My poor Alexis, then, in peacefull life Had vnder some low roofe lou'd his plain wife; But now, ah me!
And vpward if you lookt, you might behold The roofe of it all wrought in burnisht gold: Whereon was figur'd heauen; and there anent The Gods in state riding to Parliament.
And casting my eyes further on forward into the plaine before mee, and leauing this fore discribed place, I might perceiue a building of Marble, shewing the roofe thereof ouer the tender toppes of the compassing trees.
How lik'st thou now, poor foole, thy latter lodging, The roofe whereof lyes even with thy nose?
The roofe to be covered with boards and short shinglings with a territt on the topp about six foot squar, to hang the bell in with rayles about it: the floor to be made tite with planks.
Let my tongue lose singing skill, Let it still To my parchedroofe be glewed, If in either harpe or voice 40 I rejoyce, Till thy joyes shall be renewed.
They rang the sailor lads to guide From roofe to roofe who fearless rowed; And I--my sonne was at my side.
And he who followed made new schemes for a certaine roofe in golde and crimson.
His roofe was near level to the floore of the vault of the Refectorium.
Ye roofe of ym[30] is but even with ye floor of hym.
Wee laid down seventy and two, but they builded longer, and he who followed made new schemes for a certaine roofe in golde and crimson, very cunning.
Therefore helped I yt by my chappell and by an arche I builded from ye toppe of ye aisle to the roofe of ye chappell to bond ye whole at ye angle.
Ye roofe was woode and it was rough and rude, ne like unto our church of St. Mary.
From tower and from the high roofes the sound came like the sound of waterfloods, and the gargoyles shouted each to each, and the cloisters whispered comfort and refreshment as we lay under the dormer roofe in parched and sultry nights.
Can they so farre a knowing soule exyle That her owne roofe she sees not ore her head?
The floore of sparkling Diamonds, and the roofe Studded with Stanes shining as bright as fire.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.
The house that hath no god, or painted Saint within, Is not to be resorted to, that roofe is full of sinne.
But from the lofty gilded roofe Stain'd with some Pagan fiction, keepes a loofe.
But from his ill-thatcht roofe he brings The Cottager And doth preferre Him to th' adored state of Kings: He bids that hand Which labour hath made rough and tand The all commanding Scepter beare.
The roofe of this gallerie is semi-cylindrique, and painted by the same hand and same manner, with heads and busts of Greek and Roman emperours and heroes.
A clause of this runs: "Also I giue and bequeath towardes the Reparacions of the church of gresmyre XXs so that the Roofebe taken down and maide oop againe.
The towne conteyned some three hundred housholds, their houses were faire and strongly builded of lime and stone, and double couered with hollow tyles much like our roofe tyles, but that they are lesse at the one end then at the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roofe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
