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  • adverb toward the roof

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Examples

  • Maybe it was the furtive, hasty glance roofward of the one called Noble Kechralnan.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Maybe it was the furtive, hasty glance roofward of the one called Noble Kechralnan.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • We even need someone … who could sing the descant to “Alouette,” while outside they scramble to catch the elusive ball aimed ever roofward, but usually thudding against the screens.

    Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

  • We even need someone … who could sing the descant to “Alouette,” while outside they scramble to catch the elusive ball aimed ever roofward, but usually thudding against the screens.

    Barbara Bush Barbara Bush 2005

  • Maybe it was the furtive, hasty glance roofward of the one called Noble Kechralnan.

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Maybe it was the furtive, hasty glance roofward of the one called Noble Kechralnan.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • Viola thought, correcting her first impression as she stood looking at them all for a moment, it was not skyward they were gazing, but roofward.

    No Man's Mistress Balogh, Mary 2001

  • Walls were pocked with mortar-shell explosions; tongues of soot licked roofward out of windows.

    Kosovo's Valley of Death Junger, Sebastian 1998

  • A ventilator pulled the smoke from the Jimson Kelp in his pipe roofward.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • A ventilator pulled the smoke from the Jimson Kelp in his pipe roofward.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

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