Britishers have slept off your spring mattresses, I'd say, light out for the city and steam-heat afore the snow comes. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
On the large scale the grains are made by forcing the paste through sieves, dried by steam-heat and polished by rolling against each other in a barrel. From Wordnik.com. [A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel?] Reference
And then, in that steam-heat, she began to birch me, very lightly at first, up the backs of my legs and to my shoulders, and then back again, harder and harder all the time, until I began to yelp. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
One cannot put steam-heat in houses where Queen Elizabeth slept. From Wordnik.com. [The Day's Work - Volume 1] Reference
With gas and water connections, and steam-heat through to the top. From Wordnik.com. [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference
Sometimes a blast of steam-heat was the method used for the destruction of the chrysalis. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Silk] Reference
At Buffalo a steam-heat was landing with 400 passengers, and twelve dags out -- "Where from"?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians] Reference
"Well," she would say, "if we have got to sacrifice Art to steam-heat and speaking-tubes ....". From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
It is such a bitter frost outside; a pail of coal is so dear, and you got it so warm with steam-heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
They are commonly without steam-heat, which might account for their being less frequented by Americans. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
I could see that she hadn't been brought up on steam-heat and cold storage, but had grown into a woman by the sea-shore. From Wordnik.com. [Man Overboard!] Reference
Mr. Pilkington detested steam-heat and had scoured the city till he had found a studio apartment with an open fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
McIntyre and Bayer are replacing a steam-heat process with a treatment made from cinnamon-bark oil, thyme oil, oregano oil and lemongrass oil. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
The mechanical laboratories, drawing-rooms, and shops have all been arranged for steam-heat, and a bakery has been added to the kitchen outfit. From Wordnik.com. [People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898.] Reference
But, the effort made, and once out of doors on a sunlit winter's morning, how soon are we finding out the mistake we were making, coddling ourselves in the steam-heat!. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
With the swinging of the door there reached us the hot, stuffy smell of unwashed bodies under steam-heat -- the unmistakable odor that one sometimes meets in a court-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Under Dog] Reference
It's just a thing we've invented, like -- wireless telegraphy, or soap, or steam-heat; and it hands us a cloak to cover up the evil that man and woman'll never quit doing. From Wordnik.com. [The Man in the Twilight] Reference
It is one of the ironies of civilization that after passing unscathed through all the fever country, I caught a cold the moment I got back to steam-heat and all the comforts of home. From Wordnik.com. [An African Adventure] Reference
(She was a disbeliever in colds, anyhow, and all winter long she slept with the windows open and the steam-heat off!) "I'm so glad you're still here, Minnie!" she exclaimed, breathing fast. From Wordnik.com. [Where there's a Will] Reference
THAT "diffusion of knowledge" commonly classed with steam-heat and universal suffrage in the category of modern improvements, has incidentally brought about the production of a new vice -- the vice of reading. From Wordnik.com. [The Vice of Reading] Reference
The Grand Hotel is at the upper end of the Bund, and here another specimen of the Moyen-âge in his stocking feet shows us into beautiful rooms facing the water – rooms with steam-heat and electric bells!. From Wordnik.com. [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference
The tendency of colleges is to turn men from Nature to books; from bonfires to stoves, steam-heat and cash-registers; but Thoreau, by reversing all rules, suddenly found himself, and others, explaining his position in print. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
In addition to heating, ventilation and window replacement, and adding air conditioning, the project would replace boilers at Kennedy and Grant elementary schools, and add electrical panels and replace a steam-heat system at the middle school installed in 1949. From Wordnik.com. [Home News Tribune - News] Reference
The most of us are getting so thin-skinned, so dependent upon steam-heat and goloshes, that the actions of a man like this riding forth upon his trail at all hours of the day and night self-sufficing and serene, seem like the doings of an epic, and so indeed they are. From Wordnik.com. [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference
A few hardy bathers braved it out on select days in the surf, but they were purple and red when they ran up to the bath-houses, and they came out wrinkled, and hurried to their hotels, where there began to be a smell of steam-heat and a snapping of radiators in the halls. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference
There was not only steam-heat in the public rooms of the ground floor, but there was furnace heat in all the corridors, and there were fireplaces in certain chambers, which also looked out on the sea, to Corsica and Elba and other isles of it, and would be full of sun as soon as the cold rain closed a fortnight's activity. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
The average American is born in a land overflowing with steam-heat, ice-water, and bath-tubs, and he suffers when he has to lose the hyphens and use the nouns separately.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Will] Reference
"Here we are the three of us -- snug and nice, having seven kinds of hell-fire water and not having to pay for it; three meals a day and afternoon tea ditto, good beds and steam-heat ditto -- and four days ago where were we?. From Wordnik.com. [Where there's a Will] Reference
"love-locks," but they had a pretty taste in art and an eye for artistic surroundings, those old fellows of the sword and cloak; a much more pretty taste than their descendants, the steam-heat and running-water partisans of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
I need a little steam-heat on my floor. From Wordnik.com. [Bessie Smith Lyrics] Reference
I need a little steam-heat, on my floor. From Wordnik.com. [Bessie Smith Lyrics] Reference
They let on the steam-heat, and it's comfortable; and it's always airy and healthy. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Minister's Charge] Reference
And the steam-heat turned off at twelve-thirty!. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Money] Reference
They give us the steam-engine, the skyscraper, the steam-heat, the flying machine, the elevated railroad, the apartment house, the newspaper, the breakfast food, the weapons of the army, the weapons of the navy, and think that they have beautified our existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
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