= -- This is in use in several continental dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
"His keys for the dye-works and the fulling sheds, too?". From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
Brundisium was also famous, and at the former place were considerable dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He has become a liquid; a flowing stream of tendency; an impersonal element in the economics of the dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism] Reference
This is the method employed generally in small dye-works for all dresses for black; their lots are so small. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887] Reference
Space will not admit of a detailed account of every kind of machine, but only of those which are in constant use in dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
We saw the house where Mr. Whitty formerly resided, the factory being at one end of it, while at the back were his dye-works, where, by. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Table-delicacies, paper, wooden shoes, hats, wax and earthenware are manufactured, and there are slate and millstone workings and dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Or if the dye-works were on the banks of a running stream of clean water the dyed goods were simply hung in the stream to be washed in a very effectual manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
We all smiled indulgently; the thing was so plain that it was almost silly to mention it, but all the same — the man was forgiven his silliness, and dye-works were established. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference
In the thread-producing mills, i.e. in spinning mills and finishing mills such as twisted-yarn mills and dye-works, most of the lighting tasks are solved by a general lighting or by workshop-orientated lighting. From Wordnik.com. [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference
Consequently there has been devised during the past two decades a great variety of machines for dyeing every description of textile fabrics, some have not been found a practical success for a variety of reasons and have gone out of use, others have been successful and are in use in dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student] Reference
As attention is being directed more and more to the question of the prevention of pollution of rivers, and as the waste liquors from dye-works add to the apparent pollution to a very considerable extent, dyers will have to develop other modes of dyeing than that of stuffing and saddening in one bath. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
And it's not only the house ... it's the dye-works too ... an 'the stores!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I] Reference
Navigation is not the final cause of astronomy, nor telegraphy of electro-dynamics, nor dye-works of chemistry. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
He had been employed, he explained, in German dye-works, and there had learned something better than the native patois. From Wordnik.com. [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference
Thus we find dye-works and the various branches of the clothing trade largely settled in the large textile towns, such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference
Manchester; it has also the reputation of being very unhealthy to certain constitutions from the prevalence of dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [Rides on Railways] Reference
Last year while visiting the pottery town of Machiko, deep in the Japanese mountains, I came across a lady at the traditional dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [Permaculture Research Institute of Australia] Reference
Mr. Laird estimates the population at 15,000, who are chiefly employed in extensive dye-works, and in the manufacture of iron and copper utensils. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa] Reference
Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Cities] Reference
Out of the open country, in again among ruinous buildings, solitary farms, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, cottages in twos and threes, avenues of leafless trees. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Cities] Reference
We all smiled indulgently; the thing was so plain that it was almost silly to mention it, but all the same -- the man was forgiven his silliness, and dye-works were established. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1] Reference
Tartarin recalled to mind his departure from the port of Marseilles, fifteen years earlier, when he started to hunt the lion -- that spotless sky, dazzling with silvery light, that sea so blue, blue as the water of dye-works, blown back by the mistral in sparkling white saline crystals, the bugles of the forts and the bells of all the steeples echoing joy, rapture, sun -- the fairy world of a first journey. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin On The Alps] Reference
"He probably wandered up from the dye-works. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
The message boy in the dye-works, for example, may have presented to him innumerable problems in number, language, physics, chemistry, etc., but owing to the confused, disorganized, and mingled character of the presentation, these are not likely to be seized upon by him as direct problems calling for adjustment. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
A close little knot of men had gathered at the edge of the tenterground, between dye-works and wool warehouse: Godfrey Fuller himself, his finery shed in favour of stout working clothes, for he was by no means ashamed to soil his hands alongside his workmen, and prided himself on being able to do whatever he asked of them, and possibly as well or better than they could; the watchman, a thickset, burly fellow of fifty, with his mastiff on a leash; Hugh's oldest sergeant, Will Warden, bushy-bearded and massive; and two men from the garrison in watchful attendance at a few yards distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
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