| 单词 | roofless |
| 例句 | Presently one flitted up from some roofless ruin of the town like a vast black bat, thin-winged and spiny-backed, and circling into the north wind came flying towards Ged. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z It was just a tuft of blackened, roofless walls now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The court was partly paved with stone, but was roofless, and on a grassplot a fountain played under young trees in the sunlight. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I secure Bobo’s door and slip into the connection, the roofless canvas tunnel that joins the menagerie to the big top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Flowering vines sent up creepers from every crack in the wall or pavement, and young trees had taken root in the Walls of abandoned shops and roofless temples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At the edges of town, ancient-looking cottages stood abandoned and roofless, evidence of a shrinking population, children lured away from centuries-old fishing and farming traditions by more glamorous opportunities elsewhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They sat on wooden planks and the weak morning sun streamed into the roofless class as she unfurled Odenigbo’s cloth flag and told them what the symbols meant. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Panting, yearning for a roofless place, they flung themselves forward; and then in amazement they staggered, tumbling back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Martyn Rivers had made his camp in the shell of a shattered holdfast, beside a roofless stable and a hundred fresh graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z An infinitely long train, composed of roofless cattle cars. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There weren’t as many palm trees there as I remembered, and some of the homes had been reduced to roofless walls and piles of twisted clay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The great double curtain wall still stood, for granite does not yield easily to fire, but most of the towers and keeps within were roofless. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Molesworth hovers over the roofless model, a dollhouse re-creation of MOCA's south galleries, complete with entryways and interior walls dotted with sticky tape — a blank canvas on which the curator experiments. Helen Molesworth, MOCA's new chief curator, relishes the possibilities 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Down in Florida, victims of Hurricane Michael were weeping in their roofless homes. Perspective | Whose hero’s journey was it anyway? Your 2018 in review 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The museum’s pastel-yellow facade was still standing on Tuesday, but a peek inside its giant windows revealed a roofless interior of blackened hallways and charred beams. Skull of ancient human possibly found in burned Brazilian museum 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The daylight that floods through the roofless ruins highlights the Gothic decorated arches — in those days a bold departure from Cistercian simplicity. Welsh revival: Cardiff sheds rust-belt past for glossy future 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Kidney Island, a nature refuge accessible by boat from Stanley, is a roofless aviary. In the Falkland Islands, a quest to see as many penguins as possible 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z On Deck 8 was a bit of green space, sort of absurdly called “Central Park,” that was roofless but totally enclosed on all sides. I went on a freaking cruise 2012-12-09T13:00:00Z It’s now a roofless shell but with symbolic meaning for local people. The Havana Biennial Is Running at Full Throttle 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In one work they created a roofless white-cube art gallery sunk in a field in Reykjavik, Iceland, a forlorn kind of Minimalist-Surrealist sculpture. ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z It stands, roofless but intact, thanks to the 600 lionhearted firefighters and engineers who risked their lives for the world’s cultural patrimony. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z On the ground floor, a hanging mirror reflects a maze of small, roofless rooms, giving art-gazers a contorted, ever-shifting view of the floor plan and art in other rooms. At new French museum, the building steals the show 2010-05-10T13:43:00Z They are on view at, of all places, a former Franciscan monastery, which lies partly in roofless ruins. A Helping of Mexican Culture 2010-08-25T04:07:00Z I can’t fathom what each person might be going through — a roofless home, a sister with respiratory problems hibernating in the basement. Perspective | I work in a grocery store. Am I a hero now? 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Several years ago a suspicious fire left the houses roofless. Next Stop: A Malaysian City Rekindles Its Colorful Past 2010-12-02T18:05:00Z When emissaries from Israel visited Villanueva’s congregation, they were aghast at the barrenness of the place: dirt floors, no plumbing, a windowless, roofless temple lit by candles. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Peeling paint buckles on the exterior walls of roofless cabins. Caneel Bay: Why a Caribbean Paradise Remains in Ruins 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The set is an enclosed, roofless room in the middle of the Brick’s black-box space. ‘The Listeners,’ a Matthew Freeman Drama at the Brick 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Now roofless, the effect of looking up at a bright sky from inside the remaining walls is an evocative experience. 36 Hours in Siena, Italy 2012-10-11T19:10:32Z There were no tarps to protect the roofless houses in her neighborhood, but Ms. Sánchez considered herself fortunate. In Puerto Rico, Artists Rebuild and Reach Out 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z A contemporary account noted that the makeshift staging featured gaunt performers – some just released from concentration camps – and the redolence of unexcavated corpses, still trapped beneath the rubble of the burnt-out and roofless theater. A 'Threepenny Opera' without a sense of urgency 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Plans to restore a roofless, crumbling castle in the Scottish Borders have been held up by great crested newts. Renovation of Cavers Castle held up by great crested newts 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The roofless church is now only a skeleton of its former self, but it had been designed by the English architect, George Gilbert Scott. King Charles at Hamburg memorial for Allied wartime air raids 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Months after the storms, health workers at a still roofless district hospital in the east treated patients in tents. Your Friday Briefing 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z In the country’s east, months after the storms, health workers at a still roofless district hospital were treating patients in tents. Your Friday Briefing: MH17 Convictions 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z When the settlement turned out to be more like a harem — and the harem’s shelter a roofless plywood box — Zahra fled. Review | Drawn to the prairie, in search of answers to big questions 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z A dog-friendly, restored 1950s era drive-in theater that features nightly movies on the original screen, innovative ranch shed lodging and yurts with luxury interiors, and an art installation of enormous, roofless, 3D-printed adobe structures. Saddling up for a high desert getaway in southern Colorado 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z A temporarily roofless home has its own unique challenges. How and where to add on when you need more living space | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Some signs of the city's Ukrainian identity remained: a small pile of bedraggled Ukrainian passports inside the roofless local prosecutor's office and a Ukrainian flag abandoned on a road not far from a crumpled van. Few civilians, charred buildings in Ukraine's Lysychansk after capture by Russia 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The ruins of a Bronze Age settlement are hidden away in a roofless cave atop a mountain. Introducing city kids to nature in the hinterlands of Sardinia 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The place was already gone by 1596 when it was described as a roofless ruin. Greasley Castle: Project reveals 'astonishing' secrets 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Video and photos provided by the Ukrainian military showed that at least the three-story building had been reduced to a roofless shell, with some exterior walls collapsed. Russian strikes hit outskirts of Ukrainian capital and Lviv 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Video and photos provided by the Ukrainian military showed that the at least three-story building had been reduced to a roofless shell, with some exterior walls collapsed. Leaders renew calls to investigate attacks on civilians 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Video and photos provided by the Ukrainian military showed that the building had been reduced to a roofless shell, with some exterior walls collapsed. Russia-Ukraine war: Key things to know about the conflict 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Later, firefighters could be seen dousing the smoking, roofless building. Official: 10 hospitalized after Maryland explosion, fire 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Unlike Tennessee, it’s cold and wet here, so the roofless bus idea is not gonna fly. Rant & Rave: Ballard sea lions, please be quiet 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Stray dogs stalked warily through the warren of roofless hulks, skirting the frozen puddles and burned vehicles strewn on every side. ‘We need to go’: A burst of gunfire on Ukraine’s front line and echoes of wider risks with Russia 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But then the pandemic arrived, and the jobs dried up, and he moved his wife and five children out of their rented home and into this half-finished, roofless structure. Floundering in the polls, Brazil’s Bolsonaro woos a surprising new demographic: The poor 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The roofless walls atop the warehouses appear in satellite imagery and in the cell phone video footage. Eyewitness accounts, video confirm reports of Tigrayan children held in concentration camp 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z A roofless school bus, with speakers thumping, was already waiting, its riders eager to get the same shot. In the Heart of Nashville, Rolling Parties Rage at Every Stoplight 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Nearby homes were roofless or missing their second stories. At least 5 dead as series of tornadoes strike Deep South 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The fire left the museum roofless, its windows gaping holes. How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z A fire in the 1980s left it roofless. Museum slated up the river and through the wall at Sing Sing 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Baltimore’s roofless Hebrew Orphanage feels strength returning to its historic walls » Old Hebrew orphanage transformed into drug treatment center 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z The one she owns is a roofless jumble of wood and tin, uninhabitable since the hurricanes ravaged it. Puerto Ricans fear help may never come 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Coups, fires, and civil wars later reduced the building to a roofless shambles. The Shattered Afghan Dream of Peace 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z In a desperate live video posted on Facebook, a woman wailed from her perch in a roofless apartment building in Marsh Harbour as the floodwaters rose around her. ‘Pray for us’: Dorian snapping trees, tearing off roofs in the Bahamas 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Which is just as well, given Wednesday’s washout on the roofless courts means there are an extra 23 singles matches to squeeze into today’s second-round schedule. US Open 2019: Evans, Kvitova, Zverev, Halep, Osaka and Konta in action – live! 