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1. descriptions of each type of roof tile we encountered going on to
2. They called themselves the Fourth Wall because they thought they were all so big that if they had one more member they could hold a roof over their heads
3. It was one of those weird, triangular rooms at the top of the house that is shaped by the way the roof slopes down
4. Instead she stood at the bit of rail on the port side of the companionway, leaning on the cabin roof
5. The closet was on the end of the wall where the roof came up to a steeple, probably three or four times taller than it was wide
6. Whether it was water on the kitchen floor, crayon scribbles on the walls, the dog put on the roof, or dead rats stinking up the pantry, Millie always had the same excuse: mermaids
7. The water rose so high that one man was forced to climb on top of his roof and sat in the rain
8. The waters rose to the edge of the roof and still the man sat on the roof until another rowboat came by and another man told him to get in
9. There was a little cat-boat in the lagoon behind it, a nice roasting firepit and a privy under a lean-to roof
10. The structure was only about ten by twenty feet, not counting the roof overhangs
11. The roof was bigleaf shaftwood fronds thatched six inches thick
12. The kitchen was a paved area three steps down on the lagoon side under a framed canvas that was tied to the overhang of the roof
13. A towel fluttered from a peg on the open post of the kitchen roof in the light breeze
14. Many of us are in a better financial situation that we did not have the luxury of when we had to work and spend so much time away from our children in order to feed, cloth, and keep a roof over their heads
15. After sleeping penniless on the roof of a YMCA with the pigeons, he finally earned some money fighting forest fires as a volunteer
16. sitting in the shade under its corrugated tin roof because it was one of those early
17. The roof is corrugated iron and the walls are unpainted concrete
18. I’m sure there are some curtains in the roof which would look okay in here … the ones I used to have in the dining room at the old house … I reckon they would be long enough … but it would depend on what colour scheme they decide on
19. I'm not even sure about the roof carry over there
20. The cavernous roof with its harsh strip lights folded into starry night
21. He could see swathes of missing roof tiles, and the ridge itself
22. The roof would need completely replacing, the windows were rotten, the
23. Majeed tries to stand unsteadily, picks up his I-POD lying on the roof of the bus
24. ‘I left all my personal stuff … school reports and the like … in a trunk locked in the roof there
25. Seems she hit the bridge slightly at an angle and it stoved in the roof of her car a bit, not enough to stop the door opening, thank God, but her head got coshed in the process
26. “And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate
27. buried deep beneath the crumbling vaults of stone that formed the roof of the world
28. With one hand resting lightly on my waist, he points out where The Laurels lies – oh yes, I can just see the roof of the hall from here
29. It was a pretty good imitation of what he would have liked back home, a sprawling ranch built out of earthenware blocks with a tile and beam roof
30. and split, sagging, timbers that are the roof upon our world
31. On the roof, where it hadn’t rained in 700 years, he had a pool put on
32. roof tiles steam away the frost
33. unwashed since the roof and a smell of cindered flesh
34. against the roof of his mouth,
35. As they pulled up he could see at the roof edge a bit of black leather draped over the edge of the building
36. The roof was now rotted thru in several places
37. The locals appear to have vanished indoors for the siesta; only a couple of birds perched on a roof and a cat sitting on a doorstep watch us as we make our way towards the waterside
38. ‘It was an old building, thatch on the roof and lots of old wood in the construction … a bit of a fire trap all round
39. The roof of that cabin was a deck, and there was another small cabin on top of it that reached to the lowest of the great horizontal booms on the middle mast
40. that once held floors and a roof
41. spitting thunder at the roof of the world,
42. Flowers in baskets hanging from the roof,
43. So, apart from the fetid smell from the man, or the cabbage, and my head banging on the roof, I can't say I've ever felt more grounded
44. As he made his way through the darkness he kicked various buckets, pots and pans that had been left strategically placed to deal with the many leaks that the roof had sprung during so many years of neglect
