At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d, we anchored in Samganoodha harbour; and the next morning the carpenters of both ships were set to work to rip off the sheathing of and under the wale, on the starboard side abaft.
But our Ship was sheathed, and the Worm came no farther than the Hair between the sheathing Plank, and the main Plank.
In that searching light she could even make out great patches where the rotting sheathing of the house had been torn away, leaving the framework beneath naked and gaunt and bare.
The Endeavour, raised by a wave over the ridge of a reef, had fallen again into a hollow in the rock, and by the moonlight, portions of the false keel and the sheathing could be seen floating.
The sheathing was greatly worn, and the keel quite gnawed away by worms; they coated it with pitch and warm tar mixed together.
Byron remarked a singular fact, since fully verified, that the copper sheathing of his vessels appeared to disperse the fish, which he expected to meet with in large quantities.
Having already been thirty years in service, the sheathing was very much worn, and her keel was not studded with nails, which might have served instead of sheathing to protect her from parasites.
Then, with a quick, strong jerk of his body he crashed the steel frame of his helmet square against the cuttlefish's sheathing of glass.
Dangling upside down, high in the air, he submitted to the fishy stare of the great eyes under the sheathing of glass.
You may imagine how secretly pleased Lizzie was; she did all he desired--and with great gentleness he succeeded in sheathing his prick up to the close junction of his belly against her buttocks.
The plants of this order are herbs, characterised by their alternate leaves with sheathing stipules; and small flowers, usually bisexual, often with a coloured perianth.
A great part of the copper sheathing had been torn from the hull, which every day sank lower.
When the flowers first open they stand erect, held in the shining chalice formed by the two sheathing green leaves.
Flesh-colored; six to twenty-four inches high, with two to four scarious, sheathing bracts.
This plant is white and ghostlike throughout, has stems a foot or two high, but no leaves--only three to five scarious sheathing bracts.
But in this blossom the bracts do not constitute the brilliant part of the inflorescence, and the calyx, instead of being the showy, sheathing envelop it is in the paint-brush, is quite small and inconspicuous.
Four to seven; contained in two nearly equal sheathing bracts.
Having the spiny weapons of the legs in mind, I imagined that those limbs would moult in scales and patches, or that the sheathing would rub off like a dead scarf-skin.
The shore end was to have a further outer sheathingof twelve strands, each strand containing three stout galvanized-iron wires of No.
The work was enormously increased, of course, on account of the sheathing being composed of a number of strands instead of several single wires.
For each end approaching the shore, the sheathing (see Fig.
While having certain mechanical advantages at the outset, this stranded sheathing is not a durable type of cable--besides being somewhat costly--and is never adopted nowadays.
At its top, there was a sheathing column swollen larger than the stem, and not unlike the sheathing column of the catinga already mentioned, except that that of the pashiuba was of a deep green colour.
There were both: their broad yellow-green and wax-like leaves sheathing their succulent stems, and bending gracefully over to a length of twenty feet.
This sheathing column is of a red colour, which gives the tree a strange look.
Its great prickle-edged stiff leaves grow in long diagonal rows, each sheathing its successor, and alternating with those of the next row.
The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses.
At the end of some days the ship's bottom was freed, and could be inspected; it had not suffered, thanks to its solidity; only its copper sheathing was nearly torn away.
Give me a passage, an opening through which my brig can go, and I shall take it, if I have to leave half her sheathing behind!
Often, too, the brig would leave bits of sheathing on the ice against which she grazed.
That, sir, is so," said Kenric, wiping his sword upon a mossy stone andsheathing it.
Sheathing his sword the king then greeted his queen and presented Kenric to her.
He saw Roderic standing waist deep in the breakers sheathing his sword.
A sad day indeed, Elspeth," echoed the sea rover, mechanically sheathing his sword, and speaking in an altered voice that had a touch of tenderness in it.
Next to it, unnumbered, Gregory the Great sees the Angel of the Plague sheathing his sword on the Castle of St. Angelo, so called from this vision.
The Resurrection, with its sleeping Roman soldiers, and the Kiss of Judas, with Peter sheathinghis sword and Christ healing the ear of Malchus, are also very typical.
One by one the officers, as they were severally called upon, left their places in the square, and sheathing their swords, stepped into that part of the area appointed as their temporary court.
Tausdorf, when he saw the blood flowing; and, sheathing his sword, he gazed for a while with looks of compassion on his fallen adversary.
Good, no ice sheathing as yet on the great shining hull.
Through a stratum of sleet it tore and gathered an ice sheathing of dangerous weight.
In this stage splints for sheathing (upper left) are fixed in place and held by temporary ribs (lower right) under the gunwales.
The sheathing ended irregularly, outboard of the headboards, in narrow butts as in most eastern canoes.
However, in a small canoe the stiffness of elm bark when the rough outside layer was not fully scraped off would make sheathing of any kind unnecessary, and the bark mat inside the ribs, mentioned by Kalm, would be sufficient.
The sheathing was in short splints and the inside of the canoe was "shingled" or covered irregularly without regard to lining off the strakes, a practice sometimes observed in Ojibway long-nose canoes.
The ends of the topside sheathing ran well into the ends, in most canoes, where they apparently served as stiffening.
If the sheathingwas lapped, the overlap was always slight.
It is to be noted that the sheathing was neither lashed nor pegged; it remained fixed in place only through the pressure of the bent ribs and the restraint of the bark skin.
The sheathing of all canoes of this class was of the same form--wide, short strakes amidships, narrower short strakes afore and abaft.
The kind of sheathing employed in these canoes during the pre-Columbian era is a mystery.
The sheathing appears to have been about ³⁄₁₆ inch thick on the average.
The sheathing was carried up to within about three inches of the gunwales.
The end sheathingwas short and was laid first; the centerline strake was parallel-sided to a point near the sharp end of the canoe.
The sheathing may have been in two or three lengths, except close to the gunwale amidships where one length would serve.
This form of lath contemplates a seven-eighth-inch tongued and grooved sheathing on the inside with dove-tailed channels cut into its surface, which form key-room for the plastering.
Various forms of sheathinglath for inside sheathing of a frame house are now in use.
All sheathing should be covered with six-pound sized building-paper.
A permanent sheathing floor of the same material that is used for rough siding may be placed over all joists of first and second floors for a floor during the plastering of the house.
Back plastering is common in very cold climates, and is done by plastering on the back of the sheathing between the studding.
