| 单词 | lath |
| 例句 | Elsewhere, the exposed laths, themselves rotting away, showed through like the ribs of a starving animal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The dining table was a smooth piece of lath supported on both ends by stones. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They emerged through another wall, but this one was lath and plaster on the far side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside, it was warmer than when we left, because Woody was already making good his promise to Mama, tacking up some ends of lath he’d found, stuffing rolled paper around the door frame. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I said to my sister, “I’ll stop taking the tablets, and be thin as a lath by Christmas.” 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z I arrived to find her prone on the sofa, white, wiped and thin as a lath. AL Kennedy and the perils of the pen 2012-08-15T17:30:01Z The murals — oil paint on plaster with a metal lath backing — depict men and women in formalwear, men in top hats and tuxedos, women draped in fur-trimmed coats. Prohibition-era murals discovered during renovations of former Louisa Hotel 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The three of them moved in a row, stepping on the crooked laths, a few paces apart. Wilderness by Sarah Hall 2013-03-18T13:22:56Z Although older plaster was typically backed up by thin wooden slats called laths, Bullard often fills in behind with metal laths. You can replace that plaster crown molding, but it’ll cost you 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Same with her home: an abstraction of unplastered lath, partly unfinished and partly a fantasy. Review: In ‘Noura,’ an Iraqi Refugee Leaves More Than Home Behind 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The beagle body was made from lumber and wrapped in metal lath, a bendable mesh, over which stucco was applied. Ever wanted to spend the night inside a giant wooden beagle? You can. 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The set — with visible pipes and studs and lath and rafters — seeks, in Mr. Zinn’s words, to suggest “the nervous system under the skin of the architecture.” For ‘The Humans,’ Home Is Where the Set Moves 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The heavy plaster, mixed with Portland cement, more than three inches thick and applied to a lath of chicken wire, required an ax to break through. 'Mayday! ... Firefighters trapped!': The battle to save Victory Baptist Church 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Readings on lath and plaster can be misleading, though, so if that’s what you have, look for nails in baseboards, which should point to studs, or for electrical outlets, which usually have a stud alongside. Perspective | How to hang artwork so it doesn’t come crashing down 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z A central garden atrium, with a translucent roof faced with more lath, is the home’s hub — all rooms pivot off that fulcrum, wreathing the space and its 12-foot-high ceilings with glass. Take a rare look inside architect Edward Killingsworth’s Long Beach home 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The murals — oil paint on plaster with metal lath backing — depict men in top hats and tuxedos, women draped in fur-trimmed coats. Historic Louisa Hotel, witness to Seattle history and tragedy, opens new chapter as apartment building 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The murals - oil paint on plaster with a metal lath backing - depict men and women in formalwear, men in top hats and tuxedos, women draped in fur-trimmed coats. Prohibition-era murals found at former Seattle hotel 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z Plaster with metal lath were used instead of drywall. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s childhood summer home in East Hampton, N.Y., lists for $52 million 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z In front of a soapstone and lath counter is a 1903 gas stove. St. Louis nonprofit founder strives to help veterans 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z She didn’t give up, though; while awaiting trial she broke out of her lath and plaster prison cell and escaped briefly. The Surprising Story of America’s Most Famous Female Stagecoach Robber 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “There was real plaster and lath; those walls have studs, and the doors are framed,” he says. Peek Into Tiny Crime Scenes Built by an Obsessed Millionaire 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Its lath skeleton is plaster-free and looks like a ghostly X-ray of a house. Between Apocalypses 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z My dad never made it through college and apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter. The Romney Speech at the Republican National Convention 2012-08-31T04:35:33Z He apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter and sold aluminum paint before beginning a career that brought him to the head of American Motors and then the governorship of Michigan. Memo to Mitt: Fix Your LinkedIn Page! 2012-05-17T12:14:00Z The cement-plaster exterior is handsomer and warmer than wood, and on expanded metal lath it is durable. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z A light framework of lath is run up, just large enough to hold a travelling bedstead and chair; this is covered with felt or water-proof sheeting and placed upon the raft. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z When she first bought the Art Shack, she had stripped the plaster from one wall and exposed the lath to let light into the main room. Between Apocalypses 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z A minute or two after, the travellers had entered the room adjoining his own, and from which a very frail partition of lath and plaster alone separated him. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z The other end of the lath was resting on the table, some distance from Mr. Home's hands. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z But then, unfortunately, it was only a dagger of lath that the wind could turn aside; whereas Fox wore a good trusty blade, of solid metal, and real execution. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z The goals, placed in the centre of each goal-line, consist of two upright posts 7 ft. high and 12 ft. apart, connected by a lath. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z In place of a sapling a pole or lath was employed, and from this lath is probably derived the term lathe. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The mangrove provides firewood, house poles, fishing fences, and traps, laths for bows and black dye for their hair and tapa. A Racial Study of the Fijians 2012-03-15T02:00:31.197Z And the young man sprang on the bed, and thrust the rowel of a spur through the laths. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The Duke looked, and even where I stood behind the lath and plaster partition I heard him catch his breath. Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z To lath and plaster the side walls of 1st and 2nd stories with two coats & set in white. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z Ventilation is afforded at the ends, usually by tilting laths, operated by a cord. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z "Was there a chicken house there--oh, such a fine chicken house!" he exclaimed expansively, "with fancy towers made out of laths, and a dandy wind vane on it?" Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Then he gripped and bent down a length of one of the laths, and, passing his arm as far as the elbow through the hole, moved it this way and that. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z It carried a great coop made of laths, and was half filled with fowls. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z To lath and plaster all the other partitions in both stories. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z We passed a wayside shrine, at the foot of which were numerous offerings, each formed of two bits of lath nailed one across the other. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Placed in the frames, they were held in position in the rabbets by laths nailed to the sides so as to prevent any play. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z Tignonville thrust back the lath as well as he could, and slipped to the floor; and hastily the two swept the rubbish from the bed. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Raddle, rad′l, v.t. to interweave: to beat.—n. a hedge formed by interweaving the branches of trees: a hurdle: split wood like laths: a wooden bar used in domestic weaving. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z To lath and plaster the Ceiling of the Cellar Story throughout. Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable 2012-03-08T03:00:11.013Z From the other side of it her voice came to me quietly: "Does this prove the sword to be lath or steel?" The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Plastering hung to broken lath, so they knew that they were on the ground floor of the deserted house, and not in the cellar. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z Tignonville, his face red, drove the spur again between the laths, and worked it to and fro until he could pass his fingers into the hole he had made. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Joist, joist, n. the timbers to which the boards of a floor or the laths of a ceiling are nailed.—v.t. to fit with joists. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z One lot o' children climbed up into the roof, and defended themselves wi' tiles and laths, while another lot attacked 'em wi' doors and window frames. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z "So," she said, bending over me, and her heart looked through her eyes, "the lath was steel after all, and I only found it out when the steel cut me." The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z She struck directly upon the former wound, and crushed in the whole side of the ship as if it had been a lattice work of laths. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z Tignonville cried; and leaping, with flaming eyes, on the bed, he fell to hacking and jabbing and tearing at the laths amid a rain of dust and rubbish. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The walk should be separated from the pens by laths three inches apart, to allow the birds to feed and water from the walk. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z He publicly rebuked a poor old dame whom he caught staggering homeward with her apron full of laths. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Then the sword would be proved lath indeed! The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Brush over the insides of bookcases and the laths with lac varnish. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z Common lath were then put on horizontally in the regular way inside, without furring out, and plastered with rich cement plaster. Economy of the Round Dairy Barn 2011-12-18T03:00:20.633Z The main body of the building should be divided into pens twenty feet long, by either lath or wire two feet high. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z He rejoices in the contrast between masculine lath and feminine tub, and in one plate afflicts us with a grinning face which exceeds in ugliness any of C. Delort's portraits of "l'Homme qui rit." George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z He worked so hard that when his master returned he had laid bare the laths, and had bored a hole bigger than his own head, while the bed was strewn with big fragments of plaster. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Use laths separated one from the other one inch in place of shelves. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z I can tell by his walk; He's as thin as a lath, and that pale; But I never could get him to talk, So I can't rightly guess what may ail. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z This food should be scattered upon the feeding-troughs, which are simply one-half inch boards, nine or ten inches wide, by three or four feet long, with laths nailed on the sides and ends. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z I looked up and saw above us a low white-washed shanty covered with thatch which was kept in its place by a network of laths. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z With grimy fingers Ethan poked about, taking great care not to step off the middle aisle of flooring on to the lath and plaster between the mighty hand-hewn beams. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The laths are easy to nail down and then the paper goes over that, you know.” Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z At Great Falls there are four saws, also four more a few miles up the river, and four shingle and four lath machines. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z Quite near the old building, a paling of half-rotten laths surrounded a small garden, shaded at one end by a clump of pines and large oaks. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z The tobacco's all cut now, and the dogs are in capital order—as thin as a lath. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z The travellers were conveyed to the island in a raft of laths and wickerwork, on which the water lapped over their feet. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z We only need enough to form bases for us to nail the laths to. Girl Scouts at Dandelion Camp 2011-10-21T02:00:19.027Z The mills are principally located at Cherryfield, where are fifteen saw and eight lath mills, three shingle and one clap-board machine. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z In like manner cut five laths, and plane each to the gauge line. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z After Mrs. James explained the cause of their rioting, Janet crawled over the closely-fitted laths that fenced them in; and all the girls started for the barn to find some fresh straw for a bed. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z "Stone, stone—lath, lath; ah, a compact house." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z To see your laths going in and your plaster going on, while I stay lumber and nails, is a lesson in yielding to the will of heaven as I never calculated on. Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs 2011-09-03T02:00:18.353Z There are only nine lath machines, which, as is reported, for want of material, cut only about two hundred and fifty thousand to a machine. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z The laths being thus made, sufficient wood will be left for the supports. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z Her thoughts were so filled with the vision of the lath frames that she failed to see something crawling on a tiny leaf of the potato vine where she was hoeing. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z He was now a solemn stalking-horse, bearing a rigid, buckram-mailed showman, whose only sound or movement resided in the plates of his armour, or his lath sword or gilded spontoon. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z At other times the whole chimney and fireplace were placed on the exterior, the better to protect against fire; and the boards were lined with crude lath and clay daubing. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z In place of lath and plastered walls, thick building paper formed the interior covering, leaving a space between the iron outside and the paper within. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z Make the width of the supports the same as that of the laths. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z And with it all she was twenty-eight, and looked less; smiling, soft and childlike; so slim and fragile that you might snap her across your knee like a lath rod. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z He was a tall man, thin as a lath, with a long, hatchet-shaped face, to which an idea of additional length was imparted by a carefully-trimmed goatee beard. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z It was fashioned of laths, was rounding on top, and at one end a funnel of netting took the place of the laths. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z She led the way to an open coop of laths in the middle of the back yard. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Then mark on each lath the distance the supports are from each end of the laths, and nail on the laths—the outside laths first, then the centre one, and finally the other two. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z He replenished his supply of fuel and covered the exposed cracks in the wall of his shack by nailing over them laths. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z I used to hear Sorl�, S�fel, and the servant laughing in the stairway, as they peeped through the laths, and I did not dare to turn my head. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z The night grew hotter still, and the faint breath that was wafted between the open laths that covered the window seemed to have passed from the mouth of some furnace. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z They were constructed inside of laths of areca, closely bound together, and fastened horizontally to a framework covered with grass thatch, a foot or more in thickness. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z The former piece is for the laths, and it must be prepared and cut as in No. 22, making each lath to finish 1 in. wide, 1⁄2 in. thick, and 103⁄4 in. long. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z The wings were planes of lath strengthened with aluminium, and capable of being inclined at any desired angle by the simple movement of a switch in the car. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z After this it was hung for a few days upon lines slung between the ribs of the mat-houses and the laths of the wagon-tents. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z They were both good swordsmen as far as military teaching goes; but the Malay paid no more heed to their blunt regulation weapons than if they had been made of lath. One Maid's Mischief 2011-07-15T02:00:22.283Z The fence was of wire and laths—the kind bought by the roll ready to set up; but it was very much dilapidated. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z The respective parts being now complete, mark on each lath the distance the supports are from the ends shown in Fig. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z In 1861 he returned to Hudson and put up a shingle and lath addition to his saw mill. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Modern lath and plaster has the great advantage of being easily swept away with its own generation. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z If you are put with a friend in a double-bedded room, bear in mind that inside walls are only lath and plaster, and that every word you say will be heard in the next room. Mr. Punch On Tour 2011-05-22T02:00:12.297Z The walls are plastered, and the under side of the roof is also covered with lath and plaster, and the place is thoroughly weather-proof. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z Then nail on the laths, b b first, c next, and the others afterwards. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z Government blankets are first laid on these floors and over them is laid the carpet and both are nailed down with lath or shingle nails, with leather heads, to hold the carpet in place. Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago 2011-04-28T02:00:13.453Z There is a philosophical inability also, to pry up a rock of a hundred tons weight with a pine lath, and by the hand of a single man, because we have not an adequate cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z Kneeling at the window of his room, on the fourth storey—looking down through the slanted laths of the Venetians—he saw the hack drive up, and with eager eyes watched till it was occupied. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z From the outside, the affair was not very distinguished looking, it was only of boards and laths hammered together, and looked uncommonly like a building in which wild beasts are exhibited, at the Leipsic fair. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z Then, having first taken care to punch down all the nails sufficiently, plane a few shavings off the tops of the laths to make them clean and level. Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes 2011-09-18T02:00:30.783Z This was not a replica of the national statue at Haugesund, but an independent design, put up in lath and plaster to see whether public opinion approved of it. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z From the "lath" he took a parchment pan, full of papers that were worn, thumb-marked, and greasy. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z The timber is very much twisted in grain, and liable to warp and split, but is used for making plasterers’ laths and for fencing; “shingles” for roofing are sometimes made of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The space between the sheathing and lath, to the height of about a foot, should be filled with concrete. House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 2011-03-12T03:00:26.220Z I would almost say," I continued, warming up to my subject, "that if a flag is ever needed for these western prairies it should be a banner of tarpaper, nailed between two laths. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z “And what are you going to do with this?” asked Maudie, holding up a mass of bright-colored beads and string depending from a lath. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Common Uses: Coarse, cheap lumber, as joists, rafters, plank walks and laths. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The threads of the web were separated by means of a thin wooden lath, while the woof passed through by means of the same spindle on which it had been wound in spinning. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The plaster was hanging in strips and lumps from the ceiling; it had fallen away in patches from the walls where it displayed the skeleton laths beneath. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z A portion of it is held in place by a network of little iron laths. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Mingled with the fierce scream of the band-saws there were the wailings of the lath and clapboard saws. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Stripping the paper, he cut away plaster and laths till he could see the back of the paper of the adjoining chamber. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z “Build here, on this very spot, a castle, with laths of gold and silver, and diamond tiles, and with all its furniture of gold and silver.” Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z The enclosing wall of the fortifications made a horizontal swelling there; and, on the footpath, on the ground at the side of the road, little branchless trees were protected by laths bristling with nails. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z As I was no thicker than a lath, and six-feet-an-inch-and-a-half tall, there was contrast enough as he paddled alongside me. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z The cellars of the Dustbury prison, though by no means eligible residences, were not half so bad as the most comfortable of the lath and canvass dungeons to which we have alluded. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z Turning the key in the lock he carefully felt the walls separating him from the adjoining room—as he suspected, lath and plaster! '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z There are flour and lumber mills, foundries and machine shops, wooden ware, cooperage, sash, door and blind, lath and shingle factories, and shipyards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z However, this taught father something, for in making the next telescope he used a number of laths fixed together and turned in the lathe. The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] 2010-12-21T22:55:56.210Z The light glanced upon the concave bottoms of rows of bottles with laths between, but George Harrington toiled on. The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z Struck by thy own sword of lath, wilt thou amputate the offending hand? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 He put one of the pieces of lath across a corner of the opening as he spoke, and rested the flap on that. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Then raise the drop bar high enough so that you can place the short lath under the round of drop so that the weight rests on the rope. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps The back of the dresser may be made of narrow boards, each lath cut out uniformly in a pattern at the top, forming a band of ornament. Household Organization One must have different sizes of boards or laths. Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. The wind that used to howl and whistle so dismally in the branches of the trees now murmured soft lullabies, and even the laths in the rotten roof cracked less ominously. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Going into a back room, he ripped some laths from the Venetian blinds. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Now place the beveled end of the short lath in the slot of the long lath and the trap is set. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps He shuddered, too, at the bedstead with its pleated iron laths furred by dust and rust, and at the red mattress exuding flock like clustered maggots. Sinister Street, vol. 2 We built the Chapel with our own hands of mud and stone and laths. Sinister Street, vol. 1 "Why doesn't she doctor the laths?" he thought, and resolved that the next morning he would come and lay boards over the weak places. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers I'd rather whittle a lath, And my motto helps me to take my ease;— "Forget what the other man hath." Impertinent Poems A handful of shingle or lath nails and a clump of osier sprouts will make a full outfit of stretchers for a temporary camp. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps The Compline bell rang almost at once, and the Office was still held in the little chapel of mud and laths built by the hands of the monks. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The conscripts had no firewood, so they had used the doors and frames for fuel, then the window-sashes and casings were utilized, and next was the lath from the partitions. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document Looking between the laths, I could see him at work. A-Birding on a Bronco The walls—or rather the paper panels and wood laths that did duty for walls—were haunted with memories. Lafcadio Hearn And Martha, the elderly housekeeper, faithful but curious, let fall the lath of the green Venetian blind covering the storeroom window, through which she had permitted herself to peep. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days He is lath and plaster where there should be quartered oak. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day An Italian woman, clad in violent colors, passed with a hundredweight or so of broken laths poised on her head. A Top-Floor Idyl Through the wide breach thus made in the lath and mud walls of the hut, Beresteyn suddenly saw the horses and the sledge out there in the open. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Above the bookcases all was thoroughly Japanese in character; the ceiling mostly composed of unpainted wood laths, traversing a delicate grey ground. Lafcadio Hearn Presently he dropped the lath of the Venetian blind, and turned to go. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days Guy discovered that several tiles had been blown from the roof, so that through the lath and plaster above her head there was a sound of demoniac fife-playing. Plashers Mead A Novel Formerly, the logs were shipped as square timber, but now almost always in the form of deals, planks or laths; such square timber as is still shipped goes almost entirely to Great Britain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The lath and plaster of the ceiling are absolutely unbroken. The Green God Not knowing anything about his habits, I nailed laths over the front to keep him in. Harper's Round Table, May 14, 1895 But first he took out his pocket-book and fastened the lath which lifted most easily, to those above and below it, with halfpenny stamps. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days The stranger stood all of seven feet, it seemed to me, built like a lath, hung around and about with the wreck of tweeds. Where the Pavement Ends When is a man thinner than a lath? The Handbook of Conundrums Before the thatching begins, there are laths to put upon the rafters. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend I was leaner than a lath, but I lived—I lived then!’ Rewards and Fairies "There sit the wood pigeons," continued she, pointing to a number of laths and a cage which had been fixed into the walls, near one of the openings. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series A fence had been built about it with lath, and the whole thing had quite a festive look. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half Securing the flowers, he brought them back and made a cross of laths on which he tied them. The Book of Courage The plates must of necessity be short pieces of wood; and, as to the stakes, the laths, and the logs, poles, rods, twigs, and heath, they would not all cost twenty shillings. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend Check with a lath a torrent's wrath, If it sweep you off what wonder? Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Above them, on laths and perches, were more than a hundred pigeons that all seemed to be asleep, although they moved slightly when the two little girls came near them. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales First Series He had pulled down the little woodwork which remained; and every now and then he took from the wall or the roof a lath or some scantling, to heat his crucible. Toilers of the Sea Plaster hung in patches and the laths behind were broken and splintered. The Caves of Fear One of his chief employments was to make sport with the devil, leaping on his back, and belaboring him with his dagger of lath, till he made him roar. Folk-lore of Shakespeare No brick; no mortar; nothing but the grotesque shells of rooms in lath and a paper-thickness of paint. Freudian Slip They passed under a lighted house, and through the split bamboo floor laths they could see two men drinking basi, or some other native beverage, from sections of bamboo. The Pirates of Shan A whirlwind had wrenched it against the counteracting force of the rolling waves, and the vessel thus caught in contrary directions by the two claws of the tempest had snapped like a lath. Toilers of the Sea For interior cob walls, laths are not necessary. Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) You must know that this roebuck, being intended for the Dresden kitchen, was kept under lock and bolt, in a partition fenced round with high laths, and shaded by the oaks of the park. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors The doctor took from under his arm a bundle of short pieces of lath, each about eighteen inches long, tapering toward one end, to which was fastened a bit of red flannel. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The wood is also used for flooring, joists, lath, and paper pulp. The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park They were but lath and plaster; but Count Saxe was a man well fashioned by nature of her strongest metal, and him the Russians reckoned with, and him only. Francezka Have no use for windbreaks, and use lath two feet long stuck in the ground around the trees to protect from rabbits. The Apple In places the plaster had been displaced and the bare lath showed through, reminding one of skeletons. The Witches of New York Unwinding one of these lines the doctor passed one of the alder sticks through the hole in the lath, baited the hook with a lively minnow and dropped it through the hole in the ice. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp The house itself was of unsurfaced redwood, battened with lath to keep out the winter rain. Stories of the Foot-hills The accursed vermin died somewhere in the Cottage; but whether beneath a floor, within lath and plaster, or in roof, baffled the conjectures of the most sagacious. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Am successful in storing apples in boxes—made of lath an inch apart—in an arched cave. The Apple After determining the direction of the rows a number of laths, four feet long, are placed in line where the first row is to be. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history The alder stick was placed across this so that the lath came in the middle and lay on the ice at right angles. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp Don't you recollect when I was in your lath hut I painted this very life to you as my ideal?—A hut of rushes and a bed of straw. Eyes Like the Sea We paint the faded actress, build the lath landscape, feed our benevolence with fallacies of 322 felicity, and satisfy our righteousness with poetry of justice. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) They are made of lath and 1�12 boxing lumber. The Apple Change each lath as you come to it, and when your first furrow is completed your second row will be all marked out. Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history A pull on the line would drag the end of the lath down, making it stand upright with its little red signal on the end, and that was all there was to it. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp "What the devil is the house built of then?" exclaimed I. "All lath and plaster, sir," replied the man, tapping right and left. Olla Podrida Pot firmly, working the soil well around the roots with a lath. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" For rabbits I use lath and woven wire, and concentrated lye for borers. The Apple If the lath is proved to be out, it must at once be sent to a joiner to be accurately 'shot,' and the accuracy of both its edges must then be tested with a thread. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass To lath and plaster ceiling, side walls, and partitions with lime and hair two coats, and set to slate the new roof with good countess slates and metal nails. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land When the boxes were filled and sealed, they were strongly coopered, by adding four thin laths of strong wood. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Tory dissentients fell slowly in to heel, as they found their governor no lath painted to look like iron, but very steel. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 When used for berries or sweet corn, tack cheese cloth stretched tightly over the lath. The Apple The smell of rotting wood was in the air; the plaster was coming down, revealing the wrought hand-split laths beneath; the floor was full of holes. The Deaves Affair Here was given about midnight a meal, the first for 24 hours, which we managed to slightly cook by making fires upon the floor with laths wrenched from the ceiling. Ball's Bluff An Episode and its Consequences to some of us An artful builder, patent king Of all the local building ring, Who was there like him in the quarter For mortifying brick and mortar, Or pocketing the odd piastre By substituting lath and plaster? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers A small spur-wheel is gripped on two sides by two metal laths, with edges serrated like those of saws, and held against the wheel by gentle pressure. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast For rabbits I use lath, and dig borers out. The Apple The larger ones are three feet by four, and four inches deep, with bottoms of lath running lengthwise and placed a quarter of an inch apart. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus Then take some stout twine of good quality and make the outline of the kite by tying it securely to the ends of each of the laths. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Thrones rose and fell; and still the crescent, Unsanative and now senescent, A plastered skeleton of lath, Looked forward to a day of wrath. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers At the centre of this is fixed the guide which pushes and pulls the saw-like laths. Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast The bottom and sides are lath one-half inch apart. The Apple There is also a 2x2-inch strip nailed across the middle of the crate on the under side, to support the lath. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus For a garland or any device of a definite shape, the foundation could be a stiffer wire, or laths of wood. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes I found this quite a country quarter; I leave it solid lath and mortar. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers There was no standing furniture; Randall, when he was violent, tearing it to laths. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) For borers and rabbits I use concentrated lye and lath jackets. The Apple Make an eight-sided roof of boards; nail lath from post to post, forming lattice-work, leaving a space between two posts for a door. Soil Culture Scanlon marveled at the celerity of the thing, and while he was doing so a saw cut its way through the lath beneath the plaster. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Handmade nails and split wood laths formed part of the original construction. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria They lived "across the tracks" in the labor settlement, or in lath and tar-paper shacks about the hills, camping in their eternal campaign of day labor wherever the job happened to take them. Clark's Field To protect from rabbits I use sixteen-inch lath woven with four strands of wire. The Apple And his legs grew as slender as little hat-pegs, And almost as small was his waist as his legs; And he looked like the laths that are fastened round kegs, Thin and long. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Why, the lath man must have taken it;” and so he had. Happy Days for Boys and Girls I told him to post himself thoroughly upon the qualities and prices of all kinds of lumber, lath, shingles, etc., and to read up the local history of Bangor. The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller "There, do you see that bundle of laths and stuff?" The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes Three of the walls being ordinary external walls, the hot room is lined with lath and plaster on quartering, leaving an air-space between to prevent loss of heat by absorption and radiation. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction In my experience I never met a man who more neatly fulfilled Bismarck's cynical description of Lord Salisbury—'a lath painted to look like iron.' The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion So the driver threw the bag on top of the load of laths, and left the bag-boy to sleep it out. Happy Days for Boys and Girls The writer gave the mouse hickory-nuts, which it attempted to carry through a crack between the laths in the kitchen wall. Ways of Nature Why, madam, I own the house, every brick and lath in it. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes The roof is only of lath and plaster, painted in imitation of masonry. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy After this they were uncovered, and hung up on laths from the roofs, close to each other and yet sufficiently far apart to allow the air to circulate between them. Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers Then a man and two horses, and a cart loaded high with laths, were seen coming over the hill; that is, they would have been seen, if Que hadn’t been asleep just then. Happy Days for Boys and Girls The houses, we are told, unless of the higher ranks, are in general of unburnt bricks, of clay, or of hurdles plastered with earth; the roofs, of reeds fastened to laths. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy A lath frame will keep the plants from parching. The Mayflower, January, 1905 I declare you’re as thin as a lath and gaunt as a ghost. The Strollers It was a pretty bower, as I have heard my mother say, formed of honeysuckles and other creeping shrubs nailed over a framework of lath in the old-fashioned way. The Fairchild Family “The lath man’s got it; where is he?” Happy Days for Boys and Girls "He's a reg'lar little ripper, sir, and as straight as a lath." The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 My screen was four feet square, made of a light frame work of narrow laths and wire netting, fastened securely to the box. The Mayflower, January, 1905 “As thin as a lath and gaunt as a ghost!” repeated Saint-Prosper, as the fair penitent vanished in a whirl of gaiety. The Strollers Oak ribs, over which are nailed laths of white deal, two inches wide and half an inch thick. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule “I don’t know anything about the lath man,” growled the postmaster. Happy Days for Boys and Girls When night came, he took up his laths and boards and a basket of pears, and went to the church. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales A man at the end of the row has three laths to sight by in each row and a second man should drive stakes as directed by the sighter. Manual of American Grape-Growing Blind, not knowing what he was about, he adjusted the life-belt to the boy's tiny form, picked him up like a bundle of laths, walked astern, and threw him overboard. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The walls are of lath and plaster, or mamposteria, as it is called, and the beams which support the roof are visible from the interior as they are in a barn. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba Herbert, in self-defence, had recourse to his good sword, but this was as a lath against the ire of his assailant. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 Stand in the very middle of the church, fenced round about with thy laths and boards, and take with thee a basket full of pears. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Good stakes can be made from laths pointed at one end and whitewashed at the other. Manual of American Grape-Growing C = Hard and soft lumber, lath, shingles, sash, doors and blinds. The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses To fix them firmly to the wooden plinth, and prop over them the incomplete torso by means of laths cunningly concealed, occupies little more than an hour and a half. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba “She’s as flat as a lath,” the Captain declared; “if it hadn’t been for her face, I wouldn’t have known whether she was coming bow or stern on.” An Encore Then they went on and on until they found him, and he took just the same laths and boards that he had had before, and went with them. Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales The hives are fastened to each other by laths placed on a thin packcloth, which is drawn up on each side and tied with packthread several times round their tops. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families That to the 130 north is covered with a cross-groined vault of lath and plaster, probably on the model of an original vault constructed of brick. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture This done, the bottom piece can be clamped on from behind by means of pieces of lath. Boys' Book of Model Boats They jumped on the first roosting lath, and then on the second, and began to walk toward the rooster. Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly There was nothing to either except a one-inch board and a thickness of lath and plastering. Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There As Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full The wall or lath work should be first covered with common hair mortar well dried. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families It was only a hut, you see; no laths, nor plaster, nor any such nonsense. Donald and Dorothy My soldier dad taught me the manual of arms, and for a year Harriet and I carried broom-sticks, flourished lath sabers, and hammered on dishpans in imitation of officers and drummers. A Son of the Middle Border Ceiling of porch to receive high-rib metal lath applied over existing wood ceiling. The Fairfax County Courthouse It was pretty easy to make swords out of laths, but guns again were hard to realize. A Boy's Town They bought a rusty old bedstead, very big, with laths that hung loose like a hammock, and all its knobs gone and only bare screws sticking up spikily. Harding's luck The mob outside cheered vociferously; and Harlequin began to belabor poor Pantaloon with his gilded lath to the immense amusement of the spectators. My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. Busy saws clamored from the islands and great rafts of planks and lath and shingles were made up and floated down into the Mississippi and on to southern markets. A Son of the Middle Border Behind this ceiling were laths laid over hand-hewn oak rafters. The Fairfax County Courthouse There was a great cracking sound, and before he could help himself the young fireman went sprawling into the room below in the midst of a shower of plaster and laths. Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail He got it up, and pushed his treasures as far in as he could—along the rough, crumbly surface of the lath and plaster. Harding's luck The rafters are nailed in place with one nail each and a stay lath fastened on to hold them in place. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties The roof of lath and straw was peaked, turned-up, and crooked as a Jew's torn cap. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 The man was tall and thin as a lath, and he wore the clothes of the fashionable world without awkwardness, and yet with the air of one who was wholly unaccustomed to them. The Double Four Then plant a lath stake at each mark on the wire. The Pecan and its Culture The center of the curtain is secured to the central ridge of the bed by strips of lath. Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato The flooring of this part of the house is generally made of laths of hard wood, so as to stand exposure to the weather. Children of Borneo There was one small bed, already honourably mentioned, and a garden seat—one of those well-known benches made of thin wooden laths, with a rounded uncomfortable seat and back. Through Finland in Carts Its walls were fashioned from plaited laths of split bamboo, and it was surrounded by a high fence of the same material. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula In places the river was fairly black with floating masses of lath, shingles, roofs, floors and other lumber that had formerly been houses. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin The preservative action of lime upon wood is readily shown by the admirable condition in which laths are always found. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 No plaster was on the walls yet, but the laths were all on. The Doers The herrings are brought ashore, are shot out of the baskets on to the stone floor, shovelled into big tubs to be washed, and then threaded through the gills on to long laths of wood. Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young Malay floors are made of laths of wood or of bamboo laid parallel to one another, with spaces between each one of them. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula A little further along the houses are still standing, but they are only masses of lumber and laths. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin I doubt if any one ever found a decayed lath in connection with plaster. Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 David nodded, but they were in the back hall now, with the back stairs going up out 76of it, and he forgot the carpenters and the laths. The Doers The roof is sometimes of bamboo solely, and when split, which is accomplished with the greatest ease, it can be formed into laths or planks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Instead of darting back, as a sparrow, for instance, would have done, he flew up to the nearest perch; that is, to the top of the nearest bean-pole, which happened to be a lath. The Foot-path Way The Elizabethan theatres were square, circular, or octagonal structures, built of wood, lath and plaster, on stone or brick foundations. William Shakespeare She fastened the papers to the laths with tacks, and the ceilings were so low that she was able to do all but the very top row herself. Eyebright A Story Above them, on laths and perches, were more than a hundred pigeons, who all seemed to be asleep, although they moved slightly when the two little girls came near them. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Pondicherry is about four leagues in extent; the houses are built with brick, but the Indians use only wood, in the manner which we call lath and plaster. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales Given the great foundations of an honorable home, and he will forego the lath and plaster of personal appearance which will not bear the wear and tear of years and their troubles. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) In this theory he was correct: the laths and their plaster covering formed a mere shell, which was not much thicker than an ordinary wooden partition. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War I remember noting for the first time what a finely formed person he had, tall and supple as a lath of steel. Athelstane Ford "There sit the wood-pigeons," continued she, pointing to a number of laths and a cage which had been fixed into the walls, near one of the openings. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Mamma will get you another lath and you shall play with the chickens all the afternoon. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern The fight was over, I feel with bruin I wakened five days later in a lath and plastered room with my son and both partners working over me. Black Beaver The Trapper There is also an increasing demand for tupelo for laths, wooden pumps, violin and organ sounding boards, coffins, mantelwork, conduits and novelties. Seasoning of Wood He dragged the lath coop up on the side. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good In walking through the street this time, he examined the houses more closely; he found that most of them were built of lath and plaster, and many had only a thatched roof. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen There were men there pulling the thatch off the building, and there were carts and horses bringing laths, lime, bricks, and timber, and taking the old rubbish away. The Vicar of Bullhampton It is no uncommon thing, too, to find houses divided only by lath and standard partitions, without a single brick in them. Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction Heavy oaken timbers were splintered like laths, and the men were violently hurled to the deck. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 A big brown sculpin was floundering on the laths. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Shingles, lath, nails, and tiles, he tore off everything, and scattered them all to the winds. Laboulaye's Fairy Book Use 4 by 4 studs for corners and door posts, or spike two 2 by 4 studs together, stand them up, set them plumb, and with stay laths secure them in position. Woodward's Country Homes Embedded in this composition are stout oak laths, held in position by cross-sticks, to which they are bound by hazel withes, no nail being used in any part of the work. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 His blinds were lowered, but these were of the ordinary type, and he stuck two fingers between two of the laths. The Secret House Illustrate by taking a long slat or lath, drive it into the ground firmly, and then, catching it by the top, push it over. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study The walls were half timbered, and had once been plastered, but the laths were now bare in many places. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time If lined inside, nail perpendicular lath to the lining 16 inches from centres, and on this lath horizontally for plastering. Woodward's Country Homes He missed his footing and came through the lath and plaster, but luckily did not fall to the floor below, but, like Mahomet’s coffin, hung suspended by his arms until rescued from above. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Goodness gracious me, the boy is as thin as a lath! Europa's Fairy Book Illustrate by driving a long slat or lath into the ground firmly: then catching it by the top, push it over, and it will break off just at the ground. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study A lath about 4 inches in breadth, used for curves in ship-building. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Our thin lath and plaster constructions, which rattle and tremble in every wind and leak in every rain, do not afford very good or permanent centers for these associations and affections. Woodward's Country Homes Then, in a sudden access of rage, he shook her to and fro, her slight form being as a lath in his hands. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush Some were transplanted into pots and placed in the greenhouse; others were transplanted into a light soil in a lath house. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 Another wrapped round a thin piece of lath with paper, and superscribed it with some strange hieroglyphics, begging me to deliver it. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Long narrow laths, or straightened hoops of casks, serving by the help of nailing to confine the edges of the tarpaulins, and keep them close down to the sides of the hatchways, in bad weather. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Those rolls of Irish cloth were under the thatch, above the dry gorse stored up on the "lath" in his cowhouse. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Mounting a chair, she fixed one end of the string to the lath of the ceiling by the peck, the parchment oatcake pan, and the other end she tied to the stalk of the apple. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 When the grafts are too far out or too high for this method laths or slats or sticks may be tied or nailed to the branches. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 It is time enough for these bantams to think of finding a pullet when they have raised money enough by their own work to buy a bundle of laths to build a hen house. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 Uncle Ike," said the red-headed boy, stepping one pace to the front, and saluting with a piece of lath, "we came to offer you the position of colonel of our regiment. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 Jack swam more strongly and showed greater endurance because he had the beef and had been better nourished all his life than the scrawny young powder boy who was more like a lath. Blackbeard: Buccaneer He stood a moment in silence, crunching the wooden laths of the garden fence like matchwood in his fingers, and then said, with sudden resolution, "I know what I'll do." The Manxman A Novel - 1895 He shook the door-knob of a bungalow so new that laths and mortar were still scattered about the yard. The Innocents A Story for Lovers It was easy enough for the most cowardly man, in Lord Robert Cecil's position, to use such words, even were he naught more than a lath painted over to imitate steel. Newfoundland and the Jingoes An Appeal to England's Honor The bed doesn't look big enough for two, unless she's as thin as a lath. A Patriotic Schoolgirl The spaces between them, which had been formerly boarded, he found filled only with lath and plaster. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See In the little garden under the terrace was a lath and plaster lean-to. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography She tried to go away several times, but he detained her in order to count the bottles, to choose laths, or to look into the bottoms of casks—and this occupied a considerable time. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life He was close upon four foot long, and a gentleman there said if he had been in good condition he would have weighed five-and-forty, for he was as thin as a lath.” The Golden Magnet Cut two laths 14 inches long, ½ inch wide, out of wood ¼ inch thick, and tack them along the upper inner edges of the two sides a quarter of an inch below the top. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 The walls are simply the dried nipa branches, fastened down with bamboo laths. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia The strong bamboos his hands had felled For pillars fair the roof upheld, And rafter, beam, and lath supplied Well interwrought from side to side. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Pieces of lath on the wall represented candelabra. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life This reinforcement was set in place and wrapped with No. 24 ½-in. mesh metal lath, and the cylinder was filled with concrete and plastered outside. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Sometimes laths are made very narrow, and are nailed on at a little distance from each other, so as to leave a crack between them. Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge The sails were made of matting, with laths placed across them. The Three Midshipmen Captain Mayo led the way aft, crawling over the shingles and laths. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Evidently the point had embedded in a lath, for the knife did not move. Jack O' Judgment So called patent lath consisting of boards with parallel dovetail grooves and ridges was used. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs They put the wide lath board down upon a plank, and make a great many cracks in it with an axe. Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge When it was necessary to reef or lower the sails the seamen climbed up these laths, and standing on the upper yards pressed them down, no down hauls being necessary. The Three Midshipmen Them shingles and laths is packet freight, and I couldn't put 'em below because I've got to deliver 'em this side of New York. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 "Furring" strips, as they are called, or narrow strips of wood, should be fastened on first and the laths nailed to these, or the wall can be painted or oiled on the outside. Diggers in the Earth The particular feature of this form was the use of a lath and plaster lining to the lagging. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs He was young and as thin as a lath, and he moved with fury. Mary, Mary It is only, to quote a modern saying—I know not whether true of the person to whom it was originally applied or no—is 'only a lath painted to look like iron.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John But just then another surging sea climbed aboard and picked up more of the laths and more of the shingles, and frolicked away into the night with the plunder. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 This elasticity and inertia may be well illustrated by the bending of a lath or cane. Aether and Gravitation In laying the blocks a thin lath was used to keep the mortar back about one inch from the face. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Johnnie continued silent, counting the laths—from the top down, from the bottom up. The Rich Little Poor Boy Mat wanted the screw-driver, but he helped fasten up the board before he took it, and wondered what the old man had cut away the laths for. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World I have found it not harmful to a tree to fasten laths to the stock for holding the growing scion, driving galvanized iron nails through the lath directly into the stock. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920 If we pull one end down, holding the other end quite still, we shall see that the lath oscillates to and fro until gradually it comes to rest. Aether and Gravitation The plaster has mostly fallen from the walls of the room, the very laths are cut away, and the naked bricks and rude masonry are exposed. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy So the boy, almost holding his breath, fastened his eyes upon a patch of wall where the smudged plaster was broken and some laths showed. The Rich Little Poor Boy He had cut away the laths, so that he could thrust his arm down into the aperture, and deposit the bag on the sill of the house. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World While dressing she peeped between the laths of the blind, agitated, now the disturbance was over, to think of the sudden arrival of Hugh upon the scene. In the Mist of the Mountains The elasticity of the lath allows it to be pulled out of its original position, and also enables it to rebound, while its inertia causes it to swing back again past its original position. Aether and Gravitation The stem of each plant is severed as near as possible to the ground and afterwards if hung on lath they are divided longitudinally to admit the air and dry them sooner. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce He still concentrated on the laths, hoping that matters would go no further. The Rich Little Poor Boy I saw he had cut away the laths, and I knew he wasn't putting up the piece to keep the cold out, as he said. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World These trees were first called wattles from being used by the early settlers for forming a network or wattling of the supple twigs as a substitute for laths in plastering houses. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture This storing up of energy is analogous to pulling aside the lath, and is the making use of the elasticity of the Aether, in order to produce a tendency to recoil. Aether and Gravitation When the plants are to be hung on lath they may be wilted before "stringing" or not, at the option of the grower. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Johnnie did not move—except to shift his look from the laths to the door knob, and take up his toeing of the crack at his feet. The Rich Little Poor Boy The copper was removed, and upon the old framework was laid a wooden framework, to which will be nailed laths designed to receive a slate roof. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 The plaster, peeling off from the ceilings and the worm-eaten laths of the walls, falls constantly to the filthy floors. The New World of Islam The current now flows backwards in the same way that the lath returned back, and charges the jar as at first. Aether and Gravitation Most growers are of the opinion now that the plants should be harvested without wilting at all, stringing on the lath as soon as cut and carrying them immediately to the shed. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Within, the walls were guiltless of lath or plaster, but were covered with strips of cotton cloth, to which the wall-paper was pasted. In Blue Creek Cañon We are not architects, but furnishers of bricks, nails and laths. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind It surged up to the roof and quivered along the lath and plaster partitions of the boxes. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There they taught youth to draw plans of fields which were for the most part rectangular, also to take the elevation of land by means of two laths and a square. The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt When hung in this manner five or six plants to the lath are the usual number unless they are very large. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Caesar, her husband, a tall, ebony lath, with a bald head and meek eyes, had come out of another family and was treated with condescension. Mam' Lyddy's Recognition 1908 The material for these is, variously, pasteboard, thin wood, bark, laths, gutta-percha, strips of thin metal, as tin or perhaps sheet iron. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse The magistrates’ booth held an important position in the array of lath and canvas, which had been erected as soon as the harvest had been got off the ground. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Drive a row of lath nails into the top and bottom edges of the back-board about half their length at 2 inch intervals. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration For this reason the manner of hanging on lath is the better way and in New England is fast displacing the old method of hanging with twine. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce “What the devil is the house built of then?” exclaimed I. “All lath and plaster, sir,” replied the man, tapping right and left. Olla Podrida Bella appeared—a rather good looking child of fourteen or so, slim as a lath and with hungry eyes. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point Immediately the fleet had watered, it stood out again towards Gibraltar, when on the lath of August about noon, the enemy’s fleet and galleys were discovered to the westward, near Cape Malaga, going free. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea One and a half or two inch wire brads are good to use in stretching skins, but 3d wire lath nails will do; the longer brads are more easily handled. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration A new method of hanging tobacco has been introduced of late in the Connecticut valley by means of tobacco hooks attached to the lath. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce Some of the best houses are built of stone, but they are usually constructed of a framework of bamboo and laths, which is covered with plaster painted black and white in diagonal lines. A Voyage round the World A book for boys The front and back of the edifice were formed of long laths, bent like a bow, and thatched with cocoa-nut leaves, something like the front of some bathing-machines in England. Old Jack He threw a broomstick, at twelve yards distance, through a hole in the sentry box, of but little larger diameter; and a lath, cast at thirty yards, pierced a hat through and through. The History of Tasmania , Volume II The finishing of the "Indian House" was more elaborate than that of the Smead house; but there was no lath and plaster, the ceiling being the same. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 This mode is considered by many growers the safest way, and by others as no better than the more common way of hanging simply on the lath. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The following are the names of the proprietors and the amount cut last year by each: ft. lumber. pcs. lath. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings And the staircases thereof to be sufficiently enclosed without with lath, lime, and hair. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration The laths are fastened on with alternate diagonal lashings, are two inches wide, and close together. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell There was no lath and plaster; the walls were made of matched boards. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 With this and other donations, they purchased poles, planks and laths; instruments for agriculture, and carpenter's work, together with several sorts of seeds and roots, with provisions. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. An immense amount of lath were turned out. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings Sometimes you may make the offence public, as in the case of the snapping of the lath described under a former head, while you kindly conceal the name of the offender. The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young We want four and a half billion dollars this week to make it honest—to take down our lath and plaster Arch and put it up in marble instead. The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak There was a great lath of a fellow who kept the "Star and Garter" public-house. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile A superstructure of black cloth and laths was built out from the doorway at right angles to the stage building, a precaution, he later learned, against daylight. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles A mill that can turn out three millions of lumber, generally makes one million of lath. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings It looked like a lath from a distance, so they got the name of "lathers" from this. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History She guessed that the tiny room was separated from the larger one by a partition of laths and plaster, covered on each side with flimsy wall paper. The Lion's Mouse The seats and altar had never been painted, and the plaster of the inner wall had, in places, fallen from the lath. Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 Entering the cloth and lath superstructure he found himself in pitch darkness. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles Mitch smiled a little, but we went into the back yard and got some lath and made the coop. Mitch Miller I was one of its builders for I put on lath at 4 cents a yard. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History The panels shrank, the windows cracked; fragments of plaster fell out of the ceiling, and the naked laths were shown instead; but how all this was brought about, Scrooge knew no more than you do. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 The whole proceeding is so fascinating that I really believe that, next to proficiency in the science of astronomy, I should like to be an expert at nailing lath. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice This frail bark, on which our safety and progression depended, was made of birch bark sewed together, lined in the inside with thin laths of wood, and pitched on the seams with gum. Hudson Bay Lightships are usually clumsy-looking, red-painted vessels, having one strong mast amidships, with a ball at the top, about six feet in diameter, made of light laths. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships Tip-toeing across to the window, Toni parted the red curtains and lifted a lath of the old-fashioned Venetian blind to peer through into the fog. The Making of a Soul The men of former times had crown’d the top With a clay fort; but that was fall’n, and now The Tartars built there Peran-Wisa’s tent, A dome of laths, and over it felts were spread. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Unless you want to render yourself liable to an attack of nervous prostration you should never watch a skilful workman nailing on lath. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Johnny pulled a lath for each of us out of one of the bundles, and we used them in our tour of the yard as alpenstocks. On the Stairs These are built of thin laths and ribs of wood, and are covered with the bark of the birch-tree. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships Lay the laths side by side as shown in Fig. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. But the permanent bulwark could no more resist the advancing wave than a lath and plaster breakwater could withstand the seas of the Channel. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. The spires and domes and walls of all the churches and public buildings were being covered with laths, on which to hang the lamps for the illumination of the city. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar We found a glacier in the shape of a mortar bed and were using the laths to sound its depths, when Johnny's father appeared from round the corner of a lumber pile. On the Stairs Besides these we laid in a store of pasteboard, and brown and coloured paper, and some laths, and string, and paint, and corks, and tow. Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors Two laths or strips of wood are planed up to exactly the same width, having their edges straight and parallel. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. All I want are two thin but strong laths, nine and eight feet long.” Ernest Bracebridge School Days On examining the thatch, I saw that it consisted of a number of leaves plaited together, and secured in a row to a long lath of bamboo. On the Banks of the Amazon I want half a dozen strong thin laths of different widths.” Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea At that moment the shock-headed boy came up from the hold, with a bundle of what seemed to be stout oaken laths under his arm. Steve Young One edge of each lath may, if desired, be bevelled a little. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. Come with me to the carpenter’s and get the laths, and we’ll have it made by the evening, so as to fly it, if there is a breeze, to-morrow.” Ernest Bracebridge School Days It was for a lath and plaster structure without galleries, and was opened apparently in 1792. Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King The latter was a low long building, constructed of stone, lath, and plaster, and presented the appearance of an ordinary country cottage. Recollections of Old Liverpool The boy’s face wrinkled up, and he looked down at his bundle of many-lengthed laths, then up at the top-mast, and then at the captain. Steve Young The method of using these "twist sticks" or "winding laths" is to put them on the board as indicated, and sight along their top edges. Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. He undid the strings and brown paper, and laths, which surrounded it, with eager haste. Ernest Bracebridge School Days She stood aside and Prescott entered the room, a bare place, the rude log walls covered with neither lath nor plaster, yet not wholly lacking in proof that woman was present. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond The houses were constructed principally of timber, lath, and plaster and were apparently of great antiquity. Recollections of Old Liverpool You’re a great long growing boy, thin as a lath, and it’d take years to make you fit to kill, so as it don’t matter for you.” The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens Look at ’em; just so many laths, like a Venetia blind. Fitz the Filibuster Meanwhile Mr Gregory had got out the tool-drawer from his chest, and was busily attacking the lath which kept in place the sliding-door of his cabin. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle He had seen houses go up before; he knew that houses were constructed brick by brick, beam by beam, lath by lath, tile by tile; he knew that they did not build themselves. Clayhanger I am puzzled, as aforesaid, between its likeness to a ball, and a lath. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds She touched the sunken chest, where the ribs showed through like laths, and the hollow abdomen. Brazilian Tales The next fall they are each cut back to the proper length, to meet the next vine, and in spring tied firmly to the lath, as shown in Figure 18. The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines "You see, there isn't any lath and plaster to the cottage, but it's good and tight except in very bad weather," she said. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date The bottles are placed in a horizontal position and stacked in rows of varying length and depth, one above the other, to about the height of a man, and with narrow laths between them. Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines This slasher cuts up the slabs into lengths suitable for lath or fence-pickets, Fig. Handwork in Wood Stud, Studding.—The vertical timber or scantling, A, which is one of the small uprights of a building to which the boarding or plastering lath are nailed. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations If the grape-grower has not capital to spare to buy wire, he can, if he has timber on his land, split laths and nail them to the posts instead of wire. The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines Many of the houses were plastered over the rough hewn cedar lath, others were just of the smaller size trees split in two and the interstices filled in. A Little Girl in Old Detroit After this comes wood for lath used in building. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation With this machine the operator can trim the bundles of lath simply by tilting the packing frame over from him causing the bundles to pass between the saws, thereby trimming both ends at one movement. Handwork in Wood He's mostly up and down, Piddie is, like he'd been pulled out of a bundle of laths, and he's got one of these inquisitive noses that's sharp enough to file bills on. Torchy It was always the same, ever since Garth and I had fenced as boys with crooked laths. Out Around Rigel We had on our coats, and had a few canes, and bottles, and pieces of lath, taken out of the wall, which were to be used in the fight down stairs, if necessary. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure Vast hollows, confused among the recessed darknesses of the marble crags, surrounded by mere laths of living stem, each with its coronal of glorious green leaves. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers This machine cuts up the slabs into lengths suitable for lath or fence-pickets. Handwork in Wood The side pieces are sometimes made of flat laths of wood pierced with holes at regular intervals; in these are inserted metal pins, by means of which the work is kept stretched. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Straightway dropped each painted mask, Sword of lath, and paper casque, And a troop of rosy girls Ran and kissed me through their curls. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 To obviate this, we split a long lath off the side of our room, in such a way as to be able to take it down and put it up at pleasure. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure Mr. Scougall, whatever his faults, usually contrived to get value for his money, and at the tenth kick or so my toes went clean through the slate and rested on the laths within. The Adventures of Harry Revel He needs to ride his broomstick on a dangerous raid, and to charge with lath sword the redoubts of a stubborn enemy. The Mind and Its Education Its interior was faced with lath and plaster, a plaster ceiling and a boarded floor being added. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The boxings, the rough lumber, the two by fourteen's finished, the dropped sidings and groved roofing, and lath and ceiling and rough fencings and all the rest? The White Desert They were coming down through the cracks between the laths at the place where the plaster had fallen from the ceiling. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's The vertical laths are bound in place by horizontal reeds laid upon them 1 or 2 feet apart. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 "A lath with a nail in the end of it would268 answer," she observed. More Tish This magnificent entrance having been covered with lath and plaster, and for long completely forgotten, was unearthed by, and at the expense of Bishop Barrington, early in the present century. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The cloth was raised a trifle above the deck by laths nailed on to the edge of the table. Ethel Morton's Holidays An immense saloon, with two gigantic chimney-pieces, had merely a provisional ceiling of old laths. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Contrast breathe and breath, lath and lathe; and bath and baths, lath and laths, etc. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric In the 16th century bricks were increasingly used, but down to the Great Fire of London, in 1666, the smaller buildings, shops and dwelling-houses, were constructed of timber framework filled in with lath and plaster. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" A thousand lath nails and healing pins for do. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See We have built our yard a lath and a half high, says the Poultry Review, but what do these saucy things care for that? Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Maclean, however, was a practised wrestler, and although lean almost as a lath, the muscles he possessed were as strong as steel bands. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers The staunch little lath of a mast is fixed into the socket attached to one of his feet. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World A discretionary power was assumed by the king to regulate the distribution of the buildings, and to forbid the use of lath and timber, the materials of which the houses were formerly composed. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. The wallpaper, its ugly pattern mercifully faded, was fantastically streaked from the dampness, in one corner the ceiling plaster had fallen and newspapers had been tacked over the laths to keep out the cold. Red-Robin The camera man, an alert, boyish fellow as thin as a lath, turned and grinned. Steve Yeager There were seventy-three hoops of thin cedar, and a layer of slender laths of the same wood within the frame. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 And our only toaster is a kitchen-fork wired to the end of a lath. The Prairie Wife One proved to be the foreman of the outfit, by name Billy Grier, and the other a Texan, whom Merritt called Tubby Rodgers, apparently because he was as thin as a lath. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters There was only a partition of lath and plaster between the two, neither of whom could sleep, but neither of whom could have given the other any comfort. Alec Forbes of Howglen He was shown where lath and plaster had been introduced and also how the plate had been prepared and arranged as a barrier. The Circular Study Six feet three, and thin as a lath. The Hills of Hingham This unpleasant insect is found under the joists just beneath the floor laths, but in greatest numbers under those parts of the floor that are continually used as sleeping places, and in the hammocks. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir When the cat climbs upon the crate filled with chickens, it thrusts its paw between the laths and pulls off the feathers, leaving the chicken behind the laths. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict To the little boy the lath is a horse, to the older boy it becomes a sword. Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education It was rendered fire resistant by heavily covering the floors, ceiling, and walls with cement on metal lath, and otherwise protecting the openings. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 What tho' the blade be made of lath? The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar The floor consists of laths of bamboo, or of a variety of palm6 laid parallel and running along the length of the house with more or less regular interstices. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Her figure was erect and flat as a lath, and this flatness was accentuated by the extreme scantiness of her drab calico dress. The Miller Of Old Church I invested in such necessary equipment as frames and lath screening. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin It is in a building, the outer walls of which are of cement plaster applied over metal lath nailed to studding. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 To this again one-half foot firing strips are added, to which are nailed metal lath, and the whole is plastered with cement. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 There followed the hollow sound of dropping plaster from behind the lath. An Alabaster Box The inside of the slab walls and chimney we wattled with mud and laths, which we split up, and plastered over with mud and chopped grass. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 I think the reason they lasted as well as they did was that around each plant I put a guard made of laths four feet high, bound together with wire and filled with forest leaves. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin A sharp wail smote the air from a point suspiciously close to the lath and canvas partition on the other side, followed by hasty hushings and steps in the opposite direction. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Between, narrow vertical strips, as wide as a lath but twice as thick, were set. Murder in the Gunroom We had agreed that wherever the old lath and plaster were in bad condition, they were to be removed and replaced with a paper wall board then being widely advertised as an inexpensive substitute. If You're Going to Live in the Country |
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