45. I needed a cooling breeze, perhaps up on some roof or under the sea
46. ” To indicate the way he lived, he pointed to the shower, a long black hose in the sun over the patio, coming from a hand-pumped tank on the roof
47. Drips from the roof spatter nearby, making me jump
48. With audience figures going through the roof and with advertising revenues hitting all time highs, the executive producer was, of course, paid a big fat bonus
49. Crates marked Afghan, Uzbek, Cyr, Scy, Ity, Try, Cthge and every Greek island including Faria stacked high to the roof on galleries along four or five avenues
50. 'Look above,' Ali's dad said and pointed to the roof, 'look, there are cracks on
1. We’d roofed over the old courtyard and
2. At the edge of the community, they pull up to a long, low concrete-block building roofed with corrugated steel
3. she visualised it … a slope down to a culvert tiled on both sides, then roofed over
4. A queue forms around their high roofed halls,
5. He lived in a one room cabin of roughly piled stone chinked with whitewashed mud and roofed with thatch
6. stone and roofed with wood
7. When we got into their front line trenches we found that they had been roofed over with pine logs and some of these were really elaborate constructions and we kept pushing to find a way in
8. It wasn’t really a cave at all; more of a cleft; although it was roofed with stone in places
9. This was made out of poles and brush, roofed with boughs of pine
10. white walls of sandstone, roofed by slates of blue tiling, although
11. It appeared to have been constructed in a crater or volcanic bowl, and then roofed over with an artfully ribbed steel dome, or perhaps it was a cavern formed by an underground sea of oil or water that had been drained and re-enforced
12. and a row of tin roofed sheds were placed randomly about
13. He floated at the level of the highest seating and practically roofed over the entire arena, blocking so much of the daylight that the arena’s night-lighting spells had to be hurriedly activated to restore visibility
14. Some of the houses were up on stilts—built of vertical stakes like bamboo, and roofed with thatch
15. Built of native bluestone, it had been half-dug into the hillside and roofed with grass and thatch
16. They came upon a hut that was walled with coconut planks and roofed with interlaced coconut leaves
17. seemed to be clear of trees at ground level, but roofed by a
18. In half an hour they arrived in Hudkhel, a small village with the usual huddle of small, flat roofed, mud brick rectangular buildings, but with wider streets than those in the bigger towns
19. It is a round structure, dome roofed, with walls made of material supported by an interior lattice frame
20. Walled with the horizon and roofed with the sun,
21. The three-legged dog, the blacksmith shop spouting flames and sparks (something she couldn’t believe the fire marshal would allow), the three story-buildings and thatched roofed cottages, well, those were all things she hadn’t noticed before when she’d been preoccupied with Kyle and his supposed prom invite
22. There were about 30 soulless Cambodians in the camp, kept prisoner in small palm leaved roofed open shelters
23. they were in a small, circular clearing roofed by branches of
24. roofed so the sky (air, heavens, stars, and sun) symbolized the “high places
25. ” An open roofed temple
26. village of scattered thatched roofed cottages, with wispy
27. The place was roofed with coconut leaves, and bamboos served as the framework
28. A corner of the building was then roofed in such a manner as to exclude the heavy dew of the climate, and piles of sweet shrubs and dried leaves were laid beneath it for the sisters to repose
29. It was a double house, and the big open place betwixt them was roofed and floored, and sometimes the table was set there in the middle of the day, and it was a cool, comfortable place
30. The room was part of a sturdy barracks built of peeled, squared, chinked—and blessedly draft-proof—logs, thickly roofed in shingles cut from the logs’ bark
31. The brick house awkwardly patched and roofed with rude boards instead of shingles, managed to look of the Elsings still stood, with a new roof and a new second floor
32. more than built imitations of smials, thatched with dry grass or straw, or roofed with turves, and having walls somewhat bulged
33. Deep inside there was a hollow hall, raftered with dead branch and bramble, and roofed with the first leaves and shoots of spring
