32 Words to use with plank

Once it was a model dwelling of much pretension, with its spacious apartments, hard-wood six-inch plank floors, elaborately-carved decorations, stained-glass windows, and its amusement and refreshment halls.

They were so supremely happy running up and down the plank roads laid by the builders for their wheel-barrows, seesawing or balancing and sliding on others, that we could not face the desolation of emptiness which would come when the workmen removed their things.

Maudie, Keith and the Colonel stood with the A. C. agent at the end of the baggage-bordered plank-walk that led to the landing.

Over the main channels pontoons had been thrown, over others light plank bridges, less strongly supported, through others everybody was wading.

This philosophy taught him "to prefer a plank bed and skin, and whatever else of the kind belongs to the Grecian discipline."

A rough plank sidewalk ran in front of the houses, and Lister imagined it was needed when the spring thaw and summer thunder-storms softened the gumbo soil.

They saw them making a rough plank box to bury him in.

These are covered by a rough-plank house,too much like a shed to merit that pretentious term, which implies something fit to live in; in the centre of this shelter is an open space, perhaps a yard square, and similar in appearance to a trap-door in a roof.

So this house was not so alien to me as all else I had seen in London; and perhaps the cosmopolitanism of this charming Jew, his Hellenism, in fact, was a sort of plank whereon I might pass and enter again into English life.

In order to dry the bed a dam is constructed, and the river is either diverted into a plank flume supported by piles, or into a canal dug along the shore, or by means of tight walls, according to the lay of the place.

There, it is usual for children to be confined six hours a dayand sometimes two in successionto hard, narrow, plank seats, a large proportion of which are without backs, and raised so high that the feet of most of the pupils cannot possibly touch the floor.

They had, in the beginning, each helped himself from common dishes set in the middle of the rough plank table.

Massive plank gates bar the entrances.

Their fronts were open piazzas, their sides were lathed and plastered, sometimes with white marl, sometimes with reddish clay, and they had plank doors and were roofed neatly with cypress bark or clapboards.

I had just time to bid a hasty farewell, and hear a plank-man say, "Better hurry, Miss, if you're going on," and in another minute I was at sea.

" He led me along to a lumber-room by the side of the plank pier.

Ten minutes later the Limited was a vanishing object down an aisle slashed through a forest of great trees, and Miss Estella Benton stood on the plank platform of Hopyard station.

The grave was prepared by putting bark in the bottom of it before the corpse was deposited, a plank covering made and secured some distance above the body.

The river changed hands five times in one day, and at nightfall the stream was completely choked with the bodies of thousands of dead, so that a plank roadway for artillery was laid by the Russians across a solid bridge of bodies.

Lesser mounds upheld the houses of lesser chiefs, and all alike seem to have been built of oak, with plank roofs.

Sometimes at the end of the hall is a plank rostruma modest altar to the Goddess of Free Speech and open discussion.

There wasn't a rag of cloud left in the sky when the dawn came, and all along the beach there were bits of plank scatteredwhich was the disarticulated skeleton, so to speak, of my canoe.

There was a knot-hole in the plank walls of the house.

The launch, camboose, water-casks, and spare spars, in driving overboard, having forced out timber-heads, and other supports, in a way to split the plank sheer, which let in the water fast, every time the lee gunwale went under.

When the barrows were sufficiently filled to suit their weak ideal of a load, a procession of them set off along a plank causeway leading into the fort, observing a droll semblance of military precision and pomp, and forcing a passage through lounging unmilitary buckras with an air of, "Out of de way, Ole Dan Tucker!"

32 Words to use with  plank