell the likes of Robinson Crusoe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take one last look back at my old home, the flat tin roof flashing in the afternoon sunlight, the column of smoke fading and drifting away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his second-floor window Alex could see the black ID number on the roof and the caps of the two men who were standing in front of the door. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

On the roof over his office almost forty years after this incident, Devine shuddered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof of a tent high above presses and lifts with gusts of wind. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat cross-legged on the roof and grinned up at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Overlander would never give himself to the bats. Why, when he returns home, he may forget he is no longer in our ‘creepy’ land and jump from his own roof!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the first blow to the roof, the front door flew open, and the parson and his wife fled in terror. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Would the guards rush to the roof and seize her? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the roof of my school to the east and the train station to the south. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No matter what I did in summer while I lived under his roof, I knew that when I could, I wanted to work with animals, whether Dad liked it or not. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s why I decided, up there on that roof, that we would melt saltpeter and sugar. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could stop by. Would thee like me to stop by? Shovel the snow off the roof if need be?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Grapevines spread on wire to create a roof and block the summer sun. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Wherever he might send her, though, Arya would need silver to support her, a roof above her head, someone to protect her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Four crew members, armed with crab nets, climbed to the roof of the warehouse. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of rain drumming on the roof of our house gently pulls me toward consciousness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The roof isn’t as cold as it was last time; there’s no more snow, just puddles from the last few days of rain, and lots of wind. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He tied a spool of fishing line to the handle and lowered the can down a pipe leading from the roof. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I can put two stacks of seven on the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the helicopter flew over our street, she rushed up to the roof. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Wooden stalls contained under a thatched roof stretched for several yards in every direction, full of the temple’s varying livestock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Over the rooftops I could see men pouring water on the flattish roof of St. Paul’s, the buckets handed to them from a long line of people that stretched to a backyard pump. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shasta ran lightly along the roof on tiptoes. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

These old roofs make me feel the pull of Señor Santos and his tejas, but more the tug of home. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other buildings in town were low to the ground, built of rough timber with cedar-shingle roofs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's breezy on the roof, where the three Bengali families in our building hang their clothes to dry. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But instead, he sat on his roof, pushing away thoughts of the dogs on the overpass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We have to build horns on our roofs so that the nagging once-people can slide up them and perhaps ascend to the stars, the source of pardon and love. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lifted the trunk up on the roof of a bus and we got into the bus. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She saw an enormous cavern with a high rocky roof. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emerson was in a fancy neighborhood with streets canopied by eucalyptus trees, and the school building looked like a Spanish hacienda, with a red terra-cotta roof. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck my long-handled brush in the bucket and made a few grudging passes at the thatch, then paused and looked out over the plain of red-tiled roofs below me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the Science Museum has two roofs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The roof over the garage was flat, and he set up the tent there, securing it with books and a few cinder blocks. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Then what were you doing up on that roof?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As they busied themselves, he climbed out of the window, stepped carefully over to the next-door roof, and made his way into the second house to feed the second pair of dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She certainly didn’t know anything about it, and probably would have been horrified if she knew what kind of criminals were living under her roof. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Before she could comfort him, he changed into his wildcat shape and sprang down on the creature, batting it back from the edge of the roof, where it was crawling swiftly to escape. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the staircase opened onto the roof, which was heavily slanted, an inverted V enclosed by stone parapets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just lie on the roof, space out, and not think about being wet, hungry. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Standing on the roof of the Good Night, Sleep Tight. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few still stood, burned out and hollow or missing their roofs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I repeated this a dozen times, dropping the leaves off the roof, watching as the wind took them away in a mad dance back and forth across the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The VooDoo Lounge early in the morning was little more than a concrete expanse of roof dotted with red and black couches. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some are forty feet long with two levels, sturdy wooden walls, brightly painted roofs, and strands of colorful beads hanging over the doors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door I could see the constellation Orion. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That night Zeitoun and Nasser prayed together on the roof of the house on Dart and barbecued hamburger meat on the grill. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He told her about the stockyards with all the fenceposts gone, with roofs and windows gone—told her about seeing little logs lying around. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returns the stone inside the model house and restores the wooden panels that make up its roof and twists the chimney back into place and puts the house into the pocket of her dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The house needed a paint job and the roof sagged. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

To Laney’s disappointment, Goethals Hall wasn’t the huge castle building visible from the Vanderbeekers’ brownstone roof. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We hit a rut and bounced on the seat so hard our heads rammed into the truck roof, which for some reason flipped my mood upside down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz secured another coil of rope to the roof’s edge and prepared to rappel down to the shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She walked gingerly up the slanted roof, exaggerating the difficulty of balancing without her hands. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Ring down to Mr. Helmholtz Watson,” he ordered the Gamma-Plus porter, “and tell him that Mr. Bernard Marx is waiting for him on the roof.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a green mountainside beyond the roofs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

They gust down the slope of the roof, skitter across the parapets, stick flat in tidal eddies down on the beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The roof sagged from the two rough posts which held it, almost closing the gap between his head and the rafters. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silas slowed for a heartbeat, then leapt to the fence to gain access to the roof and his furry meal. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings aren’t as tall, and the roofs are crumbling, some threatening to collapse entirely if too much force hits them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And the elevator rose up off the floor and shot through the hole in the roof, out into the open sky. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

As he struggled to lift the awkward sheets onto the roof, wind caught at them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I would remember the pattering of the rain on the roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed up to a seat on the roof, raised his whip, and they trotted off. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin- roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

With the melting of the last of the twilight there grew a kind of expectancy and tension, as though it were thawing snow about to slide from a sloping roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa slid down the roof, helping Sarah after him. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Protectorate itself was a dismal place—bad air, bad water, sorrow settling over the roofs of its houses like a cloud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

One great tower rose from the center of the roof, crested with an American flag that billowed in the wind. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t reply because the butterfly’s doing loop-de-loops, and it feels like my tongue has glued itself to the roof of my mouth. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

If they found Jesper by the incinerator, the route to the roof would be obvious. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Rain poured down in violent torrents, pummeling the hansom cab’s roof and sending the coachman cursing at the sky. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear the clock and the roof and Caddy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she left, I lay on the empty cot while rain crashed on the tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if I weren’t half-crippled, you could still throw me off this roof.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It only took us five minutes to reach the Plaza—an old- fashioned white stone hotel with a gabled blue roof, sitting at the southeast corner of Central Park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He lifted his head and looked; there were other roofs joined, too. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Raw cold daylight fell through from the roof. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I stood upon the flashing of the roof, and watched the houses burn. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, both Tucker and I were on the rain-slicked porch roof and making our way to the room with the light. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits down on a wicker couch in the middle of the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Most mornings, though, he wakes at 9 a.m., climbs out of his bedroom, and makes his way, Spider-Man-style, to the roof using the siding. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t seem farther away from this hot tar roof and my shrink staring at my back, waiting for me to speak. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Flames eat away at the roof, and smoke billows from the windows of the barbershop next door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Barely lost a roof shingle,” he liked to say as he patted the wall like you’d pat the back of a loyal friend. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

It may not be a nice place, but I have a roof over my head. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was a huge wooden building with a great slanting roof divided up into parts. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She’d mentally charted her route to the roof of her apartment building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The cluster of buildings all had stacked-tile roofs that sloped steeply to the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The school building shakes again and tiles tumble off the roof. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Some hurry along ledges, while others are gathered in a straight line across the roofs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Negro came to the white man for a roof or for five dollars or for a letter to the judge; the white man came to the Negro for love. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It had been drizzling outside for hours, but suddenly rain pounded the tin roof and turned to hail so loud that it sounded like applause. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next he knew, he was lying on a bed of pine needles beneath a dark stone roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A half-moon floated above the Bell Tower and cast its reflection on the roof of the glass gardens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ahmad planned to keep dozens like this one on the roof, to feed and care for them, to try to train them to deliver messages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The whole of it was eventually picked clean in the way a forest tree gets gleaned by leaf-cutter ants: nuts, bolts, and anything that might serve for roofing material trailed off into the jungle. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s high bed had escaped the water but still smelled damp, so we put the mattress on the porch roof to sun. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing on the steps just below the door that led to the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed no,” I said, “it is just that I would have liked to see Kenny under our roof. He did so much for my mother.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad sighed and folded himself back down to sit on the ledge of the roof. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It has a slanted roof covered in rounded shingles like fish scales, and a swirly gingerbread trim. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I managed to find my way outdoors and looked up to see the red glare of fire dancing atop the trees of the forest and the roofs of our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay down on the roof and put his arm around her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He squeezed against the chimney, looking at the man on the roof to his left, holding his breath. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning lit up the sky, and rain pounded our roof and windows. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The roof had enough holes for the moon to shine through it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other two appeared on the roofs of the pier shops above us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We lie on the tin roof and watch as five or six men turn the corner. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He took down a big one that would hold a gallon or more, from the roof. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A breeze came in the night and we heard the men of the anti-aircraft gun on the next roof talking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Rain on the windows, rain on the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Walking over to her table was as scary as walking on the roof. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent gets to work immediately, and the next day has already done a study of “old thatched roofs with a field of peas in flower and some wheat in the foreground, hilly background.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He crashed through the roof of Georgiou's, shattering all the windows as it buckled under the impact. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

