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The house of this idol is all of beaten gold, namely the roofe, the pauement, and the sieling of the wall within and without.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

Stories like this make me contemplate taking that one step closer meeting in rooms where the roofe thereof is decked with images of starres gilted.

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III. iv, a 1577 that the chamber was so called ‘because at the first all the roofe thereof was decked with images of starres gilted’, appears to have no confirmatory evidence, but is highly probable.

The Volokh Conspiracy » English Law and Hebrew: 2007

Their houses wherein they sleepe, they ground vpon a round foundation of wickers artificially wrought and compacted together: the roofe whereof consisteth (in like sorte) of wickers, meeting aboue into one little roundell, out of which roundell ascendeth a necke like vnto

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Our lusty young novice Monke, whom the Abbot imagined to bee gone for wood, had hid himselfe aloft upon the roofe of the Dorter, where, when he saw the Abbot enter alone into the Chamber, he lost

The Decameron 2004

Of masts both long, and large; with mosse put in betweene, To keepe the force of weather out, I neuer earst haue seene A grosse deuise so good, and on the roofe they lay The burthen barke, to rid the raine, and sudden showres away.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

They shewed me the church, wherein were as many images as could hang about, or vpon the wals of the Church round about, and euen the roofe of the church was painted ful of images.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

They haue 9. or 10. great vautes which are full of those barrels which are seldome remooued: for they haue trunks which come downe through the roofe of the vautes in sundry places, through which they powre drinke downe, hauing the caske right vnder it to receiue the same, for it should be a great trouble to bring it all downe the stayres.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Banderduess caused the banner of one of these shippes to be set vp in the great Church of Leiden in Holland, which is of so great a length, that being fastened to the very roofe, it reached downe to the ground.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The towne conteyned some three hundred housholds, their houses were faire and strongly builded of lime and stone, and double couered with hollow tyles much like our roofe tyles, but that they are lesse at the one end then at the other.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003