1 He contemplated the young people hanging roses from one rafter to another.
2 Swallows swooped from rafter to rafter.
3 Excited by the company they were flitting from rafter to rafter.
4 Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard.
5 Then he came back again, and perching on a projecting rafter spoke to me with human voice, and told me to leave off crying.
6 Then Minerva from her seat on the rafter held up her deadly aegis, and the hearts of the suitors quailed.
7 But this time I found something at last; I found an old rusty wood-saw without any handle; it was laid in between a rafter and the clapboards of the roof.
8 The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud.
9 Their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor.
10 Festoons of paper roses, left over from the Coronation, drooped from the rafters.
11 Swallows were busy with straw in pockets of earth in the rafters.
12 The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot.
13 The lodge was a ruin of black granite and bared ribs of rafters, but facing it was a new building, half constructed, the first fruit of Sir Charles's South African gold.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall 14 The darkies were hanging from the rafters, popeyed, they were so scared, but Ma was talking to the horse like he was folks and he was eating out of her hand.
15 The fortress was a smoldering ruin; charred rafters, fragments of exploded artillery, and rent mason-work covering its earthen mounds in confused disorder.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18