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Hasketh Daniel surveys the wreckage of his bar - roofless, and open to the clear blue sky. ‘Why I don't want to own the land my business is built on’ 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The roofless cart is always an odd sight, but it suited Daly quite well. The best things I saw and heard while following John Daly and his cart on Thursday - Golf Digest 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Suddenly, a shout echoes round the blackened, roofless shell of the once-elegant room. 'Little surprises' salvaged from museum ashes 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z After years of preaching the shrinking of the public sector, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, now wants to mobilise the full resources of the state to get the roofless cathedral rebuilt within just five years. The billionaires’ donations will turn Notre Dame into a monument to hypocrisy | Aditya Chakrabortty 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Tourists and Parisians alike pressed against police barricades along the river, snapping pictures of the beloved symbol of the city, now roofless, and pointing to a cluster of firefighters atop one of the cathedral’s towers. Millions in Notre-Dame Donations Pour In as France Focuses on Rebuilding 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Today, the store is crumbling, roofless and covered in vines. Emmett Till’s Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z "If I could describe the house, it would be roofless," Mueller said. Rare Washington state tornado strongest since 1986 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Digging in the roofless shell has also been hampered by the tropical downpours of Rio's rainy season. 'Little surprises' salvaged from museum ashes 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Every structure on the base was damaged, its airplane hangars shredded and largely roofless. Hurricane Michael: Tyndall Air Force Base was in the eye of the storm, and almost every structure was damaged 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z The home itself was left largely roofless and uninhabitable. Hurricane Michael’s Deadly Strike Leaves Florida Panhandle Reeling 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Others, trapped in their cars on flooding roads, stuck in roofless trailer homes, had never been more alone. Scenes Across the Carolinas, Where Florence Is Far From Over 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The harsh sun is unforgiving on the tennis center’s roofless, outer courts, but heat isn’t really the problem inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. Welcome to the Wet Hot U.S. Open 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z All of those matches take place on the outer, roofless courts at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center where there is no shade, but temperatures soared on the tournament’s main stage as well. Serena Williams advances to U.S. Open semifinals as draw continues to open for her 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z The museum’s pastel-yellow facade remained standing, but a peek inside its giant windows revealed a roofless interior of blackened hallways and charred beams. Tensions rise in Brazil as cherished but dilapidated National Museum burns 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z But 300 "groundlings", who will watch plays in a roofless replica Elizabethan theatre in the city this summer, will hope "this sun of York" shines on them. Shakespeare theatre pops up in York 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z No one was badly injured and Graybeal later photographed Smith driving the roofless car down a Twin Falls street on its way to the repair shop. An extraordinary life: Idaho man has photographed it all 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z “This used to be a church, this was the police station,” pointing to a roofless blue building. Don’t be complacent: climate change will ravage rich and poor alike | Patricia Scotland 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z And houses that were once tucked neatly into the hills are now roofless, irreparably damaged wrecks sliding down the sides of them. Stranded by Maria, Puerto Ricans Get Creative to Survive 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z A clock on one roofless wall is eerily stuck at 5:25, the time when the storm hit. Barbuda residents return to pick up pieces 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z One of the most alarming images of the last few days was of the roofless stone walls of Signorello Winery, on the Silverado Trail, containing an inferno. How one Northern California winemaker is coping with the catastrophic wildfires 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Mounds of fallen bricks and churned up debris covered the floor of her roofless house. Mexico quake leaves thousands stranded without a home 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z However, the red, wooden home of area resident Cruz was reduced to a roofless jumble, with the front door hanging at right angles to the frame. Storm Maria brings fear, pain and shock to Puerto Ricans 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z A bucket in a roofless room serves as a latrine. Poverty and Death in Indonesia's Land of Gold 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The tables were handmade, the grill was hand-forged, the complex of roofless, wall-free dining rooms was worked into a dense thicket without cutting down any trees. The world's best restaurant opens a pop-up in Mexico. Jonathan Gold tastes its beauty and conflict 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Some of the vacant houses are brick hulks, roofless and irreparable, in such danger of collapse that the city keeps a demolition crew on standby 24 hours a day. Life, death and demolition 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Mounds of fallen bricks and churned up debris covered the floor of her roofless house. Mexico quake leaves thousands stranded without a home 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z However, the red, wooden home of area resident Cruz was reduced to a roofless jumble, with the front door hanging at right angles to the frame. Storm Maria brings fear, pain and shock to Puerto Ricans 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z I felt unique listening to the piano tuner’s imperfect notes as I danced in the roofless hallway of my little apartment, in my indoor rain. 'You must embrace the ugliness': the writing life in Mexico City 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The charred, roofless shell of the Ghost Ship, the warehouse where 36 people died in early December, is clearly visible from the driveway of Oakland firehouse No. 13. ‘Ghost Ship’ was invisible in Oakland, until 36 died in fire 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z OAKLAND, Calif. — The charred, roofless shell of the Ghost Ship, the warehouse where 36 people perished on a chilly Friday evening in early December, is clearly visible from the driveway of Oakland firehouse No. 13. Why the ‘Ghost Ship’ Was Invisible in Oakland, Until 36 Died 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z We found a German tourist under a mattress in his roofless room, petrified and shaking. What It’s Like to Be Trapped by a Category 5 Hurricane 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Most houses in the city were left roofless, and many were entirely uninhabitable, like the one below. Hurricane Matthew: Photos of the Destruction in Haiti 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z I’d sit in a little wooden chair in my roofless hallway, facing my orchid, and write poems on an old laptop. 'You must embrace the ugliness': the writing life in Mexico City 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z There is hardly a building standing or a soul on the street in Bama, once a city of 250,000 people: only roofless walls covered in Arabic scrawl, and fallen power lines. Hunger games 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z First, Michelangelo decided that he needed to carve the David in private, so workers came and built a roofless shed around the Giant. David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z By daring to stage its roofless Slam under a sky that spent recent days crying, the French wound up with stop-start matches, don’t-start matches and unbalanced draws. For Novak Djokovic, French Open remains elusive final part of career Grand Slam 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z And now, on the band’s first proper studio album in 15 years, Rare Essence is promising to “leave the club roofless.” Is go-go music endangered? Rare Essence keeps it alive with ‘Turn It Up.’ 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z In this brownstone house of worship at 15 West 25th Street — now scorched and roofless after a fire on Sunday — Edith Newbold Jones was married in April 1885 to Edward Robbins Wharton. Ruined Serbian Orthodox Church Was a Landmark of Old New York 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The communist government has returned some of the churches it seized long ago, such as the ruined, roofless chapel of a former Catholic university in Havana’s once-posh Miramar section. Pope Francis to Visit a Changing Cuba 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Near Cartersville, Ga., they raised their voices to the heavens from a roofless barrel shop. Black Church Is Target Again for Deadly Strike at the Heart 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Only later did I see pictures of roofless houses on a street a mile away. Jeb Bush – the choice of the shortsighted | Tim Dowling 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It’s not unusual to see the sky through a roofless stone facade or piles of rubble in the street. Neighborhoods: Local rhythms and tourist sites in Old Havana 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It's not unusual to see the sky through a roofless stone facade or piles of rubble in the street. Neighborhoods: Local rhythms and tourist sites in Old Havana 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Outside the window, the roofless ruins of houses slid by, pitted and gouged and blown apart by explosions. Postwar Sri Lanka’s Awkward Peace 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Amid giant gray banyan trees and roofless old Art Deco homes, long ago abandoned and now looking like Roman ruins, some older men played paddle ball and handball. In Cuba, Baseball Remains a Grand Preoccupation 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Touring her scorched neighborhood, the bevy of gutted buildings and roofless homes indicates Nafeesathiek actually fared better than many. How an Extremist Buddhist Network Is Sowing Hatred Across Asia 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z He recorded the roofless remains of the Old Parish Church at Kirkapol. Images revisit changing landscape 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The empty shells of their houses and mosques are still standing, blackened and roofless. The sadness of the mango trees 2014-04-06T00:55:19Z Fallen trees become flattened trees and roofless houses completely razed. Bittersweet Reunions Amid Ruins 2013-11-12T13:35:25Z Made of concrete, the statue depicts the saint staring up at an open hole in the top of his roofless tower, reflecting on nature. VIDEO: Meet the modern St Cuthbert 2013-06-30T07:20:48Z Or roofless bathrooms with showerheads protruding from a large boulder or tree branches that cascade over the tub. In the Tropics, Beware of Creepy Houseguests 2013-06-13T23:41:15Z In front of the roofless, blackened building is the carcass of a burnt car. Nigeria's army gunning for Boko Haram 2013-06-07T12:03:03Z There is a textile museum being built at Erbil’s citadel thanks, in part, to U.S. support, but judging by its hollow, roofless building, opening day is a ways away. Kurdistan: Is This Autonomous Iraqi Region a Tourist Hotspot? 