He rapped his knuckles on sturdy ripple-grained beams that supported parts of the large room.

Grizzly asked himself, and discovered the answer the very next instant when he bent his neck to gaze far overhead at the sturdy beams crisscrossing the underside of the roof.

Montague loved the old building with its Spanish chestnut roof and huge, sturdy interior beams.

A sturdy forty-foot beam joined them, forming the ridge pole of the roof.

In France, the condemned were placed on a cartwheel with their limbs stretched out along the spokes over two sturdy wooden beams.

He professes not to like history yet he does appreciate the sturdy hand-hewn beams and old-world workmanship of the Wright-Reis Homestead.

Using traditional outdoor climbing gear, the crew tied their rope to a sturdy beam on the roof.

The submarine's hull, made of thicker steel and sturdier beams to withstand deep diving, was better able to handle the stress.

Above the groynes, though, ran sturdy beams made of eight-inch pine.

Clan swept the room with his eyes: the bare wooden floor, the sturdy beams of the ceiling, George hulking by the fireplace, the snow piling up outside.