Disordered and unpainted clapboards spread over the dingy front, which is set off with two upper and two lower windows, all blockaded with infirm, green shutters.
He had to wear clapboardson himself for months, and there were other doctors, and laudable pus and threatened gangrene and doctors' bills, with the cemetery looming up in the near future.
The last one I saw was a pendent from the end of a low branch of a maple, that nearly grazed the clapboards of an unused hay-barn in a remote backwoods clearing.
He said he kept no bees, but that a swarm had taken possession of his chimney, and another had gone under the clapboards in the gable end of his house.
This same wood was used not only for clapboards but for the principal interior finish, and we often find it in large panels as perfect as when put in place two hundred years or more ago.
Some of the old clapboards can still be seen, and a small piece of the drops which originally ornamented the corner posts.
While the frame of these houses was generally of oak, yet the shingles or clapboards were of white pine.
Over this would be a shed made by resting poles in forked posts stuck into the ground, and covering these with clapboards held in place by large flat stones.
At the square, two end logs projected a foot or eighteen inches beyond the wall to receive the butting poles, as they were called, against which the ends of the first row of clapboards was supported.
In doing this it frequently happened that they had to ascend a ladder instead of a pair of stairs, leading from the dining and ball room to the loft, the floor of which was made of clapboards lying loose and without nails.
Some pins stuck in the logs at the back of the house supported some clapboards which served for shelves for the table furniture.
When they had pitched upon a site for the fort, every man set to work, some to build the fort, others to pitch the tents, fell trees and make clapboards to reload the ships, others to make gardens and nets.
The hogs were transferred to Hog Isle, where another block house was built and garrisoned, and the garrison were permitted to take "exercise" in cutting down trees and making clapboards and wainscot.
The columns of this piazza, as well as the clapboards of the house itself, however, exhibited the proofs of the danger of abandoning your true whittler to his own instincts.
The rough clapboards give to the roof almost the shaggy aspect of thatch at a little distance, but they render it impermeable to even the heaviest and {189} most protracted rain-storms.
The roof is covered with thin clapboards of oak or ash, and, in lieu of nails, transverse pieces of timber retain them in their places.
A couple of logs with two clapboards laid across them formed the only seats.
Their abode was a shanty about twelve feet square, made by setting four corner posts into the ground, nailing cross-ribs on, and over these clapboardsriven from the native cedars, and the roof was of the same material.
Some of the neighbors took their axes to cut the logs, some their oxen to drag them, others their saws and cleaving tools to make clapboards for the roof.
The older children climbed the ladder nailed to the wall to get to the loft floored with loose clapboards that rattled when trodden upon.
The clapboards are put on so as to cover all cracks, and held down by poles or small logs.
A large oak or other suitable timber, of straight grain, and free from limbs, is selected for clapboards for the roof.
Clapboards supported by pins stuck in the logs answer for shelves for table furniture.
Some pins stuck in the logs at the back of the house, supported some clapboards which served for shelves for the table furniture.
At the square, two end logs projected a foot or eighteen inches beyond the wall, to receive the butting poles, as they were called, against which the ends of the first row of clapboards was supported.
I'm going to make clapboards for our roof," answered Jack, "but not for our gables.
In splitting out his clapboards from three-cornered sections of his chestnut logs, Jack gradually reduced those sections to a width too small for the further making of clapboards.
The fro is used in splitting out clapboards and rough shingles.
Inside of this crib, or box--about two feet inside--Jack drove some sharpened sticks into the ground and behind them he placed some clapboards set on edge.
Oh, then, you're going to make clapboards out of this tree to roof our shanty with and to close up its gables.
In the south, and in some parts of the west nearly all of the shingles and clapboards used are still split out in this way with the fro.
We'll lay clapboards on the poles to make a smooth surface, and on them we'll pile all the broom straw we've got.
Just as they were finishing the eating of it something struck and penetrated the clapboards that formed the extemporized table.
Then he set another tier ofclapboards and added more mud, and so on till he had the whole inside of the slab crib lined with two feet of mud held in place by clapboards set on edge and braced with stakes.
We've simply got to sleep on hard clapboards for two or three nights," said Ed.
Over this cover walls with felt paper, and then on first story cover paper with clear pine clapboards 5″ to weather.
The clapboards to receive two coats of best white lead and linseed oil finish, in colors as directed.
The clapboards are painted a light olive green and trimmed with bronze green and Indian red.
There were some four-foot clapboardsstacked up near Lusk's house, and Emmons ordered six of the Germans to get a board apiece.
Emmons ordered the six who had the clapboards to move one pace in the rear, leaving four of the number to attack Lusk; he then ordered the four men to seize Lusk, take him to the "horsen" log and take down his clothes.
He supplied them with musquash and beaver skins, hogshead staves, clapboards and oar rafters in return for such goods and supplies as he needed.
Our people made many clapboards during the time between planting and harvest, so that we had enormous stacks under the trees ready to put on board the first vessel that should sail for England.
The house is sixty-four feet by forty-six feet, and the walls are of brick, though they are covered with wooden clapboards two feet by one and a half feet.
Place them near the ends of the roof and glue all the clapboardsin place.
Cut enough clapboardsof corn-stalk to cover both sides of the roof.
You will then have two pegged clapboards for the front of the roof and two for the back.
Cut a hole near both ends of four of the clapboards and glue in pegs, slanting them upward.
The clapboards are all smoothed with a drawin' knife.
Every one of the clapboards is planed with a drawin' knife.
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