Gradually the steamer turned in; another harbor opened, with a cluster of white, red-roofed houses behind it, at the foot of the hills.
The huts were square, made of cane and roofed with palm-leaf thatch, to a peak.
And these slopes were gayly colored with tiers of peak-roofed huts and houses, in pink and yellow and brown and blue and red.
The Gyalpo's room was only roofed for six feet within the walls, where it was supported by red pillars.
The walls of this vault converge gradually towards the top, which isroofed in by enormous slabs of stone weighing many tons each.
The entrance is by means of a gallery roofedwith similar stones.
The summer dwellings were formerly constructed above ground and consisted of light poles roofed over with skins.
Their winter dwelling, the igloo, is a pit in the ground, roofedover with logs and sometimes, not always, a window made of fish skin or the entrail of a walrus.
His glance strayed down the gold-roofed windings ahead of them.
BOOK II IX The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofed house which enclosed in its long expanse of brick and yellowish stone the breadth of a grassy court filled with the shadow and sound of limes.
When she had dried her eyes sufficiently to be able to see the picture in the mirror once more, she beheld a long low house by the side of which there was a large space roofed over with lattice work.
Upon the Sirdar's right were some corrugated iron roofed sheds, and a little in front the Praying Square.
It is a finely conspicuous island, for upon the north end there is a lofty barn-roofed jebel or hill.
The only signs of life are where little ports, usually mere clusters of tin-roofed huts, are huddled on the beach, sometimes with a railroad climbing up the cliffs and back into the mining country beyond.
He was taken to the Bastille, and shortly afterwards to Pignerol, where he was shut up in a low-roofed dungeon.
Picture me, then, my dear Crassus, in a very low-roofed cabin, with these three huge Barbarians seated round me.
Gazing down upon it from the mountain, the shepherd was surprised to see that a portion of the famous amphitheatre had been roofed in, as though some performance was being enacted.
Not only that, but although there are scores of straw-roofed barges about, these two were as open as row boats, and in fact exactly like giant row boats.
This is especially true of the main bazaar, which is a winding arcade half a mile long, roofed and lined with shops, thronged with men.
The house had large stone chimneys, and was roofedwith spruce-bark.
He gave an aqueduct to Canusium and Olympia, a racecourse to Delphi, a roofed theatre to Corinth.
The manner in which these spaces were roofedand lighted is not evident.
In its greatest breadth the wall is provided with galleries, roofed by projecting stones laid in horizontal beds and cut to the outline of a pointed arch.
In other parts of Hellas than the rocky and sterile islands of the AEgean, the chapels must have been roofed with wood.
It is roofed by four main beams, laid diagonally and inclined outward, which support the framework of a middle orifice for light and air, and shed the water without instead of within.
There is a dim light burning in the window of yonder hip-roofed cottage beside the green; Adams and Hancock must be anticipating news; Adams, indeed, has the name of being a man who sleeps little and thinks much.
The hovels in which the people were living were wretched structures of rough logs, roofed with straw, with wooden chimneys and narrow and darksome interiors.
He had succumbed with his huge back to the blast, the snow piling a bulwark behind him, where it had slowly roofed him in.
The solemn avenue of stately trees rises like a tall temple, roofed in by his mighty hand; and as we gaze upward, we feel the heart worshipping Him unawares, and walk along surrounded with the awe of an old religion.
In the high-roofed hall of this house some time stood a large fir-pole, which reached to the roof thereof, and was said to be one of the staves that Gerrarde the giant used in the wars to run with [away?
The hòng-pharla may extend also across the front of the house; it is roofed over, but open towards the house.
We looked in through a small iron grating in the door about two feet square, revealing a space open to the skies, with roofed recesses in the walls round the four sides, where the prisoners had huddled themselves in their rags.
Immense ramifications they are--great dark halls, roofed au naturel in corrugated rock with fissured sides, where maiden-hair fern hangs cool and green.
It was one among many flat-roofed whitewashed houses in the Moorish Quarter, in a street barely six feet wide.
After leaving it we walked through the streets of a low-roofed village, then followed a path bordered with wild mignonette and apple trees that wound up the side of a hill covered with vineyards.
Nestled in a deep valley lay a city of Martian concrete, whose every street and plaza and open space was roofed with glass.
That very evening we came within sight of the walled and glass-roofed city of Kadabra.
The red-roofed house yonder is your objective," I said to you.
With a line thus made up, the colored troopers on the left and yours on the right, the portion of Kettle Hill on the right of the red-roofed house was first carried.
Near Concord bridge is an ancient gambrel-roofed house built for Parson William Emerson in 1765, and from its windows he watched the fight.
The low-roofed kitchen is their sitting-room, and its smoky-panelled walls are decorated only with church almanacs and a few faded photographs.
It was a plain, whitewashed, thatch-roofed cottage, with a small board above the door, whereon was written a notice that the occupier sold milk and butter.
Right over against us, on the side of a gentle slope, stood a bright little village, with a red-roofed church rising up from amidst a clump of trees.
I descended the steep stairs which led down into the low-roofed cabin of the lugger.
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