Scaffolds

Scaffolds are damn near the most primitive type of construction in NYC, until the recent UrbanShed entry.

New York City Rebuilt From Its Own Trash | Inhabitat 2010

Scaffolds rise around the two white-hulled fireships at the Mirror Lancer pier.

Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

Scaffolds ran around the columns, and huge horns projected outward from them in a stony thicket.

Mercadian Masques Lebaron, Francis 1999

The Hall is to be furnished with Scaffolds to sit on, for Ladies to behold the Sports, on each side.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Scaffolds were set up, on which the people hung dried meat and other things by way of offerings to the Old Woman; and on a certain day the old women of the tribe, as representatives of the Old Woman who Never Dies, assembled at the scaffolds each bearing in her hand an ear of maize fastened to a stick.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Scaffolds were set up, on which the people hung dried meat and other things by way of offerings to the Old Woman; and on a certain day the old women of the tribe, as representatives of the Old Woman who Never Dies, assembled at the scaffolds each bearing in her hand an ear of maize fastened to a stick.

Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands. § 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings 1922

_Lacedemonians_, and dryeth ill Humours in the stomach, comforteth the Brain, never causeth Drunkenness or any other Surfeit, and is a harmless entertainment of good Fellowship; for there upon Scaffolds half a yard high, and covered with Mats, they sit Cross-leg'd after the _Turkish_ manner, many times two or three hundred together, talking, and likely with some poor musick passing up and down.

All About Coffee 1909

Scaffolds of fish & buries drying we allarmed them verry much as they knew nothing of a white man being in their

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

Scaffolds were set up, on which the people hung dried meat and other things by way of offerings to the Old Woman; and on a certain day the old women of the tribe, as representatives of the Old Woman who Never Dies, assembled at the scaffolds each bearing in her hand an ear of maize fastened to a stick.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

Scaffolds were accordingly soon erected, fires made, and the meat cut into thin slices to be dried; and all were busily occupied, when the camp was thrown into a sudden tumult, by a charge from about seventy mounted Indians, over the low hills at the upper end of the little bottom.

The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851