1 He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on at his estate.
2 Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe.
3 The prince was working at the lathe and after glancing round continued his work.
4 After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching the table, summoned his daughter.
5 "The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and my geometry lessons," said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life.
6 When Princess Mary went to him at the usual hour he was working at his lathe and, as usual, did not look round at her.
7 And he nailed that shingle to a lath, and stood the lath up four or five foot in front of the wigwam.
8 In place of these, he was equipped with a sword of lath, resembling that with which Harlequin operates his wonders upon the modern stage.
9 Beside them, on laths and perches, sat nearly a hundred pigeons, all asleep, seemingly; but yet they moved a little when the robber maiden came.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SNOW QUEEN 10 Some of that at the bottom, near the laths.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS 11 The wall was a thin layer of plaster upheld by lathes and beams, and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and words to be clearly distinguished.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE 12 All at once he sprang up; he had just perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which resulted from the space between three lathes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE