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    shingle


    shingled


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    1. when the sound of rocks and shingle falling,


    2. Deprived of their focal point, her eyes dropped to the shingle by her feet, idly scanning the ground up rocks littering the shore


    3. The water rippled as the waves came and went, sucking at the shingle of the beach with a regular, reassuring sound


    4. white, shingle beach which was almost blinding in the


    5. As we closed into the shore you could see the phosphorescence of the wave’s caps rolling and breaking on the shore and you could almost hear it lapping on the shingle and pebble shore sighing in its anticipation of the caress


    6. al to shingle plants every year


    7. White capped waves fell across the beach, moving the shingle with a semi-musical sound


    8. But the conference was in New York City, and between paying for hotel, cabs, food, and transportation, the budget I had been saving towards putting my own shingle out was significantly diminished


    9. “I need you to order a lorry load of shingle


    10. stood on the shingle, staring out across the water to the misty outline of Peggy’s

    11. The girl who had mediated many a playground dispute or quarrel naturally hung out her shingle as the community's first lawyer


    12. Suddenly, a great surge of stinking half-digested krill spurted up from the recesses of the fish's innards and those great white teeth opened, to reveal Xiphias shining down on a shingle beach


    13. It was a sprawling two-story, constructed in a Hamptons Shingle style, and built to look rustic and weathered, humble almost, but it was far from that


    14. To his amazement, the water level was slowly dropping, and the subs were grounding on a coarse shingle bottom


    15. The water level continued to drop though, until the coarse shingle was high and dry


    16. The first indication of buoyancy was the slight rocking of the vessel, followed by a grating and shrieking noise as the sub moved over the shingle


    17. Okay, now you’re a professional, dyed-in-the-wool spirit channel, ready to hang out your shingle and charge for readings


    18. Floy slid on the wet shingle


    19. Limbs were white as the shingle, and the tunics still clean, but they clung tightly, hanging higher than they used to, and the seams broke at Tem’s shoulders


    20. ” I studied the shingle

    21. For a long while I sat on the knotted roots of one of them, listening to the slow wash of the waves on the shingle far below


    22. I could hear the sea at the foot of the cliff sluggishly heaving on and off the shingle, and I could see it over the edge of the cliff to the east, and here for the first time round the bend of the island to the north


    23. Anyhow young Vickerton found him hours afterwards walking up and down the shingle in the dark, waving his arms about and crying--


    24. The boy picked up a middle-sized shingle, said “This stone” and threw it up into the air


    25. fishing gear on Mars she leased the lot built the building in the square at The Company cavern and hung out her shingle


    26. hitting the sand and shingle, he relaxed and tried to get a few


    27. “You told them what?” Incredulous, I pace the rug in front of the gas fireplace in the rear sitting area of Barrons Books & Baubles, which is really Mac’s B&B, but my name on the hand-painted shingle doesn’t carry the same cachet


    28. A delicate pink crept into her pretty cheek but she was determined to let them see so she just lifted her skirt a little but just enough and took good aim and gave the ball a jolly good kick and it went ever so far and the two twins after it down towards the shingle


    29. And the talk, the wonderful talk flowed on—or was it speech entirely, or did it pass at times into song—chanty of the sailors weighing the dripping anchor, sonorous hum of the shrouds in a tearing North-Easter, ballad of the fisherman hauling his nets at sundown against an apricot sky, chords of guitar and mandoline from gondola or caique? Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail? All these sounds the spell-bound listener seemed to hear, and with them the hungry complaint of the gulls and the sea-mews, the soft thunder of the breaking wave, the cry of the protesting shingle


    30. She’d had her professional shingle out for nearly twenty years and had been involved in several of the cases that Puller had investigated

    31. The roof was shingle


    32. Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea


    33. Even if that hadn’t been true, the Charisian was on the far side of Shingle Shoal


    34. Through the long warm days she watched her red stone and gray shingle house rise grandly, to tower above any other house on Peachtree Street


    35. like shingle in a storm; ever higher rose the hideous mounds, and still the


    36. But what if you’re not an entrepreneur? What if you have absolutely no interest in hanging up your own shingle? What if you work in corporate America or even for a small business? Can you still figure out a way to add more value and increase your earning potential? Let me tell you about a young woman


    37. Then he scraped away the dirt, and exposed a pine shingle


    38. "Grandma, who'll shingle the roof next spring?"


    39. By the time he got down the hill there was not a shingle, bolt or threshold of it that wasn’t alive with flame


    40. ‘Grandma, who’ll shingle the roof next spring?’

    41. The shadow seemed deliberate in its slowness so as to shingle his flesh and cheesegrate his steadily willed calm


    42. Here and there, with stubborn persistence to custom, there had been voices singing, the honey laughter under the mimosa branches, the pickaninnies rushing in clear water laughter at the creek, movements and bendings in the fields, jokes and shouts of amusement from the shingle shacks covered with fresh green vine


    43. By the time he got down the hill there was not a shingle, bolt or threshold of it that wasn't alive with flame


    44. Instead of calling on some scholar, I paid many a visit to particular trees, of kinds which are rare in this neighborhood, standing far away in the middle of some pasture, or in the depths of a wood or swamp, or on a hilltop; such as the black birch, of which we have some handsome specimens two feet in diameter; its cousin, the yellow birch, with its loose golden vest, perfumed like the first; the beech, which has so neat a bole and beautifully lichen-painted, perfect in all its details, of which, excepting scattered specimens, I know but one small grove of sizable trees left in the township, supposed by some to have been planted by the pigeons that were once baited with beechnuts near by; it is worth the while to see the silver grain sparkle when you split this wood; the bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which we have but one well-grown; some taller mast of a pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual, standing like a pagoda in the midst of the woods; and many others I could mention


    45. Even his shingle read: "Ladies' Tailor: Abramka Stiftik"—the most valid proof that he deemed his name immaterial, but that the chief thing to him was his art


    46. "Hark! Don't you hear the grinding of the shingle away over the port bow? As soon as the sound comes from windward we'll have her on the port tack, and thus we'll clear Boulder Ledge


    1. with steep old shingled roofs


    2. The shingled roof


    3. The whole thing was capped off with a high peaked roof that was shingled in gray tiles, like something out of a movie


    4. It’s a dilapidated shingled ranch that almost sags at its sides, a beater Chevy parked in the driveway


    5. Jacobi’s brown, shingled house was at the far end of the block, and although he had a garage that took up the ground floor, his black Hyundai SUV was parked on the street


    6. I rolled up the paper and stared blankly at the pretty pastel and shingled houses on Sea View Avenue


    7. He was crouched in front of a doghouse that was painted white and shingled to look like the main residence


    8. My house had in the meanwhile been shingled down to the ground on every side


    9. The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above supposition


    10. It is an old, curious, square tower, and at the brink of its notched edge there is a shingled helmet which was erected by one of the late Orzos

    1. to drag the boats up onto the shingles


    2. the shingles banging in the wind above them, and suddenly


    3. old white house, whose paint was peeling, and whose dusty shingles were dripping


    4. The roof turned out to be made of heavy split shingles


    5. Leases had to be broken, over 185 billboards around the country torn down, and hundreds of Duncan Hines shingles in front of establishments returned


    6. it spew out wildly from the shingles and onto the soil, the faces


    7. time he climbed up on the roof of the house to repair the shingles


    8. And naked shingles of the world


    9. by the shingles on the roofs of the houses


    10. Many of the poems overlap like shingles, more than the sum

    11. So in one phone call he hired me at $18 an hour to get up on roofs all over South Florida and tear off the shingles and pull all the nails out of the roofs and help them repair holes in the roofs


    12. The roof has solar shingles, furniture is made from recycled materials and wood used in construction is certified as having been grown sustainably


    13. “Where was I? Oh, yes! We had some lunch, then he noticed a couple shingles on the room that needed tacked down


    14. How to make a roux and how to treat shingles, that was more her field


    15. Was he having a stroke? Shingles maybe? But when


    16. Shingles can be a very painful condition where the patient can suffer from pain even touching the skin where the herpes zoster virus has attacked


    17. They can be painful in cases of shingles rashes, chickenpox and infected rashes


    18. windows, pipes and shingles


    19. Scale-shaped shingles adorned the rest of the


    20. Generally speaking, if you measure the size of your roof, then calculate the cost of shingles at your local Rona, Lowes or Home Depot then double it to add labour cost

    21. Asphalt shingles last 12-20 years


    22. 25 year shingles might need replacing in 12 years


    23. 40 year shingles often need replacing in 25


    24. Shingles wear out faster where there are lower slopes and with more sun exposure


    25. Tom heard the running steps on the shingles


    26. Their paws didn’t look like canine paws but rather something belonging to tigers, with sharp retractable claws that clung to the roof shingles


    27. There were bright green asphalt shingles on the roof


    28. In the face of the extraordinary bounty of the massive cedars, and valuing them primarily for making roofing shakes and shingles, the men who had cut them down had taken only the prime middle section of each, leaving behind long sections from the tops, where the branches were, and the bottoms, where the trunks began to flare out and the grain of the wood no longer ran perfectly straight and true


    29. Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles


    30. As I maintained my sobriety, my health continued to improve until, out of nowhere, in the fall of 2014, I developed a bad case of shingles, which was really painful

    31. Roof shingles blew off the building


    32. The room was part of a sturdy barracks built of peeled, squared, chinked—and blessedly draft-proof—logs, thickly roofed in shingles cut from the logs’ bark


    33. Shingles, bits and pieces of carved angels and archangels, sparkling shards of stained glass, and jagged chunks of building stone flew up and out in a fiery whirlwind, then crashed back in a lethal rain of debris, and the private clasped both hands over his helmeted head in a frail effort at self-protection


    34. The brick house awkwardly patched and roofed with rude boards instead of shingles, managed to look of the Elsings still stood, with a new roof and a new second floor


    35. of a Yankee home talking of uprights and shingles with the man of the house, the wife homes, she was like an answer to prayer


    36. ” of fancy shingles at each end


    37. There it had a wide mouth with stony clifflike gates at either side whose feet were piled with shingles


    38. The beds of the stream were almost dry, a bare waste of shingles and grey sand


    39. Below, there’s a pattern of small light and dark rectangles, and I realize they’re the roof shingles on my house


    40. The building that Shareef Thomas was in turned out to be two-storied, with faded gray shingles and some broken windows

    41. Her bare feet clung tenuously to the cold roof shingles


    42. He took it up and disclosed a shapely little treasure-house whose bottom and sides were of shingles


    43. The clapboard houses, log cabins, and Louisiana mansions dropped their shingles, gaped their doors, shivered with plagues and fell


    44. But no, it was Great-grandma somehow transported, singing, pounding nails, replacing shingles, high in the sky!


    45. As if propelled by the sound of his own voice, he continued striding down Summerton’s streets, proclaiming as he went, “Look at that lousy architecture, the gimcrack scrimshaw rococo baroque shingles and hangons


    46. But no, it was Great-grandma, somehow transported, singing, pounding nails, replacing shingles, high in the sky!


    47. The wave after that drifted the body another foot down the shingles and the next three moved it six feet down


    48. Some monstrous baggage brushed and dragged across the shingles of Jim's house


    49. They dragged the hose to drench the shingles, to wash the silver, flood the evil mercury paint away


    50. And from the rockets ran men with hammers in their hands to beat the strange world into a shape that was familiar to the eye, to bludgeon away all the strangeness, their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores, spitting them into their swift hands as they hammered up frame cottages and scuttled over roofs with shingles to blot out the eerie stars, and fit green shades to pull against the night



    1. or shingling a house, families within the community would work


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    Synonyms for "shingle"

    shingle shake

    "shingle" definitions

    building material used as siding or roofing


    coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)


    a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.


    cover with shingles