And he nailed that
shingle to a lath, and stood the lath up four or five foot in front of the wigwam.
One day, as we trotted out of a large village into a shady bit of road, I saw on our left hand a low, black cottage, with diamond panes in the windows, a creeper on the end wall, a roof of shingle, and some roses climbing on the rickety trellis-work of the tiny porch.
Not a whisper, not a splash, not a stir of the shingle, not a footstep, not a sigh came up from the earth be- low--never a sign of life but the scent of climbing jasmine; and Kennedy's voice, speaking behind me, passed through the wide casement, to vanish out- side in a chill and sumptuous stillness.
Bygrave, Miss Bygrave; North
Shingles Villa, Aldborough.' Upon my life, it reads remarkably well!
Before winter I built a chimney, and shingled the sides of my house, which were already impervious to rain, with imperfect and sappy
shingles made of the first slice of the log, whose edges I was obliged to straighten with a plane.
Kelleher said that when the roof is complete, it should look much like the
shingle roof of the Small House.
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The thickness of
shingle is two and half or three centimetres.
The surfaces were first cleaned of debris, and then the preservative solution was liberally brushed on the surface with particular attention paid to the butts of the
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Every
shingle brand has its own nailing pattern requirement.
Example 3: Z owns a building which has a wooden
shingle roof.
