The door scuncheons and lintels of the cart-house and loose cattle sheds are to be neatly draughted and scappled (stones are said to scappled or scabbled, when they are dressed with the pick end of the hammer; they are called draughted and scappled when worked round the edges or joints with a chisel and hammer-dressed in the centre), and the corners canted with droved work.

She was saved from drowning by a passer-by.

He would have sprung upon Captain Blood, who stood aloof, alert, tight-lipped, and watchful.

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