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  • The sapwood snaps and shifts in the low-bellied stove, and the heat swells up against the roofboards and weathered fir planking, and the whole small building seems to groan.

    Excerpt: An Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg 2004

  • The bare roofboards on the east wing provided little protection from the downpour, which funneled between the boards and descended in sheets to drench the exposed subfloor.

    The Cat Who Went Underground Braun, Lilian Jackson 1989

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