unroofs

SAGE, where Asmodeus the Demon, places Don Cleofas on an elevated situation, and unroofs the houses for his inspection.

Fugitive Pieces 2007

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

Walden 2004

He carries them to the graves of the dead and there teaches them union, and, like Asmodeus, unroofs every dwelling in the land to discover to the people the multitude of their woes.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1925

” He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America.

V. English Traits. Ability 1909

The son of Kalev received the huge blade from the hands of the smith with reverence, and whirled it round like a fiery wheel, and it whistled through the air like the tempest that breaks oaks and unroofs houses.

The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 1878

He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America.

English Traits (1856) 1856

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

Walden~ Chapter 16 (historical) 1854

He buries up the whole country, he breaks down the trees, and sometimes unroofs the houses.

Rollo's Museum Jacob Abbott 1841

He cuts and saws the solid pond, unroofs the house of fishes, and carts off their very element and air, held fast by chains and stakes like corded wood, through the favoring winter air, to wintry cellars, to underlie the summer there.

Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839