And shall also make all the said frame in every point for scantlings larger and bigger in assize than the scantlings of the said new-erected house called the Globe.
A few notes on the exceptional scantlings of timber in antiquity may be interesting, though not strictly belonging to our subject.
He did his best to fasten the scantlings down, making a sorry job of it, and then, as he prepared to leave the premises, he was suddenly seized by the uncanny feeling that some one was watching him.
Entrance to the cellar was barred by heavy scantlings fastened across the sloping hatch.
The scantlings were to serve as rails, and so we fastened them at the proper distance apart with ties nailed to the under side.
It was made of 2x4-inch scantlings supported at intervals on posts driven into the ground.
The front and rear posts of the tent were made from scantlings measuring 2 by 4 inches, which were procured from Mr. Schreiner's lumber yard.
I followed him to the shed at the back of the school and found that he had already procured a couple of scantlings for the frame of the boat.
Great care was taken to securely nail both the flooring and the sides to the scantlings, because these scantlings were to carry the wheels of the car.
Of course, had our pocketbooks permitted, we would have used stout scantlings for the corner posts of our cave house and substantial boards for the walls, roof and flooring, but we had to be content with materials at hand.
The floor thus formed was now turned over so that the scantlings lay uppermost and the sides of the car were then nailed on with their edges overlapping the ends of the floor boards.
From a heavy center upright beam, 12 to 16 feet in length, scantlings extend to a circular support, which rests on posts three feet high.
A trench was being dug on one of the main streets away from the business center, and a pile driver was used to drive heavy scantlings for shoring.
The stable had been nailed tight again, and there were enough scantlings in it to last out three or four days.
Between the scantlings that penned Simon into his part of the lean-to, the section-boss spied two glowing eyes.
Two were left to lay the sods, and the other set about sawingscantlings into lengths for the framework of the hip-roof, while their mother came out and bound straw into flat bunches for the thatch.
Before any sod had been laid, the eldest brother had marked out on the ground with a stick a nine-foot square, and in one side of it had left a narrow door-space where twoscantlings were driven in upright to serve as sides of the casing.
He had arrived too far gone to go farther, and his companions had remained with him till the end and had given him a burial in the sand and set the scantlings to mark the spot.
Sir Thomas was the real author of that singular production, ‘A century of names and scantlings of inventions,’ the credit or discredit of which was dishonestly [?
Shortly after the passing of this Act he published his ever memorable and extremely curious and ingenious little work, entitled “A Century of the names and scantlings of Inventions.
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