Housetops

Usage examples of roofs.

They are taller and fatter and noisier, their roofs are slate, their walls are strong brick.

It rose above the lower roofs of surrounding buildings, buoyed upwards by noise.

And beyond them, slate roofs hunching like shoulders in the cold, rotten walls held at the point of collapse by buttresses and organic cement, stinking a unique stink, was the shambles of Kinken.

Across the Canker, the Ribs jutted over the roofs of Bonetown like a clutch of vast tusks curling hundreds of feet into the air.

When scarfs flapped on roofs, or chalk marks defaced walls near attic windows, the odds were that someone was calling some wyrman or other for a task.

The mass of roofs was pierced by militia towers in Brock Marsh and Strack Island, and far away in Flyside and Sheck.

Gross Tar over the roofs to the south, wide and relentless and bristling with vessels.

Many were unfinished, with splayed iron supports fanning out from the ghosts of roofs, rusting, bleeding with the rain and the damp, staining the skin of the buildings.

And way up on the flat roofs, at nearly the same level as Lin and Isaac, little figures were visible.

Some were completely coated in the thick stuff: it spread across roofs, linking different buildings into a lumpy, congealed totality.

Furtive groups clambered to their roofs and sang hymns to the Wingsister, praying for flight.

Mildewing old houses tottered overhead, their steeply slanting roofs like capes slung over narrow shoulders, making them furtive.

This was the borough for more languorous indulgence, under the roofs of the establishment houses.

Yagharek looked out over a tumbledown roofscape of twisted roofs and mouldering slate, curlicues of brick and forgotten, warped weathervanes.

The city was a layered silhouette, an intricate fading chimneyscape, slate roofs bracing each other obliquely below the plaited towers of churches to obscure gods, the huge priapic vents of factories spewing dirty smoke and burning off excess energy, monolithic towerblocks like vast concrete gravestones, the rough down of parkland.