I looked up through the black timbers which might at any moment fall on me.

The black timber is hard, heavy, and durable and is highly valued for construction.

Agecroft, by contrast, a black timber and white plaster 16th-century manor, has a more masculine look.

Hear your canvas tearing, and see the black, square-ended timbers thrusting holes through it.

The house was three stories tall and unremarkable, with heavy black timbers crisscrossing their way up to a steep slate roof.

Upstairs was a passage with gaping holes in the floor, the black timbers threatening to give way beneath his feet.

The roof had collapsed into the second floor, and black timbers protruded from the open sockets of windows.

They intended his body to be smashed into a bloody pancake between the ferry's bumper and the black timbers of the slip.

There was a crunch as the ferry bumped ponderously into the black timbers.

He cleared the basement steps, now open to the sky, and went down into the tangle of black timbers.