Lexicographical Neighbors of Shorings
Literary usage of Shorings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1894)
"... a distrustful appearance; but, upon a careful inspection, its abutments are
believed to be firmly held in place for the present by the heavy shorings. ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1917)
"... venerable-appearing doorway, which once, as the visible proof showed, had been
sealed up with plank shorings, nailed on in vertical strips. ..."
3. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"... and shorings that should confess their own date and purpose and make no
confusions in the history of construction. It is not the unbuilding of time, ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1870)
"... 5520 tons; cable-tanks and water, 400 tons; timber-shorings for tanks, 500
tons; paying-out and picking-up machinery, 120 tons; ship's stores, 250 tons; ..."
5. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"... and shorings that should confess their own date and purpose and make no
confusions in the history of construction. It is not the unbuilding of time, ..."
6. John Ruskin by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1900)
"... and shorings that should confess their own date and purpose and make no
confusions in the history of construction. It is not the unbuilding of time, ..."
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