For no very evident reason, except that he was overstrung, he could have shouted in alarm as he lay upon the wet flooring in the dark.
Harry, who explained that there was something wrong with the pump, pulled up one of the flooring boards and invited Frank to dip a bucket into the cavity and hand it up to him when it was full.
Due to the fact that our mill is located at the same point where we operate a pine plant we can ship Oak Flooring and Pine in the same car Oak Timbers, Factory Stock, Etc.
Inga placed the three Magic Pearls in their silken bag and again deposited them in the secret cavity under the tiled flooring of the banquet hall, where they could be quickly secured if danger ever threatened the now prosperous island.
After climbing over the ruins for a time he reached a flat place which he recognized, by means of the tiled flooring and the broken furniture scattered about, to be the great hall he was seeking.
I had just time to see my uncle once more cast apparently senseless on the flooring of the raft, Hans at the helm, "spitting fire" under the influence of the electricity which seemed to have gone through him.
He might have lain like a log till morning but that at last the flooring of the bridge rebelled.
The flooring burned their feet, flames licked the wooden sides of the structure, thick, choking smoke canopied the rafters.
Through the space between the flooring and the masonry, a glare of light came up to her as well as the voices of those beneath.
From the door of this room the vista, when looking through the state-apartments, is remarkably striking and effective; the flooring throughout the suite being of oak parqueterie which reflects the light in a pleasing manner.
You know, the flooring slopes slightly upward from the entrance.
The stone lay partly imbedded in the dirt flooring of the cabin.
Under this bar at a proper distance is a piece of flooring or platform, projecting somewhat beyond the range of the iron bar, and swinging upon hinges affixed to the wall.
The sleeping accommodation in the chapel-yard wards, and indeed throughout the prison, consisted of a barrack bed, which was a wooden flooring on a slightly inclined plane, with a beam running across the top to serve as a pillow.
He caught the inert Mayor by the arms, dragged him across the soft flooring of hoof shavings and metal-dust, to the outside, slinging him unceremoniously on to the heap of broken iron beside the frozen horse-trough.
He commenced to work his fingers into the flooring boards.
Another second and the platform came to a rest on a level with the flooring of this gallery, while a well-groomed, white-headed man stepped forward to greet them.
But this was different from the other; for it had doors on either side, while a railed-in square of flooring near the centre showed a hatchway, leading by a shallow flight of steps to a deck below, from which came the low hum of a motor.
He did not notice where he was going, and his heel struck upon a board which stuck up above the rest of the flooring of the dock.
Everything appeared to be in order, although there were the marks of muddy feet on the flooring and on the seats.
Nigrum might be I did not know, but hid the tiny flask under a loose fragment of stone in my flooring where a black beetle had his abode.
These papers were lately sent to him from Chatham dockyard, having been discovered under the cabin flooring of the war-ship Leda, which his brother lately commanded and which is now repairing at Chatham.
The flooring is, in general, in a better condition than I had anticipated; but the shutters and window-sashes are so warped as to be useless.
The beams of the staircase and the flooring of the first story have got the dry rot.
He crossed a patio, smaller than the court of David's house; but there, too, was the fountain in the center and the cool flooring of turf.
The heading joints of flooring are often specified to be splayed or bevelled, but it is far better to rebate them.
The joints of flooring laid in winter time or during wet weather are sure to open in the following summer, however tightly they may be cramped up during the process of laying.
It also covers the joint between the flooring and the wall, and protects the base of the wall from injury.
Other houses are plastered inside and outside with mud, and these have a flooring of open bamboo work, raised six or eight feet from the ground.
Much of the flooring of the cloister appears to be coeval with it;[272] and though composed of the very simplest materials, it is most effective.
The Moorish tiles are very commonly seen in Toledo, and were used both for flooring and inlaying walls, and in some cases for the covering of roofs.
Only theflooring and the walls could contain any hidden recess.
The under flooring had rotted away, which accounted for the hollow sound, and he was rewarded with nothing more than a hole bounded both in depth and width by the floor joists which rested on the ground.
There seemed to be no sign of any secret spring, either on the adjacent flooring or on the wall, nor did the board itself appear to be in any way loose or show any evidence of ever having been removed before.
Off and on during the day he had covered almost the entire flooring of the room.
The flooring was old, and once it creaked under his foot, causing his lips to tighten rigidly, and his face to set in a hard, dogged way.
He turned then, pushed the bed aside, and pulled up the plank in the flooring that he had loosened once in his search for the secret hiding places of the room, and that had since served him in that capacity as a private depository of his own.
Meanwhile, as the ties and flooring extend for the space of three feet outside of the track, a sufficient support is furnished by them for the other wheels.
A flooring of wood had been laid down in the Hall at an elevation of fourteen inches above the flags.
He prides himself upon flooring a novice, and hits devilish hard with the glove.