Timbered Sentence Examples

It stood picturesquely against a timbered background of pines.

Some fine old timbered houses remain in the streets.

Nantwich retains not a few old timbered houses of the 16th and 17th centuries, but the town as a whole is modern in appearance.

The town lies parallel with the sea, on the western shore of Trinity Bay, with an excellent harbour, and a long beach, finely timbered.

Of the former Inns of Chancery attached to these Inns of Court the most noteworthy buildings remaining are those of Staple Inn, of which the timbered and gabled Elizabethan front upon High Holborn is a unique survival of its character in a London thoroughfare; and of Barnard's Inn, occupied by the Mercer's School.

A few old timbered houses, of the same period, remain.

Kensington Gardens, originally attached to Kensington Palace, were subsequently much extended; they are magnificently timbered, and contain plantations of rare shrubs and flowering trees.

These separate areas are then mined in small rooms, each room being timbered as in mining under a weak roof rock.

Each floor is opened up by subsidiary haulage roads and worked out in small rooms which are timbered and filled with broken rock when completed.

Where each floor is timbered by itself with light timbers, as is the practice on the continent of Europe, the consolidation of the rock-filling under pressure gives rise to considerable subsidence of the unmined ore, which has frequently settled 20 ft.

In its primeval state Kentucky was generally well timbered, but most of the middle section has been cleared and here the blue grass is now the dominant feature of the flora.

The village is remarkable for some old houses, including a timbered house of the 15th century, and for a noted factory of cricket implements.

Below Chitral are found the thickly timbered forests of Dir and Bajour, and the fertile y valles of the Panjkora and Swat rivers.

Of these, Forty Hall, in splendidly timbered grounds, is from the designs of Inigo Jones; and a former mansion occupying the site of White Webbs House was suspected as the scene of the hatching of Gunpowder Plot.

Congleton has no buildings noteworthy for age or beauty, save a few old timbered houses.

The northern groups and the Diamond Mountain are heavily timbered, but the hills are covered mainly with coarse, sour grass, oak and chestnut scrub.

The eastern half of this area is covered chiefly with volcanic plains, very dry and barren, lying between precipitous, although not very lofty, ranges; the western half is magnificently timbered, and toward the coast excessively wet.

The corporation of the city of London then acquired the freehold interest of waste land belonging to the lords of the manor, and finally secured 5559b acres, magnificently timbered, to the use of the public for ever, the tract being declared open by Queen Victoria in 1882.

Only the higher ranges and plateaus are timbered, and even there the forests are not dense.

Sugar Loaf is timbered to the top, and the peninsula is verdant with abundant vegetation.

Bayeux possesses many quaint, timbered houses and stone mansions in its quiet streets.

The middle of the government is also hilly (850 - 1000 ft.), and is heavily timbered, chiefly with beech, oak and mountain-ash, and, though to a smaller extent, with birch.

Their valleys are well timbered.

Its main streets, in which a few ancient timbered houses are left, radiate from the market place, where stands a Gothic cross, the gift of Lord Sidmouth in 1814.

In the streets not a few old buildings remain, making for picturesqueness, and a number of the fine timbered houses in which Cheshire abounds are seen in the immediate neighbourhood.

From the coast to the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains the state is heavily timbered, except in small prairies and clearings in the Willamette and other valleys, and the most important tree is the great Douglas fir, pine or spruce (Pseudotsuga Douglasii), commonly called Oregon pine, which sometimes grows to a height of 300 ft., and which was formerly in great demand for masts and spars of sailing-vessels and for bridge timbers; the Douglas fir grows more commercial timber to the acre than any other American variety, and constitutes about five-sevenths of the total stand of the state.

A beautiful timbered house of the 15th century, how ever, survives ire Ockwells, a short distance south of the town.

A particularly clumsy timbered truss was used to support the outshut.

The timbered gable of the Bell Inn with its hanging baskets can be seen on the left of the road.

Go over bridge WITH CARE & follow road through the picturesque hamlet with its 17 th Century timbered cottages.

A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, thickening into a grove at the highest point.

The early settlement of heavily timbered country was characterized by wanton destruction of vast quantities of magnificent timber; but this waste is a thing of the past, and under the pressure of a demand for sound timber both for local use and for exportation, the various governments are doing much to conserve the state forests.

Certain species of grouse are common high in the timbered mountains.

In 1898 it was estimated by Henry Gannett (followed by the Federal census of 1900) that the timbered area covered 28,300 sq.

The latter, determined experimentally, varies with different kinds of surfaces of mine workings, whether rough or smooth, timbered or unlined; it ranges from 0.000000001872 to 0.0000000217 lb per sq.

Built of stone with the upper stories partially timbered, it 's certainly striking in appearance.

Unique high, timbered ceiling in the sitting room.

Morfa Bychan on the coast has a hospice with a well timbered roof, which is now the lounge bar of a caravan site.

The school was the half timbered building at the end of Pound Lane.

The gable end of a timbered house is on the right hand side of the lane leading up to the church.

In the High Street is a picturesque group of half timbered cottages reliably thought to date from the 13th century.