The seventh line of figures gives the cuts of sheathing and shingles in valley or hip, for example: 1.
Busy saws clamored from the islands and great rafts of planks and lath and shingles were made up and floated down into the Mississippi and on to southern markets.
The timbers of the house creaked as the blast lay hard upon it, and now and again the faint fine crystals came sifting down upon my face,--driven beneath the shingles by the tempest.
It had white or red oak, or pine shingles to kivver de roof wid.
Some of de planks was found six miles east, some of de shingles across Catawba River, 25 miles east, and curious to say, de wind blowed old miss against de big oak tree and kill her.
O' course de shingles was hand made, never know'd how to make no other'n.
Every house it tech, it carry de planks and shingles and sills and joists 'way wid it.
After the harvest something was done in lumbering, and the Websters, having a small saw-mill on their farm, made shingles and boards; although for many years shingles and clapboards were mostly split by hand.
You hear a handful of the time-and-weatherworn shingles jump and go sputtering down the roof.
Another blow near another nail, and more shinglesjump and flee, and this time a clammy hand slaps your face.
Modern civilization has reached them in phonographs, bicycles and folding baby-carriages, if theshingles are vanishing from the roof.
Two new rooms were added to the ground-floor back by the simple expedient of tacking long spruce rafters to the roof, making a second roof over the old one, leaving the old roof with boards and shingles still on it.
John Massey's house was the last one at the end of the road, a little place with a roof that needed new shingles and with sagging steps leading up to the door.
A canal now passes through it from north to south, upon the bosom of which immense quantities of shingles and lumber are floated to accessible deposits.
On the 21st, the United States steamers Valley City, Ceres, and Ella May, proceeded down Pungo river with the three schooners laden with shingles in tow.
It is only when one tries to realize in acres and bricks and shinglesthat the accounts come in.
Its wide weather-boards were broken and falling; the red paint they had once known had become a mere memory, its shingles were moss-grown and curling, the grass was uncut.
It is all there under the shingles, and will still be there for othershingles when those are gone.
And when did all those broken fences, cracked windows, missing shingles show up.
New shingles spotted the roofs, the windows held glass again, fresh paint glistened on porches.
The exceedingly dry weather of the past weeks had made shingles like tinder, and wherever a glowing spark fell on them there straightway was a smoldering fire.
Just now, shingles are in good demand in the Province, and with the wooden towns springing up on the prairie, Western millers can hardly send roofing material across the Rockies fast enough.
They're red cedar, the stuff they make the roofing shingles of.
It was dim and low, though it seemed high, and the naked brown rafters were studded with wasps' nests; and the rain beat on the shingles overhead.
Painted shingles may be substituted for the cloths.
Shingles slanting over the plants from the south side and driven into the ground to hold them in position are best.
For shingles we drove to Trim Mill ten or twelve miles the other side of Prescott, Wis.
The shingles were made by hand and lasted forty years.
Carpenters were now employed in covering in that necessary building the hospital, the shingles for the purpose being all prepared; these were fastened to the roof (which was very strong) by pegs made by the female convicts.
Discharging the transports formed the principal labour of the month; the shingles on the roof of the old hospital being found to decay fast, and many falling off, the whole were removed, and the building was covered with tiles.
But you see for yourself that a dozen shingles and an hour's work will make good all damages.
The ancient lilacs flaunted before the door; the tall sunflowers peered over the garden fence; the primeval well-sweep slanted aloft, far above the mossy shingles of the roof.
By the side of the lane stood an ancient abode, whose rotten shingles supported a rich crop of green mosses; and in the yard an old man, who looked like a relic of Bunker Hill fight, was diligently chopping firewood.
If you use shingles and expose each four and one-half inches to the weather, you will require about seven quarter-thousand bunches for a roof of this size.
Sooner or later shingles are sure to warp and curl, thus they pull out the nails and allow the rain to beat in, furthermore, shaded shingles soon rot and allow the water to soak through.
He heard a soft thud on the shingles and a bark that sounded farther off, and then for a moment or two there was silence again.
Its slanting rays smote the cedar shingles above their bent heads, and the dust that rose from the grass floated about them in a cloud and clung to their dripping faces.
There was a shout that set the shingles rattling overhead, and when it died away Mr. Oliver, who looked embarrassed, said a few simple words, which were followed by riotous applause.
The latter was covered with cedar shingles and he wondered why it had not ignited, because the sparks were still dropping upon it and there were several charred spots.
It is made subservient to the wants of commerce, by furnishing the raw material for an immense quantity of shingles and other juniper lumber.
For the roof, on account of hail-storms, neither tiles nor large flat boards are practicable; small larch shingles are the best.
But now his feet were on the sharp stones; the belt of shingles had widened, and the stretch of sand had dwindled into narrowness.
