Examples of using "Faîte" in a sentence and their english translations:
Despite the attempt in 1947 to create an International Criminal Court
By this I reached the roof-top, whence in vain / the luckless Teucrians hurled their unavailing rain.
The wall around the hut was made of human bones and on its top were skulls.
I start from sleep, the parapet ascend, / and from the sloping roof with eager ears attend.
Then, amid the lurid light, / I see Troy sinking in the flames around, / and mighty Neptune's walls laid level with the ground.
Now curls the wave, and lifts us to the sky, / now sinks and, plunging in the gulf we lie.
In front, above the temple-gates I rear / the brazen shield which once great Abas bore, / and mark the deed in writing on the door, / "AEneas these from conquering Greeks hath ta'en".
Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain / to clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, / their right hands strive the battlements to gain, / their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain.