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Examples
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It's a sound bite proclaimed from the house-top, and it's gotten huge, FREE distribution.
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There's only 8 days to go with 11 points still to be made up for a tie, and god knows what house-top grandstanding may occur between now and then.
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I see a blaze of torches and men standing at bay on the house-top yonder, with a sword held at my daughter's throat.
Orestes 2008
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I see a blaze of torches and men standing at bay on the house-top yonder, with a sword held at my daughter's throat.
Orestes 2008
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They have alternately supplicated and domineered, crawled in the dust or mounted the house-top, as occasion served, from Gregory to the Smiths and Joneses of the present time.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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They have alternately supplicated and domineered, crawled in the dust or mounted the house-top, as occasion served, from Gregory to the Smiths and Joneses of the present time.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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From my house-top I can look upon a hundred homes, in every one of which these social companions are matters of reality.
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They have alternately supplicated and domineered, crawled in the dust or mounted the house-top, as occasion served, from Gregory to the Smiths and Joneses of the present time.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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From my house-top I can look upon a hundred homes, in every one of which these social companions are matters of reality.
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They have alternately supplicated and domineered, crawled in the dust or mounted the house-top, as occasion served, from Gregory to the Smiths and Joneses of the present time.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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