"That would be a limekiln," provided Antryg thoughtfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
I'd probably send out some kind of an illusion of its smell to draw them to the limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Lime-street, was so called from the limekiln that stood on the site of the present Skelhorn-street. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
British party was near enough to see the struggle at the limekiln, and came on rapidly in pursuit of our men. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776] Reference
At Utica, a most terrible tragedy was exhibited: 300 christians were, by the orders of the proconsul, placed round a burning limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice – house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
Bishop Vesey alienated 'the manor, town, palace, and limekiln,' and rather more than a hundred years later it came into the possession of. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Moreover, the limekiln in the atrium and the kiln in Corridor LVIII evidence human activity after the partial destruction of the once rich mansion. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 5] Reference
I ached all ower, and my mouth were like a limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Tales] Reference
I was awfully baked, my throat is like a limekiln yet. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference
I ache as if I had been beaten to a jelly, and I am as thirsty as a-- as a limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War] Reference
Then up in the morning in jolly good time to get the limekiln workers on the job by seven. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
A certain family had just finished making a limekiln, and the shots were to celebrate the event. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
You may bark at them right and left; go they will, though they break their legs down a limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Beyond Porto Novo do Cal, with its old fort and its limekiln, is the chapel of São Pedro, famous for its. From Wordnik.com. [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference
I feel like a-- a-- boiled owl; my head is aching as though it would split, and my mouth is as dry as a limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa] Reference
I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn't have come to life again. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
"I don't know exactly, your honor, but I hears as how Jem Ninnings, digging for stone for the limekiln, have dug out a big wooden chest.". From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
The limekiln closes down and there is no passenger left but Katy, so Tim breaks into the treasure holes in the wall to buy oats and bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The scene is laid at a limekiln in a dark and gloomy wood, where a lime-burner, far from human habitations, is watching his fires at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne]
The scene is laid at a limekiln in a dark and gloomy wood, where a lime - burner, far from human habitations, is watching his fires at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
The fact is so remarkable for an age in which statues were sought, not as models, but as material for the limekiln, that I beg leave to describe it. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
'And look, too, how the grey pebble beach is already dancing and quivering in the mirage which steams up, like the hot breath of a limekiln, from the drying stones. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
Murther! but it's meltin 'I am -- and as dhry -- as a limekiln! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast] Reference
"If you'd seen me at the fair you'd have said, 'That man's got the inside of a limekiln!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
I'm as dry as a limekiln inside; my tongue's beginnin 'to rattle again' my teeth, an '-- ". From Wordnik.com. [Turned Adrift] Reference
If it doesn't kill them, it should slow them down enough to be shoveled into the limekiln. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
“Will you tell me that that is not the Shutter, and that the Devil’s-limekiln, and that the cliff — that villain. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn’t have come to life again. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
The heart is a limekiln and it always burns. From Wordnik.com. [nsel und Gretel] Reference
"But we do have a limekiln," Cerdic said eagerly. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
‘come to me at my works, and you’ll always find an opening in the limekiln.’. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
The crag above the Devil's-limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth] Reference
A limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
Devil’s-limekiln. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
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