THE week after Thanksgiving, the arrhythmic beat of roofers hammering shingle nails and the roar of tractors clearing tons of debris filled the air on Sanibel and Captiva, resort islands on the gulf coast of southwest Florida.
Mr. O'Riley furnished shingle nails to, the new Court House at three thousand dollars a keg, and eighteen gross of 60-cent thermometers at fifteen hundred dollars a dozen; the controller and the board of audit passed the bills, and a mayor, who was simply ignorant but not criminal, signed them.
Praise goodness it wasn't a shingle nail, it would have landed you in the Milky Way.
He pulled his tool belt off the truck, put it on and headed over to fire up the gasoline generator that would power the air gun he'd use to drive the shingle nails.
If only one layer of shingles covers the surface, fasten each new shingle with 3-penny (1 1/4-inch) rust-resistant box or shingle nails.
So we had the odd spoon, and dropped it in her apron-pocket whilst she was a-giving us our sailing orders, and Jim got it all right, along with her shingle nail, before noon.
Rhymer complied in his own dry way, by adding ridiculous touches (his romantic lead, Dwight Twentysixler, always speaks with his "mouth full of shingle nails"!)
If the shingle is wood, install it with shingle nails as described.