"Naturally I did not keep her an hour under my roof. No one shall ever say that I condoned immorality." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"My roommate. Do you see the building with the pointy roof? Behind those trees?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My father is usually on a ladder hammering away at the roof when he’s not tinkering with the chopper. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Milkman went with them to the back of the station, where, on a small cemented area covered by a corrugated tin roof, the dead bobcat lay. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roof was made of black thundering clouds that swirled in a clockwise fashion. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On his left he could see tower tops above the' inner wall, their roofs gilded by the rising sun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The roof door was open and I went outside. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the minute I pulled out the piece of marked silk thread, the lechuzas launched themselves off the roof and flew into the barn, wailing and screeching. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And now that Lyra had the taste for exploring it, she abandoned her usual haunt, the irregular alps of the College roofs, and plunged with Roger into this netherworld. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She should be on the roof by now, attaching the rope. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’d been in the nook for four months and made noise before, knocking her head against the roof or her knee against a rafter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was not ready for the trip up those clanging stairs to the empty roof where he had no animal. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The younger birds began crowding over to the edge of the roof and looking down at the great canyons beneath them. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped and gazed up at the tiled roof, then down at the tall heavy doors that looked like they'd been taken from a mission. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The booth was on the roof of the track, up a twelve-foot ladder, but it wasn’t the climb that worried her. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And we have the stars above us, even if they’re fading. Perhaps I ought to have a few holes knocked in my own roof at home.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Neeley, let’s go up on the roof,” said Francie impulsively, “and see how the whole world looks at the beginning of a year.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a massive gash-like opening that was shaped like a frown on the roof. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I can’t lie awake in bed for another minute, so I put on some clothes and climb onto the roof to see if the new kid’s on his. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A huge sea serpent appeared from above us and spiraled down toward the roof. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind clattered against the roof. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was not really a shed, but a brick factory whose roof had fallen in. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain pelted from the roofs as if the sky had promised the sea to drown the city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Footsteps came toward her along the roof, and a face appeared. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The peanut butter molds to the roof of my mouth like a retainer. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of an alley, when my route was cut off by a heap of crates and half-rotten lumber, I climbed a ladder to the roof. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I woke up at dawn on the morning of August 20, 1942, to hear thunder and wondered when the first drops of rain would spatter on the roof of the shelter. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With most of the trees’ leaves gone, I could see the roof and tall chimneys. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her tears trickled down from behind them and trembled along her jaw like raindrops on the edge of a roof. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men at the Tribune would do their best to stamp out and smother the burning embers that landed on the roof, but eventually, the fire won out. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first house I see is Windemere with its multitude of peaked roofs. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Looking down, I was surprised to find a heavy red roof tile in my hand, ready to throw. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“His house wasn’t wiped out, but they can’t stay in it right now. The roof is messed up. And they think he broke his arm.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was thrown back onto the roof, and a shadow passed over her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Some women don’t take kindly to a comely girl sleeping under the same roof,” she says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I always look at them when I sit on the roof.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, basically, everyone. Usually I’m drawing, but sometimes not. I hide in trees, bushes, on my roof with the binoculars, wherever.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A trip to the hospital could mean the end to a roof over your head. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When we began to see the thatched roofs, we crawled until we were closer to the village, to be able to look at what was going on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Down on the beach, Jinny walked past the fire circle and the long wooden table and headed for Joon, who stood under the tin roof of the outdoor kitchen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A young man stood in the shadow of an overhanging roof. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

We were playing stickball on 122nd Street, and a foul ball went up on the flat roof over the church vestibule. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Spatters of sleet tapped against the roof of the shed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the roof, she took off her jacket and spread it out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind rushed under them and lifted her off the roof. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Even with rectangular pieces of roof hanging like ornaments from its needles. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He placed it on the cabin roof next to him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climb onto the roof, My brother first, And we watch the sky For rockets. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t going to leave him to eat her sukkah while she got branches for a sechach, the roof, so she brought him with her. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We passed lots of Basques with oxen, or cattle, hauling carts along the road, and nice farmhouses, low roofs, and all white-plastered. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Only the steady pounding of rain on the roof is gratifying, sounding as if old Huracan were beating on the building for all the crimes engineered inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three days later, my father was up on the roof, fixing the aerial so he could watch some football game on TV, and he fell off. And he died.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He does his at my desk and I do mine on my bed for about an hour before we put our jackets on and go out onto the roof. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard work—you had to climb on top of the bus using the open windows as footholds, and then pull the bag up with you to place on the roof rack. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The men in suits on the roof weren’t doing a thing—so much for school security. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He found a scattering of parched little houses, trailers setding into the sand, and shacks with rusty tin roofs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha still has the garbage bag as he moves across the hot roof. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“We can use these to get on the roof.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One roof was bright red tile, but the others were grayish brown thatch or tile. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He turned back and saw Alec was standing a few feet away from the house, aiming his weapon toward the roof but with no shot. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The only way to get all twenty-eight on the roof was to make stacks so high they'd fall off the first time I turned. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Maple Grove, six three-story buildings sit close enough to the freeway that Aunt Pooh says they used to go on the roof tops and throw rocks at the cars. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A white one like Grandma and Grandpop’s, the roof caved in and half the house charred black. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Guys with prison tattoos tied the tree to the roof of the car, and we heaved it up the stairs ourselves. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So the ginger sugar blew unnoticed through the streets, around the trees, over roofs, until, thinned out and weakened a little, it reached Southside. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his mother’s flat on Amherst Street, where his uncle’s family lives now, neighbors look from their windows and roofs as Gogol and his family emerge from the taxi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some roofs had clotheslines with white sheets flapping in the summer breeze. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Sonny,” Jake said, “you boys come down and join me on the roof of the Club House tonight. Got a surprise for you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It sat on the hill above us, a dark shape crouched against the moonlit sky, its crooked chimneys rising like broken fingers from the roof. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Together, we’ll push the trunk and I’ll leap at the end. Off the roof. Try to hit the rowboat. Use my body’s motion to set it free. “Let’s stand.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I jumped and whapped my helmet once more against the roof. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The roof dried its shingles and stitched itself whole again. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to find Auri waiting for me on the roof despite the clear sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"If it's softer than the ground and has a roof over it, I call it a bed." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of rain on the roof. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was a very old house, with gray stone walls, high arched windows, and a roof with red shingles that glowed like embers in the afternoon sun. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun looked down from the roof to find the water at the same level as the night before. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The warning lamp in the roof burned green. All clear!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what hospital I go to, I always make it a point to find a way to get to the roof. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They collected rocks and built walls four feet high, and then turned the Docker and the Wills over to form a roof. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Water dropped from the roof and the cave was cold without a fire, but here I stayed for six suns, until my leg was well, crawling out only once to fetch water from the spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A family of birds had nested on the roof of the classroom. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stepped out of the house, careful not to disturb my science project—the Foucault pendulum suspended from the porch roof. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to eat but the food stuck to the roof of my mouth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next building, under an elegant domed copper roof, a ten-and-a-half-foot marble statue of Jesus stood, arms spread wide, holding court over what was once the main entrance of Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"You know I hate being inside boxes. I'm going to see if I can ride on top of the roof." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the sun climbed in the sky, shining through the broken senate roof and giving Octavian a natural spotlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Dad parked, and Twig and I looked up at the roof, where S’meggs would be put to the test. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not just mankind, but us, the boys on that roof. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the peacock walk out of the shadow of a tree, then its lugubrious flight up to its favorite perch on the roof, where it stood and surveyed the decayed kingdom below. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of cold beer, three hot meals a day, a tin roof over his head. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses were small, made of white stucco and dark wooden beams and thick thatched roofs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white crow sat on the roof and watched them as they went inside. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran across campus, noticing many old buildings with red tile roofs. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It rains and the station has no roof. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach Tatarska, Max looks carefully to the right, left, and across the street, craning his neck up at the roof while we walk around the courtyard. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were only two more floors of Garbo Mansion to go, and then the roof. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s made out of big chunks of yellowish stone, and has a steep roof, and is shaped like an L around a big courtyard with fat pebbles set in the ground. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch your tongue. Our debts. Did you not eat at our table? Did you not live under our roof?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A wooden ladder led down from the cabin roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a metal roof fastened over the top of Francie’s machine so that she couldn’t see the keyboard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hung our towel between the two sloped tarp roofs, like a wall. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

