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    1. The temple is constructed of rough timber and lumber with no ornamentation, the sliding doors are made of rice paper


    2. Just the fact that his home was proudly built out of cut timber and earthenware block was enough to mark it as foreign


    3. The natives derided cut timber as 'plank-up' and deemed it temporary construction, even if the beams were eight by sixteen


    4. Beyond the hedge and the ubiquitous, unforgiving, waist-high nettles, chunks of ballast gravel, sharp and stained, emited a slight haze of heat, baking the old timber sleepers laid a hundred years ago, counting off the miles between Blue Anchor and Watchett


    5. has borne old timber these forty years,


    6. behind me in the worm cast and the split timber


    7. and exposed stumps of timber


    8. Their dress was very much as she had seen in the popular press, the architecture and the lay of the land were as she had seen, but the thousands and thousands of mud brick and rough timber structures around the palace were never shown on any reproduction she had seen


    9. Most were mud brick and timber with wood beamed tile roofs


    10. rotting timber, all heavily overgrown

    11. contained a goods portal, used to transport the cut timber to other


    12. As he made the sudden lunge forward, they dropped their own staffs, grasped the ends of his just as suddenly and with the strength necessary to heft a two hundred pound timber, they pulled him forward adding his own momentum to theirs


    13. And, yes; do let's move the timber out of our way


    14. house and consume it with its timber


    15. those of his usual acquaintances were all made of timber


    16. was an old timber building in desperate need of repair


    17. This building was just a rope-up of timber on a monumental archwood strapped to the Thweighnmonkt


    18. timber or stone construction - a testament to the former


    19. "I believe it's called a Timber Monkey, and can be found far to the south, in the jungle forests where the Gorian range can only be seen in memory," their guide explained


    20. CHAPTER 14 – DAYS AT THE TIMBER WALL TAVERN

    21. His tranquility, and peace of mind, having been compromised at the Wayward Inn, Alec sought refuge at a far less crowded, and less refutable establishment, the Timber Wall Tavern; a dilapidated shack that made his former residence seem as grand as the Archenon


    22. Needless to say, after their initial introduction to the pimp and his whores, Alec and Solo Ki spent their days and nights at the Timber Wall Tavern undisturbed


    23. Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent


    24. It affords a good rent ; and the landlord sometimes finds that he can scarce employ his best lands more advantageously than in growing barren timber, of which the greatness of the profit often compensates the lateness of the returns


    25. Upon the sea-coast of a well-improved country, indeed, if coals can conveniently be had for fuel, it may sometimes be cheaper to bring barren timber for building from less cultivated foreign countries than to raise it at home


    26. In the new town of Edinburgh, built within these few years, there is not, perhaps, a single stick of Scotch timber


    27. Her voice clear and strong with the timber of youth


    28. The ceiling was made of timber beams, whereas back home, a rich man’s ceiling would be covered with terra cotta tiles, each imprinted with a pleasing image


    29. There are, indeed, a few manufactures, in which the necessary rise in the real price of the rude materials will more than compensate all the advantages which improvement can introduce into the execution of the work In carpenters' and joiners' work, and in the coarser sort of cabinet work, the necessary rise in the real price of barren timber, in consequence of the improvement of land, will more than compensate all the advantages which can be derived from the best machinery, the greatest dexterity, and the most proper division and distribution of work


    30. culture of our ancient ancestors had collapsed because they’d run out of timber

    31. the timber without water rushing down her nose


    32. The prohibition of exporting from the colonies to any other country but Great Britain, masts, yards, and bowsprits, tar, pitch, and turpentine, naturally tended to lower the price of timber in the colonies, and consequently to increase the expense of clearing their lands, the principal obstacle to their


    33. In order to counteract this notable piece of mercantile policy, and to render herself as much as possible independent, not only of Sweden, but of all the other northern powers, Great Britain gave a bounty upon the importation of naval stores from America; and the effect of this bounty was to raise the price of timber in America much more than the confinement to the home market could lower it; and as both regulations were enacted at the same time, their joint effect was rather to encourage than to discourage the clearing of land in America


    34. The tendency of some of these regulations to raise the value of timber in America, and thereby to facilitate the clearing of the land, was neither, perhaps, intended nor understood by the legislature


