roof

The roof leaked, the carriage horses’ ribs showed, and the flower gardens were overgrown with weeds.

Old Timothy drove them to the train station in the landau carriage with the roof up, as the sky threatened rain.

“The roof of Ashton Place seems to have sprung a leak,” she thought, still in a deep doze.

The swimming pool alone measured one hundred feet by forty-two feet and sat under a glass roof, surrounded by walkways lined with white columns.

William Smith scammed unsuspecting residents in Surrey and Sussex by overcharging them for roofing jobs, often causing further damage to their properties to bolster his original quote.