In one corner of the compartment stood a small iron stove, in which smoldered a bare handful of coals; in another was a trestle-board which served as a bed; two or three stools and a rickety deal table, together with a few cooking utensils, completed ❋ Unknown (2003)
On a great trestle-board table to my left lay the dead blond thief who had hefted me body and soul into his big cloth sack. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)
Sleek and sinuous, she had climbed upon a trestle-board to dance for half a dozen sailors who pawed her with raucous shouts, running their hands up her long legs. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1983)
Like every other symbol of the order, it is universal and tolerant in its application; and while, as Christian Masons, we cling with unfaltering integrity to that explanation which makes the Scriptures of both dispensations our trestle-board, we permit our Jewish and Mohammedan brethren to content themselves with the books of the Old Testament, or the ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
The trestle-board becomes, therefore, one of our elementary symbols. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
To construct his earthly temple, the operative mason followed the architectural designs laid down on the _trestle-board_, or tracing-board, or book of plans of the architect. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
But so rigidly exacting is it that the symbol shall be preserved, and, in some rational way, interpreted, that it peremptorily excludes the Atheist from its communion, because, believing in no Supreme Being, no divine Architect, he must necessarily be without a spiritual trestle-board on which the designs of that Being may be inscribed for his direction. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
Thus provided with the word of life, he occupies his time in the construction of a spiritual temple, and travels onward in the faithful discharge of all his duties, laying down his designs upon the trestle-board of the future and invoking the assistance and direction of ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
The trestle-board is, then, the symbol of the natural and moral law. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
On the trestle-board of the Present, Liberty forever sets before the Future some new query. ❋ Unknown (1880)
In one corner of the compartment stood a small iron stove, in which smoldered a bare handful of coals; in another was a trestle-board which served as a bed; two or three stools and a rickety deal table, together with a few cooking utensils, completed a stock of furniture which was worthy of its proprietor. ❋ Unknown (1877)
No architect, "no designs on the trestle-board," and so they go on accumulating "facts" and "evidence" day after day, year after year, century after century. ❋ Unknown (1877)
For in the masonic ritual the speculative Mason is reminded that, as the operative artist erects his temporal building, in accordance with the rules and designs laid down on the trestle-board of the master-workman, so should he erect that spiritual building, of which the material is a type, in obedience to the rules and designs, the precepts and commands, laid down by the grand Architect of the universe, in those great books of nature and revelation, which constitute the spiritual trestle-board of every Freemason. ❋ Albert G. Mackey (N/A)
They had to carry him back to the abbey on a trestle-board. " ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1981)
