Slaters

To make the most of Snowmageddon's aftermath, Pauly has doubled-down, hiring slate roof repairmen -- known as "slaters" -- from Upstate New York and Long Island at $400 a day. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had been wondering about the "slaters," spelled variously as "slatters," "sclaters," and "slatears," which seemed to be an important ingredient in a number of medicines, so I was pleased to see a clear cork-stoppered vial with this name on the label. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And a few pages later, "decoctions made of the roots of celandine, turmeric, and juice of 200 slaters cannot but be of great service in a case of jaundice." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problem is when you White religious fanatics and blank slaters get any kind of power and look out at the world through this distorted and dishonest lens. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

December 24th, 2007 at 12: 32 pm brian slaters email address is [email protected]. thankyou for your enquiries you wont be dissapointed with this poster gav Says: ❋ Unknown (2006)

Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, then to the buildings of the Saint – Louis court, to the outer wall, and thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-deSicile? ❋ Unknown (2008)

I love to teach people about horseshoe crabs and sea slaters. ❋ Doyle (2008)

A nobleman must marry a noblewoman: a baron, a baron's daughter; a knight, a knight's; a gentleman, a gentleman's: as slaters sort their slates, do they degrees and families. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Via CeticismoAberto, news of a Brazilian find of a barata d'água ( "giant water bug"): a specimen of Bathynomus giganteus, a giant deep sea isopod - a relative of the woodlice (aka pill bugs) and sea slaters. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

That is, his chosen opponents, the radical blank slaters, are somewhere between very hard to find and nonexistent, but he argues against them as if they were an influential and intellectually important group. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I could ask similar questions to all the blank slaters. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Maybe I should just take a trip by myself this summer. .maybe I'll stop by the slaters ... no. bad idea katie. bad bad idea. ❋ Katebell (2004)

They found the rest of the meeting, two strange master-slaters and the official builders of the council, carpenter, masons, and tinsmiths, waiting for them at the tower-door. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is a story of slaters working on steep roofs and tall church spires; and as does their scaffolding, so the poet tries to move along "between heaven and earth," his feet and eyes firmly fastened to life's realities, his heart and soul lifted into the realm of the ideal, the eternal. ❋ Various (N/A)

The two strange slaters stated that they thought extensive repairs were necessary. ❋ Various (N/A)

But his soul was not where he hammered; it was where ropes were constantly breaking and luckless slaters plunging headlong to certain death. ❋ Various (N/A)

In forming the brigade in Edinburgh, where the firemen are only occasionally employed, the description of men, from which I made a selection, were slaters, house-carpenters, masons, plumbers, and smiths. ❋ James Braidwood (N/A)

For a week the children of the town play at being slaters. ❋ Various (N/A)