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"Slat" Quotes from Famous Books

... by the Mabry family is an old cottage on the swamp side of Rousseau Street. It is furnished with slat shutters to both doors and windows. These shutters had been pulled off by the mob and the volleys fired through the glass doors. The younger Mabrys, father, mother and child, were asleep in the first room at the time. Hannah Mabry and her old husband were sleeping in the next ...

— Mob Rule in New Orleans • Ida B. Wells-Barnett

... long at Clifton. I never did believe in swashin' all the time. A bath in the tin washbasin does me very well," and the good woman wiped her window leisurely, and even put it back and fastened the side-slat in its place before she sat down to see what ...

— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes

... cheap calico dress and white cap. The pump can be made of wood, covered with light brown cambric, the handle painted black. A rough representation of a house should be painted on cloth, and placed at the rear of the stage. A few feet from the house, erect a low white slat fence, with a gate in the centre; a wheelbarrow, shovel, hoe, broom, and water bucket are scattered about the stage. Ike sits on the pump, and faces the audience. His head is drawn down within the ...

— Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants • James H. Head

Words linked to "Slat" : provide, fin, louvre, strip, shut, stave, splat, furnish, render, lath, Venetian blind, lag, supply, close, louver