Building repair platforms

Usage examples of scaffolds.

Bettik and Tsipon Shakabpa were conferring with Aenea, so I jogged back to the scaffolds and got busy.

Twenty-four millions of men shout in unison: If the black, gangrened, archi-gangrened officials dare pass a bill reducing and reorganizing the army, citizens, then you build eight hundred scaffolds in the Tuileries garden and hang on them every traitor to his country - that infamous Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, at the head of them - and, at the same time, erect in the middle of the fountain basin a big pile of logs to roast the ministers and their tools!

But after a few days of literally learning the ropes of gear and climbing protocols on the rockfaces, ledges, cables, scaffolds, and slideways in the area, I volunteered for work duty and was given a chance to fail.

This is what we are working on now, chiseling stone and laying brick for the walkway along the edge of nothing, our scaffolds perilously cantilevered far out over the drop.

The high work scaffolds and cliff cables were no place for an exhausted architect.

I try to imagine these buildings, mountains, ridges, cables, bridges, walkways, and scaffolds covered with ice and shrouded by fog.

Where they procure the timber of which these scaffolds are composed he could not learn.

At its lower extremity is a small island on which are five houses, at present vacant, though the scaffolds of fish are as usual abundant.

On each side are arranged near the walls small beds of mats placed on little scaffolds or bed-steads, raised from eighteen inches to three feet from the ground.

Our baggage was placed on scaffolds and carefully covered, as were also the instruments and papers, which we thought it safer to leave than to risk over the roads and creeks by which we came.

In its hold were dozens of fifty-five gallon drums of paint, and ropes and scaffolds and long-handled rollers and a gang of a half-dozen or so workmen wearing coveralls that displayed the spills and drips incidental to their trade.

But then her eyes found the conical shape of the nose and she realized it was a half-completed dirigible, some of its giant ring frames lying flat atop scaffolds for construction.

Metal scaffolds with steps and catwalks had been erected to reach them.

He stroked her hair, watching the play, of firelight on the gold all threaded through with silver, and for a while pretended all was well: that they rested comfortable in their lodge and there was no war, nor any hunger, nor so many burial scaffolds in the trees, nor winter coming on.

There were too many scaffolds in the trees and too many widows weeping in the lodges.