My bunk was formed of boards supported by four up-ended casks and stretched the whole length of my small chamber.
So I got me back to my carpentry, and selecting as many boards as I required for the width of my table, fell to cutting them to their proper lengths with hammer and chisel.
Upon these boards was a pallet covered by a great blanket that hung down to the very flooring; lifting this, I advanced the lanthorn and so began to examine very narrowly this space beneath my bed.
Their boardsof management are comparatively free from interference on the part of party politicians and demagogues, or of those influenced by denominational prejudices.
These boards are composed of about twenty or thirty representative men in church or state.
School boards will rarely select a superintendent or a principal of the high school who has not received a collegiate education.
These boards are the ultimate source of authority in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the college.
A few broken steps led from the boards above to the water below.
Do you not wish this boat the Santa Teresa, these rude boards the velvet cushions of her state cabin, this darkness her many lights, this cold her warmth, with the night shut out and love shut in?
By now the wharf shook with running feet, and the backward-streaming flame of the torches reddened its boards and the black water beneath; but each instant the water widened between us and our pursuers.
The trees ran down to the very edge of the wharf, upon whose rotten, loosened, and noisy boards we now trod.
The island was built of boards covered with green velvet, and there was a mound upon it of pink silk roses.
Presently Odinzoff went outside, carrying with him two boards upon which the menu of the "Eight-penny Luncheon!
And in every corner they rummaged, even to taking up a number of boards in the inner room which Elma had occupied.
Poor old house, it leered at the passers, with its windows askew, and clattered its loose boards and battered shutters in utter and complacent defiance of all their jeers!
By sheer visualization under my eyelids I constructed chess-boards and played both sides of long games through to checkmate.
After that they timbered the well with bottom boards from the wagons and wagon tongues, and the digging went on.
While moored to the bank, we were passed by several boats destined for St. Louis, which were loaded with pine boardsand plank from Olean, on the sources of the Alleghany.
They make eight-inch boards where there should be ten, and ten where there should be twelve.
The mortar is taken up in a hod or hoisted in pails and deposited on ledged boards about 3 ft.
A hundred years ago most of the dwellings of the middle and poorer classes were crudely made, with clap-boards and joists laboriously hewn with the broad ax, and the roof was covered with split shingles.
This covered broadly the combination of the cutting cylinders, and rolls for holding the boards against the cutting cylinders, and also means for tongueing and grooving at one operation.
The value of the steam feed was to increase the speed and efficiency of the saw, by expediting the movement of its carriage, as many as six boards per minute being cut by its aid from a log of average length.
They might ha' given ourboards a turn; but not they.
In addition to the curling, the outer boardswill be poorer because they contain a greater proportion of sapwood, which is usually inferior to the heartwood.
The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth boards from the top are not nailed to the cleats, but are omitted, to leave space for a large open window.
Upon this platform are raised the piazza posts, and at the top of these is nailed a roof system, which is covered with boards in the same way as the floor beneath.
The sides and ends should be boarded with sheathing or matched boards laid vertically, cutting out the doorway and a small window in the back gable for ventilation.
In case of a high double-runner, running foot-boards along each side can be added.
Planing (by machine) rough or undressed boards on both sides will usually reduce the thickness of an inch board to about seven eighths of an inch.
Both planks andboards can be of any width or length, the distinction being merely in thickness.
Saw the boards and cleats by this line and then fit and nail the top cleats as in Fig.
The roof-boards for one side should be as much longer than those for the other as the thickness of the stock.
Do you not wish this boat the Santa Teresa, these rude boards the velvet cushions of her state cabin, this darkness her many lights, this cold her warmth, with the night shut out and love shut in?
That's why we've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs or seats on Federal boards and commissions.
To this Mr. Colton promptly replied, that it was true that there was a mop-stick in the house, but that by means of the mop-stick the sounds heard and the vibration of the boards casting up dust could not have been effected.
The vibration of the boards caused by the violence of these blows would be sensibly felt through a shoe or boot.
An effect not to be produced by any blows on the ceiling was that the dust was thrown up from such boards as were beaten with such velocity as to affect the eyes of the spectators.
Auntie Jean, more puzzled than ever, surveying the blank boards before her.
Why don't you knock away some of the boards from the partition down-stairs?
Reaching Chericoke she found Mrs. Lightfoot and Aunt Rhody drying sliced sweet potatoes on boards along the garden fence, where the sunflowers and hollyhocks flaunted in the face of want.
In his sleep he had saved the flag and won promotion after victory, and for a moment the trampled straw seemed to him to be the battle-field, and the thin boardsagainst which he beat the enemy's resisting line.
Barge-boards and brackets of various cheap patterns are plentifully strewed over the building.
Welshmen will not build even so insignificant a structure as a pig-sty out of boards if there are stones to be had.
Johnny would unload a few feet of clean pine boards from the freight train, and within a day or two they seemed to be turned into a wing of the small castle by some easy magic.
Long rough boards nailed upon four upright pieces of wood served as tables and benches.
A cold, bleak wind was howling round the house; the weathercocks creaked, the boards in the half-ruined sheds cracked, and the 350 emigrants shuddered with cold in the freezing rooms of the farm and in the draughty barns.
Upon this was raised a structure of posts andboards about eight feet high, divided into rooms for cooking and sleeping, leaving a few feet space in front and rear, to row and steer.
My intention is to address a circular to the different Boards of School Inspectors throughout Michigan, urging upon them the necessity of doing something for the cause, and invoking their efficiency in the matter.
Similar facts have been obtained byboards of health in our own country.
Take off the top boards of your table, and with them board the bottom across tight and firm; then line it with zinc, and you will have a sort of box or sink on legs.
As the earth is dry, there is no occasion for the use of any thing better than common pine boards in making this addition to the reservoir.
Soon all the rest were similarly occupied, even the eldest brother taking his eyes off his host to search the boards at his feet.
There she held a moment's whispered conversation, produced a package from under her greatcoat, and then joined the other children, who were seated up in front on boards placed across the main aisle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
