The ceiling, made of stout white calico, to shelter from snakes and the continual dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the rafters like the roof of a marquee tent.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
And the well-borers had been obliged to stop their work.
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
Possessing as we do explosives and rock-borers with which to break a passage through mountains and to blast rocky embankments, we can hardly understand how a people, with such limited mechanical appliances as then existed, can have surmounted the obstacles that presented themselves to their progress.
"Roumania Past and Present"
James Samuelson