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This was composed entirely of white marble slabs supported and divided into panels by great beams of solid marble made up of enormous blocks of the stone the ends of which were so cunningly "scarphed", or fitted together, that the joints were invisible and gripped each other so tightly that neither cement nor bolts were needed to complete the union.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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If someone told you that a wooden ship's frames were really "giant futtocks scarphed together," would you believe him?
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