Would you have Crane get out on the housetop an' shout to you to go an' cruel Porter's mare?

There are some things which may be whispered in the closet, but should not be shouted on the housetop.

I told her that I loved you, just as at that moment I might have shouted it from the housetop.

Why must we go to the housetop and shout our woes to the universe?

Is it upon the housetop, mother, having a spree all on its little alone?

It is the pulpit of the reformer and the housetop of the fanatic, this soap-box.

Over the housetop, from across the street, came the gay music of the fiddler.

We now arrive at the vision which Peter saw upon the housetop.

Yet better to be the crystal and be broken, he felt, than the tile upon the housetop.

However, to dwell on the housetop is an expression which symbolizes desolation.