timberyard

Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

Ulysses 2003

'And the Evans' thriving timberyard was burned down last night, 'parried Younis.

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

Sergeant Donovan's wondering about the timberyard. '

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

People who sell timber take precautions so there are fewer timberyard fires than there might be.

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

Once the timberyard and the adjacent garden centre closed the only activity on the wharf was the boat dwellers coming home, and they knew better than to poke around in the alleys.

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

The other places you could photograph the fire from were Broad Wharf, where the tow-path opened into an unloading dock on the far side of the timberyard, and Brick-Lane, which ran along the back and was reached by a walkway from the same place.

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

There were pictures too: the ashes of the first two, more spectacular shots of the timberyard fire at its height with David Shapiro's by-line prominently displayed.

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

He started searching - groping rather than looking, the water was the colour and consistency of Brown Windsor soup - at the edge of the scree where the timberyard wall avalanched in.

A Taste for Burning Bannister, Jo 1995

Mine was a quiet back-garret with a sloping roof, commanding a pleasant prospect of a timberyard; and when I took possession of it, with the reflection that Mr. Micawber's troubles had come to a crisis at last, I thought it quite a paradise.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911