unroof

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Examples

• Oh for the Diable Boiteux to unroof me those distant houses, and show me the pleasures that lurk within!

• If honor now were substance, my poor walls Would groaningly unroof and beg the sky For room to embrace it!

• Then an archbishop got an Act of Parliament authorizing him to unroof it and providing a regiment of soldiers to execute the work.

• On the accession of George I., an order came down to unroof the buildings, and strip them of their lead.

• First he breaks to pieces the bottom of my house, and then he threatens to unroof it.