    35. In the first way, she gives an advantage in the home market to the sugar, tobacco, and iron of her own colonies; and, in the second, to their raw silk, to their hemp and flax, to their indigo, to their naval stores, and to their building timber


    36. timber, oil and minerals) for everyone to share


    37. The new fella then walks into The Timber Lake Inn


    38. Under this denomination were comprehended timber fit for masts, yards, and bowsprits; hemp, tar, pitch, and turpentine


    39. They were wider for a start and better fortified they had willow branches woven into the trench walls and timber props to shore up the trench walls


    40. It was originally two plain planks of wood, though while Carl prayed, Adem saw light of changing colours spreading along the timber, carving smaller crosses, and shaping the wood to look ornamental

    41. "I will need some tools and a little timber


    42. Timber can be found in that shed over there


    43. down with his bare hands and piling the rotten timber in a barricade across the street toward the dock


    44. “Throw the oil around the bottom of the piles of timber


    45. Flesh’ailer emptied all the oil they could spare over the various blockades of timber and joined his friends by the dockside


    46. Modern additions such as picture windows, glass doors, and new wings crafted from brick and timber suggested the building had seen numerous renovations over the years


    47. The springless wheels on the rough road made torture enough for the stricken men, but at the so-called rivers, mere streams that four hours' labour with the timber growing on the banks would have bridged, the teams first jolted down the steep banks, throwing the wounded in a bleeding, groaning heap at the head of the wagon


    48. “I could have a timber shaped for that in a few hours with -”


    49. The attacking soldiers were trying to breach her sister’s protective sanctuary! She clambered over the pile of timber and debris, pushing her way into the entry hall of Serenor


    50. My feet became a blur as I struggled to drag Uncle Hobart out of its path but it ploughed into us and we were swept off our feet, to be thrown onto its rough timber














































    1. The going grew rougher, the scenery more rugged, steep grassy slopes pitching up to densely timbered mountainsides


    2. The slopes on either side of the valley were heavily timbered and the valley floor was covered with short grass with a few shrubs and cactus dotted here and there


    3. Pulling into a village of little distinction, we failed to appreciate the full, Rousseau-esque rural charm of the decaying rustic timbered frame houses and manky collection of domesticated animals occupying a perfectly good spot for a hotel


    4. Lady FitzWalter was a wonderful cook - he could see where Marian got it from - and they sat until quite late after dinner on Saturday chatting animatedly over a malt whisky in their comfy lounge, with timbered ceiling and inglenook fireplace


    5. When they reached the high, timbered fortress wall Jasper muttered "Here it comes," and clenched his teeth


    6. Wishing there was a sign that said Royal Oaks, Petra tramped after Emory past black and white timbered cottages with thatched roofs, millponds and barns


    7. Adorno recalled that distant afternoon’s events with Nicolette as his party of close to two hundred approached the enormous timbered gates of Duval’s compound


    8. the length of one whole wall, two ten-pin bowling alleys gleamed with a polished timbered


    9. varnished timbered hulls, preferably of old Kauri and Huon pine


    10. The inn was bigger than he’d expected, a great grey sprawl of a place, timbered and turreted, half of it built on pilings out over the water

    11. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point


    12. But suppose it to have been proved, that the waters of Lake Erie once overspread the state of Ohio, from its present shore to Chillicothe, (a supposition which I trust has however been shown to be visionary) does it follow that the prairies were occasioned by such overflowing? If the water, by covering the country, prevented the timber from growing, should we not naturally look for the largest timber on the higher grounds which would be first forsaken by the waters, and for small timber on the low grounds, where the water remained longest? If this be true, (and it is unquestionable) we should then look for prairies on the low grounds bordering on Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan; and the thickly timbered country would be on the high land, near the sources of the rivers


    13. But the contrary is absolutely the fact: we find heavy timbered land, and no prairies, in the low countries north of the lakes, and none south, either in Michigan territory or elsewhere, until we arrive near the sources of the rivers


    1. Pharaoh knew that this was happening as building and timbering


    1. "But yeah," doostEr said, "I moved some big timbers for one of them about eight miles out and a windwheel assembly for another who's at least twenty five miles out


    2. The crate was a swollen collection of planks, but framed out with good heavy timbers and fitted with lifting eyes that could have held a long suspension bridge


    3. He spent an hour selecting the right timbers to block in the crate exactly


    4. He picked the right staging axes to bring, to use on a strap of smaller timbers that he hung from a little adapter pulley off the backbone


    5. There's big crystal claws on the timbers when hauling rocks you understand


    6. frames of rough cut, foot square timbers


    7. He was the only full blooded Brazilian in this household, but he used his immense wealth to impart a bit of the style of his homeland in the timbers, the stucco and the tile


    8. In Danton’s wake a red capped guard hurried on, head bowed, taking two pigeon steps for every one that the committee chairman slammed down onto the unyielding flagstones as they swept past heavy browed doors set in frames of rough cut, foot square timbers


    9. and split, sagging, timbers that are the roof upon our world


    10. in the seasoned timbers slammed shut at the insect call

    11. On stands of gunmetal, iron nosed timbers


    12. the timbers, mon Dieu,


    13. Stood here before her on bare floor timbers,


    14. George then went over to a stack of long timbers next to the wood shed and began a new project, always keeping an inconspicuous eye on his daughters' progress


    15. They used enclosures of thick timbers, re-enforced


    16. Large round timbers were sunk in the ground around a covered hole, and heavy boards attached to the house, boxed in the space above the ground, nearly as tall as himself


    17. While he pounded and sweated, his father fitted other timbers together and raised the skeletons of walls around the edges of the box


    18. In a very little while the wagon was near enough to the levee break to unload some of the timbers needed there


    19. These four timbers,” he pointed, “will be sunk in holes here,” and he walked over to the levee break and indicated a place with his boot, then stepped to the next, “here, here, and here


    20. At a height of forty standard feet the winch began groaning under the pressure, the massive brentwood timbers that composed the frame bending as it inched its way upward

    21. Ship timbers scraped stone with a rending crunch, but Father managed to avoid disaster


    22. We had to carry the lot all the wood to be used props, timbers, duckboards, and then there were the sandbags and the Bain of my life the coils of barbed wire


    23. In the center of the throng, a young man stood locked into a pillory, wrists and neck bound by heavy timbers


    24. “When they land we will set light to the timbers and grass as we retreat


    25. They could see from the distance the final pile of timbers and broken carts were alight and roaring near the city gates


    26. With a roar the men within leapt out through the timbers and raced into the keep proper


    27. This was built from ‘hastily-requisitioned’ (stolen) wire and timbers


    28. open hatch above showed a parting of the hull’s timbers, but


    29. A shell remained: a vacant derelict with cindered walls, empty sockets that had been windows, and a collapsed roof jutting its charcoaled timbers skyward like rigored fingers of the dead


    30. He was a man with sufficient courage (just barely) to find his way up a burned and broken staircase, cross a floor of gaping holes which exposed the charred remnants of support timbers he trusted with his life, to arrive at a corner window

    31. ” Then he smiled and smacked his fists in a way that shivered my timbers


    32. This victory was countered at Fallen Timbers on the Maumee River in August 1794


    33. The Greenville Treaty, signed a year after the Battle of Fallen Timbers, provided $20,000 for Indian losses in return for turning over large parts of Ohio, and what would later become Chicago and Detroit


    34. Will nourish the growing timbers of tenderness


    35. Below that point, only a few broken roofs and splintered timbers poked


    36. He led the way over the broken timbers and then over a roof to the oil tank


    37. Large timbers and native stone were the main components in its architecture


    38. They had cut, shaved and notched all the timbers so they


    39. at the huge hand hewed timbers that crisscrossed the space


    40. Replacing timbers in the wall area is just the

    41. Bullets tore across the wood bridge timbers


    42. Sandbags piled on shelves of PSP (Pierced Steel Planking) rose four feet above ground to support the roof composed of timbers and sandbags


    43. The room we built, where his crystals laid buried under the posts, was part of the shell that was outlined by the timbers


    44. Its timbers crackled as they charred


    45. 'Just before dawn I heard the creak of timbers and the rasp and clack of cordage and oars


    46. The timbers of the stout little galley creaked and groaned as the men fairly ripped her through the water


    47. About the road there sounded somewhere the splintering of stone and timbers


    48. But their prows bumped against the timbers of the Wastrel, and the sailors staggered up the chains, leaving the boats to drift as they would


    49. Suddenly a figure appeared on the fringe of the trail, under the trees, and began gliding toward the fallen timbers


    50. Slasher cleared the timbers with a bound and leaped into the bushes













































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