Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some slight repairs have been made upon the roof of the chapel to stop certain leaks...
...very fine appearance. They are painted white and have the words, "smoking car," painted in large letters on the sides, and also on the ends, so that they may be easily distinguished from the others. The means for ventilation are very good, there being two large ventilators in the roof besides the two rows of small windows at the top. They are to run every fifteen minutes...
This gentleman, on hearing my question, assumed a very judicial air, and for a time spake nothing. Not a spear of his untrimmed red hair, curled up at the extremities like a roof-gutter, trembled. Indeed, I grew impatient of his long delay, when suddenly I discovered that his lips had been moving, and he had in fact just come to the end of a sentence, expressing his opinion. I began to think that if silence was golden, speech must also be golden, since they were so nearly indistinguishable...
...excited to stay under roof; he took his way to the forest. His busy brain was engaged with castles in the air. He framed declarations of passion, and committed them to memory; "For," thought he, "I am so bashful that I could not find a word to say in her presence, unless I had thought it out beforehand." As he came into a little open space, he saw a maid before him; she turned with a cry, and fled. He followed her, and soon caught her, only to see her fall fainting. He knelt by her side...
Yung looked about him for some method of escape. As his eyes travelled over the bones and horns, with which, instead of the customary clubs and stone darts, the walls were covered, he spied in a corner several skins of wild animals, which were hung from the roof. Toward them, accordingly, he retreated, while he stammered, to mask his movement, "I don't know...