To Laura, who came from a township of one-storied brick or weatherboard houses, it seemed vast in its breadth and height, appalling in its sombre greyness.
Flames went up from the new weatherboard corner of the house.
When she came in sight of the weatherboard house crouching against the purple wall of the hills, Deirdre realised again what Donald Cameron had done.
The office was in a small weatherboard cottage in the "main street" of Tarrong (at any rate it might fairly claim to be the main street, as it was the only street that had any houses in it).
Handsome hotels and shop fronts, with plate glass windows, had succeeded weatherboard and slab shanties with bark roofs.
Tall weatherboard buildings with balconies, enabled the inmates to gaze over the waving ocean of tree-tops and to mark where the jungle had been invaded by the pioneer’s axe, that primary weapon of civilisation.
Two long and very broad streets were traversed before they arrived at a neat weatherboard cottage with dormer windows and an upper floor.
Most were o' weatherboard with brick chimneys; but there were also a few of a more solid construction.
Bark and weatherboard huts alternating with imposing hotels and stores.
Some of them had weatherboard houses but the majority of them was log houses.
They go up in cracks and little places like that under theweatherboard there--any place where it is warm--and there they huddle up and stay till it gets warm.
There was nothing royal, or even comfortable, about this weatherboard and iron inn, except its name.
Like every other habitation in that countryside, the Orphanage was a wooden structure: hardwood weatherboard walls and galvanised iron roof.
Far otherwise is it with a weatherboard building overtaken by the same fate.
The new edifice, he said, must be built of weatherboard and iron.
This family lived very comfortably in a two storied weatherboard house.
It was somewhat heavy; but when a weatherboard was placed round it, the mate considered that the craft was fit not only to paddle about in their harbour, but to go out to sea in fine weather.
There was still wood enough remaining to run a weatherboard all round her, thus to enable her the better to go through any bad weather she might encounter during the long voyage she would possibly have to make.
The cranky boundary rider's little weatherboard hut, standing just inside his horse-paddock fence, was neater than the average.
Love of Approbation, ricochetted from his gun-metal skull, and banged against the weatherboard wall of an out-house.