34. burning glow; and from it rose in huge columns a swirling smoke, dusty red at the roots, black above where it merged into the billowing canopy that roofed in all the accursed land
35. The merchants combined so that all might charge the same high price for food, and with the profits they built their cedar houses roofed with rosy tiles; they dressed their women in foreign silks and were followed about in the streets by bands of retaining slaves
36. The passage is narrow, and is roofed over by the column, so that a bee, in forcing its way out, first rubs its back against the viscid stigma and then against the viscid glands of the pollen-masses
37. “What is our life but the very worst life?” said the old man, following Nekhludoff into that part of the yard which was roofed over
38. Denísov and Rostóv were living in an earth hut, dug out for them by the soldiers and roofed with branches and turf
39. We were trying to sleep in half a dug-out that was roofed with a waterproof sheet—Whale and I
40. The exterior would be of long and thin red bricks, with stone cornices and other dressings, and roofed with green slates
1. with white walls and red clay tiling roofing
2. I was working for a roofing company named California Roofing Co
3. Henry wanted to work for this roofing company, but for some reason didn‘t want to work for Chris
4. Bru hadn’t been too far from home in recent years; other than roofing with his brother all around southern Ontario
5. Thunder was crashing and rain was beating hard upon the tile roofing when I snapped out of my deep sleep
6. Barretson assured them that lumber and roofing materials would be found, as well as the plumbing and electrical wiring requirements that Zinsmann outlined
7. roofing use a hammer to form this edge into a
8. Be careful when roofing
9. Horizontally, the blast and the three hundred or so roofing nails wrapped around the plastique were absorbed in the backs and sides of people in the pew and by the wooden bench back itself, but the velocity was still strong enough to drive splinters and nail fragments into the bodies and chests of those behind the pew
10. 11 And after some days Jesus entered into Capernaum again; And when they heard that he was in the house many gathered so that it could not hold them even about the door; and he made known to them the word of God; And there were there some of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law sitting come from all the villages of Galilee and Judaea and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present to heal them; And some men brought a bed with a man on it who was paralytic; And they sought to bring him in and lay him before him; And when they found no way to bring him in because of the multitude of people they went up to the roof and let him down with his bed from the roofing into the midst before Jesus; And when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic My son your sins are forgiven you; And the scribes and Pharisees began to think within their hearts Why does this man blaspheme? Who is it that is able to forgive sins but God alone? 18 And Jesus knew by the spirit that they were thinking this within themselves and he said to them Why do you think this within your heart? Which is better that it should be said to the paralytic Your sins are forgiven you or that it should be said to him Arise and take your bed and walk? So that you may know that the Son of man is empowered on Earth to forgive sins (and he said to the paralytic) I say to you Arise take your bed and go to your house; And he rose forthwith and took his bed and went out in the presence of all; And he went to his house praising God; And when those multitudes saw they feared; and amazement took possession of them and they praised God who had given such power to men; And they said We have seen marvellous things to-day of which we have never before seen the like
11. Tear off the old roofing, rip out any weakened lumber, run a timber from peak to peak, and run both ways at angles that'll shed water
12. It was obvious at first glance what the problem was, as inches of sludge that looked like cold roofing tar had built up on the interior of the engine causing it to fail prematurely to the tune of $4,500, a lot more expensive than changing the oil at recommended intervals
13. They only saw an explosion of wood and roofing
14. In the distance, you could see the little red roofing of the village’s hovels and further away the figure of a few pines pecking the leafy clouds that the wind was dragging fast
15. With the exception of the extension that was built by the same man as had originally done the roofing and the exterior work some time before; all the rest was paid for on a daily basis
