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They collect rainwater in a large barrel which is placed up against the barn to catch water coming off the roof.

My dad fell off the roof, and broke his arm while trying to install our new satellite dish.

She dared me to jump off the roof of the garage, so I did.

In its talons, the monster was bearing away to his eyrie in the heavens, a house from which it had knocked off the roof, and in the interior of which we distinctly saw human beings, who, beyond doubt, were in a state of frightful despair at the horrible fate which awaited them.

When he heard the noise of the men bustling about, he jumped up on a sudden and forgot all about coming down by the main staircase, so he tumbled right off the roof and broke his neck, and his soul went down to the house of Hades.

I was lying asleep on the top of Circe's house, and never thought of coming down again by the great staircase but fell right off the roof and broke my neck, so my soul came down to the house of Hades.

Just when you were expecting Maimonides! Around the corner, on the roof of a theater, a chariot and team of wild horses are frozen in eternal petrifaction on the brink of hurtling suicidally off the roof, quite as if the immortals, too, have their traffic problems.

"Let's love her while she's here, and be thankful that she never took that swallow dive off the roof, for truly she has added to the gaiety of nations as no-one ever will again.

Sculpture and stone carving are perfectly modified to the harmonies of the design, the four columns at the corners are hollow to carry water off the roof, and the urns on roof are disguised chimneys.

Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches.

If the principle is unsound, we have no reason to expect the sun to rise to-morrow, to expect bread to be more nourishing than a stone, or to expect that if we throw ourselves off the roof we shall fall.

The creature had fallen off the roof of the house into the street.


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