That the keys may be alike in size, a good plan is to make them first, then make the mortises in the stretchers to correspond.
Illustration: Detail of the Bookrack] Next lay out and cut joints between the stretchers and ends.
The lower horizontals or stretchers are to be tenoned through the posts and keyed.
I saw five men dying as they were carried on stretchers from the boat to the Naval Hospital.
They were mostly so feeble as to be carried on stretchers to the hospital.
The bond is common, varying from three courses of stretchers to one of headers at the foundations, to five to one at the gable end.
The brick is laid in common bond, with five courses ofstretchers to one of headers.
The first and third courses are stretchers and the middle course is composed of headers laid to form a dentil course.
The brick is laid in common, or American, bond, with five courses of stretchers to one of headers.
The cellar walls are brick, laid in common bond, with three courses of stretchers to one of headers.
This, too, has double gates, and thestretchers are similarly turned.
In the settle illustrated above, in date 1760, it will be seen the stretchers have vanished.
The three stretchers are turned, and in the adjacent chair the stretchers are similar, save in a slight variation in the pattern of the turning.
In some types of Yorkshire tables the stretchers are splat-form, like a ladder-back chair.
There are, it will be observed, twelve legs, and the stretchers are finely turned with what is known as the egg-and-reel pattern.
The first has finely turned legs and stretchers in what is familiarly known as the "barley-sugar" pattern.
The stretchers across the two legs are half way up and are the Yorkshire form of splat stretcher.
It will be seen from the illustration that the twostretchers when closed fit flat with the legs and the top flaps over, thus making the table practically collapsible.
These stretchers require that the skin of the animal should not be ripped through the belly, but should be stripped off whole.
When men were killed or wounded, when rows of stretchers went past, when some troops retreated, and when great masses of the enemy came into view through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these things.
The hussars ran back to the men who held their horses; their voices sounded louder and calmer, the stretchers disappeared from sight.
The militiamen with stretchers who were called up stood behind the officers.
At that instant the sun began to hide behind the clouds, and other stretchers came into view before Rostov.
Disregarding the officers' orders, the soldiers stood leaning against their stretchers and gazing intently, as if trying to comprehend the difficult problem of what was taking place before them.
The larger tables were supported by heavy turned legs with stretchers near the floor, or by trussed or columned end supports connected by a stretcher, often arcaded.
As applied to stretchersor skirts, an ornamental outline or profile.
Stretchers continued to follow frame line, but were gradually made lighter, set a little higher, and turned.
After a few minutes of digging, three still, muddy forms on stretchers were carried down the communication trench to the rear.
There was a constant stream ofstretchers coming out of the communication trenches and burial parties were a common sight.
At the head of the column of doolies and stretchers were the bodies of the killed, each tied with cords upon a mule.
As the line of stretchers moved down the ravine, the tri-colour could be seen floating over the crest of the mountain where the battle had been fought, and the French bugles could be heard sounding "au drapeau.
Sinclair taught them how to splint and bandage, to put on a tourniquet and check the flow of blood, to make improvised stretchers and carry patients without irritating their wounds past recovery.
I called for volunteers and took a party out with stretchers and got some in, but we drew a blank for the Colonel and Major Thomson.
I called for volunteers and took a party out with stretchers and got some wounded in, but drew blank for the Colonel and Major Thomson.
There was soon an interminable train descending the rather steep slope of the Avenue de la Grotte, so that Pierre was already reaching the Plateau de la Merlasse when the last stretchers were barely leaving the precincts of the hospital.
The stretchers on which you saw inflated bodies and pale faces with glittering eyes, swayed amidst the jostling of the throng.
And now, whilst Gerard stood there, hemmed in against the iron railing, he heard two countrywomen, whom the advance was bearing onward, raise loud exclamations at sight of the sufferers lying on the stretchersbefore them.
Squads of bearers with their stretchers and little carts were already in the station yard, watching for the arrival of the vans, breaks, and other vehicles which had been recruited.
Any dead belonging to the Turks on our side of the line were to be carried on stretchers to the centre line.
The trenches were choked with dead and wounded Turks and our own people, and were so narrow that no stretchers could be used to send them out.
Wounded Germans were lying on stretchers all over the deck, and on that account the soldiers, though greatly thrilled and moved by the obvious marks of battle on the ship, stood respectfully silent at attention.
Just beyond us, in one of the thousand stretchers on the floor, a small bearded man had died.
I had three on stretchers inside, one beside me on the seat, and two others on the front mudguards.
There was just enough illumination to see about thirty Algerians sitting at the school desks, their big bodies crammed into the little seats, and to distinguish others lying in stretchers here and there upon the floor.
There was a steady line of stretchers going out, yet the station was so full that hardly a bit of the vast floor space was unoccupied.
At the other end of the platform lie the sinister stretchers of a bearer company laid out in an interminable row.
Lastly, came a cart full of stretchers and field-hospital apparatus.
Soldiers were seriously wounded there on that very day, for we saw them being carried therefrom on stretchers towards the motor-ambulance and the hospital.
We were taken into a long cement-floored building, and laid down in a line of stretchers which ran almost from the doorway up to a screen at the end of the room, behind which dressings and operations were taking place.
The ladders had been smashed or used as stretchers long ago.
After about ten minutes our stretchers were hauled out of the lorry.
There are rows of enterics on stretchers in khaki in this shed, waiting for motor ambulances to take them to Versailles No.
I took some down, also morphia, and fed them all--frightful cases onstretchers in the waiting-room.
And, to add to the difficulties, it was pouring in torrents and icy cold, and the railway people refused to move the train under cover, so they went out of a warm train on to damp stretchers in an icy rain.
They were bleeding faster than we could cope with it; and the agony of getting them off the stretchers on to the top bunks is a thing to forget.
The platform was soon packed withstretchers with all the bad cases waiting patiently to be taken to Hospital.
Five hundred of the wounded from South Hill battle have been brought here, and whenever I go out, I see long lines of stretchers and covered ambulances bringing in more men.
Such a spirit of peace enveloped the whole scene, that it was hard to realize that the long line of black objects on the distant road were stretchers bearing the sick and wounded from the transports to the hospitals.
Stretchers and splints were made from the limbs of trees; bindings and bandages were made from the long grass, which was pliable and easily woven.
It was, at any rate, too late that evening to rescue these men, and it was not till the next morning that a cutter and some stretchers were put off and ran up on the westward side of the island on a sandy beach, just at 5 a.
I saw them hit, and compelled to hand over stretchers to willing volunteers, who sprang up out of the earth.
The worst cases lay on their stretchers as they had arrived.
Stretchers were brought in all through the performance.
It seemed that those stretchers are really heavy things for any two men to carry.
We carried two stretchers and a soldier from the trenches was with us to guide us.
The wounded were laid on the stretchers in the square of the cross-roads.
Other more serious cases for whom there was no room in ambulances, at the moment were carried onstretchers by prisoners.
Once as I was in the middle of the road with several prisoners loading stretchers on an ambulance, a shell burst in a pool about twenty feet away, covering us with a shower of mud.
One of our stretchers was put down for a moment's rest near such a scattered group of German knapsacks.
He had shown his disapproval of us by paying particular attention to our batteries; as a consequence our shell-dressings were all used up, having gone out with the gentlemen on stretchers who were contemplating a vacation in Blighty.
As the stretchers are borne down the ward men shift their heads to gaze after them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stretchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
