Moreover, the great demand for beer-barrel stock made "clapboard" good and profitable return lading. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete] Reference
"clapboard" roof -- on one side flanked by a rude horse-shed, on the other by a corn-crib of split rails. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
The Waytansea Hotel is a smudge of white clapboard. From Wordnik.com. [Diary]
A clapboard is gone, and then another, and finally all. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Half were white Army clapboard, half green Army sheetrock. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
The old white clapboard had been replaced with vinyl siding. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
It was a rambling split-level, a combination of logs and clapboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
Family photos hang easy next to the semiautomatic in each clapboard. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
Mirabel had been a working farm, and its spreading, clapboard lines showed it. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
Suits headed for the squat gray clapboard building and held its door open for me. From Wordnik.com. [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]
Framers will write on the sheathing before they cover it with clapboard or stucco. From Wordnik.com. [Diary]
The Object lived on Tonnacour, in a gray stone and clapboard house with a weather vane. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
My office was one of five doctors 'offices in a white clapboard house in Vineyard Haven. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas]
The clapboard house was rather unimposing, she supposed, but it was still beautiful to her. From Wordnik.com. [For The Roses]
When he was not reading it, he put it away on a shelf -- a clapboard resting on wooden pins. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
He stopped in an area of tall scraggly weeds, flanked by the white clapboard backs of garages. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
The house was white clapboard with aqua trim around the windows and tangerine paint on the door. From Wordnik.com. [Four To Score]
This year the village installed an industrial-size freezer behind the old 1875 clapboard schoolhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Backyard Bears] Reference
It was a gray clapboard building, a one-story structure that looked a hundred years old if it was a day. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas]
We stopped at a gray clapboard house with a deep green lawn inside a quadrangle of carefully trimmed hedge. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
His eyes scanned, assessing for vulnerability with each step closer to the clapboard fishing retreat on stilts. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Engagement]
The house stood proud, with its dark green shutters shining against the brilliant white of the clapboard siding. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble with Witches]
Patrick thanked Joe and walked fifty yards through trees to a rambling house with clapboard siding stained brown. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Burke's Last Stand] Reference
A third day was commonly spent by a few carpenters in leveling off the floor, making a clapboard door and a table. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
At the end of it he could see a clapboard farmhouse with a barn behind it and a clean red pickup truck next to it. From Wordnik.com. [One Shot]
JAKE SPENT MOST of his days in a place called Bill's Saloon, a little clapboard place on the Trinity River bluffs. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
The clapboard house, built in 1987, includes such Hamptons niceties as a heated pool and an all-weather tennis court. From Wordnik.com. [Home Stretch] Reference
It was a two-story clapboard house that might look all right with a fresh coat of pain and a lawn instead of a thicket. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
The darkness may have been playing tricks on his eyes, but the clapboard structure appeared to be listing several degrees. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
At the end of the street, it pulled into the driveway of a white clapboard house perched on a hill overlooking the valley. From Wordnik.com. [2nd Chance]
Behind two rusty gas pumps stood a white clapboard building listing slightly with a faded sign that read "Melvin's Garage.". From Wordnik.com. [Gas Stations And Good Samaritans] Reference
In two blocks I count seven, all in white clapboard houses with cute, preppy names: Devlin McNiff and Brown Harris Stevens. From Wordnik.com. [Beach Road]
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