At first sight, the building seems as if intended for a large hall, especially from the fine high-pitched roof, and its completeness inside, having all the old timbers remaining.
Now that balloon frames are mainly used for houses, and lighter sawed timbers for barns, the old-fashioned raising is rarely witnessed.
Then comes the putting on the great plates,--timbers that run lengthwise of the building and match the sills below.
When the carpenters had got the timbers of the house or the barn ready, and the foundation was prepared, then the neighbors for miles about were invited to come to the "raisin'.
Slowly the great timbersgo up; louder grows the word of command, till the bent is up.
They forgot the long road to Bobruisk, the rocking journey to Libau, the mad buckjumping boat in whose timbers the sea devils of the Baltic had bored holes.
Forty men attacked the jam in a dozen places, encouraging the movement, twisting aside the timbers that threatened to lock anew, directing pigmy-like the titanic forces into the channel of their efficiency.
The timbers near the shaft continued to settle, and, although they had been placed from 9 to 12 in.
This pipe and the water and gas pipes and electric conduits were suspended from the timbers as the pipes were uncovered.
Fortunately, the timbers did not give way entirely, and no damage was done.
What a change is here, from the hewn timbers and bare walls and wooden trenchers of the pioneer, to enchanted castles and mirrors, and china and tea-tables!
One of these pieces broke down the timbers again, and my impression is that it was cast into the current.
There were the carpenters joining the timbers of the scaffold, and building black barricades across the street.
The approaches were clogged with wagons and field-pieces, and I understood that some panic-stricken people had pulled up some of the timbers to prevent a fancied pursuit.
Of course the first thing that attracted the attention of Mr. Grant and his daughter was the pile of charred timbers that indicated the place where the boat-house had once stood.
She heeded not the cracking timbers and the roaring sea.
With a gasp which she struggled vainly to suppress, the girl reeled back and stood leaning for support against the rough timbers of the stable.
This method is suitable for heavy work, where the timbers are of considerable size.
It is quite a serviceable joint for all general purposes, such as shed or garage building where fairly heavy timbers are used.
Here are brought together the remotest limits of the earth; and in the collective spars and timbers of these ships, all the forests of the globe are represented, as in a grand parliament of masts.
And probably, as her timbers must have been frequently renewed in the course of a hundred years, the name alone could have been all that was left of her at the time.
The largest trees of the forest supplied the timbers of four battering-rams: their heads were armed with iron; they were suspended by ropes, and each of them was worked by the labor of fifty men.
We were watching and remarking upon the way in which the planks of the topsides were twisting up and opening out from the timbers under the influence of the tremendous heat, when suddenly an awful recollection flashed upon me.
She was very strong, being oak-built throughout, and copper fastened; her timbers being of the most solid description, and exceptionally heavy scantling.
For an age it seemed as if the whole drift would give way as each set of timberscame to the strain and failed to hold.
In the first were to be found timbers of valuable forests and their products.
The forestry exhibit not only showed Kentucky's timbers in the rough and polished state, but hundreds of samples of the manufactured products.
All the merchantable timbers of the State were displayed in the forestry exhibit, which contained over 500 samples, highly polished and superbly finished, one of the largest and best collections shown.
The chief exhibit there consisted of the massive trunk of a satinwood tree, hollowed out so as to form a receptacle for "books," which consisted of blocks of all the various trade timbers of the country.
At last the barges went no more, and there were fewer lights; shaped timbers no longer floated down the fairway, and there came instead old wind-uprooted trees in all their natural simplicity.
Language trumpets his easy yarns and grows garrulous as the timbers crack one after another.
They went sailing through the air with the timbers of their castle in their mouths.
It is full of great massive timbers and stones, and is as stout as the heart of its founder.
When we reached the crossing we found that the enemy had torn up the bridge, and had thrown the timbers into the stream, forming a tangled mass which seemed to prohibit a crossing.
The general and his staff were seen dismounted, urging on the labourers; and Jackson, his uniform bespattered with mud, carried stones and timbers on his own shoulders.
There, in the charred and smoking timbersof the bridge, the groups of Federal prisoners on the plain, the Confederates gathering the wounded, and the faint rattle of musketry far down the Luray Valley, he saw the result of his timidity.
It was cold and moldy in the dugout, and the timbers across the roof were bent under the weight of the earth.
A hoof driven against one of the timbers which supported it might do the trick, and bring them to a worse end than would the waiting bullets of Dalton and his gang.
It was while a party of choppers was hunting for timbers for the mill on the forty mentioned that one day they found Hutchins' lifeless body and beside it lay his gun with every indication that he had committed suicide.
When the timberswere all on the ground, hewed and framed, everybody for miles around was invited and came to help with the raising.
Mentioning these timbers calls to the mind of Mr. Outing an incident which he threw into this narrative.
It still stands, and with the exception of the necessary repairs which from time to time have been made, contains the same timbers and lumber it did when built.
Between these massive timbers hung pictures of saints, a drawing of trees, and a guitar.
He could hear the splash and gurgle of the torrent as it swept under the rotting timbers of the mill and rushed on to freedom through the wasteway beyond.
None was running over at all at this point, and the slimy timbers protruded six or eight inches above the level of the creek.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "timbers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