2012-12-31T20:05:21Z He traveled into Nouakchott in the back of a roofless car, shaking hands and waving at the crowds that lined the road. Mauritania's Abdel Aziz returns home after gunshot treatment 2012-11-24T19:06:02Z That often landed Mr. Ahmad in solitary confinement, in a roofless cell exposed to the elements. Militant Link to Libya Attack 2012-10-02T04:15:21Z Paris, as ever, remains aloof, roofless — and a laughing stock. French Open 2012: Roland Garros in a flounder over men's final delay 2012-06-11T12:03:44Z Boasting roofless trucks and heavy machine guns, the Justice and Equality Movement rebel fighters roll like a modern calvary, excelling in hit-and-runs and flanking maneuvers. The War of the Sudans: All Not So Quiet on the Southern Front 2012-04-27T21:15:00Z The group passed a splintered green house that doesn't appear to have been touched since the twister yanked it from its foundation; riders pedaled past the roofless remains of a country store. Bo Jackson begins bike ride for tornado relief 2012-04-24T18:16:12Z Like turbaned cowboys, JEM's fighters swarm up and down the road in roofless pick-up trucks mounted with heavy guns. The War Between the Sudans: No Longer Any Pretense of Peace 2012-04-18T19:45:00Z This latter place, though close to Venice, was then, we are told, in ruins, with a roofless cathedral serving as a place of refuge for heretics, who there felt safe from persecution. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Within the circumference of these outer pillars--which attained upon an average a height of about fifty feet--was a great roofless building with a floor of flagstones, where the silence quite unnerved me. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z But there, in the most fearful weather, we all stood roofless on the ice, waiting for daylight, which was still ten hours off. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z We passed under the huge fragment of the Cathedral, a nave only; the transepts stand roofless, and a new ruin is as depressing a thing as there is in life. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The nearer tower, through which lay the entrance, was roofless, and in every way seemed to be more ruinous than the inner one, which appeared to be perfect in both its stories. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z In the most fearful weather we all stood roofless on the ice, waiting for the daylight which was still ten hours off. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Even among the deserted hearthstones and tumble-down chimneys the striped leaves ran up among the roofless walls. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z And this graveyard, with its broken tombs and roofless chapel, is a ruin of yesterday. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Here and there were the bare trunks of trees and many a cattle-shed and barn stood roofless. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z The place of our confinement was roofless, ill-smelling, strewn with refuse and filth, a mere dog-yard. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z He heard the shout that shook the Coliseum's roofless walls, when from the reeling gladiator's hand the short sword fell, while from his bosom gushed the stream of wasted life. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z On the southeasterly corner, opening within and without, was a massive church, unfinished, roofless, but with walls of masonry twenty-two and a half feet high and four feet thick. The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo 2012-01-19T03:00:22.827Z The nave, restored in 1892, is used as the parish church, but the choir and transepts are roofless, though otherwise kept in repair. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z We picked out the least dilapidated looking house and clambered over fallen stones and half-razed walls until we found a roofless room which boasted of three undestroyed angles. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Near here we found our fresh team, standing quietly under a tree, by a ruined and roofless stone building. A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z He heard the shout that shook the Coliseums roofless walls, when from the reeling gladiator's hand the short sword fell, while from his bosom gushed the stream of wasted life. Shakespeare A Lecture 2011-11-24T03:00:42.050Z Just remember seeing May's shocked face at the depot, Mother's bewildered one at home, and getting to bed in the firm belief that the house was roofless, and no one wanted to see me. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z I had at first believed those facts to be that you were thrown bedless and roofless upon the world, semi-clad and semi-starving, and with all that class of phenomena about you. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Hope we see Sol," ventured Harry, as they threaded their way among the first tents, and several roofless cabins, located out where signs stuck in the bare ground proclaimed: "Denver City Town Co. The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields 2011-11-11T03:00:26.697Z Memphis, lost and buried in the sand, and Thebes, an echoing nave of roofless columns, were never so instinct with glory as Egypt's splendid recrudescence on the coast of the Middle Sea. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Taking away the revolutionary basis upon which the plans of the Liga were raised, nothing remains but the empty walls of a roofless building. The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune 2011-10-03T02:00:24.600Z Shortly after the commencement of the observations on one of the hills in the Isle of Skye a storm carried away the wooden houses of the men and left the observatory roofless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Also a roofless pergola to connect the two houses. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z Dawes’s depot was merely a roofless platform; and there was no shelter from the glaring white sun that flooded it. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Central in the row was a tall structure, with ruined clay pylons, blank of wall and, except for supporting beams, roofless. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z He peered down into our roofless box anxiously. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z It was sad to pass through the burnt-down part of the town, and to see the houses roofless, and with gaping doors and windows.—And what effect had it all? Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z The rest of the tenants thought not at all of new quarters, and did nothing to find them, till they found themselves and their belongings roofless in Old Jago Street. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z Here I have been, melancholy as a roofless banshee, for two whole days. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z The kiln was erected in the part of the Bront� cottage now roofless, and, like the cottage itself, must have been a very humble affair. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z The orchestra, too, was roofless, as also were the proscenium and the stage, at whose extreme right and left stood the houses of Pilate and Caiaphas, between which stretched the streets of Jerusalem. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z For, after he had seen Neil Ross upon the rock, he had followed him when he rose, and wandered back to the roofless place which he haunted now as of yore. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Until 1901 it was, in fact, a roofless ruin; but it was then restored by Mr. George M. Arnold, who then owned Denton Court, the name of the house. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Abutting on the wall were several roofless sheds. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Within those walls, now roofless, the grandfather of Charlotte Bront� began in 1776 to earn the daily bread of himself and his bride, by roasting his neighbors’ oats. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z Hipolito de Valera had not expected this roofless hilltop outpost would catch the full force of the breeze that rolled in off the bay. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z There is a house there, no longer roofless, and built of slabs of fossil-pitted limestone. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z It was the shadow cast down the broad sunlight of the roofless Hellenic life. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Raw, rainy weather had come on early in the season, and a fourth part of the men were still roofless; so that by degrees the sick in hospital reached the alarming number of 40,000. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z A roofless, wall-less spot full of draughts and dew, breezes and blossoms. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z For want of �10,000, however, the building had to remain roofless. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z For there was a roofless stone house there, and the remains of a walled garden. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z You might fancy yourself in a great roofless cave; but, ascending to the rear, you find an outlet, a sudden bend in the chasm, narrower, and more rocky and gloomy than the entrance. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z A bird's-eye view shows that all the rooms, now roofless, fall into two groups. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2011-04-24T02:00:07.467Z There was something sinister and threatening about these roofless, blackened walls which had once been homes; but to go around meant climbing cliffs, meant breathless scrambling—above all, meant loss of time. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z He found himself outside the crumbling walls of the roofless chapel of St. Patrick. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z Near to the land where I had lately broken the fallows and grown me a crop of corn and potatoes, there were four roofless walls. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z It was something of a relief to get out into the high, roofless cathedral, where one feels at liberty to draw a deep breath. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z A fire broke out in one of the squares beyond the old church of St.-Vaast, and the houses were gutted by flames, which licked high above their roofless walls. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The glen in which dwells the echo of Forellenbach is like a roofless cave, or a great well with a side entrance. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z How ruin seized a roofless thing One fine afternoon we started. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z It was spring when the second roof was blown down, and the new house stood roofless until early summer. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The castle itself, with its roofless gables and jagged walls, seems a part of the rock on which it is built. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Pangs of horror attacked me at the sight of those blackened roofless houses, standing lonely and deserted among green, thriving fields. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Away on the right could be discerned a red-tiled farmhouse, close to it a roofless barn, with the two charred gables standing up clearly against the sky. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z “We have to live with it,” he said, staring at the roofless sanctuary and piles of rubble. Port-au-Prince Journal: Haiti?s Scars, and Its Soul, Find Healing on Walls 2011-02-23T03:50:45Z He could just descry its blue walls—it was roofless. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The bell for prayers rang from our roofless church, the Independent Chapel being lent to us as a place of worship, while the church of the established religion was undergoing repairs. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z From the narrow, roofless stoop its proprietor looked out tranquilly on the growth of the camp. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z It serves as a chilling reminder of what might be expected in 2014 when the Super Bowl is played at the roofless New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey. Weather Snarls Super Bowl Festivities 2011-02-04T18:36:32Z It was a roofless place, about fifteen feet square, and something like a little sheepfold, but having higher walls. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z One roofless wall showed where the gear had stood, and under the shelter of this wall there crouched a low thatched tool-shed, having a door and a small window. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z "I'm not emotional about selling it," he said about the steel-body, roofless beauty. Dude, There's My Car! 2011-01-29T02:00:00Z From this they brought the rations of hay and corn, and made the oxen and their comrade, the cow, contented with their roofless lodging behind the cabin. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Anyhow, in the roofless tent was a lion’s cage. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z This dripping hat my roofless pen bespeaks, So does the puddle reaching to my knees; Behold my pinch'd red nose—my shrivell'd cheeks: You should not have such carriages as these. Mr. Punch's Railway Book 2011-01-23T03:00:16.120Z The 25,000-capacity roofless option, which would involve taking down the external structure and removing 55,000 seats, is still a potential fallback if neither Tottenham's nor West Ham's bid is acceptable. How Olympic Stadium will look if West Ham or Spurs don't move in 2011-01-21T19:51:02Z We roofless go, with the cook’s bateau to follow our hungry crew— A billion of spruce and hell turned loose when the Allegash drive goes through.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Considering everything that happened -- and it was a sight to ride by the roofless Metrodome -- officials did a good job putting the game together the way they did on short notice. 10 thoughts on Bears' big win 2010-12-21T22:26:31Z They took Harry to an open, roofless canvas where a lot of truck was stored. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z In the summer, he was kept some days in a roofless room without water, under a desert sun. The Saturday Profile: Ex-Reform Leader Seeks to Reduce Torture of Uzbek Prisoners 2010-09-24T19:18:00Z Many of the bigger buildings we pass, like the schools or Kenema's college, are still roofless and derelict eight years after the war. Chocolate gives Sierra Leone's villages new hope 2010-09-18T23:03:00Z When he stood back and wiped his forehead and gazed on that one lonesome log it made roofless out-doors seem bigger and more threatening. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z In the interim, rain had ruined much of the Sheetrock and wooden cabinetry inside the roofless building. Square Feet: City Walk in Oakland Gets New Lease on Life 2010-08-17T22:07:00Z It stood, just barely, a long roofless space of tin shacks, dirty mattresses, hand-me-down clothes, mud and garbage. 2010-01-13T05:27:00Z It is roofless and unoccupied, but it is kept clean and whitewashed, and its stone walls will stand for another two thousand years. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Outside, on the south is a well-preserved triumphal arch with composite capitals, and close to it the 11th-century basilica of S. Maria Libera, a handsome building in the Romanesque style, but now roofless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" There was a low, cracked wall on the other side of the hill, and beyond the wall stood the roofless ruins of a stone house, silent and gray in the airless scene. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Out of the lake a larger creek ran, and across it stood the old camp buildings, now worn and weatherbeaten and roofless. The Land of Strong Men A heavy cloud overshadowed the sun and seemed to threaten the roofless cloister. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. The Crevequers knew Pompei as a place with nice hot, bright streets, scampered over by lizards, where it was agreeable to spend an afternoon among the gaily-hued, roofless houses, and go to sleep. The Furnace The place is, in fact, an agglomeration of houses, and some of the older chambers are crumbling and roofless. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu One end was covered over, and fitted up rudely as a chapel; beyond were two high walls, but roofless. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. The walls of the roofless bunkhouse were of logs, closely mortised, but inside he knew there were the remains of some old, double-decked bunks. The Land of Strong Men The walls of this stand roofless to the sky, with a lawn in place of a floor. Hastings and Neighbourhood Of course, these persons and these marvels are impossible on any stage, most of all by daylight in the roofless public theaters of Shakspere’s London. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest It is circular, formed of large blocks of stone closely joined without cement, and at present one stands and looks down upon it, as though it were in a roofless cellar. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The remains of Norton Tower are not in the highest point of the Rylstone Fells, but on one of the western ridges: and there are now only four bare roofless rectangular walls. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) From Nimtoolaghat a dozen small clouds of smoke were seen ascending uniting into one column of smoke, above the roofless building. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant A roofless house is disgraceful enough considered as indicating insolvency, but it is much more disgraceful when its rooflessness is the result of injustice. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The roofless white houses, rising one above another, seem melted into a compact mass, and they are encircled by red bastions, with exits out of eight gates. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The carnival music and the holiday bells are mute; the streets are empty, the houses roofless, and the people wretched! Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 It consisted of roofless columns rising gauntly out of a square mass of masonry and united by four iron bars. Pretty Michal In the poor wards they killed the horses and beasts of burden, roasting the meat over flames kindled in the streets for the roofless refugees. Sónnica Almost pitch-dark is the roofless ruin—and the frightened sheep know not what is the terrible Shape that is howling there. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The pueblo of roofless chambers seen from the hilltop on the floor of the valley was dug from a mound of débris. Through Our Unknown Southwest One day there appears in this roofless room that which is to teach the teachers of the world—a Little Child.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it At the foot, out of a thick wood of flowering hawthorn, two or three roofless gables, blackened as if by fire, and a single tall chimney, marked the ruins of a house. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) Smart saplings were growing inside the roofless walls, and you could buy the whole plant for the cost of its brick and stone. John March, Southerner Amid the gloom, Spread by a brotherhood of lofty elms, Appear'd a roofless hut; four naked walls That stared upon each other! Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Both rooms were isolated from the rest of the building; both were partially roofless and without means of exit. Banked Fires Prosperous enough in reality, it has an air of decay; and though the population has increased, a roofless house every here and there seems to protest the contrary. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers And suddenly the colour came into Matcham’s face, and next moment he had crossed the fallen rafter, and was climbing cautiously on the huge pile of lumber that filled the interior of the roofless house. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) Daylight, too, frequently surprised the fairy builders, so that they could not finish their task, as many a ‘roofless’ dolmen shows. Legends & Romances of Brittany This staircase led to a great hall, roofless, but otherwise perfect. Memoirs of Life and Literature To Joyce it looked an irregular mass of ruined masonry, roofless in parts and overgrown with jungle. Banked Fires These walls were roofless and defenseless against the rain and snow. With the French in France and Salonika All roofless now the stately pile, And rent the arches tall, Through which with bright departing smile The western sunbeams fall. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations On the landing he found another door beside his own opening on a roofless corridor, and presently he was walking on the top of the ruins. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI Think what these ruins saw! what songs and cries Once through these roofless colonnades did ring! The Naples Riviera He strode on down the trail into the silent town where the houses stood roofless and bare, and as he glanced at the ancient gallows-frame above the abandoned mine fresh courage came into his heart. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp There are several chapels in the place, also roofless and in ruins, and two ruined castles. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia He found a crevice where tree-fern trunks grew close together and closed in three sides of a sort of roofless cave. The Fifth-Dimension Tube There must indeed have been a sad time when the buildings were slipping into decay, and the church stood ruined and roofless. The Thread of Gold Now and then a bird hopped down from the branches that hung over the roofless cabin, and searched fearlessly for provender at her very feet. Kildares of Storm Its temples are roofless, its columns fallen, the statues of its kings lie face downward in the dust, the pyramids, stripped and bare, stand scarred and silent in the sun. Christ, Christianity and the Bible Natural it was on that stage—and over the roofless theatre the tutelary deities of Athens leant listening from the sky. