Blacksmith's work and carpenteringare seldom sufficient for the purpose.
Comparatively coarse carpentering is good enough for this purpose.
When I first became a householder in London I naturally sent to some neighbouring employer of labour for any little jobs of carpentering and plumbing that needed to be done.
And as forcarpentering jobs, there's Tom Lake over at Lesser Blakeney and his brother down at Brancaster, besides me on the spot, as you might say.
I used to know something of carpenteringin my younger days," he said, "and I don't think that I have forgotten it all.
Jed did odd jobs of carpentering and cabinet making, went fishing sometimes, worked in gardens between times, did almost anything, in fact, to bring in the needed dollars.
Jed worked at carpentering for a number of years, sometimes going as far away as Ostable to obtain employment.
So Paul trudged off to the wood, and fell to hewing and carpentering as hard as he could; but however he hewed and however he carpentered, he could turn out nothing but pig troughs and pig tubs.
So Peter strode on till he came to a grove of oaks, and then he fell to chopping and carpentering, but for all his hewing and all his carpentering he could turn out nothing but platter after platter.
Malcolm and McPhail entered into the notion, and we determined to try whether we could not put forth sufficientcarpentering ability to carry it out.
They had all the means and appliances to assist them in carrying out Captain Fitzroy's humane scheme: carpentering tools, agricultural implements, and a supply of seeds, with which to make a beginning.
These were originally built by men who had saved a little money, had showed, perhaps, a certain talent for hedge carpentering or thatching, become tinkers, or even blacksmiths.
They frequently possess some little special knowledge of carpentering or blacksmith's work, which renders them extremely useful, and at the same time increases their earnings.
Then as the eaves trough had fallen down, and the kitchen ceiling leaked, Warren's skill in carpentering was in instant demand.
This reverence was cherished by the Jews; carpentering was always looked upon as a noble occupation; the fact that the carpenter might have to go into the temple to labor would have rescued that occupation from contempt.
We cannot understand this if we think of carpentering by the contemptuous estimate of modern life.
His mother had provided him with overalls for just such occasions; but Pete was confident that printing was neater work than carpentering and had avoided thinking of them.
The carpentering and organ-building must at once be discontinued.
The fact that they are not Barhais is sufficiently shown by their ignorance ofcarpentering tools.
If I thought my opinion was desired and would be properly revered, I should say that in my judgment that is as good a piece ofcarpentering as any of those eleven Commandment--experts could do with the material after all their practice.
In Bavaria there is a man who performed so many great cures that he had to retire from his profession of stage-carpentering in order to meet the demand of his constantly increasing body of customers.
Like Fabian, Buddin proved himself handy in doing odd jobs of carpentering and upholstering, and was in frequent demand.
A brief month later, however--so quickly did enterprises evolve in early Los Angeles--Perry gave up carpentering and joined James D.
On hearing of this, my old master re-purchased me, and proposed to me to undertake the carpentering business.
I can do that--when I am able to go at carpentering again," put in Mr. Thompson.
I gave up carpentering to go into the freight business.
It would be some time before he could go at carpentering again, but he could aid a good deal on the farm, which was something.
The interior is divided into chambers by the carpenter, or any boy of common carpentering ingenuity may readily do it himself.
I am employed on the carpentering work of this building (pointing to a stone house that is in course of construction).
There was no more carpentering to be done, and as I had not completed my contract, I was ordered to buy rubber.
Still the bulk of luggage was very large; and the boys, who had now left off their farming and carpentering lessons, worked at home at packing-cases, and had the satisfaction of turning their new acquirements to a useful purpose.
I was always doing odd carpentering jobs for the colonel and officers, and armourer's work at the guns.
I very often do carpentering jobs of all sorts--that is what first made the governor take to me.
I can earn enough growing potatoes and doing odd jobs of carpentering for that!
He owns a slice of this farm, you know, and he's given some of the younger kids pieces of ground for gardens, and he's got up a night class incarpentering for young fellows that work in town all day.
It would be a big carpentering job, and they talked about it that very evening in all the houses in the village.
As the carpentering business was not prosperous, he would turn day laborer, be a mason's hodman, a ditcher, break stones on the road.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carpentering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