16. �You don't mean that little place that's all covered in roofing felt do you?� asks Heather as she comes out of the lounge
17. roofing still in the dripping of rain still
18. I was making my way down to the Keys because a friends of mine owned a roofing business and said for the next four to five months they would have so much business he could not handle it
19. with open holes in the roofing
20. Doyle and Adam were thrown back against the wall as roofing iron rained down on the shed and all over Zeke’s back yard
21. 7mm shells started tearing up the rubberized roofing
22. This was the motivation of the angel, his wife who led him to the top roofing
23. roofing company netted no results and now, with the Sabbath approaching, it looks that
24. gathering information about roofing companies and in mid-July, after an extensive round
25. of interviewing companies and meeting with roofing company representatives, we picked
26. You know, he is never around, probably out doing those roofing sales calls after he dropped you off at the airport
27. A doctor is much better suited for her lifestyle than a roofing salesman
28. He leapt to his feet and clumsily ran the wooden boardwalk between the rafters, coming out beneath the missing section of roofing
29. Dust settled over the heap of collapsed lumber and roofing
30. "Look at that roofing, Blondie
31. the short flight of stairs, catching the faint hints of roofing tar still lingering in the air
32. Some people also use materials like aluminum for roofing
33. The building was unfinished; the sky could be seen through the joists of the roofing
34. unemployment because he was a roofer and there was no roofing in the harsh
35. Marie-Laure stands on her tiptoes and presses her ear to the roofing beneath the slates
36. It was a dry day with high pale cloud roofing the cold vault of heaven
37. In the face of the extraordinary bounty of the massive cedars, and valuing them primarily for making roofing shakes and shingles, the men who had cut them down had taken only the prime middle section of each, leaving behind long sections from the tops, where the branches were, and the bottoms, where the trunks began to flare out and the grain of the wood no longer ran perfectly straight and true
38. When Charlie found a log he liked, and explained to Joe why he liked it, the two of them used a crosscut saw to buck the wood into twenty-four-inch bolts—sections the length of a roofing shake—and toted them back to the buckboard
39. The stench of the basement level reached him even here, like hot-dog water mixed with roofing tar and left in an alley to rot, and when he closed his eyes, a high-frequency white flashed against the normal, reassuring pink
40. the knees, and showed an excess of boot at a time when straps seemed necessary to any dignity of bearing; you heard him go in and out, and up and down, as if he had come to see after the roofing
41. Split bamboo vertically to make roofing and guttering to collect rainwater
42. A shelter which can be quickly re-erected, will conserve energy for more urgent gathering than roofing materials and supports
43. A “roofing filter” can be used to limit the frequency content of an input before proceeding to construct an indicator
44. The roofing filter is composed of a high-pass filter that passes only frequency components whose periods are shorter than 48 bars, for example
45. Thus, the roofing filter is a wide bandwidth band-pass filter that passes only frequency components whose periods fall between 10 bars and 48 bars
46. While the roofing filter indicator wiggles in proportion to the wiggles in the price data as you would expect, it is noticeable that the indicator is above zero for extended periods where the market is in an uptrend
47. The original roofing filter response is shown with the crosshatched markers
48. Note that in addition to establishing a nominally zero mean, removal of the longer-cycle components caused by spectral dilation removes lag from the roofing filter output
49. Since the roofing filter consists of the serial connection of a one-pole high-pass filter, a SuperSmoother, and another one-pole high-pass filter, it is clear the better formulation of the roofing filter would be the serial connection of a two-pole high-pass filter and the SuperSmoother
50. 3 The Roofing Filter Is an Outstanding Technical Indicator
1. tiled roofs of the thatched houses
2. There were also steps on the sides of the blocks leading up to the second floors of the buildings … separate storage? Glancing up, Kara saw that more guards were evident on the roofs of the buildings
3. 'And all the education is in these books they read under the plastered roofs?
