Word: roofs
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...turned back toward the manor. One turret had already crumbled, groaning, to the ground. Flames leapt from every window and door—hellish orifices in neat rows. The entire roof of the great hall was a liquid pool of red and yellow. On and on it burned. Within her, another fire lapped ravenously, unforgivingly against the inner walls of her being, threatening to consume her. A rafter fell with an explosion, and Roxanna lifted her hands to shield her face. But then she stilled, staring down with horror at her once ethereally white hands. They were black with soot...
...cigar habit he picked up during the Civil War. William McKinley had a similar love of stogies, but like Obama, he never allowed himself to be photographed in the act. Theodore Roosevelt barred his daughter Alice from smoking in the White House, so she took her habit to the roof. Calvin Coolidge was known to offer cigars to Congressmen after White House breakfasts...
Yeah, like somebody putting up the Christmas lights and then they fall off the roof. (Laughs) I feel like the comedy that I've always tried to do my whole life and that I really dig is comedy that's edgy, that's very moving and powerful and still hilarious. I don't feel like you have to sell one out for the other. I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive...
Taken in a forest in New Jersey, the picture showed a plaid-clad figure crouching on the roof of an outhouse. The figure was Smith himself, the dean later insisted. Upon close inspection, the photo was too fuzzy to verify the claim...
Siddhant Singh ’11-’12 saw the roof of the Taj Mahal Hotel burst into flames from his YMCA hostel in Mumbai, just 100 yards away from the sites of the terrorist attacks last Wednesday. He spent the next two days under curfew, and did not leave his hostel. There, he ate two meals in two days because supplies were cut off and no food sellers were willing to come to the area. “We’ve been holed up in this building for a couple of days...