They were but cracked shells of houses, unroofed and swept clean of their floors and furniture, so that all but the bare walls and a few charred beams had been consumed by the devouring appetite of fire.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs
The piazza was open, unroofed: only at the front door was a wide covered portico, from which steps went down to the gravelled entrance.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
We could repeat that this and that tree were blown down, and such a barn or house unroofed; but we could not get the real wonder of it-the thing that moved us to try to talk it over-into any words.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney