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a pointed roof of straw or shingles
Built of wood, and covered with a pointed roof of straw or shingles it formed a square dwelling-chamber, which let out the smoke and let in the light by an opening in the roof corresponding with a hole for carrying off the rain in the ground (-cavum aedium-).
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

a polished round of steel or some
It is a polished round of steel or some other white metal, said the wood-maiden, which giveth back in all truth the image of whatso cometh before it.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

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