At the same time, however, his weight proved too much for the frail clapboard to which he was holding, and back he fell on the floor with a shock like an earthquake.
As his head appeared over the edge, and his great paws took firm hold upon the clapboard rim of the bunk, cook, now grown desperate, struck at him wildly with the heavy butt of the gun.
John opened the little clapboard door, which swung violently backward as another gust boomed against the cabin.
A sagging clapboardroof covered its two rooms and the open space between them that we called our "entry.
The gable ends were sided up with clapboard rived out of oak timber three or four feet long, and then shaved off smooth like siding.
The unfolding of memory reveals to me versions of the old place and the childhood days spent beneath the clapboard roof as vividly as though it were but yesterday.
When not otherwise employed, the men spent their time fashioning clapboard and wainscoting from the trees cut from the surrounding forests.
Since the materials are of record, these recently built homes may be envisioned as having been constructed of hewn timbers, covered with clapboard on the exterior, and wainscoting inside.
It was a clapboard structure covered with a reed roof, and eighteen by thirty feet in size.
Around Jamaica and Hempstead were stout clapboard and shingle houses, but the inventories are not lavish.
With that Tom rolled himself up in his blanket and lay down upon the clapboard flooring of his bed, taking a stick of wood with him for a pillow.
Brown purchased from John Mills the white clapboard house that has been identified as his Alexandria home.
He was full of surprises during life, and it will be another to most Alexandrians when we place him in the old clapboard house known for better than a century as "the Fawcett house.
No great house, this modest home built of white clapboard over brick and sitting close to the ground, rises two and one-half stories, hiding behind its stout doorway some of the best and certainly the most original woodwork in the old town.
Illustration: The old Clapboard House on the John Dalton property and believed to have been his original house.
William Brown's clapboard residence] An Alexandria tradition and the Brown family belief is that the house was built by him prior to the Revolution.
The squirrel leaves upon its rotting roof, In empty hulls, its tracks; And in its clapboard cracks The spider weaves a windy woof; Its cells the mud-wasp packs.
QUIET A log-hut in the solitude, A clapboard roof to rest beneath!
Lancaster's glazed eyes passed down the row of sugar molds as he thought about the feeble security of his own clapboard house.
Depressed once more by the prospect, she turned and stared down the shore, toward the collection of clapboard taverns clustered around the narrow bridge at the river mouth.
Joan's familiar clapboard establishment enjoyed a commanding view of the harbor, and, unlike the parish churches, offered the finest food and grog remaining on the island.
He pointed toward a small cluster of clapboard houses half hidden among the palms along the shore.
The interior consists of a single room--of which the log-walls are the sides, and the clapboard roof the ceiling.
After the performance had been completely carried out as commanded, the Captain declared that he could have heard Lusk holloing a mile distant every time the clapboard hit him.
He filed on a homestead in Spring Valley, four and one-half miles southwest of Waitsburg, and there built a one-room log cabin withclapboard roof.
They settled on a homestead on Mill creek in Walla Walla county, and their first residence was a log cabin covered with a clapboard roof and with a stick chimney.
Illustration: A Puncheoned Cot with wattle filling and clapboard roof] In connection with this wattling and daubing of Virginia buildings, the two early churches on Eastern Shore are believed to have been puncheoned edifices.
By the small clapboard structure, the house has an unusually small clapboard.
I identified the place by the fine clapboard structure of the house.
He built thereon a log cabin with a clapboard roof and stick chimney and in this frontier home the family lived in true pioneer style.
They came to Washington in 1863 and located on a farm in Walla Walla county on Dry creek, where the father built a log cabin with a clapboard roof, board floor and stick chimney, which was the home of the family for several years.
Their first home in this section was a log cabin with a slab floor and a clapboard roof.
They took up their residence on a small ranch there and the father built a log cabin with a clapboardroof and stick chimney, which was the family home during the year they remained in Oregon.
There he built a log cabin covered with a clapboard roof and the chimney was built on the outside of the primitive dwelling.
The clapboard roof was a scant three feet above the dusty floor of the attic.
A pleasant smell of shaving soap filled the dark clapboard room, which had no furniture but three cots and some officers' trunks.
It now stands alone on the block, but for many years it was huddled against a clapboard false-front assay office on one side and small residences on the other.
And he painted a clapboardfor that other painter, but a great drop of the paint got on the leg of his overalls.
And each time he did better than he had done the last time, and he hitched along on the staging, and that clapboard was all painted before he knew it.
You see that one edge of a clapboard is thin and the other edge is thick.
Then he took up another clapboard and put it close up to the one that he had just fastened, with its thin edge tucked under the thick edge of the one above.
I suppose that’s Clapboard Island there off Shingle Point?
Before them the island which Tom had dubbed Clapboard barred their direct path and it became a question of going to right or left.
Clapboard alternated with hastily constructed sheet-metal buildings with no room between.
Neale shut the heavy door leading from the cabin into the engineers' quarters, for bullets were ripped through from one side to the other of this canvas-and- clapboard structure.
Under a sign, "Hotel," he entered a door in a clapboard house.
At the end of Clapboard Ridge, the stream makes a detour around a knoll of coarse stratified drift.
The northern fork, which drains East Lake, Padanaram Reservoir, and Margerie Pond, flows along the northeast side of Clapboard Ridge.
Its oaken timbers are still as sound as when Murray put them in place before the Revolution, each clapboard still intact, the doors the same, the rooms but little altered.
