From housetop to housetop I flew, from tree to tree, but nowhere could I find a little china cup filled with rape, hemp, and canary seed, or a tiny glass vessel filled with water that I might slake my thirst.
Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house.
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house.
Carlotta coming onto the housetop to summon me to lunch looks over my shoulder as I write these words.
It was as thy servant said: some suspected him of favouring the sahibs, and the housetop was no longer a safe place for the missy sahib.
The missy sahib was in the city of the king, but she escaped the killing by the aid of an ayah and a khitmutgar, who took her to the housetop of a man that was friendly to the sahibs.
When the siege came, they should not turn back from the field into the city, nor escape from the housetop by the inner staircase.
Acts, Chapter 10 At midday Peter went up upon the flat housetop to pray.
What was the meaning of Peter's vision on the housetop at Joppa?
The new wine cometh," called Lazarus on the steps, and laughing voices told the two on the housetop that the hour for words of wisdom was at an end.
The hush of evening was brooding over the distant valleys soon to be enfolded in the twilight and there was no sound on the housetop when, a few moments later, Mary heard her name spoken just behind her.
It was Peter when he had learned the lesson on the housetop at Joppa, looking out over the Mediterranean, and had it enforced by Cornelius' message.
So the roof has its natural history, its science, and art; it has its seasons, its migrants and residents, of whom a housetop calendar might be made.
Resplendent as any bird that flutters among the foliage of south-western Texas--fair as any flower that blooms within it--gladdest was she who appeared upon the housetop of Casa del Corvo.
The questioner did not intend staying on the housetop to determine.
There's a view from this housetopthat will reward you for your trouble.
It was only after the horseman had arrived opposite the island of timber, and was seen to pull up, and then ride into it, that the spectator upon the housetop became stirred to take an interest in his movements.
Damhauja carried off three great baskets of meat, then went out on the housetop and called all his sons.
In a moment another whistling may be heard as the spirit touches the housetop and goes in.
She went to the housetop and cried, "I wish this house to stretch out after that boy and catch him.
On a housetop in Memphis, a gentlewoman, in a single gauze slip and many jewels, lounged on a rug and gazed at nothing across the city.
One noon Rachel, resting on the housetop with her hostess, saw him leisurely returning, by starts of interest and recollection.
Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.
Let the one who is on the housetopstay there and not come down to take anything out of his house.
Let him that is on thehousetop not go down into the house to take anything out of his house.
When they could not find a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop and lowered him down on his couch through the tiling and into the midst of where Jesus stood.
A man fell from a housetop in the city of Aberdeen, and was brought into hospital with broken bones.
He has to do the tapping and keep up an industrious bustle on the housetop during the absence of the slaters.
We put a divan in this arbour, which overlooked the rushing river; and that and the housetop were our favourite places to smoke on cool summer evenings.
This terrace formed a pleasant housetop in the cool evenings.
He felt that this incredibly peaceful home on thehousetop could not last.
Even there on the housetop he had only pretended to lead it.
So the day died away in soft silence, and there on the housetop it seemed incredible that so much hung in the balance, and that down in the streets the crowds must be drifting to and fro restlessly.
But on that peaceful little housetop in the Mufti's quarter it seemed more profound than ever; it seemed as if Fate was determined to leave nothing wanting to the strange unreal life that was being lived in the very heart of the city.
We turned our spy-glasses on their ships as they sailed toward Hampton Roads, and there were our friends on deck, their glasses turned upon the housetop where we stood in the full glare of the midday sun.
As he gazed wonderingly down through the darkness he thought of the friendlier, more intimate voice that had groped out through the housetop gloom to him that night.
Standing with a friend of mine on a high flat housetopin Calcutta one day, I saw a Hindu father on the next-door housetop proudly and lovingly walking and talking with his daughter who was just budding into maidenhood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housetop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