All twelve bombers have already turned and climbed and realigned high above the Channel before roof slates blown into the air finish falling into the streets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She did not want to sleep under the same roof as her other mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And then I remembered being underwater, inside the van, the floating box of Triscuit crackers pinned to the roof. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Erin is also looking up at stars tonight, maybe sitting on some roof somewhere, thinking about me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how she scrunched, she could not see if their roofs curved skyward like the temples of China or were topped with straw like the homes of peasants. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We must thatch our roof before the night,” I said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed from the second floor to the third the same way, and finally made it to the roof. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie liked the view of the surrounding hills, the swallows’ nests under the roof, the dried-up well that yawned darkly as if it went straight down to the earth’s core. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The pigeons she raised lined the edges of her roof like store awnings. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get the boards,” Tally said, turning to dash for the edge of the roof. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Get a gun, Mama. There’s a pervert on the roof,” Mary Anne called out from the next room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had ripped the wire down, and every kid on the block, girls included, could climb onto that roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I hopped the rail myself and followed him to the edge of the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the loneliest summer job a girl could have, stuck in a roadside hut with three walls and a flat tin roof. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following night, another bomb was thrown onto the Harrisons’ roof from the vacant apartment next door. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I keep my plate, toss my drink, and pull myself atop the shed one-handed before clambering onto the sloped roof of the house. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In Hooverville tin roofs cartwheeled across the sky and shanties were simply shredded, leaving their denizens standing dazed among the wreckage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The roof wasn’t much taller than I was. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That night, Gat and I find ourselves alone on the roof of Cuddledown. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was in the sky over the roofs of the town. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pretties playing on the roof had all gone silent and were milling around, wondering if there really was a fire. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My mind is still on the roof, staring at the empty sky. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We look at stars on my roof all the time.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where they stood, he could see most of the East Side, a patchwork of sheet-metal roofs of different shades of rusted brown, silver, and black. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The flames shot past the roof briefly and went down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

With both yellow-gloved hands on the door handle, she ripped the sliding door back with a sound loud enough to shake the birds from the nearby roofs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The characters loitered in deserted rooms, no one talking, everything silent for whole minutes except the hiss of the projector and rain pounding on the roof. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But light came in now through the broken roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, Cole rolled black tar paper over the roof and tacked it down. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He could not see the roof at all. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We filed out into the high- roofed garage and stood in line, the Negroes to the rear, the whites to the front. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pounded the roof as I got closer. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They emerged on the side of the domed roof, on a flat ledge, facing north. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a year, they all lived under one roof. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Slipping to the edge of the roof, I looked down to the alley below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I almost fall asleep in Darius’s arms, on this roof, across the street from my own building. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then he stood it up, put a little roof over the top, and cut a little door on one side near the bottom. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, you play on the roof as well,” he went on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Peering through the mists, he glimpsed a broken spire, a headless hero, an ancient tree tom from the ground and upended, its huge roots twisting through the roof and windows of a broken dome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They scrambled out of the water as the roof of the tunnel finally gave out and collapsed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

You could see the abandoned funeral chapel, iron doors padlocked, ivy on the sides of the spire, a small tree growing out of the guttering at roof level. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He looked to the roof to his left; it was still empty. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alone on my roof Erin asks me questions about Boy21, but I only shrug. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a gate topped by razor wire, into a complex of low-slung white buildings with pitched blue roofs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When traveling, I stowed the panels on the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another man whipped a torch round and round his head and then lofted it toward the thatched roof of the stables. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know. Their house looks empty. Mrs. Watson’s house lost its roof. I told the white lady that your house, Mama Ya-Ya’s, was home.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon there were thirty or more birds living on their roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I could see a sliver of late-afternoon sky through a crack in the roof, like a jagged canvas painted a bright blue. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The eyas is on the roof of the mill house. I put her out in the open where a peregrine’s aerie should be.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the demand for organic apples and all sorts of organic produce shot through the roof. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, viewed from the roof like this, it was almost hypnotic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After suiting up, I went out to the rover and dragged the solar cells off the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two devices were used to lift the stones and concrete to the roof for the construction of the vaults. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The elevator was now hovering over the roof of the Bucket’s little house. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

