They then fitted them inside with several knees and ribs and inner planking, and all that was requisite, with great perfection, and collected the yards, spars, and all that they had need of belonging to the ship São Miguel; and the captain-major took Nicolas Coelho on board of his ship, entertaining him well.

For years the wind had blown sighing through its deserted rooms, while the rain rotted the planking.

The next minute the bows of his boat whirled round, the old tub grounded, and then, turning over, shot him out on to the planking of the steep descent into the small lasher.

He went from rock to rock, picking up whatever the sea had scatteredtatters of sail-cloth, pieces of iron, splinters of panels, shattered planking, broken yards; here a beam, there a chain, there a pulley.

So she ran directly to her mother in the long kitchen, and, planking the American eagle upon the sloppy little table where the eels were rapidly getting dressed, said, "Why, mother, that gentleman wants to hire Frank to carry him to Captain Grant's, and I'm sure he ought to go without hiring.

Splinters flew where the sharp calks bit into the wharf planking, and his companions applauded.

Vessels are found far up on the land, with the torn stumps of trees driven through their planking.

[Vidocq returns to Lille, where he is taken by two gendarmes, and concerts the following stratagem for escape:] This escape, however, was not so very easy a matter as may be surmised, when I say that our dungeons, seven feet square, had walls six feet thick, strengthened with planking crossed and rivetted with iron; a window, two feet by one, closed with three iron gratings placed one after the other, and the door cased with wrought iron.

Sallambier, who was in the dungeons below, found a way to cut the hole, by working through the planking.

Hence, too, came that ominous planking and that strange procession in the early morning.

The under part of her hull and sides were strengthened with double timbers, and fortified externally with plates of iron, while, internally, stanchions and crossbeams were so arranged as to cause pressure on any part to be supported by the whole structure; and on her bows, where shocks from the ice might be expected to be most frequent and severe, extra planking, of immense strength and thickness, was secured.

Just listen how tight and solid her planking is!

The chair had been screwed to the floor, but the weight of impact ripped the fastenings out of the heavy planking.

At the end of the bridge, between the planks and the ground beyond them, there was a jolt, caused by the rotting away of a log which had been imbedded in the ground at the beginning of the planking.

The ferry-boat is made of planking placed on three dugout canoes, and runs on a trolley.

Then, through the rolling ocean of smoke, he saw officers and men trying to hack away and beat out the burning timberssaw a reckless carbineerhis own tent-matedismount and run out across the planking which was already afire, saw him stumble and roll over as a bullet hit him, get to his knees blindly, trip and fall flat in the smoke.

Then Fear bellowed in Berkley's ear; but he had already clapped spurs to his horse, cantering out across the burning planking and straight into the smoke pall.

It was fresher and cooler in the lane; starlight made the planking of the little foot-bridge visible in the dark, but the stream ran under it too noiselessly for him to hear the water moving over its bed of velvet sand.

A few minutes later one was looking down from the upper bridge on the top of this turret and the black-lined planking of the deck eighty- five feet below, with the sweep of the firm lines of the sides converging toward the bow on the background of the water.

" I looked down to see an irregular outline of fresh planking.

"They've torn down the planking around the Holy Trinity churchyard, and dug up the earth to build a new wall.

If you go through the gate of the porcelain factory and over the courtyard, and through the mill in the fourth courtyard that leads out into Spring Street, there you will see where the planking is torn down and you can get into the churchyard easily.

The entire length of the tall blackened planking had been torn down.

Here, a skeleton with ribs of wood, like the carcass of some stranded whale; there, a hull, clad with its planking near which smokes the calker's cauldron, emitting light yellowish clouds.

We came out presently upon a gravelly beach, and Bates stamped suddenly on planking.