Behind her, the house with its wimple of shingle roof and unlighted front windows seemed to recede somewhere darkly.

Moreover, as the sea became shallower and the mud-beds got awash one after the other, they would be torn about, re-sifted, and re-shaped by currents and by tides, and mixed with shore-sand ground out of shingle-beach, thus making confusion worse confounded.

In high flood this great acreage of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown islands is almost topped by the water, but in normal seasons the bushes bend and rustle in the free winds, showing their silver leaves to the sunshine in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty.

At 3.0 a.m. there was a slight shower, and at 6.0 a.m. proceeded down the river, having dragged the boats over the shingle bank at Steep Head, where there was scarcely one inch of water; halted at the creek where the timber had been cut, to procure water for breakfast, and then sailed down the river and encountered a heavy squall, with thunder and lightning, just as we approached the camp; the rain continued nearly throughout the night.

Under and about it were great quantities of dry shavings, and short bits of wood, the hearts and saps of shingle blocks.

But the regular lumbermen, with their saw-mills, have been, less generally destructive thus far than the shingle-makers.

Such an expenditure would be like an essay to convert a Yankee shingle-palace, such as Irving described half a century ago, into a modern villa, and reminds one of a proposition made to an assembly some twenty centuries since, which still has its significance.

As these lines are written several hundred discontented shingle-weavers are threatened with deportation if they dare to strike.

Many of them, especially in the shingle mills, have lost fingers or hands in feeding the lumber to the screaming saws.

I have the reputation of being hard as shingle nails.

Making too free with the shore with a low sun ahead, we grounded for a short time on a shingle spit extending off the low point North-West from Circular Head.

A small hut, on a projecting shingle point, close to the westward, marks the landing place, where several canoes are generally to be seen hauled up.

"Where'd it come from?" "One uh them Hungry Bay shingle-bolt cutters's in camp," the logger answered.

Take, for instance, it's been a plan of mine to paint the house, with the shutters green and a band of green shingles runnin' up under the eaves.

They would by no means make as lovely a picture; for Nancy's upper jaw projects, and she has a wart on her nose, very stiff black hair, and a shingle figure, none of which adds grace to a scene; and Hiram went off in the Slabtown stage, with a tin-box on his knees, instead of in a shell-shaped boat with silken sails; but I know Nancy reads love-stories with great zest, and I know she had a slow fever after Hiram was married.

You know the little gray shingle houses are built very close together, and many are flush with the sidewalk.

Again I heard the still, sad music of humanity, the eternal beat and moan of the waves upon a lonely shingle shore.