Several times, one or more of them were on the shed-roof. ❋ Various (N/A)
Befitting our new position as business leaders, we built a 6 × 8 shed-roof kitchen onto the back of the shack and a clothes closet in one end of it; we even bought a little cookstove with an oven in it. ❋ Edith Eudora Kohl (N/A)
Nor did she remember any more about it until the next morning, when, seated on the shed-roof, under the overhanging boughs of a great elm, she saw Mr. Hartman striding angrily up the path to the kitchen door. ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)
Mother slid and balanced and slid on the roof, irritably observing, "I declare to goodness I never thought that at my time of life I'd have to sneak out of a window on to a nasty slippery shed-roof, like a thief in the night, when I wanted to go a-visiting." ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)
The corners were great stacks of high piled flat stones; across the rude columns lay tree trunks roughly squared with axes; the roof was a sloping shed-roof, steep pitched, made of saplings, covered a foot deep with loose soil. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)
He tiptoed to the window, climbed out, and let himself down to the shed-roof. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
Below the window was a shed, and beyond the farther edge of the shed-roof was an alley. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
He slid down from the shed-roof before she had time to thank him, and ran off through the darkness. ❋ Unknown (1891)
She managed to get out of the window on to the kitchen-roof, then on to an adjoining shed-roof, from which she slid down to the ground in the back yard. ❋ Unknown (1880)
She must hunt up the kitten, and feed the chickens, and take a peep at the cow, and stroke old Billy in his stall; she must see how many sweet peas were left on the vines, and climb out on the shed-roof that had been freshly shingled since she was gone, and run down to the Kleiner Berg, and over to see Sarah Rowe. ❋ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1877)
The thatch of that shed-roof was like the grizzled hair of ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
As he sat with his back to the gate, meditatively watching some doves on the shed-roof, a big bull-dog entered the yard, and basely attacked him in the rear. ❋ Louisa May Alcott (1860)
This lower door, which was wholly without the external charm usually seen even in the humblest dwellings in Touraine, was covered by a mansard story, reached by a stairway built on the outside of the house against the gable end and protected by a shed-roof. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
ASSUMING that it did happen; it COULD HAVE STUDIED CATOLOGY IN A GARRET when no one was noticing -- therefore it DID; it COULD HAVE attended cat-assizes on the shed-roof nights, for recreation, when no one was noticing, and have harvested a knowledge of cat court-forms and cat lawyer-talk in that way: it COULD have done it, therefore without a doubt it DID; it COULD HAVE gone soldiering with a war-tribe when no one was noticing, and learned soldier-wiles and soldier-ways, and what to do with ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
