Shingle in example sentence

He picked up a clean pine shingle that lay in the moon-light, took a little fragment of "red keel" out of his pocket, got the moon on his work, and painfully scrawled these lines, emphasizing each slow down-stroke by clamping his tongue between his teeth, and letting up the pressure on the up-strokes.

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So I literally came back from that job, quit school, hung my filmmaking shingle and just never told anyone that I didn't know what I was doing.

When she was taken too bad she went off quite alone to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer, going his rounds, often found her lying flat on her face, crying on the shingle.

"We have not left him a shingle for shelter; I should have burned it months ago, but I wanted his shed for a trap to catch the sly fox in.""You seem a most ingenious patriot," said Lawton.

Then he scraped away the dirt, and exposed a pine shingle.

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