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Sentence Examples The main house was a simple geometric, built with angles slightly askew and curved eaves that broke the harsh lines in a calculated manner. Large, flowery hanging baskets dangle from lamp posts and the eaves of buildings. I can hear house martins chattering away in their nests under the eaves as I write these words. Its features include floors raised off the ground and steeply pitched roofs with deep overhanging eaves. Also check eaves, verges and ridges, and make sure that mortar, pointing and lead flashings are all in place around a chimney. Falling just below the eaves, arcaded corbel tables are often found on the gabled facades of revival churches. It is square below and circular after it clears the eaves of the roofs, and is finished off at the corbel table level with a conical roof. Elements of the style include a broad, square tower, large chunky blocks, Norman or rounded arches, and corbel tables under the eaves. Projecting eaves and bamboo verandahs shaped views of gardens with ponds, streams and artificial hills. Metal roofing is applied in approximately 3-foot-wide vertical pieces that stretch from the eaves to the ridge. The doorway into the main dwelling was intact and the walls rose to the eaves. He stood under the eaves of the roof allowing the rain to give himself a shower. Before man provided shelter in the shape of overhanging eaves, martins were cliff and cave dwellers. They also build nests in unwanted places such as air vents and eaves of buildings. Flying above all this are the wide overhanging eaves of the low slope timber roofs. They often made their homes in the eaves under the roofs of houses where they would hunt the mice that dwelt there in great numbers. Set your ladder against the house eaves so it extends a few feet above the roof. Small windows under large eaves made this typical 1960s tract ranch house too dark. The design includes a hipped and gabled roof, deep eaves, a side deck, and a screened front porch. Long, low arcades line the river bank, with red lanterns suspended under the eaves. Show More Sentences It cleared the dust from the air and left water droplets hanging from eaves and leaves. Both buildings have low-pitched roofs and overhanging eaves supported by brackets that are typical of the style. Good sites include near the eaves of a building with southern exposure and close to water. We start in the library, the waterline there only a couple of feet high in a city where some houses were up their eaves in water. The rafters are three and one-half inches thick by six inches wide at the eaves tapering to four inches wide at the ridge. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves. Its vertical battening and large eaves evoke the Victorian cottages on Martha's Vineyard. We slowed down outside a house with an American flag hanging from the eaves and a Jaguar and a Grand Cherokee in the semicircular driveway. As a result the two-storey centre section with its turned-up eaves has a drunken tilt. Consider fixing up some bat boxes too, high up on a wall, near the eaves of the house or in a tall tree. During the summer months, they often seek shelter behind loose boards, under eaves or shingles, in attics and church belfries, and so on. He had been standing at eaves level, beneath a beamed roof on temporary boarding, which was resting on joists. In spring, birds nested in the eaves, the twitterings, cheepings and chorus of birdsong wrecking the soundtrack. To avoid looking like an eaves dropper, I pulled out a tube of lipstick from my pocket and began to apply a new coat of gloss. So I was led down blind alleys beneath high upturned eaves, through circular gateways and past piles of drying chillies. The last of the ice was falling from the eaves, buds and leaves blossoming from the deciduous trees. This is the heartland of Bavarian tradition, full of slatted wooden houses with wide overhanging eaves and balconies cascading with geraniums. There's something primal and deeply satisfying about sitting indoors, all warm and snug and listening to wild weather beating at the eaves. Lampless, they climbed a ladder into the dusty hay-rick, and nestled in a corner under the eaves. There are three bedrooms off the upstairs landing, which has extensive floored eaves storage and a built-in wardrobe. Show More Sentences This bird was feeding young in a nest perched in the eaves of one of the temple buildings. A cantilever bracket called tou-kung was used to carry the eaves overhang as far as possible, beyond the outermost columns. For years, before I had my stoep enclosed with a roof, swallows, swifts and European starlings nested under the eaves. Water cascaded from the eaves onto the remaining students as they ran towards the parking lot. There is eaves storage available here, cleverly tucked away behind pine doors. Start at the eaves of the hip, with a double layer of shingles, and work your way up to the ridge using the standard 5 inch exposure. Refined decorative details were concentrated in the entrance and the eaves of the building with rows of geometric shapes. The woman led me into the small room under the eaves of the roof. In the hot, humid conditions of the Asian tropics, buildings are traditionally elevated above ground, with overhanging eaves and thin permeable walls to encourage ventilation. There is extensive walk-in eaves storage at this level, which the present owners use as a storage and utility room, as it is plumbed for a washing machine. European Starlings are cavity nesters, and nests are generally located in natural hollows, old woodpecker holes, birdhouses, or building eaves and crevices. Stairs rise from the landing to the attic room, which is floored and panelled in wood and features two velux windows and a good amount of eaves storage. All the writing is done at home, in my bedroom, up under the eaves of the house. The continuous surface helped by removing the requirement for distinctions between wall and roof, eliminating all need for ridges, eaves and even changes of plane. That house was built