bracings

Shutters clapped hollowly against bracings as dwellers sealed their residences against the approaching storm.

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

That the fall of the bridge was occasioned by the insufficiency of the cross bracings and its fastenings to sustain the force of the gale on the night of December 28, 1879, and that the bridge had been previously strained by other gales.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

That the fall of the bridge was occasioned by the insufficiency of the cross bracings and its fastenings to sustain the force of the gale on the night of December 28, 1879, and that the bridge had been previously strained by other gales.

The Bridge Over the River Tay 2008

Worse, the spiderwebs of iron bracings set in place in 1845 to make Erebus impervious to the ice moaned constantly now from the terrible pressure.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Rust flecked the iron bracings of the mighty bronze portal.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Rust flecked the iron bracings of the heavy bronze gate.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Rust flecked the iron bracings of the mighty bronze portal.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Rust flecked the iron bracings of the heavy bronze gate.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Then, it had taken three rankers to lift and carry the big barrel over the bracings to get it into position.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

Pull the loaves out of the oven and bring me these bracings of my stomach.

The Acharnians 2000