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 In gray, ghostly walls, empty windows stared steadily, disconcertingly like sockets of dead eyes in tattered, weatherbeaten skulls. ean and Smithy walked among the roofless ruins. Two Thousand Miles Below Ragged, poor, roofless, grubstaked by 'pardner' or outfitter on a basis of half profit, the prospector stands as the eternal type of the trail-maker for finance. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia The church was cruciform, and is now nearly roofless, though the east and west ends and the southern transept are tolerably perfect, so that much of the abbey remains. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The miniature citadel contained within the trenchant stockade, the old pelt stores, roofless and worm-eaten, the armory which still suggested the clank of half-armored men, who lived only for the joy of defying death. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Of the country houses desolated by the Montenegrians, not one in twenty has been repaired; and they remain roofless and blackened, a lasting memorial of the ferocity of that people. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 "Don't go to blazing away at my Dickey, pop," she sings out, "or I'll shore burn every improvement you got, an' leave you an' maw an' me roofless in the midst of the wilderness." Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories There was a parish church on the neighbouring eminence, and it, too, was roofless and a ruin. Leading Articles on Various Subjects This church, built about the same time, with a now roofless nave which was never vaulted, is entered by a door on the south, and has a polygonal vaulted70 apse. Portuguese Architecture In a second, it seemed, a waterspout was upon them and was pouring its tide into the roofless hut. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills And behind it was a roofless cave—a sort of irregularly circular bowl, five hundred feet across its broken, bowlder-strewn, caked-ooze floor. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 In old Fell Lane when I was young, A ruined mansion stood, With roofless cots filled up with sticks Brought from the Holme House Wood. Adventures and Recollections The sunlight fell through the open doorways, and the swallows flitted in and out of the window-frames into roofless chambers. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden We find ourselves in a long narrow street lined by roofless houses. Round the Wonderful World The right wing of the chateau is in ruins, with traces of fire upon the blackened walls; while here and there, a broken statue or a roofless temple, are sad memorials of the Revolution. Frances Kane's Fortune In the four corners of the court there were courts smoking, yet not smoking, since they were roofless. Hebrew Literature It may be only imagination; but the stained roofless walls, the damp clotted herbage, and the reptiles crawling about the ruins, give the place a gloomy and disastrous look. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot The walls are of rough stone well put together, and now stand roofless and moss-covered, inhabited only by crows and swallows. The Land of Thor So the tired crews turned into the roofless houses which had been prepared for them, and slept until dusk. Life in a Tank They show, to this day, the place where she is said to have stood, in the now roofless interior. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History Though a roofless and broken ruin, with the rank grass waving on its walls, it is still a piece of very solid masonry, and must have been rather stiff working as a quarry. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Now it stood roofless, dismantled, and windowless, and in many places whole rods of brickwork had fallen and now littered the ground about. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator At the park’s further end there was a bench, inside a sort of roofless summerhouse, where on warm days the fountain played in a rainbow. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Within the wall, and backed by it,—save where the gap had been broken,—stood a group of roofless and half-dismantled outbuildings which our three officers studied in sheer amazement. Merry-Garden and Other Stories The square tower, though roofless and desolate, still stands. Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History Peschiera and its fortifications were in ruins; the villages around had been burnt down, and the wretched inhabitants were beginning to repair their roofless houses. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville In Athens, as they entered it, the houses were roofless, the streets scattered with rubbish. A Victor of Salamis In the porch was a painting of an old ruin--ivy-covered, useless and desolate--standing out, jagged and roofless, against a purple sky. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds The outer walls were in a ruinous condition, the fortifications were everywhere fallen into decay, and the alcoves and summer-houses had dropped down, or were roofless, and exposed to the weather. Folk-lore and Legends: German The "auld haunted kirk," though roofless, is otherwise in a fair state of preservation, despite relic-hunters who have removed all the woodwork. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" A small cloud had come before the sun, and its shadow was moving leisurely across the ridge where stood the roofless abbey. The Fifth Queen Crowned Presently, the roofless chapels seemed to grow alive with weird invisible things, the rank weeds exhaled chill odours; and in the lonely silence a mass began. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia It was a roofless circular tower, supported on round arches, which made a series of openings about its base. A Little Country Girl At night they are driven into cerales, large square roofless buildings, and are guarded by dogs. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Again sweet voices chimed pleasantly, and the softest Ionian cadences floated out from the roofless Odeum. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus The tower was roofless, a low, partly demolished parapet encircling it on three sides, while a couple of weather-worn oak-beams supporting a few planks formed a kind of platform where the roof formerly existed. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War The organ has pealed in these roofless aisles, And priests have knelt to pray At the altar, where now the daisy smiles O'er their silent beds of clay. Enthusiasm and Other Poems The old parish church is situated about half a mile to the north of the town, and, though roofless, is standing nearly entire. Chronicles of Strathearn He entered the roofless Chinese tomb, and there on the stone floor lay the golf ball. Lady Luck The wind soughed in the leafless trees that grew around the old roofless barn at the corner of the road that led to the fells. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Although roofless its upper platform was as firm as when it was first built; and in a corner, solidly ensconced, rose the more modern turret that sheltered the honest warning light. The Light of Scarthey On the right bank of this river we found a deserted village once occupied by trappers; half a dozen ruined huts surrounding a roofless chapel. From Paris to New York by Land She swept around above the summit in immense zigzag spirals while I examined her roofless dwelling-place. Birds of the Rockies And there, under the lee of the roofless walls of the ruined engine-house, stood the tiny one-story cottage where I had been directed to inquire my way again. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 There it was—that roofless cottage—that tholthan under the deep trees like a dungeon. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Bobby, left to himself, climbed laboriously, one steep step at a time, to the elevation of the roofless porch before the mess house. The Adventures of Bobby Orde Some of the exiles were accordingly occupying almost roofless sheds that had been vacated by the Yakutes, while many were so poorly clad that in winter time they were unable to leave their miserable huts. From Paris to New York by Land In a few minutes a throng of officers and men who had scrambled over the débris filled the roofless rooms and packed the stairway where Gordon was struck down. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Presently she turned and surveyed the darkness where, row on row, ruins of burned houses stood, the stars shining down through roofless walls. The Reckoning They passed two or three houses that had been made roofless by the recent storm, and once or twice they came on a fallen tree-trunk with its thin leaves yellowing on the fading grass. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 There he would have been thrust into a roofless close, already densely thronged with thousands of famished, sick, and maddened men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 They were standing in the center of a vast level plain, apparently endless and roofless, for overhead there was no sky, only an increasing intensity of light. Daughters of Doom Duffy had two hours' sleep in a sopping wet roofless house, about three miles behind the firing line. Between the Lines He was a pleasant-looking lad in a ragged old coat and an absolutely roofless hat, through which his bright hair waved in the summer wind. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Life is full of too-lates; that sad sound that moans through the roofless ruins of the past, like the wind through some deserted temple. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Lacking concrete, he'd constructed a roofless stone hut abutting the barn to serve as his manure shed. Blind Man's Lantern Many of the palisades had been broken down, and the buildings inside were roofless. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting The passengers,—dusty, jaded, crossly annoyed at the need of changing cars,—gathered up their luggage and filed out onto the bare, roofless station platform. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play The Franc-tireurs fell back from the position they had held the night before, and established themselves in a few houses, half roofless and shattered by shell, between Champigny and the river. A Girl of the Commune Here I am in France with the army I tried to keep away from, roofless, supperless, and rather expecting some of these sentinels or police agents may begin to inquire into my affairs. Lorraine A romance It is placed in a roofless corn-crib, on a bed of hay, with food before it; and Fabens works briskly for half a day, building a house for it. Summerfield or, Life on a Farm As we got up to them, we found that the houses were roofless, shattered, and blackened, while near them were the remains of what was once a large store. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting Its once splendid capital is now a miasmatic wreck, its cathedrals and churches are ruined and roofless, and only a few black nuns remain to keep alight the sacred fire before a crumbling altar. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly They stole into the ruined and roofless apartment as Yaspard and the Harrisons had done, and listened for sounds from the prisoners; but all was quiet. Viking Boys From the dry character of the earth on the floors I suspect that for years not a drop of water has penetrated the inclosures, although they are now roofless. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Winding her way, she knew not how, through roofless halls, over disjointed fragments of fallen pillars, Sybil reached a flight of steps. Rookwood Already they had cleaned up the yards, repaired sagging barns and roofless sheds. The Invaders In the course of these alterations the church was roofless for three years, and we are told that no rain fell within the precincts during this time. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See They reached his side without any adventure, and then all three clambered over the broken wall into what had been a goodly apartment—now roofless and in ruin. Viking Boys At one place they heard voices coming from a roofless dwelling, which proved that its inmates still called it home, and clung to the poor shelter that it gave. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 They had gained one of the roofless halls, when he encountered Balthazar. Rookwood A fire broke out in Bildad's shack and burned it to the ground; and Bildad, with his roofless pack, sent up a doleful sound. Rippling Rhymes A tiny piano tinkled at a corner house near the roofless church and the Grande Place. Pushed and the Return Push At the time of the battle which was to witness its downfall the centre of the structure was roofless, but the ends were well covered. For the Liberty of Texas Farms, nearly all of them roofless and half-ruined, were dotted about over the country. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 In a desolate and lonely spot near the wide expanse of mud-flats which form the mouth of the Orange River there stands the roofless ruin of an old farm-house. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Our only possible mess was a roofless gun-pit not far from a road. Pushed and the Return Push The vestry or sacristy was built by Abbot Walter Painter between 1411 and 1433, and is a two-storied building, the ground floor having a groined ceiling, still entire, and the upper room being roofless. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys “Here it is!” he exclaimed; but, alas, it was roofless and deserted. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific Most of them, however, had not much heart for dancing, when, possibly, before morning their houses would be roofless and their fathers’ plantations laid low. The Three Lieutenants Between the banks of that romantic stream and the cottage is seen the roofless ruin of "Alloway's auld haunted kirk," which Tam o' Shanter has made famous. Robert Burns “Do you really live here?” said Max, glancing up at the roofless buildings. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai The kitchen is a lofty room, now roofless, having remains of large fire-places and some curious recesses. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys It was roofless; the walls had, in places, fallen; and the ruins were covered with vegetation. On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War The dimensions of the respective buildings I cannot at present ascertain; but the ground-plans are precisely similar, and each was roofless. Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It was the roofless ruin of a once most substantially built log-hut, measuring some twenty-five feet long by sixteen feet broad. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure The open sky is all very well, but it might come on to rain, and then the roofless caravanserai would not be very comfortable. A Mating in the Wilds He passed their roofless cottages half a dozen times a day. Major Vigoureux Shann stepped back, eyeing the distance to the top of the partition between the roofless rooms. Storm Over Warlock A distillery, bigger than the Menardes plant, long closed and now half roofless and crumbling. The Cosmic Computer It was spared by the French, and occupied till 1807, but is now roofless. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Aveluy itself, being within a mile and a half of enemy gun positions for nearly two years of war, is knocked about, and rather roofless and windowless. The Old Front Line Her churches and hospitals stood roofless; hundreds of houses had been fired, vaults and storehouses pillaged, doors and windows riddled everywhere. Fort Amity He was content to be left alone in the unusual circular, but roofless, room of the structure to which they had brought him. Storm Over Warlock Survivors who escaped the horrors of a flood and fire stricken city at night were huddled roofless in an arctic storm. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado All the columns are standing; the entablatures and pediments are in pretty good preservation, but it is roofless, and flowers and weeds are now waving where once trode the white-robed priests. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 Before withdrawing from Niagara region the invaders ravage the country and set fire to the village of Newark, driving four hundred women and children roofless to December snows. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The wings stood empty and roofless, and the ample stables, storehouses, and buildings for the retainers had disappeared. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS The yashiki and its magnificence stood close by; but the building was roofless and in ruins. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Now, nothing remained but a vast collection of roofless houses, with blackened, shattered walls, and shapeless heaps of stones and rubbish. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. Thus left to themselves, in a sort of natural prison of the rocks, a roofless cave, the captives spent the night, rolled in blankets. The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis The moonlight made strange shadows in the roofless houses. The Great War As I Saw It The prevalence of abandoned and roofless houses is also noticeable. full size Plate LXIX. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 He stands by a roofless tower, where "the howlet mourns in her dewy bower," and "sets the wild echoes flying," and adds to a perfect picture of the scene his famous vision of "Libertie." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The room may have been roofless, but the same effect might have been produced by recent Navaho repairs and alterations. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 It was only when the bees bounced on the floor that I looked up to discover that the house was roofless. The Red Horizon Instead of one old pile of crumbling stones, roofless, doorless, windowless, there is a massive fortress towering over us, ringed round with walls and guarded with battlements and turrets. A Book of Quaker Saints Mid fiercest frosts on snow he slept, the dry and withered leaves his food, Mid rains his roofless vigil kept, the soul and sense alike subdued.' Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems The church was altogether roofless, but the entire walls were standing. Can You Forgive Her? Many of the cliff outlooks, being occupied only during the farming season and being also fairly well sheltered, were probably roofless. The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198 By Jove, you did hop into that roofless house and scamper out of that spinney! The Red Horizon The most ancient temples were roofless; and therefore the Persians, Celts, and Scythians strongly disliked artificial covered edifices. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The walls of heavy blocks of stone, roofless and broken in outline, are still standing. Confessions of Boyhood It was the dimly outlined skeleton of the station house, roofless and partly fallen, white-ashed and still faintly smoking. The Forfeit Instead of stalls for camels and horses, there were roughly built rooms for pilgrims of the poorer class, with little, roofless, open-sided kitchens, where they could cook their own food. The Golden Silence But the eye was at once attracted by something we should not find in the Western World—to wit, some ruins, large, roofless, but with solid walls, two domes, some pinnacles and a graceful minaret. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. It was roofless, and above the rear wall was what I recognized as tropical vegetation, mainly by its wild luxuriance. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The roofless building, ridiculously shortened in its height, had more the look of a fortress than when it was used as one. Old Kaskaskia A rope ladder hung from the bulwarks amidships, and up it Ginnell went, followed by the others, reaching a roofless passage that had once been the part alley-way. Great Sea Stories The old huts left by Borchgrevink in 1900 were much dilapidated: one snowed up inside, and the other roofless and full of penguin guano. South with Scott The countryside grew absolutely deserted and the solitary farms were roofless and untenanted. Leaves from a Field Note-Book My horse and I scrambled over the breach in the wall, where a garden never had smiled, and got into the roofless house. Round About the Carpathians All the weight seemed gone from air—roofless the room, roofless the dome of space. The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural Looking closer, I saw that it was the ruin of a small stone cottage, roofless, and indescribably swallowed up in the pitiless scrub. Pieces of Eight On approaching a roofless church, in the course of rebuilding, we espied this young monk rushing to meet us. The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro It was roofless, but an inner chamber had been constructed—a cellar, so to speak—under the ground-floor, with a roof of its own of rammed earth many feet thick, supported by heavy beams. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood Naught can now be seen but their deserted haunts, their roofless dwellings, their uprooted tree-trunks, and their faded splendour. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts We wandered through the deserted, roofless chambers where fireplaces with elaborate stone mantels and odd bits of carving told of the pristine glory of the place. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland When the now inevitable moment came which should leave his family roofless—he would not be there to see. Destiny These temples are thus roofless and are sculptured externally in the form of pagodas. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 There were a mile and a half of storehouses in the lower town, he said, and these he must leave at the least roofless, if not wholly demolished. The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence On returning to their homes, they would perhaps find their own castles burned and their own dwellings roofless, from the visit of some similar horde. King Alfred of England Makers of History The walls, though roofless, were still standing, so that one could gain a good idea of the original plan of the castle. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland The right wing of the château is in ruins, with traces of fire upon the blackened walls; while here and there, a broken statue or a roofless temple are sad memorials of the Revolution. Melchior's Dream and Other Tales I replied in the affirmative, adding earnestly, 'I have come to my roofless home,' and asked 'Who are you?' Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton They were all roofless and floorless, but the walls were unharmed except for occasional holes and scars. Combed Out The village church, while large, is roofless; the town-house lies below the village, and by it are two jails for men and women. In Indian Mexico (1908) Some of these stood nearly as he remembered them; but others were roofless, with their dark mud gables either fallen in or partially broken down. