brown-roofed

Darkness at five, and the drapes not worth opening; then, in the sudden light, a cream-walled, brown-roofed police station bordered with short royal palms, in the colonial style, back of it frothing trees and taller palms, a pigeon fluttering into the cover of an cave, a rain-stained block of once-modern apartments, the morning side road into the station without traffic.

Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture 1997

For if, as we think, they remembered the brown-roofed homesteads,

The New Morning Poems Alfred Noyes 1919

Its single street winds below the pine forest; its tiny church gathers close a few brown-roofed houses; orchards guard it round about; the music of many fountains tinkle summer and winter through its cobbled yards; and its feet are washed by a tumbling stream that paints the fields with the radiance of countless wild-flowers in the spring.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

But there were at all events the fields wondrously green after the brown hill-sides and rusty grass, the little rich fields in the frames of their hedges, and the brown-roofed houses and the woods splashing their emerald branches in the sunlight.

The Summons 1906

Above the low squat tent of the half-breed, there rose the brown-roofed barracks, its lazy flag clinging to the staff.

A Trip to Manitoba Mary FitzGibbon 1883

The Castle looks down upon the compact brown-roofed town; and from the town two picturesque old bridges span the river.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

From time to time a village, gray-walled, brown-roofed, broke the low helving shore of the lake, where the poplars rose and the vineyards spread with a monotony that somehow pleased; and at Nyon a twelfth-century castle, as noble as Chillon, offered the delight of its changing lines as the boat approached and passed.

A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878

In the opposite direction we see brown-roofed, white-walled houses surmounted by a pretty little spire.

East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

We re-entered the forest, and a little later, emerging from the fragrant depths of a pine wood, got our first view of Larchant, coming suddenly upon what looks like a cathedral towering above the plain, at its base a clustering village, whitewashed brown-roofed houses amid vineyards and orchards.

East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

Next comes Ospitale, another little brown-roofed hamlet perched on a green rise like Castel Lavazzo, with the usual cluster of saw-mills and saw-pits down by the water's edge; and now, entering the commune of Perarolo in a smart shower, we rattle through a succession of tiny villages built in the Swiss way, with wooden balconies, outer staircases, and deep projecting eaves.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873