lath

The sound told me there was nothing but lath and plaster under the paper.

Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, dis- closing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt.

He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warn't worth a mouthful of ashes more than what they was before.

But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster--tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.

It was a very small stuffy fusty room, with boards, and rafters, and cobwebs, and lath and plaster.

She was head and shoulders taller than the little lawyer, slim as a lath, and yet wonderfully graceful.

There were houses of stone, houses of red brick, houses of yellow brick, houses of lath and plaster; and houses of wood, many of them very old, with withered faces carved upon the beams, and staring down into the street.

Tha'rt as thin as a lath an' as white as a wraith, but there's not a knob on thee.

In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage.

It is so now, and it was so two hundred years ago, only the brioche was not so large, and probably there were to be seen no trellises of lath around the brioche, which constitute an ornament, planted like gardes-fous along the passages that wind towards the little terrace.

'Simmun and gentlemen, I'm locked up in the front attic, through the little door on the right hand when you think you've got to the very top of the stairs--and up the flight of corner steps, being careful not to knock your heads against the rafters, and not to tread on one side in case you should fall into the two-pair bedroom through the lath and plasture, which do not bear, but the contrairy.

Beside them, on laths and perches, sat nearly a hundred pigeons, all asleep, seemingly; but yet they moved a little when the robber maiden came.