By sundown the carpenter had completed and hung the double doors; and they were secured with the heavy locks the colonel had purchased in the days of the horse-thieves.
Their father was a village carpenter and undertaker, honest and respectable, but who took to drink in his later years.
That principle is this: The boat is built by any carpenterthe men choose to employ; the price is paid for it, and that is charged to their account.
He was a carpenter to trade, but he does nothing now.
The carpenter and I were the last, and we had to jump for it as he went down.
The carpenter and I stuck it out two days more, then we drew straws for it and it was his turn.
Snake, bite the Queen, and tell her to divorce the King, because he will not tell the Carpenter to pare my ribs down and let me get into my hole.
A good carpenter in towns can earn from 12 annas to Rs.
Maharana is the term used in the Uriya country, where the caste are also known as Phal-Barhai, or a carpenter who only works on one side of the wood.
Leaving the ship in charge of the first mate, Captain Marshall went below, to learn what the ship's carpenter might have to say about the condition of affairs.
Then the ship's carpenter and an assistant went to work to tighten up the seams, through which the water of the ocean was spurting furiously.
When Ndengei had grown old the settlement on the Kauvandra mountain consisted of several villages, one of which belonged to Rokola and his carpenter clan, and the grandsons of the first arrivals were grown men.
These are the ancestors of the carpenterclan at Rewa.
And Rokola told his clan, who were the carpenter clan, the orders of the chiefs, and the carpenters built a vessel and called it the Kaunitoni.
The canoe was kept under shelter, and the matsail stripped from the yard on the first threat of a downpour of rain, because their owner knew that he would have to pay the carpenter for repairing them in food planted by his own hand.
The carpenter employed for this infamous purpose, struck with the noble workmanship, refused to lay a tool on it; till the more than Gothic priest took the hatchet from his hand, and struck the first blow.
The carpenter with whom he lodged had not been always on the best terms with him.
But the most handy of the planes to the boycarpenter is the smoothing plane, E.
Carpenter mentions that, up to 1861, no less than eighteen hundred of these microscopes had been sold.
Illustration] One of the handiest things in a garden is a wheelbarrow, and one of the prettiest for the young carpenter to exercise his ingenuity upon.
There is another most useful saw it would be of advantage for the young carpenter to have, namely, the dovetail saw.
Should not the young carpenter possess the wood and tools needed for the entire construction of the hutch, his best plan will be to purchase an old tea-chest or egg-box from the grocer's, and modify it into the necessary form.
If you call in a carpenter for a little work he is sure to spin out a "regular job.
And in a week Mr. and Mrs. Skinner were installed in the farm, and the jobbing carpenter from Hickleybrow was diversifying the task of erecting runs and henhouses with a systematic discussion of Mr. Bensington.
Mr. Skinner came closer to the carpenter from Hickleybrow, and spoke in a confidential manner, and one sad eye regarded the distant village, and one was bright and wicked.
I thought 'e seemed a bit Dotty," said the carpenter from Hickleybrow.
Then doubting if the carpenter had quite got the point of it, he repeated in a penetrating whisper; "Meathured!
An hour later, the carpenter brought the coffin which was to contain the king's remains.
But of all the cautious and careful answers we ever heard of was one given by a carpenter to an old lady in Glasgow, for whom he was working, and the anecdote is well authenticated.
And that from the feast of Easter unto Michaelmas the wages of any freemason or master carpenter exceed not by the day 4d.
And from the feast of Michaelmas unto Easter a freemason and a master carpenter by the day 3d.
The stage carpenter had also informed her that Joe Mortimer's performance in the Cloches was extraordinary; he never failed to bring down the house in his big scene; and Lucy Leslie was the best Clairette going.
For some months past a friendship had been growing up between the two women, but if Kate had known for certain that Hender was living a life of sin with the stage carpenter she might not have allowed her into the house.
It was dark like a cellar, and in the flaring light that spurted from an iron gas-pipe, the stage carpenter carried rocking pieces of scenery to and fro.
A free school, teachers, doctor, blacksmith and carpenter with shops, and a farmer were provided for, and provision made for eventually allotting the reservations to them in severalty.
On our company then will it devolve to do all the police of the Point, to make the roads, drive the carts, feed the oxen, work in the blacksmith and carpenter shops, etc.
Carpenter was the other occupant of that limited living and bed room.
Both Carpenter and Callender are hard students and steady fellows.
It will make a good enough one," said Flask, "the carpenter here can arrange it easily.
A belaying pin is found too large to be easily inserted into its hole: thecarpenter claps it into one of his ever-ready vices, and straightway files it smaller.
Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
Going to his vice-bench, the carpenter for convenience sake and general reference, now transferringly measured on it the exact length the coffin was to be, and then made the transfer permanent by cutting two notches at its extremities.
The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
Now, when this strange circumstance was made known aft, the carpenter was at once commanded to do Queequeg's bidding, whatever it might include.
A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears.
He says he started to learn the carpenter trade when he was only ten years old, and he can file a saw or sharpen a plane so they'll cut fine.
In a picture by Tintoretto, he comes rushing in as upon a whirlwind, followed by a legion of lesser angels; while on the outside of the building, Joseph the carpenter is seen quietly at his work.
Let us hire a carpenter at the next town we stop at," suggested Sam, and to this they agreed.
Through the carpenter who had taken the contract to repair the houseboat, they were introduced to a man who owned a number of horses, and for a proper consideration this individual let them have the use of the steeds they wanted.
We shall need a carpenter to make repairs," said Captain Starr, who had been working to shove off the fallen tree.
At the request of William, the commander of the schooner had ordered the carpenter to prepare an oak paling to put round the grave, and a board on which was written the name of the deceased and day of his death.
Mrs. Mansfield and farmer Carpenter were happily discussing systems of agriculture.
Mrs. Carpenter in one place was surrounded by her large family of children; all come to pick blackberries, all heated with work and fun, and eager for the dinner.
It was very well for Gertrude that Mrs. Carpenter now came to take her seat on the piazza, and the conversation changed.
There was a young carpenter staying there, who'd run away from Sydney from an old maid who wanted to marry him.
He was a carpenter and joiner, a good tradesman and a rough diamond.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carpenter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
