Perhaps it was the fact that the Timbering was expensive and that his gropings for the lost ore body came to nothing; but in the back of his mind Blount's growing distrust dated from the day he had bought Wiley's quit-claim.
"Shadow Mountain"
Dane Coolidge
It was the weakened Timbering that supported the gallery roof.
"Master of the Moondog"
Stanley Mullen
They had a characteristic architecture, due in part to the subordination of speed to carrying capacity, and further to the specially heavy Timbering about the bows to withstand the crushing of the Arctic ice-pack.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot