scantlings

The boy held the end of the telescope against one of the veranda scantlings, while the man gazed through it at the sea.

Chapter 1 2010

This time next week, I will tell all of my faithful readers what the following are: beakhead knightheads scantlings (sounds like a nice title for a novel ...) tumblehome (so does that) bulwark

Archive 2006-06-01 lili 2006

This time next week, I will tell all of my faithful readers what the following are: beakhead knightheads scantlings (sounds like a nice title for a novel ...) tumblehome (so does that) bulwark

Learning about boats lili 2006

They were sometimes decorated with a carving of a head. scantlings

Over boats lili 2006

They were sometimes decorated with a carving of a head. scantlings

Archive 2006-06-01 lili 2006

It will send up the price of scantlings, and we was getting on too fast with them.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

They turned into a saw-mill as they went up, and counted the scantlings of timber that had been cut; and Michel looked at the cradle to see that it worked well, and to the wheels to see that they were in good order, and observed that the channel for the water required repairs, and said a word as to the injury that had come to him because George had left him.

The Golden Lion of Granpere 2004

By this time there remained only two more hours for work, and the arch of the icebreaker had been wholly sheathed in butter-tinted scantlings, and nothing required to be added to it save the great iron braces.

Through Russia 2003

The big, beautiful vessel goes sidewise on the river; the yellow scantlings with which it is loaded sparkle like gold and are dimly reflected in the muddy, vernal water.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

The pine logs could not be loaded whole thanks to lack of an anchorage, nor could they be towed because they were so heavy they sank, but they could provide plenty of sawn beams, scantlings and boards for Port Jackson.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000