steep-roofed

The story of this novel is really the story of our house here in Santa Cruz, a steep-roofed Victorian a block back from the ocean.

James Houston discusses Bird of Another Heaven 2010

The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

The mikko descended wooden stairs from his steep-roofed palace, its ridgepole adorned with sculptures of ivory-billed woodpeckers.

Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

Photos from that time show steep-roofed, austere buildings clustered around central courts and surrounded by flat, largely treeless lots.

Where We Live: Fairlington, in Northern Virginia 2010

Once on horseback my embarrassment disappeared, and I rode through Truckee, whose irregular, steep-roofed houses and shanties, set down in a clearing and surrounded closely by mountain and forest, looked like a temporary encampment; passed under the

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

It was dotted with bright-looking, steep-roofed, villages, and each showed

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

There was but one picture — a magazine color-plate of a steep-roofed village in the Harz Mountains which suggested kobolds and maidens with golden hair.

Main Street 2004

The house, which seemed to consist of two or three high, narrow, and steep-roofed buildings, projecting from each other at right angles, formed one side of the inclosure.

Waverley 2004

Much of the terrain reminded Istvan achingly of his own home valley; many of the villages, with their walls and their fortresslike, steep-roofed houses of gray stone, could have been Kunhegyes, where he'd grown up.

Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

The track reached the mill and became a narrow path, winding between the steep-roofed building and the precinct wall, and crossing the head-race by a little wooden bridge with a single hand-rail.

The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986