4. Roofs were flat and there were wooden benches on some of them
5. She could prop it open and see a tangle of roofs and rooftop courts below
6. There was a narrow window that overlooked the roofs of some stalls on the market square below
7. Most were mud brick and timber with wood beamed tile roofs
8. The slopes were covered with trellises and roofs
9. There were some low brick buildings with flat roofs,
10. Ornamental candle-holders swung from porch roofs
11. roofs of the houses to the east as the three men
12. Out here the first houses were mostly saplings helped out with some plank floors, a few foundation stones, some canvas roofs and a lot of roll mats
13. roofs of two intervening houses
14. and lightening could be seen over the roofs of the
15. Locals have instal ed green roofs for butterflies and birds, and a col ection of underpasses for resident amphibians and hedgehogs
16. above the roofs of the town above
17. Older youths knocked down younger ones who’d climbed onto the roofs
18. Beyond the dorms and as high as their roofs was a large floater court at the northern base of the pyramid
19. Except for this floater court, the buildings that made up this quadrangle had steep roofs with ornate dormers all along each side, but they were built, not grown
20. Then, about a third of the way to the far end, a bunch of brownstone turrets with pointed slate roofs erupted
21. Tops of many of the houses sported roofs made from tiles
22. “We will consolidate our positions here Sergeant I want some more men up on the roofs of the buildings keeping watch all round
23. I am just going now to post men on the other roofs to give us control of the high ground and an all round defence capability as per the Captains orders
24. Two roofs down I saw Fred Elliot he was stood close to the edge of the building talking to Dust Miller who was probably asking him for his canteen again
25. ” Our men began to move up into position and to start occupying the roofs that we were on facing the enemy I looked round and to my surprise Elijah had climbed up onto my roof
26. ” We climbed down from the roofs and formed a skirmish line before in front of the houses then we marched out of the village and onto the killing field where the enemy had come to grief
27. Joseph remarked, “Every door frame is sagging and the roofs are in desperate need of repair
28. He sighed and stared at the sunlight reflecting off the roofs of the admin building and the hydroponic farming centre
29. We saw roofs that had been blown in or sometimes there would only be a couple of outside walls left standing there looking like rotted teeth in the landscape
30. Moving along them we saw dugouts with corrugated tin roofs cut into the trench sides and inside some of them we could see furniture that had been liberated from damaged dwellings
31. Each house was three stories of blue stone with dark slate roofs and oak balconies and verandas
32. Ivy and other creepers swarmed over the walls and some small saplings could be seen growing from the old turfed roofs, swaying in the evening breeze
33. contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and
34. I noticed that nearly all the houses in the village were small round clay houses with cone-shaped roofs
35. These creatures are on the roofs
36. Gaps, pale glimmers of something…could it be the hangars? Metal roofs? Why not drop a bomb and find out? It’s too bad
37. The frozen north winds roar steadily while whipping the empty streets and house roofs with an unrelenting barrage of stinging ice pellets
38. I have loved bloody leaders and rust brick roofs in the sun
39. away debris, and repaired roofs and anything else they could repair
40. The sky was gray and polluted over the roofs
41. Outside our window, the view was just what you would expect from a Swiss restaurant, with meadows stretching away into the distance, dotted with traditional wooden chalets with their steeply sloped roofs, to prevent the snow from accumulating
42. On the eastern side of the plaza there were palaces and a temple all of finely fitted stones with thatch roofs
43. On the northern side of the plaza, there was more housing, but this was of stone set in mud, also with thatch roofs and in varying stages of completion
44. All the thatch roofs had been burned and the insides of the houses were a mess
45. the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of Heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods
46. the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, on whose roofs they have
47. I stopped over what looked like a huge city with a very high terraced mound and many lower ones, most topped with houses with thatched roofs
48. Other houses in the town had different-shaped roofs and some had porches built on the front of the houses
49. More pink, blue and yellow houses and buildings lined the road, some so hurricane-battered, there were still big stones on the roofs to prevent them from blowing off
50. Below that point, only a few broken roofs and splintered timbers poked
