We find also special juries—for example a jury of masons and carpenters to judge “because of a waterfall which fell from the house and gutter of Richard Maidstone upon the house and ground of William Bennett” (Hist.
Carpenters and painters were putting the finishing touches on to the building, and it looked to the scouts as if they were going to have a capital home in which to spend the month of August.
When the company's electricians and stage carpenters had finished with their work in the big meeting room Bruce and his chums scarcely recognized it as the same place.
Some laboring men were called up to help in extricating the mirror, which was, fortunately, uninjured, but much work was cut out for carpenters next day.
Scottish stone is placed; and for the wages of the carpenters and of the painters, and for colours and gold employed, and for the making a covering to cover the said chair.
A later set of carpenters seem to have been equally trifling, for of them he said in 1795: "There is not to be found so idle a set of Rascals.
Illustration: Part of Manger's Weekly Report] Washington's carpenters were mostly slaves, but he usually hired a white man to oversee and direct them.
In his diary for February, 1760, he records that four of his carpenters had only hewed about one hundred twenty feet of timber in a day, so he tried the experiment of sitting down and watching them.
The carpenters were required not only to build houses, barns, sheds and other structures, but also boats, and had to hew out or whipsaw many of the timbers and boards used.
In 1774 he bought four men convicts, four indented servants, and a man and his wife for four years and sent them and some carpenters out to help Simpson build the mill and otherwise improve the lands.
To go from house to house working by the day, as itinerant tailors and carpenters do.
As it turned out we did not need it, for the carpenters had managed to get through the steel, and we were then able to put a heavy flow of water right in the heart of the fire, and our troubles were soon over.
There were five carpentersthere building a new barge for Captain Randall.
The carpenterson the night shift set the arch centers and gantries, also the manhole forms when needed.
A gang of four roughcarpenters and a foreman was employed on the day shift; they moved and set the bench-wall forms or sand-wall forms, as the case might be, and moved the traveling gantry into position.
Should we wonder," he writes, "if carpenters were to remonstrate that since the Peace there is no demand for wooden legs?
It was time for the men to be quitting work, she knew; she watched for the carpenters to come.
The wild bushes grew in a thick hedge along by the fence, but over the tops of them Nettie could see the new timbers of the frame that the carpenters had been raising that day.
For the purpose of carrying the troops up the Kennebec River, a force of carpenters was sent ahead to build two hundred bateaux, or flat-bottomed boats.
While the battle raged in all its fury, the carpenters worked like beavers to keep the vessel afloat.
She accordingly went to this heap, and by means of considerable exertion and toil she rolled two large blocks--the ends of sticks of timber which the carpenters had sawed off in framing the house--up under the nearest window.
Perhaps we can find a ladder that the carpenters have left somewhere about.
The carpenters came to me with a problem none of them could solve.
The wage for carpenters was nine dollars a day; helpers got six dollars.
Many methods are used by carpentersin finishing roofs, and considerable time and material are used in constructing cornices.
Tool box] This knife box was so satisfactory that our young carpenters resolved to have a large one for tools.
Very few carpenters make their own, as they are staple articles coming in standard sizes.
I sent one of my carpenters a-land on the main to search for trees, who returned that night, saying he had seen some that would answer.
The 22d December, our irons were all taken off our legs, except the carpenters and smiths, who were detained at Mokha to set up our pinnace, and some sick men who were unable to travel.
Owing to this, it was night before I got into Mokha road, where I learnt the Trades-increase had lost two anchors, on which I sent my carpenters aboard to stock some others for her.
Disputed points relating to this subject are referred to him, and his decision is final, and accepted by all carpenters and house-builders.
He replies evasively "Have the carpentersand workmen received all their wages?
As there were neither carpenters nor smiths to make implements, agriculture was almost at a standstill; and, as there were no goldsmiths, the tali-tying ceremonies could not be performed.
All have their distinct employments and all are workmen, although they are not all of them cobblers or carpenters or sculptors.
The negroes have of late years kept such firm hold of the trade, that it seems no young whites come into it, there being but few white carpenters in Atlanta under forty years of age.
The lathers and plasterers are all negroes, there are more negro brick and stone masons than white, and the carpenters are nearly all negroes, there being but few young white ones.
The negroes understand that their grip is due to their ability to work for lower pay than the whites, and when the union is proposed they say to themselves, that means only more places for white carpenters and less for us.
Some carpenters were at work here mending a scow on the green and sloping bank.
Men are as busy as the brooks or bees, and postpone everything to their business; as carpenters discuss politics between the strokes of the hammer while they are shingling a roof.
About the middle of Lent, I ventured to ask the Captain to give us the Carpenters of the settlement to help us erect a little cabin at the place we had begun to clear away, and he very courteously granted my request.
Well-makers lead the water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.
Well-makers lead the water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carpenters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
