It will easily be understood that 1,200
furnaces were not too many to melt simultaneously these 60,000 tons of iron.
Finally I won, and was permitted to go to the school in the day for a few months, with the understanding that I was to rise early in the morning and work in the
furnace till nine o'clock, and return immediately after school closed in the afternoon for at least two more hours of work.
Through these bewildering sights and deafening sounds, their conductor led them to where, in a dark portion of the building, one
furnace burnt by night and day--so, at least, they gathered from the motion of his lips, for as yet they could only see him speak: not hear him.
There was a row of brick
furnaces, shining white through every crack with the molten steel inside.
"We shall do it," replied the Scarecrow, "although it requires a lot of courage for me to go near to the
furnaces of the Nome King.
"You must remember that, since we started, we have kept up hot fires in all our
furnaces, and, though we had coal enough to go on short steam from New York to Bordeaux, we haven't enough to go with all steam from New York to Liverpool." "I will consider," replied Mr.
Forthwith there issued from an inner apartment a man of low stature, but bulky frame, with shaggy hair hanging about his visage, which was grimed with the vapors of the
furnace. This personage had been Aylmer's underworker during his whole scientific career, and was admirably fitted for that office by his great mechanical readiness, and the skill with which, while incapable of comprehending a single principle, he executed all the details of his master's experiments.
their every blow like the hundred hammers of the
furnace. Terrible is the battle of the kings; dreadful the look of their eyes.
Further, I say, that, if you will stay with me, I will teach you all the secrets of the glass-stainers' mystery: the pigments and their thickening, which will fuse into the glass and which will not, the
furnace and the glazing--every trick and method you shall know."
At Sauce we found a very civil old gentleman, superintendent of a copper-smelting
furnace. As an especial favour, he allowed me to purchase at a high price an armful of dirty straw, which was all the poor horses had for supper after their long day's journey.
Voluptuousness: to the rabble, the slow fire at which it is burnt; to all wormy wood, to all stinking rags, the prepared heat and stew
furnace.
This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a small
furnace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.
The Jew then looked at the glowing
furnace, over which he was presently to be stretched, and seeing no chance of his tormentor's relenting, his resolution gave way.
Abaft the mainmast the deck-pump was being ceaselessly worked by relays of the passengers; dry blankets were passed forward, soaking blankets were passed aft, and flung flat into the
furnace one after another.
The grand hall was no longer anything but a vast
furnace of effrontry and joviality, where every mouth was a cry, every individual a posture; everything shouted and howled.
