How To Use Scantling In A Sentence
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The third are gratiosi, favorites; such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign, and harmless to the people.
The Essays
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In Britain and America, material was available in timber form, as plank, deals, board, and scantling.
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You have not got the scantling for the metal you carry and are always working.
Springhaven
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This time next week, I will tell all of my faithful readers what the following are: beakhead knightheads scantlings (sounds like a nice title for a novel ...) tumblehome (so does that) bulwark
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“And” (resumed Salih the Pious) “if we stood on our faces in thy service, O King of the Age, a thousand years, yet had we not the might to requite thee, and this were but a scantling of thy due.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He came into Little O'Grady's dirty and disorderly place, and O'Grady, even before he could scramble forward through his ruck of dusty casts and beplastered scantlings, saw that the blow had fallen.
Under the Skylights
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The blood of the sergeant crept close to his fingers before the earth drank down these scantling rivulets and that spring dried up once and forever.
Spirit Gate
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The top of the shapeless bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as wicket and air-hole when the door was closed.
Les Miserables
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For, in this narrow scantling of capacity which we are accustomed to and sensible of here, wherein we enjoy but one pleasure at once, which, when all uneasiness is away, is, whilst it lasts, sufficient to make us think ourselves happy, it is not all remote and even apparent good that affects us.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Of learning long a scantling was the portion of the Gael, vol. v.,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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Its time of flowers, and even of fruits, was over; but a scantling of apples enriched the trees; only a blossom here and there expanded pale and delicate amidst a knot of faded leaves.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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On the inside of the door the figures 52 had been traced with a couple of strokes of a brush dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the number 50, so that one hesitated.
Les Miserables
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Of learning long a scantling was the portion of the Gael,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
