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Definition of Housetops
1. housetop [n] - See also: housetop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housetops
Literary usage of Housetops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... OK THE GABLED housetops OF NEMOURS NEMOURS: A TYPICAL FRENCH PROVINCIAL TOWN
BY ROGER BOUTET DE MONVEL WITH PICTURES BY BERNARD B. DE MONVEL IT is only ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... her watchful throne High on the housetops or on lofty towers, To terrify the
nations. She can cling To vile invention and malignant wrong, ..."
3. The Edge of the Orient by Robert Howard Russell (1896)
"And so this great procession passes out of the city, watched by the women from
the housetops until it becomes a mere cloud of dust in the desert, ..."
4. Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with His by George Catlin (1848)
"Indians on the housetops—-Great alarm—Curious excitement—People proposing to "take
them" with ropes—Railway to London—The " Iron- horse"—" The Iron-horse ..."
5. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"... SOCIALLY, AND FINANCIALLY — BUENOS AIRES FROM THE housetops—A TOWN OF SHREDS
AND PATCHES — A LOOK AT ITS CHURCHES — THE LARGEST CATHOLIC CITY ON EARTH ..."
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