lean-to roof

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The apartment was very small, with a lean-to roof, but then I reigned over it in solitary grandeur, while a dozen commercial travellers were packed into the three or four other bedrooms in the house.

From Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Becker, Bernard H.

She laughed and ran lightly away, up the steep stairs that wound in threatening semi-spiral, up under the steep lean-to roof.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

The interior of the building, consisting of one room and an attic covered by a lean-to roof, had undergone no change beyond the removal of Dame Trippew's pathetic stock at the time of her bankruptcy.

From The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

The chicken-house, a shack with a lean-to roof against the barn, was near and he stood by her as she looked in at the open door.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

A frame like a lean-to roof had first been erected; rafters had next been laid upon that; and, thereupon thin square portions of bark were laid, like tiles.

From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Mitchell, Thomas