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three There, on the side of that hill is the roofless house where she was born; an' there's not a field or hill about the place that her feet didn't make holy to me. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Here I am, my dear friend, at my own house, my roofless home; and my first scrawl from here is to the vicarage. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Misery in all its shapes was there—suffering in its severest pangs—sickness—disease—famine—and death—to all which was to be added bleak, houseless, homeless, roofless desolation. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Beyond the vague tinted roofless walls that stretched over the pleasant little peninsula, the blue sea rippled tenderly, remembering much delight, and the place seemed to smile in its sleep. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') It was a roofless block-house, aptly described by Dr. Joseph Anderson as a "safe." Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns The shadows in the corner had lightened and darkened and lightened again, lifting at last to show a half-ruined, roofless room and a banyan tree outside an almost perfect archway. Leonie of the Jungle Did you ever stand in some roofless, ruined cathedral or abbey church, and try to gather round you the generations that had bowed and worshipped there? Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Adjoining Byron's room is a suite of apartments, ruinous and roofless in his day, but which Colonel Wildman has restored, and furnished most appropriately with old tapestry and antique tables and chairs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 It might be illuminating to discover wherein he had failed, and why his old age found him roofless in spite of the fact that he strenuously urged the family claim with his whole conscience. Democracy and Social Ethics The turf roof has fallen in, or been carried away, but the low mounds which formed the walls remain, as also the roofless curving porch, which in each opened out to the sea. With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador Before it foundations could still be traced; and above, a rectangle of windowless stone walls survived, roofless and desolate. The Three Black Pennys A Novel And they, mingled with the sons of Cadmus, sit on the roofless rocks beneath the green pines. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. Standing in its comfortless interior, we remembered that Byron once asked to be buried under the green, grassy floor of the roofless church at Newstead Abbey, with his faithful dog at his feet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 It had a thatched roof, which was fired by a careless thatcher, and has remained roofless to this day. Vanishing England On a grassy plain we found the roofless remains of many turf huts. With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador He lifted his clenched hand toward the sky overshadowing the roofless walls. And Thus He Came A Christmas Fantasy In the poorer parts you may see every fifth or sixth house tenantless, roofless, allowed from year to year to moulder and moulder away, unremoved, unrepaired.... The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times The dominion of the Mediator is universal, reaching "from the roofless heaven to the bottomless hell." Notes on the Apocalypse Now it is deserted and roofless, and sleeps placidly girt by a surrounding wall, a lonely shrine. Vanishing England Next to William's stand the roofless remains of an unoccupied dwelling, which may serve to show how these huts are built. With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador Buildings loomed out of the night, roofless and destroyed. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Dark is the world, of tyranny within Yon roofless house, where Silence holds her court Before Decay's last revel. Cromwell We then visited the now roofless ruins of the Abbey or Chapel Royal adjoining the Palace. From John O'Groats to Land's End The symbols of attempted conquest are roofless castles, ruined abbeys, and confiscated cathedrals. Ulster's Stand For Union The theatre was roofless and its walls were of grey canvas; they fluttered in the wind and would have blown down had it not been for the poles which held them. Over Strand and Field A big pine stood just outside the door and cast its shade over the roofless veranda. Buffalo Roost The consequence was that this man had to leave the house, which for a long time stood a roofless ruin. True Irish Ghost Stories The old font was in the wall about half-way down the cathedral; the vestry and chapter house were roofless. From John O'Groats to Land's End After all their protestations, full of texts, the lords and lairds starved their preachers, but provided, by roofless aisles and unglazed windows, for the ventilation of the kirks. John Knox and the Reformation During the year following the Norman Conquest a fire began in Canterbury, which, besides destroying many houses, reduced the unfortunate cathedral to a roofless ruin once more. Beautiful Britain: Canterbury The roofless, windowless houses, of which the streets still keep, as in Rheims, their ancient lines, stare at you like so many eyeless skulls—the bare bones of a city. Fields of Victory In this region I observed cribs like roofless log houses placed near the roadside at intervals of a few hundred yards. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life "What's the trench for?" asked Jack, who had been busy with the three tents, for they had decided on Zeb's advice not to use the old roofless shack to sleep in. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Now the air of the room seemed to be stifling him, that of the roofless world of the garden calling him. The Last Shot A typical Elizabethan play-house, like the Globe or the Blackfriars, stood roofless in the air. The Theory of the Theatre And above the figure of the Cardinal soared the great West Front, blackened and scarred by fire, the summits of the towers lost in mist, and behind them, the wrecked and roofless church. Fields of Victory The olive-trees were still standing; where the house had stood there was a black, charred, roofless shell; the untilled fields lay bare beneath the frost. The Waters of Edera For this purpose they have roofless enclosures, the walls of which are twenty-five or thirty feet high, and within are three biers—one each for men, women and children. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 The outhouses are roofless, the farmyards are full of pools and dung heaps, which often extend into the road; and the byroads themselves are quagmires when they do not consist of pointed stones. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 They rode in near the close of day; and, as usual, from the stovepipe of the roofless kitchen a brave pillar of white smoke rose high in the shadows of the firs. The Rules of the Game Among these is a temple in the form of a roofless stage, in honour of the thousand-handed Kwannon. Tales of Old Japan At dawn we shifted into better shelter—a shepherd's hut, dilapidated and roofless—and eked out a long day with tobacco and a greasy pack of cards. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales On a journey, or when the sun was particularly strong in the roofless theatre or circus, he might put on a broad-brimmed hat, very much like that of the modern Italian priest. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul The furnace was a roofless inclosure, twenty feet square, built of very thick walls in solid masonry. The Young Captives: A Story of Judah and Babylon After that he had neither dream nor consciousness till he wakened, chill and stiff, stretched between two piles of old rubbish, among the black and roofless walls of the ruined house. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 It connects the Limerick road to Tipperary with the old road from Limerick to Dublin, and runs by bog and pasture, hill and hollow, straw-thatched village, and roofless castle, not far from twenty miles. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 The situation of this town is any thing but fine; the country looks like an Arabian desert, and a few unfruitful date-palms rise beside the roofless stone houses. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy They were assembled on a flat piece of ground which appeared like a roofless cavern carved out of the mountain side. Castles in the Air One quarter of the place had been shelled nearly level; the facades of the houses stood doorless, roofless, and windowless like stage scenery. France at War On the Frontier of Civilization It had stood roofless for many years and then been covered in by the old Duke's father, and contained a splendid stone chimney piece of colossal proportions. The Reason Why It lifted only towards the morning, when the moon, riding high, picked out in black and silver the shrunken and silent columns of those roofless vaults, shorn of base and capital. Frontier Stories He then adopted, from the apparition, the throne-name Uiracocha, grew a beard, and dressed like the apparition, to whom he erected a temple, roofless, and unique in construction. The Making of Religion Moonlight poured into the roofless cottages, escaping by shattered walls and jagged rents, and the mounds of débris took on fantastic outlines and cast strange shadows. A Volunteer Poilu Now, if you stand at the cross-roads where the church rears its roofless walls, you will understand what the Abomination of Desolation means. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand Bishop Montague, seeking shelter one day within its roofless aisles from a passing thunderstorm, was moved by the discomfort of the situation to undertake the completion of the fabric. Somerset At this moment he remembered the innermost cave, the large compartment which was roofless, and which, in his excitement, he had forgotten. The Adventures of Captain Horn There had been some delay in procuring wood for the new rafters and the poor roofless, smoked-begrimed walls looked very forlorn. North, South and over the Sea At Kilconnell, in Galway, their old place is almost as they left it, but roofless, with the tears of the friars upon the altar steps. The Glories of Ireland Rents in the roofless walls of unoccupied houses stared at the passer-by. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form In the rain the roofless houses, shattered windows, and broken carvings that littered the street presented a picture of melancholy and useless desolation. With the Allies It was a palace in ruins, or rather a roofless palace never finished, with thick walls and huge windows. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Ross-Ellison took his last look at the sky, the distant hills, the trees, God's good world, and then turned into the doorless door-way with his jailers, and faced the scaffold in a square, roofless cell. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life The abbey is roofless and empty, and so the birds of the air are his constant companions. The Glories of Ireland He looked up into the sky and saw nothing there to help him—nothing but a roofless expanse of drizzling gray fog. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 On the high ground rose the broken spires of the Church of St. Pierre and the Hôtel de Ville, and descending like steps were row beneath row of houses, roofless, with windows like blind eyes. With the Allies It is now roofless, and even the vaulting of the crypt is nearly destroyed. