Everything there that was not of brick was of clumsy carpentry resembling the work of ship calkers.

From the accumulated stores of years he would draw whatever was necessary to meet the needs of the hour; and it did not matter to him if thought did not dovetail into thought with all the precision of good intellectual carpentry.

The one great windowa miracle of intricate carpentry, some twenty feet by twentyblazes with a geometrical pattern of tiny pieces of glass, forming one gorgeous mosaic.

All these heaped and huddled together, with nothing but a little carpentry and masonry between them;crammed in, like salted fish in their barrel;or weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed Vipers, each struggling to get its head above the other: such work goes on under that smoke-counterpane!But I, mein Werther, sit above it all; I am alone with the Stars.

Others said, if they were muscular, that they could not be Indians; still others remarked that it was not sculpture, but mere carpentry.

The worst thing we encountered was rain, against which our rude carpentry was but a poor defence.

On arriving before the place, September 3, 1346, Edward "immediately had built all round it," says Froissart, "houses and dwelling-places of solid carpentry, and arranged in streets as if he were to remain there for ten or twelve years, for his intention was not to leave it winter or summer, whatever time and whatever trouble he must spend and take.