rooftree

• Sean gestured to the dragonets that perched on the rooftree, obviously watching everything below them. —  Dragons Dawn
• Mother Goose squatted on your rooftree, as it were, Mr. Brent, and her shadow was heavy and inescapable. —  PARTONE
• "Before your coming, or ever a rooftree was raised in Limasito, he was Juan De Soria, son of thieves and black of heart as his master's skin The girl shivered El Negrito!" —  The Fifth Ace
• The instinct of hospitality, which is held like a sacred thing among Shetlanders, bade him receive with a measure of courtesy whoever chanced to come under his "rooftree," but another instinct, as deeply rooted, and more ready to exhibit itself, was also moving within him Fortunately no time was given him to choose between two courses. —  Viking Boys
• Here it revelled in unwonted fury, ripping up the loose shingles from the moss-grown rooftree, and forcing an entrance through many a yawning crevice The scene within the cottage presented a strange and painful contrast to the interior of most of the comfortable houses in the flourishing village through which we have been hurrying on the wings of the cold north wind. —  The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales

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