Planks

Examples

• Again I rose; and, exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I could go on diving, of course--not much, though--and not much use--' He moved away barefoot, on the planks of the platform. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced with a spear thrust through the planks of the bridge from a boat beneath. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There were planks wide enough for a man to walk on conveniently, running along the sides of each boat from end to end. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But my nerveless hands can neither fell the trees, nor smooth the planks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Will the dormitory-planks sustain my tread untraitorous? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The trunks were hauled to the mills and sawed into planks of suitable thickness by gang-saws. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The saw was fifty-five feet long, and sawed planks from a pine log three feet thick, at the rate of sixty superficial feet per minute. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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