| 单词 | lath and plaster |
| 例句 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 He is lath and plaster where there should be quartered oak. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day 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 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 The lath and plaster of the ceiling are absolutely unbroken. The Green God 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 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) "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 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 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 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 The roof is only of lath and plaster, painted in imitation of masonry. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy 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 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 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 Elizabethan theatres were square, circular, or octagonal structures, built of wood, lath and plaster, on stone or brick foundations. William Shakespeare 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 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) 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 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 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 The particular feature of this form was the use of a lath and plaster lining to the lagging. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs 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 “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 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 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 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. 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 "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 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 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 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" 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 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 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 walls were of wood, not of lath and plaster, so that there were no nooks and crannies in which he could have bestowed his hoard. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow "But the next house to the youngest of your step-sons—the lath and plaster cottage with the broken casements, and untiled roof?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 Had Jan been a head and shoulders shorter, he might have been able to stand up in the lean-to attic, without touching the lath and plaster of the roof. Verner's Pride We know of one fireplace complete with crane and iron cooking utensils that reposed for fifty years or more behind an unsuspected opening covered with lath and plaster. If You're Going to Live in the Country Eastlake give a somewhat technical account of its constructive features, its gables, buttresses, finials, lath and plaster parapets, wooden pinnacles and, what its proprietor himself describes as his "lean windows fattened with rich saints." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century A fabric of lath and plaster with no structural pillars inside! The Real Adventure His bedroom adjoined North's parlor and through the flimsy lath and plaster partition he had distinctly heard a woman's voice. The Just and the Unjust Am I to understand that you do not approve of lath and plaster for walls and ceilings of first-class dwellings? Homes and How to Make Them Metal lath and plaster or a good grade of plaster wall board is preferred. If You're Going to Live in the Country And the walls are all lath and plaster. The Divine Fire She was going to give Miss Gibbons a chance to prove whether she was lath and plaster like the judge, or a real person with something besides her façade to hold her up. The Real Adventure I would then answer, she said, from behind the lath and plaster where I lay concealed. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. No; you are not to understand that lath and plaster are unfit for first-class dwellings, but there is no sense in trimming a gingham suit with point lace. Homes and How to Make Them After enclosing is completed and the interior partitions are in place, the house is ready for lath and plaster. If You're Going to Live in the Country "Is it lath and plaster, or just boards?" Boy Scouts in Southern Waters She came in here "with the lath and plaster," as Sin Saxon had said. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. The building was a dingy yellow-brick residence outside the village, with the schoolroom as an outbuilding of lath and plaster. Tono Bungay If you wish to warm the entire house, it will be good economy to lath and plaster along the under side of the rafters quite to the ridge-pole. Homes and How to Make Them I hear him a-knockin' his head again the lath and plaster now.' The Pickwick Papers There was the hole in the roof, through which the end of the engine beam had come and scattered the lath and plaster. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography She's been there three years, in the same spot,—went in with the lath and plaster,—and it's time she started. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. It takes much marble to build the sepulchre—how little of lath and plaster would have repaired the garret! Night and Morning, Complete It takes much marble to build the sepulchre— how little of lath and plaster would have repaired the garret! Night and Morning, Volume 3 The picture of that frail wooden tenement, the Castle Inn, reduced to a roofless chaos of lath and plaster, vomiting flames from its black mouth, and spitting blazing sparks upward toward the cold night sky. Lady Audley's Secret There was a terrible scattering of lath and plaster and dust. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography They were very narrow, and were separated by lath and plaster partitions, only carried to the height of about six feet. Two Summers in Guyenne There is lath and plaster to that wall, and a crack in the panel of the door, Sir. Erema — My Father's Sin At home there was no paper, no lath and plaster, only the bare bricks, and the ceiling was of bulging sailcloth hung under the rafters. Gone to Earth In many parts there are about as many feet of solid stone as a modern architect would put inches of lath and plaster. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 The walls inside are usually covered with Dutch glazed tiles; the flooring also of glazed tiles set in asphalte, to resist water; and the ceiling, lath and plaster, or closely-jointed woodwork, painted. The Book of Household Management Rickety, tumble-down tenements of dilapidated lath and plaster stare the beholder in the face at every turn. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Our building is to be resumed the 1st of March; it will then soon be done, as it is only of lath and plaster, and the roof and wood-work are already prepared.' The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 He consoled himself with erecting a tall lath and plaster obelisk in its stead, which was regarded with admiration by the children of the parish for about sixty years, when weather destroyed it. John Keble's Parishes We sounded all the walls,—with the exception of the party walls they were the usual lath and plaster constructions, and showed no signs of having been tampered with. The Beetle He momentarily expected the latch to be lifted, then in the heavy silence he caught the sound of some stealthy movement beyond the lath and plaster partition, and an instant later an audible footfall. The Prodigal Judge But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. Moby Dick, or, the whale But he kept the green-plants in good order, and was very fond of verdure, bestowing it even upon lath and plaster and soulless stone. Urban Sketches He rose at last, and walking up with measured steps stabbed the paper with the penknife to the lath and plaster wall at the head of the bed. Under Western Eyes He simply built a lath and plaster partition from the corner of a wide chimney to the wall, thus inclosing a space of six by four feet. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life "I am glad to get back my belief in him; but I've come to a horrid bit of lath and plaster in myself where I thought it was all good stone." We Two, a novel The sound told me there was nothing but lath and plaster under the paper. Man and Wife |
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