Sentence example with the word 'puncheons'

puncheons

Last update: September 25, 2015


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So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.   [Please select]

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Kirk-Hallan candlesticks, Corsall cow-bells, Denby cracked puncheons, And Horsley merry bells.   [Please select]

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They roll about in the stream like puncheons, dive under one another playfully, sending huge waves to the banks on either side.   [Please select]

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Our table was of the puncheons cut from solid logs, and the next day they were the floor of the new cabin.   [Please select]

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Now I thought I heard it under the wall, now beneath the puncheons of the floor.   [Please select]

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Then my glance wandered to the floor, and on the puncheons were three stains.   [Please select]

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A sound broke the afternoon stillness,--the pattering of small, bare feet on the puncheons.   [Please select]

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There was commonly but a single door, which was made also of puncheons and hung on wooden hinges.   [Please select]

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Across the rough mantel-shelf was draped the French tricolor, and before the fireplace on the puncheons lay a huge bearskin which undoubtedly had not been shaken for a year.   [Please select]

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But for the low ceiling and the wide cypress puncheons of the floor the room might have been a budoir in a manor-house.   [Please select]

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