The dunes seemed to foreshadow the winter already, as Gerald crossed them between the slate-roofed house of her dominion and the low stone cottage of his.

There were cobbled streets and stone, wood and slate-roofed houses and buildings.

There are integrated neighborhoods in northern Mount Vernon, near the Bronxville border, where million-dollar, slate-roofed houses sit upon meticulously landscaped properties.

The slate-roofed houses grew larger and taller as the street climbed.

A woman of sixty-four is trying to fillet a mackerel in a low, dark kitchen in a lime-washed and slate-roofed house.

Their slate-roofed house was built by James Chambers' father as a wedding gift for his son, and the ground floor served as the family workshop.

Bowmore, the unofficial capital of the island, was a tidy village with slate-roofed white houses and an unusual round church at the head of its broad main street.

Gjirokastra is imposing, with an enormous 19th-century castle, towering slate-roofed houses and cobblestone streets so steep that every walk is an exercise in masochism.

And then at last there were signs of side roads, and scattered grey slate-roofed houses, and before them, as Rowlands slowed for a crossroad.

As many of the slate-roofed houses were timber as were stone, and fire had gotten loose during the looting.