The previous evening eachfurnace had been charged with 114,000 pounds weight of metal in bars disposed cross-ways to each other, so as to allow the hot air to circulate freely between them.

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 thefurnace 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, onefurnace 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.

Across the desolate plain, stripped bare of all vegetation, and made hideous forever by the growth of a mighty industry, where thefurnace fires reddened the sky, and only the unbroken line of ceaseless lights showed where town dwindled into village and suburbs led back again into town.

He was taken to the Bessemerfurnace, where they made billets of steel--a domelike building, the size of a big theater.

Grandfather loved a wood-fire far better than a grate of glowing anthracite, or than the dull heat of an invisiblefurnace, which seems to think that it has done its duty in merely warming the house.

He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, cleared his fine countenance from thefurnace smoke, washed the stain of acids from his fingers, and persuaded a beautiful woman to become his wife.

The field echoes from wing to wing, as a hundred hammers that rise by turn, on the red son of thefurnace."

See to the skin tint: it is not to be replaced, for paint as you will, it is not once in a hundred times that it is not either burned too brown in thefurnace or else the color will not hold, and you get but a sickly white.

At Sauce we found a very civil old gentleman, superintendent of a copper-smeltingfurnace. 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 stewfurnace.

This cave was made with a clothes horse for a roof, bureaus for walls, and in it was a smallfurnace in full blast, with a black pot on it and an old witch bending over it.