Each hole on inspection showed that it was carefully shored internally with driftwood and bamboos, and over the mouth a wooden drip-board projected, like the peak of a jockey's cap, for two feet.
The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts.
These buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running from one house to another.
With the scantling the chief shored up the doors to the state-room occupied respectively at the time by the first and third assistant engineers; then he screwed the cleats into place at top and bottom, so the scantling could not slip.
In the corner the fireman crouched, hands uplifted in token of surrender, so the skipper closed the door andshored it up again with the scantling.
I turned up quaint streets, many of them lined with two-story houses of ancient pattern, which leaned for support upon their sturdier neighbors, who in turn rely upon great beams shored against their crumbling backs.
There is a big hill in front of the tee, shored up with black timbers, and the green has the transcendent merit for this type of hole that it is not too big.
On the left-hand side, eating its way into the very heart of the green, is another bunker, very deep and shored up by precipitous black timbers, and the very slightest pull on our approach shot will land us in it.
There they had raised her on blocks andshored her up so they could work to advantage.
They got some pieces of joist that had been cast up ashore with a lot of other riffraff and shored the yacht up on an even keel, so they could work to better advantage, without getting in one another's way.
At the same time I want to ask your permission either to abandon the drift until it can be shored up, or to back-stope until we can get through to solid rock.
The roofs of the levels are pretty well shored up, but they are all settling.
His strong heart, and firm brain, bore him through; or rather they gradually shored him up; a fabric still upon the sands of time, but waiting only for the next tidal wave.
The masons from Exeter had left work, by reason of the frost, some time ago; but under the directions of Mr. Richard Horner the quoin was shored up, and the roof and window made waterproof with tarpaulins.
As soon as the carpenter reported that in his opinion the strained bulkhead was properly shored up, orders were given to the engine-room for half-speed astern and a course shaped for Aberdeen.
Water was entering in small jets under the terrific pressure in the flooded compartments; but although the pumps were quite capable of keeping the leak under control, the bulkhead, unless shored up, was in momentary danger of giving way.
Its sides were formed sometimes of shored planking set on end, but more often of withes cunningly wattled together.
Coaling started immediately, and as soon as the collier had shoved off we were invaded by dockyard "mateys," and the cracked boat booms were shored up.
When I had seen the bulkheads shored up to my satisfaction, I reported to the Captain on the bridge.
In this slow, laborious fashion we wormed our way along a tunnel that had been roughly dug out of the shifting sand, and was shored up clumsily by means of wooden pillars and posts.
We stood in a small vaulted chamber in the sand, the sides and roof shored with bars of wood, and the ground laid roughly with what seemed to be tiles.
The shadows hung like black velvet in the spaces between the brick buttresses that shored up the wall towards the quay.
It seemed to be a church or chapel, having mullioned windows with stone tracery, and a bell-turret at the west end; but its most marked feature was a row of heavy buttresses which shored up the side facing the road.
The bulkheads closing in the compartments which were full of water, and all horizontal water-tight doors, were shored up with baulks of timber.
Thus the coffer-dam formed a block, part absorbent and part solid, wedged and shored over the site of the injury.
She had seen the old place shored up with timber so long that the spectacle had lost all its significance.
Although carefully shored up in the autumn, the crack in it had widened perceptibly even to Llewellyn's sight, and was extending across the wall of the south aisle.
The main struts, or raking pieces, which have to sustain great pressure, may be shored against the finished lengths of masonry or brickwork.
The bridge may be also shored against the stream by branches, with their forks taking the beams, while their lower ends, weighted by stones, rest against the bed of the river.
There were soon signs that the mischief was getting worse, and Scott ordered the tower to be shored up with timber, and temporary brick walls to be built below it.
Lord Grimthorpe shored up the arches, and in large measure rebuilt the piers of larger stones.
Lord Grimthorpe had this shoredup at his own expense.
The faulty bulkhead, shored and barricaded with tightly-packed hammocks and other canvas gear, required constant watching.
The galleries were well propped andshored with dry wood taken from the houses of the lower town.
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