Meaning of house-top | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of housetop.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“The pantomime scenes are well arranged, especially a view⟳ of house-tops, where a good deal⟳ of comic business takes place⟳, ending with a wholesale slaughter of cats and irruption of bed-gowned and disturbed sleepers.”

“It was a foggy, cloudy morning, and a dun-coloured veil hung over the house-tops, looking like⟳ the reflection of the mud-coloured streets beneath.”

“They drove to shelter⟳ all citizens possessed of homes, while the belated ones, or the unfortunates, were pursued and buffeted with a fiendish delight that found expression in wild shrieks; and up the street and over the house-tops they would sweep⟳, meeting other winds tearing round corners and whirling into each other, making lesser storms that sent up in circles snow⟳, soot, and lighter garbage far into the murky night.”

“Long, long did the child lie⟳ in her little bed, awake⟳, listening with a throbbing little heart for the sledge bells of Saint Claus, and the sound⟳ of the reindeers’ feet pattering over the house-top.”

“The spring⟳ and the winter came unsought into every man's life, not as they come⟳ to-day, wayfarers bewandered among the house-tops, feebly whispering of unknown things in far salubrious lands, […]”

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