 | History - 1877 - 900 pages
...farm-houses at f,rst according to their wishes. dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside all round the wall with timber, which they line with the bark of trees or something else to prevent... | |
 | Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) - 1909 - 734 pages
...farmhouses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar-fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper,...the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees to prevent the caving in of the earth ; they floor this cellar with plank and wainscot it overhead... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...farmhouses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper,...the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving-in of the earth ; floor this cellar with plank, and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise... | |
 | Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Charles Manfred Thompson - Economics - 1916 - 904 pages
...farm-houses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside all round the wall with timber, which they line with the bark of trees or something else to prevent... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - Bridgehampton (N.Y.) - 1916 - 424 pages
...houses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside all round the wall with timber, which they line with the bark of trees or something else to prevent... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - Southampton (N.Y.) - 1918 - 640 pages
...houses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside all round the wall with timber, which they line with the bark of trees or something else to prevent... | |
 | Thames Williamson - Economics - 1923 - 568 pages
...according to their wishes, shelter. dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside all round the wall with timber, which they line with the bark of trees or something else to prevent... | |
 | Joseph Jackson - Architecture - 1924 - 250 pages
...in case of attack by the natives who heretofore used to exhibit their insolence in new plantations. "Those in New Netherland and especially in New England,...think proper, case the earth inside with wood all around the wall, and line the wood with bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1908 - 320 pages
...dig a square pit inth£.- ground, cellar fashion, six or seven~feeT~deep^~anong and as broad as Ihey think proper, case the earth inside with wood all...the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving-in of the earth ; floor this cellar with plank, and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise... | |
 | John Demos - History - 1991 - 500 pages
...[and] as long and as broad as they think proper. [They] case the earth inside with wood all around the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees...something else, to prevent the caving in of the earth. [They] floor this cellar with plank and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise a roof of spars,... | |
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... with the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of the earth; floor this cellar with plank and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise a roof of spars clear up and cover the spars with bark or green sods, so that they can live... 