Shingle in example sentence

All the patience, all the ingenuity of the settlers was needed; but at last it succeeded, and the result was a lump of iron, reduced to a spongy state, which it was necessary to shingle and fagot, that is to say, to forge so as to expel from it the liquefied veinstone.

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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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