with untreated rimu, with the cladding of the time, which was rusticated weatherboard, with eaves, with sash windows, and a corrugated iron roof. Working within the constraints of strict planning codes, which imposing the style of local farmhouses stipulated a saddleback roof form with projecting eaves. A photograph of the balustrade and the underside of the eaves of the main sanctuary at the inner shrine extends to the edge of all four sides of the left page with no frame. At one point the family thought it was snowing as white insulation was ripped from under the eaves and got caught in the fly screen over the windows. Combined with a sufficient number of low vents in the eaves or soffits, it offers a workable alternative for ventilating just about any type of attic. Keep all gutters, downspouts, soffits, and eaves clean and in good repair. Show More Sentences To better ventilate the haymows and prevent spontaneous combustion of freshly cut hay, he designed the side walls of two of the barns to end about 3 feet below the eaves. South African paper wasps, or hornets as they are also called, are often encountered underneath overhangs such as the eaves of roofs but do not form very big groups. She's a paper wasp, specifically a member of the genus Polistes, the sort that builds small, open-celled, umbrella-like nests beneath eaves and picnic-shelter roofs. The paper wasps that nest under the eaves are not usually picnic pests, and are great caterpillar hunters, so unless the nest is near a doorway, it's best to leave them be. Older units with asbestos roofs and low eaves are particularly unpopular. Move potted plants you want to protect from freezing under the eaves of the house or some other spot where they will be protected from the deluge of winter rains. The eaves and soffit detail shown on the latest plan appears to be fairly heavy in its visual impact and I would ask you to give this more consideration. We enjoyed relaxing on a bench in the grounds in the afternoon, watching the swallows dipping down from the eaves and flying low over the immaculate lawn. The place was really no more than a cottage, wattle-daubed walls and a thatched roof with an ale bush pushed under the eaves. Slate roofed and with liver-painted eaves, it stood in a weedy firbound garden. The warehouse has a concrete floor, an eaves height of 23ft 10ins, warm air gas blowers and an electrically operated full height rollershutter door. They answer distress calls from frightened residents whose houses have become home to a family of wasps, usually in an airbrick or the eaves of the roof. Nests are most frequently built in the eaves and other crevices of houses. This book is beautifully colourfully illustrated by Edward Eaves and is lots of fun. Eaves provide frost protection for tender plants underneath. Burnley Golf Club have a private course, established in 1905 above the town in Habergham Eaves. Off the A646 in Habergham Eaves, east of Burnley, is AMS Neve, a renowned manufacturer of audio mixing desks. Ridden by Tom Eaves, who went on to complete a double on Bryan Smart's Strawberry Moon later on the card, the debutant beat Who's Shirl by half a length. Examples from Classical Literature It is only when the northeaster soughs in the eaves and brings him leisure that he drops into narrative. The rain thundered on the canvas and cascaded in sheets over the dead man under the eaves, but he was beyond even water cure. In a jiffy, I'd be going slippety-sizzle over the edge of the eaves and land with a wham at Poetry's feet. A squat, snug house, the eaves of whose steep gabled roof came down well over its two stories, like the snuffer on a candle. It shrieked and howled about the eaves and the old house squeaked and groaned. It had a dormer window, at no great distance above the eaves. It reached a little above the eaves, right under the dormer window. The drip of the fog from the eaves was the only break in the stillness. You can feel your heart drop, drop, like water off the eaves. Square and small and high stood the tower, as high as the church's eaves. Under the eaves above the flycatcher's tree there is a martin's nest. The farmhouses were my delight, with thatched roofs, ivy up to the eaves, latticed windows, and stout women with rosy children at the doors. The boy is distracted for a moment by a swallow, looking up and shading his eyes at its steel-blue flash from under the eaves. The gables are turned to the front, and there are cornices, as big as all the rest of the house, over the eaves and over the main doors. Ambrosch and Leo cuddled up in a hay-cave, back under the eaves, and lay giggling and whispering. They nested in their old corner under the eaves of Caspar's gable-roof. Cassy lit a small lamp, and creeping round under the eaves, they established themselves in it. Outside, the wind was shrilling at the windows and around the eaves, and the rain was playing on the roof. We ran up a little cabin and banked it nearly to the low eaves with snow. Owls inhabited the outhouses, and bats the chinks beneath the eaves. Show More Sentences Deep under the eaves I could make out row after row of boxes and chests. A few struggling Bengal roses make shift to live as best they may, half drowned at times by the drippings from the gutterless eaves. It was like sitting in a swallow's nest under the eaves of the roof of the world. Clambering quickly aloft I grasped the edge of the eaves and drew myself to the surface of the roof above. And the son of Tarzan skipped across the room, slipped through the open window, and slid to liberty by way of the down spout from an eaves trough. Suddenly an influx of light filled my house, though the evening was at hand, and the clouds of winter still overhung it, and the eaves were dripping with sleety rain. Another fresh water source is rainwater, which we intend to collect by putting eaves trough on our barns and getting some kind of tank to contain the water. Spook Hunters' operator Dave Eaves is unrepentant though, and has evoked the spirit of his youth as evidence. 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