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Timber in sentence

152 examples of Timber in a sentence

Pay us more and we will timber better, we will give the necessary hours to the timbering instead of putting all our strength into the picking, which is the only work that pays.
The captains could not cope with the repairs, the timber was falling everywhere, and landslips were constantly taking place.
In other places the timber was bristling with toadstools.
The gallery was too wide for her to get a purchase on the timber on both sides; her naked feet were twisted in the rails where they sought a point of support, while she slowly moved on, her arms stiffened in front, and her back breaking.
He swore, and men ran to seize the fugitive, who was hiding with Catherine behind the timber supply.
The silence buzzed in his ears, he only heard the flight of a band of rats, the cracking of the old timber, the tiny sound of a spider weaving her web.
It was a sort of long chest in which they laid the little soldier as in a coffin; they placed his gun by his side; then with vigorous blows of their heels they broke the timber at the risk of being buried themselves.
All of them, the banterers as well as the infuriated, were now hooting the soldiers as though they had seen them stained by a splash of filth; Catherine only, standing aside on some old timber, remained silent with the blood at her heart, slowly carried away by the hatred that was rising within her.
Had the weight of the soil against the timber which formed the internal skirt of scaffolding to the shaft so pushed it in that the winding-cages rubbed as they went down for a length of over fifty metres?
Even the putter and the two trammers left off wheeling to prepare and bring pieces of timber.
A few pieces of timber alone remained; the others had fallen in with their frames.
He was stupefied, and the pieces of timber, cracking and falling down with their frames in a last slide, nearly carried him with them.
The whole square of the mine had followed the buildings, the gigantic platforms, the footbridges with their rails, a complete train of trams, three wagons; without counting the wood supply, a forest of cut timber, gulped down like straw.
He galloped on in spite of everything, grazing himself, leaving shreds of his limbs on the timber.
He was obliged to help her, for she had no strength to cling to the timber.
And the climbing began anew, now more dangerous, through this hole entirely of timber, a hundred metres long.
Afterwards, he placed on a piece of timber the two slices of bread-and-butter which were still left.
But here it was no longer some isolated bush or a modest grove of low timber.
My head struck against an iron timber, and with this violent shock I lost consciousness.
...This tutor, once I've secured him, will he wear a cassock?'M. de Renal was absorbed in this question when he saw in the distance a peasant, a man of nearly six feet in height, who, by the first dawning light, seemed to be busily occupied in measuring pieces of timber lying by the side of the Doubs, upon the towpath.
At length he came to the summit of the high mountain, beneath which he must pass in order to arrive, by this diagonal route, at the lonely valley in which his friend Fouque, the young timber merchant, lived.
For if I had had you with me that day, I should have gone on bidding for that lot of timber, and the other would soon have left me with it.
This offer annoyed Julien; it unsettled his erratic mind; throughout supper, which the friends cooked for themselves, like Homeric heroes, for Fouque lived by himself, he showed Julien his books, and proved to him what advantages his trade in timber offered.
After I have obscurely scraped together a little money by going round all these timber sales, and winning the favour of various minor rascals, who can say whether I shall still preserve the sacred fire with which one makes oneself a name?'
He had presence of mind enough to arrange his sentence and to make it plain to the noble lady, seated so close beside him on the bank of verdure, that the words he had just uttered were some that he had heard during his expedition to his friend the timber merchant.
'That is true; they are all jealous of the state of prosperity to which your wise management has brought you, your family and the town ...Very well, I shall go and bid Julien ask you for leave to spend a month with that timber merchant in the mountain, a fit companion for that little workman.''Take care what you do,' put in M. de Renal, calmly enough.
He ought to have thought of the wear and tear of the ropes, of the timber, of the danger from the bell itself which fell every two hundred years, and to have planned some way of diminishing the wage of the ringers, or of paying them with some indulgence or other favour drawn from the spiritual treasury of the Church, with no strain upon her purse.
Remember that, even financially speaking, it is better to earn one hundred louis in an honest trade in timber, where you are your own master, than to receive four thousand francs from a Government, were it that of King Solomon himself.'Julien saw no more in this than the pettiness of a rustic mind.
He bought houses, timber; but he took offence easily.
Young, active, and impelled by her generous motive, she moved up the hill with elastic steps, and very soon emerged from the cover of the woods, into an open space of more level ground, that had evidently been cleared of its timber, for the purpose of cultivation.
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