...No riem or strap, hung down from the rafters above, and not a human creature was near the door... 
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...The rafters of the elevated ceiling were concealed by two lofty arches of clay, very neatly polished and ornamented...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...To prevent any creatures getting into them, we hung them up to the rafters of the roof...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
... Zora's eyes were now fixed far above the woman's head, and she saw a human face forming itself in the vast rafters of the forest...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...They aremuch more abundant than the Sparrow Hawk isin this country and frequently nest about houses,in hollow trees, on rafters of barns, or on ledgesand embankments...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...We put up a bridge roof, putting up about four pairs of rafters and then using three or four small cross poles for roof boards...
Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock 「Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper」
...Robins rarely nest in manmade structures, such as on rafters in shedsand barns, on bridge stringers, and, exceptionally, on electricalutility pole installations...
Richard F. Johnston 「The Breeding Birds of Kansas」
...Pelopæus, the Mud-dauber, is nowbuilding its earthen cells, plastering them on old rafters and stonewalls...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Over atthe damaged house two beavers are up on the walls,raising the rafters into place; a third appears to belaying on the outer covering and plastering it withmud...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...’ The shell, carefullyscraped and dried, was made into a dance-rattle, and, covered by apiece of buckskin, it still hangs from the smoke-stained rafters ofmy brother’s house...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Projecting poles; rafters extending beyond the walls...
Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff 「A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola」
...The main beamsare those which are laid upon columns, pilasters, and antae; tie-beamsand rafters are found in the framing...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...Hence generally, in buildings of stone and marble, the mutulesare carved with a downward slant, in imitation of the principal rafters...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...As forreplacing tiles, roof timbers, and rafters, we need not be so particularabout them as about the parts just mentioned, because they can easily bereplaced, however defective they may become...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
...Let the rafters themselves be held together by bridgings, and coveredwith boards, preferably of holm oak, or, this failing, of any othermaterial which has the greatest strength, except pine or alder...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
便利！手書き漢字入力検索