The planks of the old Anne Arundel were very thick and astonishingly tough.
The rough planks of the flooring joined quite closely to those of the wall, and there was no evidence of its having ever been used as a place of concealment.
But every once in a while, along the sides, are planks from that old vessel, put there to keep the sides more firm, I guess.
Presently gang-planks were placed between the inboard lighters and the deck, and the natives filled little baskets with coal, balanced them on their heads, ran up the gang-planks and tipped the coal into the bunkers.
This incident was pure bad luck and not due to faulty seamanship—had the pinnace been a new boat the stern would easily have withstood the strain, but she was nearly twenty years old and her planks were weakened by age.
Her mind reverts to the former occupants of their house, as if she felt an influence shed within it by some unhappy woman who, like herself, in Love's voyage, saw planks start and open hell beneath.
I then proposed that we should cut down the xebeque to a large boat, which we could easily do by ripping off herplanks and decks, and sawing down her timbers to the height we required.
Not the swarm of loafers whose interest it is not to have any gang-planks at all, or as nearly as possible none.
The more crooked these planks the better, for a reason which the traveller is not long in discovering.
Who is to provide those wide gang-planks over which the passage is to be so easy?
None of the animals have any confidence in the narrow, crooked, and irregular gang planks which alone are to be found.
Stout planks were laid along the ground, upon which the foot of the mast was forced forward by crowbars and levers; the planks served also to distribute the weight, which would otherwise have sunk the end into the ground.
Rows of planks the full width of the platform led up to it and down from it, so that a body of men as wide as the gallery might be able to march up and down in close rank.
Findlayson pointed to the planks below his feet, where the sand, burned and defiled by months of work, was beginning to whisper and fizz.
It is but fair to say that had we not had her assistance at hazardous moments the suffrage planks would not be in the two national platforms today.
It was a part of the plan to send these resolutions also to the State Central Committees of the Republican and Democratic parties, asking for suffrage planks on the State and national platforms.
The crisis in our work for both the planks came in this sub-committee of seven, for we knew that if we lost in Chicago there would be no hope in St. Louis.
For that reason we urged the women of each State to secureplanks in the State platforms endorsing the principle of woman suffrage.
The leaders stated that the planks were silent as to the Federal Amendment and thus left men free to vote on the amendment as each decided.
The suffragists ended their political convention campaign with planks in the platforms of all the five parties, Republican, Democratic, Progressive, Prohibitionist and Socialist.
Its chairman was put in charge of drafting for submission to Mrs. Catt the planks which were to be offered to the two conventions on behalf of the National Association.
We play in the woods and most time in the bayou on boats with planks what would float.
My wife died of chills and fever and den my boy and I built a four-room house of planks from our timber.
They jus' have a old frame with planks to sleep on and no mattress or nothin'.
The oars are used to form a stage, across which planks are laid over both sides of the boat; to this stage the diving-stone is suspended.
Ships have been thus silently and secretly undermined, till the planks have been either like sponges or have crumbled into dust under the very feet of their crews.
You make application, and find that to buy staves and planks will cost you as much as a small house in the States.
For instance, our planks and boards, and what one can do with them, have been a great discovery.
The planks and boards we have are of various sizes.
Lots of boys and girls seem to be quite without planks and boards at all, and there is no regular trade in them.
It is for these woods chiefly that we have our planks perforated with little holes.
They would only have to send three or four swimmers across the moat, then thrust long beams over for those who had crossed to fix firmly, and then lay short planks across them.
They need not be more than four feet wide, and the planks can therefore be easily pulled up as the garrison falls back.
Let them consist of two beams withplanks laid crosswise.
As to the planks not being long enough, Master Guy, they could get over that easy enough.
I suppose when they have got the shelters close to the moat they will bring up planks to throw across.
Indeed there were so many boards, planks and rails in the make-believe steamboat that it would easily have held more than the two smaller Bobbsey twins.
Indeed the mass of boards, planks and rails from the fence did not sink very deep in the water even with all the Bobbsey twins on it.
It was a rude, oblong affair, made of heavy planks loosely put together, and it leaked.
He pushed back the rough planks that formed the door, and there, to his infinite satisfaction, he saw Mary.
Then they placed planksand smaller spars across this, with the table, top downwards, and the chairs on their backs, secured to it.
There were planks also below; these were got up, with all the empty casks which could be collected.
At Nidau, in the lake of Bienne, there is an artificial island encircled with piles, planks being laid horizontally at the bottom to retain in place the stones of which it is composed.
About eight or ten feet below the surface turf-cutters laid bare the tops of a row of oaken planks which described a circle about seventy feet in diameter.
The large planks which form the staves are from one to ten feet (?
The planks which formed the sides D were laid edgewise, one upon another, the lower one resting in a groove cut in the sleeper A, as shown in fig.
A quantity of timber, consisting of planks and trunks of trees, principally oak, lay scattered around, and some of the woodwork appeared to have been charred by fire.
The planks butting home against the supports, … were more firmly fixed by the two uprights, which passed through a hole in the cross-beam c, fig.
This unique structure was nearly square, twelve feet wide, and nine feet high, formed of rough logs and planks of oak, apparently split by wedges, the interstices filled with a compound of grease and fine sea sand.
It was with feelings far different that they now assembled spars and planks and lashed and spiked them together on the chance of needing rafts to ferry them ashore from a stranded ship.
It broke short off, a few feet above the deck, and the ragged butt ripped the planks asunder as it was dragged overside by the weight of the towering fabric of yards and canvas.
Mr. Peter Forbes had plumped himself down upon a coil of hawser, as if utterly disgusted, but he implored the captain to blaze away at the besotted scoundrels as long as two planks held together.
Like ants the coal-heavers swarmed over the heaped-up cargo, shovelling the coal into barrows and trundling them along the planks on to the quay, whence they disappeared into a large shed about a hundred yards away.
In places the massiveplanks were bulging ominously; so much so that Captain Nicholson hesitated more than once.
Continue still your hospitable way, And still invent occasions of their stay, Till storms and winter winds shall cease to threat, And planks and oars repair their shatter'd fleet.
The stoutest vessel to the storm gave way, And suck'd thro' loosen'd planks the rushing sea.
Their broken oars and floating planks withstand Their passage, while they labor to the land, And ebbing tides bear back upon th' uncertain sand.
As soon as you get in, you are to feel along the wall, and count five planks down, straight under the opening.
Raiden, leaning from the canoe, felt the slimy sides of the ship, and searched under the sticky moss, under paint and tar, for the heads of the nails which held the planks together.
Nevertheless, we were not easy, for we knew not what other planks below the water line were injured, nor how to sink our sheet or bind it over the faulty part.
Worked on the wreck; cut another beam asunder, and brought three great fir planksoff from the decks, which I tied together, and made to float on shore when the tide of flood came on.
Twas not long before he had chopped up all that there was, both of firewood and timber, both planks and beams; and when he had done he came back and asked what he was to do now.
But it was quite true; Grumblegizzard had chopped everything up; he had made firewood both of sawn planks and hewn beams.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "planks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