They pass farms, spotted cows grazing in fields, red silos, white wooden churches, barns with rusted tin roofs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roof of the embassy was curved, probably to keep the snow off, but it was a bit like walking on the humped back of an enormous whale. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The clouds hang heavy over the low, flat roof of the colegio, hiding the mountains, giving everything a dull metallic sheen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The elm that draped over its roof shadowed its high windows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Ron!” said Hermione, this time clearly audible over the rain thundering on the tent roof, but again, he ignored her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rain pounded the roof, and there was a fire in the courtyard lit for Sunday dinner. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He left the knight to sort that out and crawled up the ladder to the cabin roof. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Flies clustered over the roof—millions of them, covering every remaining panel and plunging us into twilight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The next day they jumped a train, climbed onto the roof, and rode north. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Workers had raised a structure that Kira could see was to be a shed; under its roof, long poles from which to hang the wet yarns and threads to dry were already in place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, you can barely walk. If you tried anything, I’d just push you off the roof.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One day they are playing chicken on Mr. Benny’s roof. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They hold the roof up at this end, you know.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain drummed on the roof, heavy; thunder shook the skies above them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I draw to the steady patter of rain on the roof and cars gushing through puddles on the road. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled down the ladder to the roof. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Parts of the structure were used as a vocational shop until the roof burned down in 1984, when the building was permanently closed—boarded up and fenced in though, inexplicably, not removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d always had a roof over my head and more than enough food to eat. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He landed on the roof, on his face, in snow, dazed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sleeping bag—which he hung to dry over his shelter roof on the outside—and foam sleeping pad. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I were to face that fact, possibly I could move on with my life, maybe learn a trade and take pride in my ability to shingle roofs or knock the dents out of cars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We sat on the ledge of the roof for a long time, swinging our legs and surveying the khaki kingdom laid out before us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now all we can do is wait and listen to the rain falling on the roof of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I remember that from jumping off the roof. It does catch your attention.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I see him wave back from across the street, and I glance at the Darcys’ roof again, wondering if Darius was watching it all go down too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Charlie had decided he needed a new roof on his farmhouse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sheets of charred metal roofing crumpled in the fields where the wind had blown it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But the roof couldn’t just be any old roof. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The walls and roofs are made of mats woven from rushes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The two people who ruled most of his thoughts were under this one industrial roof, right alongside two-for-one soda and bargain mangoes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I staggered, then looked up to see what I had hit and saw slabs of rock, roof bolts jammed into them every few feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a running start, I jump to the adjacent roof. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Fire licked the bricks and roof above one of the windows of a room facing the back of the courtyard, scorching the walls black. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a place of broken roof tiles, broken windows, and broken people. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He turned back to the window and the view of the school roof and put his cigar into his mouth again—but at once took it out. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Rani clambers up the waterspout on the side of shop and onto the low tin roof. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He remembered all. the timesjory had chased him over the roofs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The thatched roof nestled over the small square house like a mushroom cap. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

While the gunman on the roof kept Blackie in his scope through the window, the outlaw sat across from Burkhart, who looked stunned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He nudged Rick forward and, together, the two of them ascended by elevator to the roof of the opera house. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether it was inhabited; its walls were mossy and so many tiles had fallen off the roof that the rafters were visible in places. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As noiselessly as he could, he secured another section of rope to the roof and slowly began to rappel down the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Surely,” she says, “my great-uncle and I are not the only people sleeping beneath our own roof tonight.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If Sass tried to tell him of problems in the house, he would silently climb up onto the roof of the house, pull the ladder up after himself, and resume his chants. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It crashed through and the Greeks were in the palace before the Trojans could leave the roof. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a hurricane blew through, as one had just a year before—tearing off roofs and casting boats up on the shore—everyone suffered at least a little. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

