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I'm proposing three planks.
You could even still see the processed wooden planks left on the ground.
Here you see planks sold by the foot and we have supplies to combat scurvy.
This is near the planks.
Over time, they added planks to the log boat base using the clinker, or "lapstrake," technique, meaning the planks overlapped and were fastened to each other along their edges.
These ships were powered by sail and oars and relied on a strong skeleton of internal timbers fastened to the outer planks with copper, iron, and wood nails.
So, you know, here I am now, on the deck of Titanic, sitting in a submersible, and looking out at planks that look much like this, where I knew that the band had played.
I distinctly remembered the shots of the ghost boy running down the mine, then waiting behind two planks of wood crossed in the mineshaft, just staring out with a pale white face.
The scene where cop awakes to find crim (I refuse to register the planks in this film as actual characters) has injected him with a syringe of fat, only for him to burst it open like a huge zit had me reeling.
BERKELEY – The party platform adopted at the Republican National Convention includes a number of remarkable planks.
Consider the old metaphysical puzzle: is a wooden boat whose planks are gradually replaced as they decay the same boat after all the planks have been changed?
“Systems” biology is biology that recognizes that what remains the same is the design of the boat – that which determines the relationships between the planks.
The prisoners slept on wooden planks or iron bunks.
The authorities called it a suicide, but survivors say that, for fun, the guards unscrewed one of the wooden planks from the wall and dropped it on Stus’s head as he lay sleeping.
In fact, within a couple of days of the election, core planks of Macron’s economic platform were already under attack in Germany.
But old right-wing planks formed much of his platform.
The broad planks of a partnership are already there, so what is now needed is to enhance Europe’s integration with its southern neighbors.
To steal bricks and cable from construction sites, citizens removed planks from wooden fences, or climbed over concrete ones, at the risk of being scratched by rusty nails or barbed wire, bitten by guard dogs, or even shot at with rock salt.
Moreover, the Democratic nominee may veer away from radical, substantive planks in the party’s platform, and opt for a more moderate program in the hope of attracting enough centrist voters to defeat Trump.
Young men passed along the platform, clattering their heels on the planks, talking loudly and gazing at her; and people she met tried to get out of her way on the wrong side.
The man saw on his right a paling, a wall of coarse planks shutting in a line of rails, while a grassy slope rose on the left surmounted by confused gables, a vision of a village with low uniform roofs.
Fortunately the young man was thin, for, as he was still awkward, he hoisted himself up with a useless expense of muscle, flattening his shoulders and hips, advancing by the strength of his wrists, clinging to the planks.
Separated by planks, hooked on to retain the fallen coal, they each occupied about four metres of the seam, and this seam was so thin, scarcely more than fifty centimetres thick at this spot, that they seemed to be flattened between the roof and the wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, and unable to turn without crushing their shoulders.
At one moment it had been necessary to free Maheu, who was gasping, and to remove the planks so that the coal could fall into the passage.
In a corner on the ground a pile of hay made a soft couch; on some old planks, placed like a table, there were bread, potatoes, and bottles of gin already opened; it was a real brigand's cavern, with booty piled up for weeks, even useless booty like soap and blacking, stolen for the pleasure of stealing.
And they all thought of this; every one would be left down there if they all crowded on to the planks.
The door, however, shut very badly, and had such large chinks in it, that the road could be seen between the worm-eaten planks.
She was frozen at the thought that a glance between the planks of that disjointed door might suffice to murder them.
At last the roof became low, and they found themselves kneeling beneath a sandy rock supported by half-broken planks.
The wind blew between the planks of chestnut and oak, and they rolled themselves up as in some wood-cutter's abandoned hut.
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