She was seeking, naked, frenzied, alone, for this unfound ointment, when she suddenly wakened and found the autumn sun shining wholesomely on the clean high chimneys and housetops of the city.
How bright that morning the sun lay on the housetops and chimneys, and how the elevated trains whisked and danced and frolicked past his vibrating window!
A garret and a Marshalsea garret without compromise was Little Dorrit's room," but "the housetops and the distant country hills were discernible over the walls in the clear morning.
Every window was now choked up with heads; the housetops teemed with people clinging to chimneys, peering over gable-ends, and holding on where the sudden loosening of any brick or stone would dash them down into the street.
Just in front of us a British battery was firing over the housetops of the empty village toward Chauny.
But the chilly light was growing a blue gloom above the massed housetops when the two ladies found themselves at Claire's door.
Shrapnel came from Umbulwan, and the shells bursting over the town; the bullets, iron segments and shot rattled on the housetops at times like hail.
I am not in the habit of talking of what I have or have not done, nor do I proclaim from the housetops the Gordons' enviable past.
It's lonesome like of a night upwards; but there you have the lights on the bridges and there's gas here and gas there; and a faint roar comes over the housetops from out of the streets.
I'm a carpenter, and I have to climb a good deal about housetops in my trade, and nobody says it's foolish then.
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.
A river steamer, moving cautiously in the dawning light, cast its booming note over the housetops towards us.
During the long winter repeated falls of snow cover the housetops with white mantles upwards of a foot thick, which become gradually thicker and more consolidated as winter advances.
As for the girl, those eight years of pure passion on the housetops had been a dream of absolute content.
From thehousetops fluttered countless scarfs of yellow, blue, and red.
All the other housetops of the quarter were occupied in a similar manner, thus enabling the population to escape the heat of the lower levels, from which the breeze was excluded by the height of the walls.
From the waterside just at dusk, catching a dim outline of the varyinghousetops is to glimpse some old castle of feudal times.
It was a dreary enough street and a dismal enough upper room, but there was a narrow window where the poet could look over the housetops in the midnight hour and watch the stars that he seemed ever to hold converse with.
Whatsoever ye have said in the darkness shall be heard in the light, and what ye have spoken in the ear in the inner chambers shall be proclaimed on the housetops (Luke 12:2, 3).
Fully 3000 people lined the streets and housetops to witness the race to which we had been challenged by four Dungan horsemen, riding below on the encircling roadway.
Long before the time, the streets and housetops leading from the inn to the viceroy's palace at the far end of the city began to fill with people, and soldiers were detailed at our request to make an opening for us to ride through abreast.
The Sepoys had been drilled by British officers, were well supplied with arms and ammunition, and from the housetopsof the town kept up an incessant fire that searched every corner of the defended fortress.
Those known to have voted against the bill were in peril of their lives, some being forced to fly over housetops to escape the fury of the people.
I guess there ain't nobody mixed up in this affair will go up on the housetops and shout about it when we get back to Reuton.
You've shouted from the housetops that you had the goods on me.
Since the glorious days of the British invasion--glorious from an Argentine point of view--Buenos Ayres had never seen its streets turned into barricades and its housetops into fortresses.
Battalions of men marched up and down the streets to the sound of martial music, and the low, flat-roofed housetops were quickly filled with sharpshooters.
From the city light had receded like a tide and rows of housetops on the length of the sky were like objects left there by a departing sea.
Above the housetops huge masses of cloud, smutted like torrents of gray-white snow, moved steadily, surf of a gigantic tide sweeping the purplish-blue stillness of the far vacant sky.
Everybody rushed for the housetops to look to the southward, over the low land through which the Mississippi winds.
The street and surrounding housetopswere crowded with a hostile people, all armed.
With the singin' above the housetops an' the heavenly lights, it looks like a new revelation.
The sounds of the jangling voices he was nearing mingled with the gusty wind that whickered around housetops and corners, and brushed roughly by him with a dismal sound.
I saw a huge dragon-like beast begin to crawl slowly down from the hills and stretch his big claws over the housetops of the city below.
A smile played about his lips; he quickened his pace, lifted his head high, his nostrils dilated wide; he looked dreamily over the housetops into the sky and saw only the face of a woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housetops" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
