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  • There the buildings were low and peak-roofed, mostly houses.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • - Henry Judd, Planetologist Twerdahl Town's entire male population took twelve days to build them a peak-roofed house no bigger than the family room at Bloocher Farm.

    Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997

  • I leaned forward too, saw two long, low wings of fieldstone and timber connected by a peak-roofed glass gallery that resembled a greenhouse.

    Till the Butchers Cut Him Down Muller, Marcia 1994

  • More tents stretched across a rolling plain where all but a few tufts of tough grass had long since been beaten to dust by hooves and boots — peak-roofed tents and flat, most white by far if often dirty white, but many in colors or stripes, tents and the colorful banners of lords.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • They seemed to be of stone or a stonelike synthetic, rectangular in plan, peak-roofed, fronted or surrounded by porticos, their colors subdued when not plain white.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

  • The streets were narrow and cobbled, slippery with muck, twisting fantastically between the high walls of peak-roofed houses.

    Starways Anderson, Poul 1956

  • The photographer surveyed his new field with an amused sneer, and descended the steps to go to his breakfast at the tavern, a peak-roofed white frame set among locust trees -- the best house on the street.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • There was no indication of a secret opening and Nancy went outside the small, two-story, peak-roofed structure and walked around.

    The Hidden Staircase Keene, Carolyn 1930

  • And these slopes were gayly colored with tiers of peak-roofed huts and houses, in pink and yellow and brown and blue and red.

    Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

  • On the left, at the foot of the thickly wooded bluffs, among bananas and plantains, appeared a little group of peak-roofed huts, all the muddy bank in front of them alive with the

    Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

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