118 adjectives to describe timber

Simplified design of structural timber.

If we start right now and have any luck we can make several miles before night and camp in some of the thick timber.

Within this wall, which was substantially laid, by a Scotch mason, one accustomed to the craft, the men had erected a building of massive, squared, pine timber, well secured by cross partitions.

It is sad to see how they have been neglected, and how much waste of valuable timber has ensued.

The saddlery had become much worn by passing through the scrubs, and the party was fully employed in repairs and shoeing the horses, many of which were very lame from injury among the fallen timber.

We'll drift together along the trail part way, and down yonder I turn up for the tall timber.

The army moved very cautiously, the night encampments being made behind breastworks of felled timbers.

Leaving the bivouac at 7.15 a.m., steered 50 degrees; at 8.50 crossed a steep ridge of white sandy rocks resting on granite; after this the country was grassy, with little timber, 10.30, when we entered a thick scrub; at 11.0 observed a high granite hill bearing 50 degrees, steered for it, and reached the summit at 12.55 p.m., descending into thick scrub on the other side.

The dauntless hero still pursues his stroke, And presses forward, till a knotty oak Retards his foe, and stops him in the rear; Full in his throat he plunged the fatal spear, That in the extended neck a passage found, 130 And pierced the solid timber through the wound.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.

Ruby H. Hughes (E); 27Apr66; R385195. Stately timber.

Within this wall, which was substantially laid, by a Scotch mason, one accustomed to the craft, the men had erected a building of massive, squared, pine timber, well secured by cross partitions.

Should it once fairly catch alight in a high wind, all that will be left of this town will be a few charred timbers and some dazed human beings.

We speak of rough timber because its surface has not been planed or made smooth.

" "Listen to that chorus, would you?" remarked Frank, as various sounds arose all through the dense timber around them; "they seem to be heading this way sure enough.

Other land is covered with magnificent timber which could be shipped to all parts of the world.

They traversed a few hundred yards of path through brush, broken tops, and stumps, coming at last into a fairway cut through virgin timber, a sixty-foot strip denuded of every growth, great firs felled and drawn far aside, brush piled and burned.

It was a large shed built upon square timbers, and was similar to a barn, only it stood some six feet from the ground, and underneath was located the machinery for running the gin.

It alighted upon a heap of chips and fagots lying near a large stack of wood used for the oven, and in a few minutes the whole pile had caught and burst into a flame, which, quickly mounting to the ceiling, set fire to the old, dry, half-decayed timber that composed it.

The principal timber is white-gum of small size, and the cotton-tree (cochlospermum), which sometimes attains the thickness of nine to twelve inches.

The Boswells reported it as containing much more useful timber than the Lewes, which indeed one would infer from its lower altitude.

Moreover, pieces which have been recovered show the wood to be live timber, and not petrified, as the poetic fiction has it.

By this time it was becoming quite dark, and I rode down to one of the little mountain streams, where I found an open place in the timber suitable for a camp.

Many hands and high hope made short work of the light timbers.

Behind these again the beginnings of a cut had eaten a hole in the forest,a slashing different from the ordinary logging slash, for it ran narrowly, straight back through the timber; whereas the first thing a logger does is to cut all the merchantable timber he can reach on his limit without moving his donkey from the water.

118 adjectives to describe  timber