1 It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared.
2 The pile of timber was still unsold.
3 They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick.
4 Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
5 He had demanded payment in real five-pound notes, which were to be handed over before the timber was removed.
6 Meanwhile the timber was being carted away at high speed.
7 It was announced that later, when bricks and timber had been purchased, a schoolroom would be built in the farmhouse garden.
8 So Sir Geoffrey felled timber and stood for Lloyd George and England, England and Lloyd George.
9 This was one of the places that Sir Geoffrey had cut during the war for trench timber.
10 The park was denuded of its timber, and divided into lots.
11 It is not ugly, you see, at this end; there is some fine timber, but the situation of the house is dreadful.
12 Oliver's vigorous plunges against the bit of timber in question, rendered this occurance highly probable.
13 Bring them bits of timber, Barney.
14 Nothing would burn like that except clean timber.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 15 In the centre of this room there was an upright beam, which had been placed at some period as a support for the old worm-eaten baulk of timber which spanned the roof.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles