roofed

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Thus was the roofe adorn'd: but for the bed, The which those sacred limmes encanaped, I could say much: yet poised with her selfe, That gorgeous worke did seeme but drossy pelfe.

From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William

"A square roofe without Dormans, with two Lucoms on each side," means, I think, without dormer windows, and with luthern windows.

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

My poor Alexis, then, in peacefull life Had vnder some low roofe lou'd his plain wife; But now, ah me! from where he has no foes15 He flyes; and into willfull exile goes.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

The wintry winde as it rushes and roars At the windowes and roofe, and the welle fast'ned doore. 2nd.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 by Various

He wore thin sireduelt in a smooky roofe, must take tobacco and must weare a locke.'

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.