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eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. iv. 42 To þon..þæt hie [sc. the senate] bewisten eal þæt licgende feoh under anum hrofe.., þæt hie hit siþþan mehten him eallum gemænelice to nytte gedon.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) viii. 244 Drihten, neom ic wyrðe þæt ðu infare under minum hrofe [L. sub tectum meum].

c1225 (?OE) Soul's Addr. to Body (Worcester) (Fragm. C) l. 24 [Nol]dest þu on þine huse herborwen þeo wrecchen, ne mihten heo under [þin]e roue none reste finden.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. viii. 8 That thou entre vndir my roof.

a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 52 (MED) Þey vsed to occupie her foot-men in dedes of armes in þe feld in mery wedir and vndir roof in housynge y-made þerfore in stormes and in foule wedir.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Quadrilogue (Rawl.) (1974) 244 Flyes that make hony..keping togedir their assemble and by their litill pollicey [c1475 Univ. Oxf. polecie] to kepe the lordship of their kyng þat regnith among them vndir a litill praty roofe.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 31 Thay nevir thair heid sett vndir the ruffe of ony hous.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. iii. 25 Vnderneath that consecrated roofe, Plight me the full assurance of your faith. View more context for this quotation

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xvi. 200 For so it is fit that a guide should point out every turning, if he be to teach a childe or a fool to return under his fathers roof.

1657 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Friendship 61 There is very often a likenesse of natural temper, and there is a social life under the same roof.

1701 Cramond Kirk Session IV. 4 July A woman which he calles his neice stayes under roofe with him in the night time.

1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 212 Beneath his low illustrious Roof, Sweet Peace and happy Wisdom smooth'd his Brow.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. i. 228 That, since you were now under my roof, I could not refuse to receive their proposals.

1790 in Guide Mus. Pract. Geol. (1859) 98 About 90 painters..and about 200 throwers, turners, &c., were employed under one roof.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. ix. 317 They had both seen Scott frequently under their own roofs.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 302 For about two years they lived..under the roof of their father's youngest sister.

1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xvii. 156 The overcoats were in fact the very strangest he had ever seen under a polite roof.

1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill iii. 69 Beneath Ambrose Pedley's roof, breakfast invariably consisted of ‘gulls’—oatmeal with a little milk—and barley bread, the other meals being of the same calibre.

1987 N. Sibal Yatra i. 100 She came to Dagra to kill herself under my roof. As if the fact of her death would not be painful enough for me otherwise.

2007 Church Times 30 Nov. 23/2 We now have three houses knocked together, with ten adults and six children all living under the same roof.