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Usage examples of housetops.

Then he sat looking out of the window at the eternal triangle of the Boxley housetops and predictable trees filling from suburban spring to suburban summer.

The sky behind it was streaked with cloud and layered with the orange and reds of the sunset, the distant housetops outlined against it as though against a sheet of flame.

She glanced over her shoulder toward the mouth of the Inland Water, saw only the housetops on the far side of the canal.

The yellow gun-flashes are lighting the sky, the splinters are rattling on the housetops, and London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down.

When one thinks of the lies and betrayals of those years, the cynical abandonment of one ally after another, the imbecile optimism of the Tory press, the flat refusal to believe that the dictators meant war, even when they shouted it from the housetops, the inability of the moneyed class to see anything wrong whatever in concentration camps, ghettos, massacres and undeclared wars, one is driven to feel that moral decadence played its part as well as mere stupidity.

RETROSPECT Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass.

Thousands of Arabs and Egyptians lined the shore, and covered the housetops during the action, rejoicing in the destruction which had overtaken their invaders.

Across a ragged sky-line of housetops a pale light was beginning to creep.

Then came the meagre breakfast, the tramp through the dark, and the pale glimpse of day across the housetops as he turned his back on it and went in through the factory gate.