clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

There was the slate roof of the church ; ;

Charity as she knew it was complex and reciprocal, and almost every roof she saw signified charity.

Mrs. Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league, Mrs. Ryerson was arthritis, and way in the distance could be seen the slate roof of Ethel Littleton's house, a roof that signified gout.

Actually an underground cistern, its roof supported by rows and rows of pillars, it was built by Justinian in the Sixth Century to supply the palace with water.

Finding it true that he was not inside, the deputies returned to the first house and tore holes through the side and the roof until they could see a body on the bed covered by a blanket.

The roof was about ready to fall in on Diane's little world, but it took nothing less than the Egyptian revolution to bring it down.

It was that oddly shaped space at the very top of the house, where ceiling heights had to accommodate themselves to the varying angles of roof slope.

The desk before him was in no better repair than the rest of the furniture crowded into the room, including wooden file cabinets with some of their pulls yanked off and a wardrobe stained with the roof seepage of countless seasons.

It was also in this period that Poirot shot a man who was firing from a roof onto the public below.

The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.

* A scene in Professione: reporter, a film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, was filmed on the roof of the building.

A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above ; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered.

Eliminating the turret also allowed the vehicle to carry thicker armor than would otherwise be the case, although sometimes there was no roof ( or merely a strip of canvas ) to keep the overall weight down to the limit that the chassis could bear.

In it was a single Roman grave covered over with roof tiles bearing short indecipherable inscriptions.

On July 10, 2007, after a lengthy investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board found that epoxy glue used to hold the roof in place during construction was not appropriate for long-term bonding.

This was determined to be the cause of the roof collapse.

The roof was closed for all prior playoff games and similar weather conditions.

Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

The Hammersmith End had a roof put over it, and an electronic scoreboard was erected.

While references to the sexual exploitation of maidservants appear in literature, it was considered disgraceful for a man to keep such women under the same roof as his wife.

He discovered the foramen Magendie, the opening in the roof of the fourth ventricle, but mistakenly believed that CSF was secreted by the pia mater.

With his mouth opened wide, he squirted the warm white milk against the roof of his mouth and his tongue savored the light, earthy taste of it.

He ordered the roof at Minute Maid Park to be opened for games three and four of the 2005 World Series, pre-empting the authority held by the Astros.

It was the first time the famed roof was repainted since Texas Stadium opened.

After architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti had won an international competition to create its new galleries for Islamic art, the new 3, 000 sq m pavilion eventually opened in 2012, consisting of ground-and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof ( fashioned from almost 9, 000 steel tubes that form an interior web ) that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre ’ s south wing.

Telescope domes have a slit or other opening in the roof that can be opened during observing, and closed when the telescope is not in use.

The dome was patented, constructed by the firm of Dykerhoff and Wydmann on the roof of the Zeiss plant in Jena, Germany, and opened to the public in July 1926.

In 1833 the railroad cut was begun, to carry the New York and Harlem Rail Road through Murray Hill ; the route under the most prominent obstacle in its right-of-way was opened 1 May 1834 ; then the locomotives, which had met the horse-cars that ran through the city's streets at the station at 27th Street, could pass the reduced hill ; by an act of 1850 the city pemitted to roof over the cut for the passage of steam locomotives.

It was opened in 1863, having caused much disruption by the use of " cut and cover " techniques, which involved digging large trenches along the course of existing roads, and then constructing a roof over the excavation to reinstate the road surface.

A new Susitna Valley Junior-Senior High School opened in January 2010, replacing the one that burned to the ground in June 2007 while repairs were being made to the roof.

The Japanese style roof garden on top of the Brunei Gallery was built during the Japan 2001 celebrations and was officially opened by the sponsor, Haruhisa Handa, an Honorary Fellow of the School, on 13 November 2001.

It opened July 3, 1878, as soon as the roof was enclosed, to serve the swarm of land hunters.

On October 27, 1997, a small electrical fire that started in the roof of the Acme store quickly spread due to the wooden roof trusses the entire strip mall had been constructed with when it first opened.

When Peter opened the box on the roof of his apartment building, it contained a note saying " You have five minutes.

The current North Stand was opened in the early 1960s which runs along the long north edge of the pitch, and was the second football stand in Britain to have a cantilever roof ( thus amongst some fans, it is known as " the cantilever ").

The Summit House opened in 1852, a stone hotel anchored by four heavy chains over its roof.

The roof opened, exposing the crowd to a downpour of rain.

By the time the roof had opened, most of the crowd had sought refuge in the concourse areas and beneath the overhangs of the various parts of the structure.

It had many unusual features, among them a roof section that opened either by opening a door or activating a switch, well ahead of later T-Tops.

When he opened the London armory he posted a 14 foot sign on the roof across from Parliament reading " Colonel Colt's Pistol Factory " as a publicity stunt which created a stir in the British press.

As a Catholic missionary, Ricci strongly criticized the " recondite science " of geomancy along with astrology as yet another superstitio absurdissima of the heathens: " What could be more absurd than their imagining that the safety of a family, honors, and their entire existence must depend upon such trifles as a door being opened from one side or another, as rain falling into a courtyard from the right or from the left, a window opened here or there, or one roof being higher than another?

In January 2012, a new edition of the Carlisle Street Parking Garage opened, replacing its crumbling predecessor with a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED )- certified building that boasts environmentally friendly features, including a green roof, carpool and hybrid vehicle parking, greywater collection, permeable interlocking brick and several bike racks for users.

The Cooper's Square shopping centre is the principal shopping area originally opened in 1970 by HRH the Princess Alexandra but since considerably upgraded with a roof being added in the mid 1990s.