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It is a wonder that this slight-looking structure can have survived the blasts, and thunderbolts, and earthquakes, and the weakening effects of time on its stones and timbers for five hundred years. [6]
Traversing a drift, we came to the Spanish line, passed five sets of timbers still uninjured, and found the earthquake. [5]
It was in truth a dismal sight,--the shapeless timbers, the corn, planted with such care, choked with weeds, and the poor utensils of the little family scattered and broken before the door-sill. [9]
The timbers were too strong; they did not yield. [5]
He was obliged to release the luckless Gaul from the broken timbers of the bridge, and, when Hermon had dragged him out on the opposite bank of the canal, he made no answer to any question. [10]
Therefore, "some say they could see no timbers of ten foot diameter, some the country is all wood; others they drained all the springs and ponds dry, yet like to famish for want of fresh water; some of the danger of the ratell-snake. [4]
The cheerfulness of the workmen, who sang gaily an old chanson of mill- life as they tugged at the timbers and stones, gave a fillip to the spirits of Jean Jacques, to whom had come a red-letter day. [11]
Shot after shot the twelve-pounders of the Frenchman drove like dun hail at the white timbers of the yacht, and her masts and spars were flying. [11]
The timbers of the chancel portion of the building seemed about to fall, and still the two men did not appear. [11]
Burrowing continually amongst the bowels of the vessel, Mr. Tooting knew the weak timbers better than the Honourable Hilary Vanes who thought the ship as sound as the day Augustus Flint had launched her. [9]
He brought the terrible news that Byng, the rescuer of so many, was himself caught by falling timbers and imprisoned near a spot where Jabez and Jacob Holyhoke were entombed. [11]
A man who tears at the foundations of a house must not be surprised if the timbers fall on him and on his workmen. [11]
The Gate was studded with thousands of nails, which fastened to its massive timbers relics of the faithful, bits of silk and cloth, and hair and leather; and here from time immemorial a holy man had sat and prayed. [11]
Her front feet struck the timbers, and then, without a cry, mare and rider dropped headlong down to the river beneath, swollen by the autumn rains. [11]
There are no provisions for foundations, thickness of walls, size of timbers and columns, and if these houses had been deliberately erected to make a bonfire they couldn't have answered the purpose better. [9]
Leaning against one of the timbers and half seated, with the softened roar of the city in his ears, the lights gleaming on the heights, the river flowing dark and silent, he began to be conscious of his situation. [4]
To these sounds now was added the dull crash of falling timbers and walls. [10]
In the cold nights the timbers cracked to the frost, she heard the owls calling to one another from the fastnesses of the forest, and thought of life's inscrutable mystery. [9]
At the turn-table, near the northern extremity of the fifth gallery, two big piles of rubbish had forced their way through from the fifth gallery, and from the looks of the timbers, more was about to come. [5]
He remained below, leading the search, the first in the places of danger and exploration, the last to retreat from any peril of falling timbers or from fresh explosion. [11]
The timbers used in the construction of Solomon's Temple were floated to Jaffa in rafts, and the narrow opening in the reef through which they passed to the shore is not an inch wider or a shade less dangerous to navigate than it was then. [5]
Already dust had gathered, and an air of desertion and decay filled the place in spite of the solid timbers and sound floors and window-sills. [11]
Wait until the fire is put out, and he has had time to look at the charred timbers and the ashes of his home, and in the course of a week he may possibly spin a few rhymes about it. [6]
Through a thin film of blue smoke she saw the rough-hewn timbers of the court roof. [13]
And no one ever thought much about Indian Island, off beyond the sweating, baking piles of lumber, and the blistering logs and timbers in the bay, till she told stories about it. [11]
There was a crash of timbers as the bows of the Swallow--it was she--were stove in, and then a wild cry. [11]
Politicians, on the contrary, have revered the dead wood, have sought to shore the old timbers for their own purposes. [9]
Here was as complete a chaos as ever was seen--vast masses of earth and splintered and broken timbers piled confusedly together, with scarcely an aperture left large enough for a cat to creep through. [5]
Before the Spanish caved in, some of their twelve-inch horizontal timbers were compressed in this way until they were only five inches thick! [5]
He was fastened by two chains to a staple driven into the foundation timbers of the house. [11]
A piece of board or a nail were treasures then, and when the timbers of the craft were covered, for oakum we had resort to tree-gum. [11]
It was a big shed that had been carried away, and, jammed between timbers, had not broken up. [11]
He wavered even at the threshold with the timbers swaying overhead, but, with a last effort, he plunged forward through the furnace, and was caught by eager hands on the margin of endurable heat. [11]
These timbers were as large as a man's body, and the framework stretched upward so far that no eye could pierce to its top through the closing gloom. [5]
It is quite another matter when those rotten timbers are used in holding up the roofs over our own heads. [6]
With arms raised and hands resting against the timbers of the doorway, she stood dreaming. [11]
The square was a wilderness of torches and people; and through a guarded passage dividing the pack, laborers were carrying planks and timbers and disappearing with them through the gate of the churchyard. [5]
Here, also, was a range of timbers, for a distance of twenty feet, tilted six inches out of the perpendicular by the weight resting upon them from the caved galleries above. [5]
It will be a fine place, when I've done with it--comfortable and big, with old oak timbers and walls, and deep fireplaces, and carvings done in the time of Louis Quinze, and dark red velvet curtains for the drawingroom, and skins and furs. [11]

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