Sentences with phrase «pile of lumber»

It is basically a pile of lumber.

It used to be known as heavy timber or mill decking and is drop - dead simple: you just nail a pile of lumber together and voila.

I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.

But right now, all the materials are all just lying around as piles of lumber and boxes of nails.

Not exact matches

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

In the sixteenth century astronomy, in the seventeenth century microbiology, in the eighteenth geology and paleontology, in the nineteenth Darwin's biology all grotesquely extended the world - frame and sent churchmen scurrying for cover in ever smaller, shadowy nooks, little gloomy ambiguous caves in the psyche where even now neurology is cruelly harrying them, gouging them out of the multifolded brain like wood lice from under a lumber pile.

He had spent weeks so far on his building, but I had put mine together in a few hours one afternoon, and wanted to show off my little pile of scrap lumber to the master carpenter.

After several minutes of running around, one of our party found our quarry, «a larger, lumbering pile of rocks» called a Skarn.