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association On all sides, as he went from window to window of the little roofless space, there was the same kind of prospect. Dawn of All At length, after passing the walls of an old church, in the midst of older tombs, we saw the roofless towers of Dunluce Castle, on the sea-shore. Views a-foot The houses stood roofless and open to the sky, like so many tombstones over a departed people. In the Claws of the German Eagle Between this point and Nelson Fort on the west of Lulworth Cove is Stair Hole, a gloomy roofless cavern into which the tide pours with a terrifying sound, especially when a strong sou-wester is blowing. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter In the Great Hall, now roofless, Milton's masque Comus was performed for the first time, and Samuel Butler is said to have written part of Hudibras in a little room over the entrance gateway. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association So springs and blooms, in lonely state, Some flow'ret on a roofless cot, And decks with smiles, though desolate, The gloomy stillness of the spot. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 Upon entering the lecture-room, a quantity of eighteen-inch square boxes full of moisture suggest the idea of a rainy day and a roofless chamber. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Some of these dwellings were in absolute ruin, with long dry grasses waving on the roofless walls. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Imagine, if you can, a platform eighty feet from the ground reached by beautiful stairways and inclosed by roofless walls of the purest marble that was ever quarried. Modern India The walls of the roofless transepts as well as the central tower are still standing. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association It was again restored; but, five years later, the destroying hands of the invaders fell on the place once more, and for two hundred years the Priory stood roofless and tenantless. Northumberland Yesterday and To-day Stupendous piles Of mouldering corridors and walls, On which alike the sunshine smiles And cold the rain of winter falls; A wilderness of roofless halls Whose tragic history appalls! Poems Full oft with eager step she flies To cheer the roofless cot, Where the lone widow breathes her sighs, And wails her desp'rate lot. Poems (1786), Volume I. A number of fortifications, which, however, look more like roofless houses than anything else, protect the stream. A Woman's Journey Round the World We came at length to the little old painted kirk of Alloway, in the midst of a burying ground, roofless, but with gable-ends still standing, and its interior occupied by tombs. Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America And suddenly the colour came into Matcham’s face, and next moment he had crossed the fallen rafter, and was climbing cautiously on the huge pile of lumber that filled the interior of the roofless house. The Black Arrow As we trace its ancient pavement, As we tread its roofless halls, How alluring is the figure Which this castle still recalls! Poems Fate guided him to the very doorway of the great roofless chamber. Return of Tarzan We followed him through the hangings, passed through a corridor and into another smaller chamber, roofless, the sides walled with screens of dark grey. The Moon Pool A roofless quire, a few grass-grown yards of cloister and the like. The Brother of Daphne Little trace of it remained except a rotting wooden platform, roofless and built close to the canal, and a gangway arrangement from this platform to the deck of the vessel. The Cruise of the Jasper B. On the right and left we could vaguely see roofless walls, hardly visible in the profound darkness. Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant The black trail of the incendiaries showed in the roofless houses, in the burnt arcades. The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution But the roofless night and the empty belly, consequent on an empty pocket, was a lesson which I trust was not thrown away upon me. Tracks of a Rolling Stone His mind was picturing that same coronation—the shattered, roofless cathedral, the ruins of the ancient and magnificent high altar, the multitude of kneeling, famine-scourged people, the battle-worn, wounded and bandaged soldiery! The Lost Prince On the landing he found another door beside his own opening on a roofless corridor, and presently he was walking on the top of the ruins. Lay Morals The red weed grew tumultuously in their roofless rooms. The War of the Worlds Two very large teepees were pitched facing one another, a hundred feet apart, half open, and connected by a roofless hall or colonnade of fresh-cut boughs. The Soul of the Indian The first object he made out was a crazy, roofless house, built of driftwood, the chinks plastered with 'dobe mud, the door fallen in. Moran of the Lady Letty The east wing is a blackened, roofless shell. Dear Enemy At every season its charm is unmistakable, and even if no stately tower and no roofless arches filled the centre of the prospect, the scene would be almost as memorable. Yorkshire If now and again the hangings parted they disclosed nothing more than a brief vista of half-stagnant water or a little clearing, half-overgrown, with the crumbling red brick walls of some roofless and abandoned dwelling. The Bronze Bell But they were fortunate compared with many of their acquaintances, whom Pierre could see crowded roofless about their fires, in sheltered hollows and under the little hillside copses. The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage But it wasn't through with the deaf and dumb, and blind, and roofless even then. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories The edifice is wholly roofless, but the side-walls and gable-ends are quite entire, tho portions of them are evidently modern restorations. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Of the domestic buildings practically nothing remains, while the choir of the church, the central tower, and north transepts are roofless and extremely beautiful ruins. Yorkshire The entire side on our right, between the two eastern streets, was occupied by the cracked and roofless walls of an ancient church or convent, which had long been a neglected ruin. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 The rooms of the Begum Kothi near the centre of the position, are still laterally entire but roofless. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Eighteen wounded men lay side by side in a roofless hut. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War At length, after passing the walls of an old church in the midst of older tombs, we saw the roofless towers of Dunluce Castle on the seashore. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 The hall is roofless, but the corbels remain in a perfect state, and the windows on each side are well preserved. Yorkshire At another visit I was alone, and, after rambling all over the ramparts, sat down to rest myself in one of the roofless barracks. Old Ticonderoga, a Picture of the Past (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") The house had originally been a hollow square, with a roofless courtyard in the centre, into which the sheep and cattle were in olden times driven for safety at night against French marauders. The Slave of the Lamp The picture of that frail wooden tenement, the Castle Inn, reduced to a roofless chaos of lath and plaster, vomiting flames from its black mouth, and spitting blazing sparks upward toward the cold night sky. Lady Audley's Secret Msala had been devastated, and it was within the roofless walls of Durnovo's house that Joseph finally wrote out laboriously the projected capillary invigorator. With Edged Tools The range of domestic buildings that surrounded the cloister garth are, therefore, the chief interest, although these also are broken and roofless. Yorkshire Stray along its grass-grown roofless tenements! where your echo alone breaks the silence, as it startles from its resting-place the slumbering owl--for who would dwell in abodes so marked for destruction? A Love Story The space above was roofless; but an immense awning of purple, richly embroidered in Persian looms—a spoil of some gorgeous Mede—shaded the feasters from the summer sky. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance As seen from afar, now in the full nearer view, the amazing thing was the majesty of the windowless, roofless, defaced cathedral. The World Decision Grass, and even trees, grow in its roofless halls, in one of which the marble pillars and sculptured decorations are seen through the gaps where windows once were. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Nearly the whole of the church is Transitional Norman, and the roofless nave is in a wonderfully fine state of preservation. Yorkshire He has heard the shout that shook the Coliseum's roofless walls when from the reeling gladiator's hand the short sword fell, while from his bosom gushed the stream of wasted life. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest The few moments she had to wait far more than repaid her for the trouble she had taken: through a side-door she looked into the great roofless hall, the one grand thing about the house. Mary Marston At the last of the boxwood trees he stopped, and then, in an agony of horror, beheld the roofless ruin of the old house as Ah Ben had shown it to him. The Ghost of Guir House Many a house stood roofless and in a state of threatened collapse. After Long Years and Other Stories The structure is a wreck and its gateway closed up; nor did I feel any great inclination, in that icy blast of wind, to investigate the roofless interior. Old Calabria We will go to their roofless houses, and see them repaired; we will exclude from their dwellings the inclemency of the weather; we will clothe them from cold, we will rescue them from hunger. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 So, in good heart, without one "if," or "but," They set to work to fix a roofless hut. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects One of its peculiar features is what looks like a truncated and roofless oven; in this swish cylinder they pound without soaking the date-kernels that feed their camels, sheep, and goats. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Beyond the village we found, about the old Spanish workings, ancient, roofless, stone buildings with loop-holed turrets for bandits and niches for saints. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond After passing one or two roofless and moss-grown cottages, I entered the narrow and rambling street which leads through the town. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales As it is partly roofless, I seek, but in vain, for a door to shut out the icy cold blast. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán But the towers in this city, which had been allowed to remain on land, were roofless, hollow and empty. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Six square pillars of hewn stone made an aisle to our door, and the lofty, roofless walls of the court, 100 by 150 feet, inclosed us. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The roofless wagons used in the Philippines are roughly put together at the last moment. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes On the river's edge a roofless ruin of a building, with a garden run wild at one end of it, stood apart. The Broken Road |
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