None of that mattered now, and I pushed my way outside and stood on the roof of our building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to join them under the roof of the picnic shelter, he was a sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red diamonds of roof tile fit into diamonds of whitewash. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Father tramped up the steep stairs, bending his dark head where the roof slanted, and stood with his arm around Hab’s shoulders, smiling down at Nat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bunch of superstitious clucks. They’d jump off the roof if someone told ’em the building was unlucky.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Near downtown, a few blacks boarded the car, standing outside on the runners, holding on to the roof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The roar that rises from the assembled paper-chainers very nearly raises the roof. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Dislodging with their tongues the sodden yellow mulch that stuck to the roofs of their mouths. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am afraid her head will hit the roof. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A thousand roofs stretched out below her, painted in shades of ivory and silver by the moon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before I can stop him, ’80s Finch says, “There are different ways to die. There’s jumping off a roof and there’s slowly poisoning yourself with the flesh of another every single day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Others chimed in with more suggestions: a new roof for the village hall, food for families whose crops had failed, a fresh planting of blue willows to attract more hummingbears. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The shells come patiently, each round whizzing over at a predictable interval, scratching a long scarlet parabola over the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Its roof and walls are covered with bamboo leaves and straw. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the roof, except for the soldiers manning the machine guns, begin to make their way inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense! I’m only redistributing the wealth. I need to repair the roof and fix the robot, have the tennis court put to rights and replace the pipe in the fountain. The stables are collapsing, too.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked for a safe roof to leap to, but there were none close enough. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A piece of old tin on the roof of the shed began to rattle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the windows are boarded up, and a whole section of shingles is missing from the roof. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We could hear the fire and the roof. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benny was crying as the flames burned the edge of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just naked treetops and peaked roofs and a band of darkening sky wrapping around the car, pressing against the window. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He crossed half dragging the child and went sorting through tools standing in a barrel under the shed roof. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Each morning hundreds of men climbed to its roof; each evening they picked their way gingerly back down in a long dense line that from a distance resembled a column of ants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She looked out over the flat roofs, uneven in height, broken once in a while by a slanting roof from a house left over from older times. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn went first: with one hand she raised the boy even higher, his feet kicking in the air, and with the other she grabbed one of the roof bars and began to bend it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Leaks, leaks—no roof could keep them out during rainy season. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Down a long narrow veranda they went, the roofs supported by delicate carven posts, and into a hall the like of which Wang Lung had never seen. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I hear voices coming from the roof, and I climb the ladder to get to them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I hear footsteps on the roof, and a moment later there’s a soft thud outside our door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I perched on the roof all night, waiting until he left the next morning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Loud the challenge rang and bellowed, like the shout of many throats under the cavernous roof. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Golden light covered the rooftop, spilling over the edge of the roof into a thin slice of the courtyard below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even though we all lived under the same roof, we treasured every minute spent with Papa. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Special had thrown himself off the roof to save her! Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Outside my window is the roof of our front porch. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We eat lunch on the roof most days. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I flung his roof into the dell below and knocked down every wall of his house with my fists. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like a seesaw, the triangle of the roof keeps it balanced, straight. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Outside the mist turned to rain and in a little while it was raining hard and we heard it drumming on the roof. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I can see the look she would have given me if she’d materialized on the roof when I was shrieking with Tats. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He pries off a roof vent and disappears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the illusion of having friends. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I'm not really supposed to be up here on the roof. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tall/s board lay too for away, on the other side of the roof, and it was unfolded into eight sections. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then he put a ladder against the log, climbed up to the top, moved the roof to one side, and reached down inside to hang meat on those nails. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jormungundr, the Midgard serpent, had bitten down on the huge ox head, and the hook had dug deep into the roof of its mouth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There were twelve of us, all crammed inside the little shack on the roof. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, the roof of the Ares cabin was burning, and naiads from the canoe lake rushed over to blow water on it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The red tile roofs of the mansion spread out in a patch of intense green. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it rained, which was almost every day for a while, his dirt roof with sunflowers growing in it leaked. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main section had a big domed roof. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the open market was a towering wooden building with four separate roofed sections and fenced- in courtyards. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were made of wood, with lopsided porches, sagging roofs, rusted-out gutters, and balding tar paper or asphalt shingles slowly but surely parting from the underwall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

These two small, protective figures, sitting staidly under their small roof—what a power they had! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The icy thatched roof made a sizzling sound, and she realized it was already beginning to flame. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined the roof lined with solar panels, laid out like a deck of cards. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There will be problems under that roof, because there are problems under every roof. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Come on then,” yells a voice from the roof. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

From the dining-room window where she stood, with the wind in her hair, Rahel could see the rain drum down on the rusted tin roof of what used to be their grandmother’s pickle factory. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many have roofs of tejas, some already slid off to the ground, leaving gaps. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The roof is not lit at night, but as soon as my bare feel reach its tiled surface I see his silhouette, black against the lights that shine endlessly in the Capitol. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pop open the window and we climb out onto the roof. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went to the front of the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like someone might have painted them on a big roof. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To accommodate the dances, the Osage had erected, amid the encroaching wilderness, a pavilion, with a mushroom-shaped metal roof and a circular earth floor surrounded by concentric rows of wooden benches. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I know. Hold on,” Tally said, and shot away from the roof. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The buildings that hadn’t entirely collapsed barely stood, with caved in roofs and walls pierced with rocket shells. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I suspect that every kind of vice an enterprising sort could imagine can be found under this roof. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As he sank deeper into it, the shotgun slipped from his hand, rattled down the roof, and hit the ground with a loud explosion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could run over those roofs, over the snow and round those chimneys until he came to the building that dropped to the ground. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I poked my head over the edge of the roof and waved. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He will cut off their heads and mount them on the roof of our house as a warning to others. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Nails were popping off tin roofs, and they flew, landing on nearby thatched roofs, increasing the wrath of the fire. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our room looked over roofs down to where this funny quay crooks into the sea. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted it to crash through Ketterdam’s pleasure houses, lifting roofs and tearing doors off their hinges. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Back when I was still living at the foster group home, I could see the Empire State Building if I climbed up onto the roof. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And besides, we liked to jump from the roof of one car to another and pretend they were giant mushrooms. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted up my head to look: the roof resolved to clouds, high and dim; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapours she is about to sever. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Poppy said, “She’ll also teach you how to give a weather report by standing on the roof and licking one finger and holding it up in the wind.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A zinc roof would be so nice when it rained. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay for some time awake, and looked up at the stars glinting through the pale roof of quivering leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

