He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. ❋ Unknown (2002)
For instance, in Maryland, a coffer-dam, excavated to a depth of 30 ft. in silt and water, had the bottom shoved in 2 ft., in spite of the fact that the waling pieces were 5 ft. apart vertically at the top and 3 ft. at the bottom, and were braced with 12 by 12-in. timbers, every 7 ft. horizontally. ❋ J. C. Meem (N/A)
He liked to lie flat on the coffer-dam to read, with a row of tin letter-files under his head for a rest, the electric bulb and its shade so adjusted as to throw all the light on the page of his book. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Throughout all the story Dalton had been sitting atop of the coffer-dam, hands with flat palms pressing down, and feet hanging, with heels drumming against the coffer-dam sides. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The wall includes an outer wall built as a coffer-dam, a brick wall, a coat of cement, and a wall proper, a little over a yard thick. ❋ Unknown (1911)
And that happened to be in the middle of the stream opposite the trestle on the masonry of the middle pier, now two feet above the coffer-dam. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
In the middle of the stream stood a coffer-dam in course of building, and near it another that had collapsed. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)
However, the difficulty is being got over by the construction of a coffer-dam -- at a cost of £30,000. ❋ Unknown (1900)
Anyhow, at time of writing the coffer-dam is being constructed. ❋ Unknown (1900)
The company possesses a strip of land extending two miles along the shore; and in excavating the tunnel a coffer-dam was made with the extracted rock, to keep the river from flooding the works. ❋ John Munro (1889)
To prevent the encroach of this latter all the stuff taken out was thrown up alongside, forming a sort of steep embankment on either hand, so that the _Denver City_ looked by-and-by as if she had run her head into a railroad cutting, the coffer-dam fixed across the beach, right under her keel, by the mizzen-chains, where the water just came up to, blocking the entrance to our dock effectually. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The coffer-dam which had been built by driving into the mud of the bottom a double row of heavy tongued and grooved planking in two parallel rows, and bulkheading each end with heavy boards, had been filled with concrete to low-water mark, consuming not only the contents of the delayed scow, but two subsequent cargoes, both of which had been unloaded by Tom Grogan. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
"Well, then, I'm afraid it is worse than the coffer-dam," he answered in all seriousness. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
She crept up to him the closer and nestled her fingers inside his collar -- an old caress of hers when she was a child, then looking up into his eyes she asked with almost a throb of suffering in her voice, "Is it as bad as the coffer-dam, daddy?" ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
By ten Babcock's men were bracing the outer sheathing of the coffer-dam, strengthening the derrick-guys, tightening the anchor-lines, and clearing the working-platforms of sand, cement, and other damageable property. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
This had carried away some of the upper planking -- the false work of the coffer-dam; but this had been repaired in a few hours without delay or serious damage. ❋ Francis Hopkinson Smith (1876)
The basin on Loch Eil, on the other hand, was constructed amidst rock, and considerable difficulty was experienced in getting in the necessary coffer-dam for the construction of the opening into the sea-lock, the entrance-sill of which was laid upon the rock itself, so that there was a depth of 21 feet of water upon it at high water of neap tides. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1867)
Cement concrete was at last put within the coffer-dam, until it set, and the bottom was then found to be secure. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)
