pent-roof

He turned aside, and, finding it empty, stood under the pent-roof for shelter.

Wessex Tales 2006

There he lay, silent and, as it turned out afterwards, dead as a door-nail, the strangest old fellow ever eyes looked upon, dressed in shabby sorrel-coloured clothes of antique cut, with a long grey beard upon his chin, pent-roof eyebrows, and a wizened complexion so puckered and tanned by exposure to Heaven only knew what weathers that it was impossible to guess his nationality.

Gulliver of Mars 1996

Close to the apple-tree, a branch of which indeed brushed its mossed pent-roof, stood the Well-House.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

Close to the apple-tree, a branch of which indeed brushed its mossed pent-roof, stood the well-house.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

Close to the apple-tree, a branch of which indeed brushed its mossed pent-roof, stood the Well-House.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

There he lay, silent and, as it turned out afterwards, dead as a door-nail, the strangest old fellow ever eyes looked upon, dressed in shabby sorrel-coloured clothes of antique cut, with a long grey beard upon his chin, pent-roof eyebrows, and a wizened complexion so puckered and tanned by exposure to Heaven only knew what weathers that it was impossible to guess his nationality.

Gulliver of Mars 1905

There he lay, silent and, as it turned out afterwards, dead as a door-nail, the strangest old fellow ever eyes looked upon, dressed in shabby sorrel-coloured clothes of antique cut, with a long grey beard upon his chin, pent-roof eyebrows, and a wizened complexion so puckered and tanned by exposure to Heaven only knew what weathers that it was impossible to guess his nationality.

Gulliver of Mars Edwin Lester Linden Arnold 1896

He turned aside, and, finding it empty, stood under the pent-roof for shelter.

Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 1884

To Aunt Priscilla it appeared to be hours, though it could only have been some minutes, before the shape reached the house-door, and sunk down out of sight on the threshold, under the shadow of the little pent-roof over the doorway.

The Christmas Child Hesba Stretton 1871

'And these are, it's said, the three domestic counsellors,' remarked the lad, and with his strong arms he pushed under the pent-roof the sledge that had remained outside.

Master and Man Leo Tolstoy 1869