To make vacations affordable, at public auction the Warden bought a bus that, oddly enough, had once been a mobile TB clinic, with a turret-like bulge in its roof to accommodate an X-ray machine. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

People still live in mud houses with grass roofs there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I open the roof hatch, the place is empty. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“The bad cat was outside my window last night,” he informed Kevan at one point, “but Ser Pounce hissed at him and he ran off across the roofs.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the roof which we repaired often, together. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Woodchuck Lodge is small and rustic, with a sharply gabled roof and a porch railing of twisted limbs and branches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the windows reflected the sky, and one of the Black Jackets was repairing a couple of broken tiles on a roof. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was an awesome roof night, especially since Erin is a very good kisser, but I’m not thinking about Erin right now. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several moments we stood there not saying anything, the rain drumming on the aluminum roof. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

As many of us under one roof as could fit. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My tongue was stuck to the roof of my mouth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Nothing compared to actually seeing the roofs, like tiled lamp shades or hats. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Takes three men to winch that up to the roof,” said Caius. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She looked up past the landing that led to the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He agreed to fix the leaky roof in ex-change for six jars of spiced peaches. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind sleeping under the same roof as the dead,” said Jacquel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Jumping from the roof of Mercy was the most interesting thing he had done. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lie on the roof holding each other until midnight. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Seven Days, Milkman guessed, would be looking for a new recruit, as they had to when Robert Smith jumped off the roof of Mercy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with my back to the wall, with this aluminum roof over my head, no one can see me unless I can see them. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The squirrel scrambled up the side of the necessary to the roof. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roofs were still snow-covered, and lights twinkled in every home. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The host had stuck to the roof of his mouth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could he get to the roof of this building? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing from the car, he maneuvered the goat cage from the back seat, with wheezing effort managed to set it down on the roof. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger looked back to the roof to his left; the man was still standing there, flashing a light round. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thunder booms overhead and lightning explodes through the roof and into her hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They flew to a piling on the dock, and then to a roof of a warehouse. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found him in a place with a sagging roof and the customary ivy growing up the front wall. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reluctantly acceded; I yearned to spend my second night of freedom under my own roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would even be allowed on the roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He retrieved a portable grill and brought it to the roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But when I looked carefully, I saw the pagoda was really just a building topped with stacks of tile roofs, no walls, nothing else under its head. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chimera was now so tall its back rubbed against the roof. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We could see the roofs of big, expensive houses peeking up over the landscaping. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fire!” someone shouts, and I look to see orange flames leap from one thatched roof to another. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He pressed the moist crumbs to the roof of his mouth and closed his eyes, wishing that he might someday be the man who was the perfect fit for such a cake. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As the train sways, I’m grateful I’m no longer on the roof. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Then they search the underside and the roof.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Far left, I see a man and woman sitting on a roof, their feet in the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what she did there, aside from eating chocolates and sunbathing naked on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then one day Popcorn was found stabbed to death on the roof of his apartment building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Its roof and high sides were covered in black canvas, and it was drawn by four stout horses. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

While the house was being built, they erected a shelter of wooden planks with a zinc roof, where they settled Esteban in his sickbed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pen was grassy, and it was shaded from the sun by a shed roof. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were no more roofs over which to run and dodge. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Spot, Mama Ya-Ya, and me will spin, cracking through the roof. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was really just part of the top floor of the building, where the roof had entirely collapsed, leaving sweeping views of the ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The crumpled green roof of a compact car covered the crushed opening where the windshield had been, but the damage to the van’s front end didn’t extend beyond the cab. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What good was being proud when you didn’t have a roof of your own to be proud under? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The roofs of lean-tos were golden with slices of drying apples. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a few steps back to give myself a running start and leap out of the car just as the train reaches the end of the roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Glasses had a fifth-story apartment, a story higher than the school building, and at this hour the sun was shining over the school roof and through the Glasses’ naked living-room windows. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He described to the psychiatrist how two demon COs were using secret symbols to communicate with space beings who landed on the roof of A-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to say more, but at that instant, shots ring out from both the roofs and the platform. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I feel my eyes begin to burn and I press my tongue against the roof of my mouth to force my jaw to stop moving. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The roof over the rink was concave, and because the great lawn sloped toward it, the entire building seemed sunk into the ground, the forest rising above it in the distance. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The barn’s no good. The roof leaks and it’s out too far.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The rain splattered on the tin roof of the barn, like a drummer who was just learning how to play, uneven and off-beat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spray-paint the roof tiles and then coat them with a few layers of weatherproof lacquer. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I kept stealing glances at Baba sitting with Rahim Khan on the roof, wondered what he was thinking. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z