КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «ROOFTREE»
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A Traveling Salesman Marries A Beautiful Woman And They Get Rich. The Depression Comes And They Get Poor.
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An Introduction to the Study of the Constitution: A Study ...
"A large straight pole is selected for the rooftree. Six well-grown trees, with
suitable branches apparently reaching over to meet one another, and of about
the same size as the rooftree, are stuck upright in the ground at even distances in
two ...
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Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The ...
181 Noble Roofiree: This is k'onache', in which k'o- is honorific and the rest
suggests xna che', literally "mother tree," the Kekchf term for a rooftree (EH). In a
later passage this lord is called Jaguar Noble Rooftree. According to the Title of
the ...
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
They had decided to call their new house "Rooftree," a term for the main beam or
ridgepole of a roof that also refers to the ritual, begun by medieval builders but
occasionally still practiced today, of fastening a small tree to the ridge of a newly
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sun, the rooftree beam was strongly pegged in place, and men and women
cheered. The frame was finished, and not a man had been hurt. But Cousin
Ephraim Hallet swung up astride the rooftree beam and waved his hat to be
heard.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, 2004
The walls that had once been plastered, were naked and shining with soot ; the
rooftree and rafters were seen bare, and two large pieces of timber that
supported the whole trusted not to the walls, which were of loose stones, but
descending to ...
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My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard
upon its rooftree that would intercept the good spirits of the air from bringing
directly to her family rooftree the blessings from the temple. My husband tried to
persuade him that the superstitions of a woman long in years should not stand in
the ...
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The Spirit of the English Magazines
The walls that had once been plastered, were naked and shining with soot ; the
rooftree and rafters were seen bare,and two large pieces of timber that supported
the whole trusted not to the walls, which were of loose stones, but descending to
...
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The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright
end of it; sew another piece upon the lower tape and splice an eye at each end of
that also: you are then to fix other pieces of lines from the top line, (which is to be
the Rooftree), to the bottom one, (which is to serve for a Walplate), at one foot ...
George Cartwright, Marianne Stopp, 2008
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Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
She slept. Margaret wakes to a rattle of rain on thack-stones, in a reek of down-
driven smoke. Night still? A rushlight dips and dances. No sky. Black thatch
above her and a taws of hazel in the rooftree, all a-bloom, that powders her with
dust, ...
