eaves
/ivz/ noun C2- The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building.
- Something that extends over or projects beyond.
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The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building, low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children.
It was lit within by slits under the eaves.
At last in the stress of her fear she did that which might have daunted the bravest or most active man, for by the aid of the growth of ivy which covered (and still covers) the south wall she came down from under the eaves, and so homeward across the moor, there being three leagues betwixt the Hall and her father’s farm.
October 17th.—All day today the rain poured down, rustling on the ivy and dripping from the eaves.
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