Surrounding these huge buildings were some sixty small dwellings of the bungalow type, for the use of the workmen, built of rough boards, but neat and uniform in appearance.

I could only give them a room without beds, just the bare boards.

"Be careful," whispered Vance; "there are several loose boards, and they crack like anything.

" He too retired, And in his tent upon the sandy plain, Ordered the festive board to be prepared, And wine and music whiled the hours away.

The party assembled around the hospitable board of the baronet was composed, besides the before-mentioned persons, of the wife of Mr. Haughton, a woman of much good sense and modesty of deportment: their daughter, a young lady conspicuous for nothing but good nature; and the wife and son of the rectorthe latter but lately admitted to holy orders himself.

It was a low, triangular wood-pile, roofed with pine boards, through which the water was dripping.

Four merry beggars were they, and each had slung about his neck a little board that rested upon his breast.

We lodged here this Sunday night in a comfortable bed-room, apparently the best one; and all that I noticed unusual in the nightfor I still kept taking notes, like a spy in the campwas the creaking of the thin split boards, when any of our neighbors stirred.

Pretty work to descend with the huge pump-rods (garnished with large iron bolts) working violently, making strokes of 12 feet, close to our elbows; and with a nearly bottomless pit at the foot of every ladder, where we had to turn round the foot of the ladder walking on only a narrow board.

George lay stiff now, with a wooden board only at his head to tell that he once lived.

After the battle of Cannae (538) a special bank-commission (-tres viri mensarii-) had been appointed, composed of men held in the highest esteem, to form a permanent and circumspect board of superintendence for the public finances in these difficult times.

"The whole coast of Oman, in South Arabia, which on the north is washed by the waters of the Persian Gulf, and on the south by the Sea of Oman, abounds with fish; and, as the natives have but few canoes, they generally substitute a single inflated skin, or sometimes two, across which they place a flat board.

Dry the biscuits well in a slow oven; roll them and grind them with a rolling-pin on a clean board, until they are reduced to powder; sift it through a close hair sieve, and it is fit for use.

Hitherto, no one could hold such an office without having his election to it confirmed by a central board of ecclesiastical inspectors (la Sacra Congregazione degli Studj) at Rome.

" "And are there no other marks than this plain board?"

4. To insure, through joint boards on which both employers and workmen are represented, even if these boards are generally advisory, only an interlocking of the technical class and the factory, without which any system of vocational instruction must fall down.[A]

A political court is not properly a court at all, but an administrative board whose function is to work the will of the dominant faction for the time being.

Then Iorson, the swift-footed garçon, would skim over the polished boards to the newcomer, and, tendering the menu, would wait, pencil in hand, until the guest, after careful contemplation, selected his five plats from its comprehensive list.

The government was divided against itself, without money or credit,in short, a mere advisory board of civilians, half the time opposed to the plans of the commander-in-chief.

In the former we have direct government by a primary assembly, the town-meeting; in the latter we have indirect government by a representative board.

As for the rams, they lassoed some of them and broke the ends off, others they seized and pulled up with hooks, while by means of thick boards well fastened together and strengthened with iron, which they let down against the face of the wall, they turned aside the assaults of the remainder.

The oriel window, instead of its usual place at the upper end of the hall, was situated on one side, very near the corner; in the recess formed by it, stood the baron's table, not as we had anticipated upon a dais, but at least so veiled from the vulgar gaze of the retainers who feasted at a separate board in the apartment, that it answered the purpose of distinguishing ranks equally well.

in extra boards.

After these two operations have been twice repeated, the rasped substance is suspended in sacks between two strong vertical boards and crushed to the utmost by means of clamp screws, and repeatedly shaken up.

The commencement of the journey from the farm of disembarkation lay along what is known as corduroy boards.