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“Decided to post up on a train tressel where deer were frequently traveling.”
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“To persons acquainted with secret societies a good comparison for the charts or rolls would be what is called the tressel board of the”
“So saying, he sat down on a tressel which answered the purpose of a chair, and placing the lantern beside him, proceeded in the most friendly tone:”
“A log truck passes under a railroad tressel near Pineland, Texas on Texas FM-1.”
“The second piece is a miniature wood block print of a little train going over a hill and tressel by a contemporary German artist.”
“We see a semi that was blown over and pinned at the top of this tressel bridge that crosses the river.”
“I don't know whether they had the real wisdom to how thorough their intellect and their … Put upon the tressel board a document that was malleable, that could adjust itself and stretch to change as our document has done.”
“Moggridge was on the mast, too, and, with his gang of men, was operating on the tressel-trees to free the lower yard; so that, before it was dark, the whole stick of the mainmast was nearly clear.”
“I clothe you with a white apron, lined with red, having a pocket in its centre, and in which you are intended to carry the plans for the building of the temple, that they may be laid out on the tressel board for the use of the workmen when wanted.”
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge
“It has; the Mosaic, or checkered pavement; the indented tressel; that beautiful tesselated border which surrounds it, with the blazing star in the centre.”
The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge
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qroqqa variant of trestle
There were the seats where the poor old people sat, worn spare, and yellow like themselves; the rugged font where children had their names, the homely altar where they knelt in after life, the plain black tressels that bore their weight on their last visit to the cool old shady church.
—The Old Curiosity Shop, ch. 17 Aug 7, 2008