The shells … bored their way even to the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
Forced draught is produced by twelve 5 ft. 6 in. fans, three being stationed in each stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891] Reference
But Elspeth ... and to haunt me in that stinking stokehold came the appalling question: suppose it was my skin or hers - would I turn tail then?. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference
The firemen and other engine room and stokehold workers are located in rooms above the machinery with separate entrances and exits to and from their work. From Wordnik.com. [Marvels of Modern Science] Reference
From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman's Lady]
Mr. Thornycroft has for some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure -- produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold -- of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
An awful racket, of iron things falling, came from the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
Three feet were on the stokehold floor -- just slappin 'to an' fro. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Seas] Reference
"Engineer felt no jar in the engine-room, sir; and there's no excitement in the stokehold.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference
Walker had set one to clear up the stokehold; his companion, a fireman, had relieved Mr. Tollemache. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
"You've got to hurry up," shouted Mr. Rout, as soon as he saw Jukes appear in the stokehold doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
Thirty-six men of the fire room met their death in the fire and steam and boiling water of the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights] Reference
'My work is as heavy as theirs -- I'm thinking -- and longer hours. did you ever see them down the stokehold?. From Wordnik.com. [The Nigger of the Narcissus] Reference
A bunker is an enclosed space for holding coals, generally located against the ship's side, and having an opening, a doorway in fact, into the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Life and Letters] Reference
The stokehold ventilators hummed: in front of the six fire-doors two wild figures, stripped to the waist, staggered and stooped, wrestling with two shovels. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
The noise and roar of the engines was ever in my ears, and the peculiar ocean-like noise of the stokehold ... and the metallic clang of coal as it shot from shovels. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
Then the noise ceased suddenly, and the second engineer appeared, emerging out of the stokehold streaked with grime and soaking wet like a chimney-sweep coming out of a well. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
I think I see myself shipping first class on a six-thousand-ton hotel, and asking the third engineer what makes the engines go round, and whether it isn't very warm in the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Failed] Reference
Men called trimmers go in there, and by means of implements called slices make the coal run through that opening on to the floor of the stokehold, where it is within reach of the stokers '. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Life and Letters] Reference
Thence they proceeded to the engine - room and stokehold, where they found much to admire in the scrupulous cleanliness and unusual form of the machinery, but no sign or trace of anything in the nature of contraband. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection] Reference
If the rent in the ship's side were within the bunker itself, that would become manifest enough without any signal, and the rush of water into the stokehold could be cut off directly the doorplate came into its place. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Life and Letters] Reference
In the stokehold the plump donkeyman toiled with his shovel mutely, as if his tongue had been cut out; but the second was carrying on like a noisy, undaunted maniac, who had preserved his skill in the art of stoking under a marine boiler. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
Almost opposite his berth, across the narrow passage under the bridge, there was, in the iron deck-structure covering the stokehold fiddle and the boiler-space, a storeroom with iron sides, iron roof, iron-plated floor, too, on account of the heat below. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Tether] Reference
As soon as his head was clear of the fiddle he began to scold Jukes for not trimming properly the stokehold ventilators; and in answer Jukes made with his hands deprecatory soothing signs meaning: "No wind -- can't be helped -- you can see for yourself.". From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
Irritated voices were ascending through the skylight and through the fiddle of the stokehold in a harsh and resonant uproar, mingled with angry clangs and scrapes of metal, as if men with limbs of iron and throats of bronze had been quarrelling down there. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon] Reference
"Anyhow with every pump, -- hand and steam, -- going, the water continued to rise in the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913] Reference
A couple of hours 'work next day by Macintyre and his crew at the portable forge down in the stokehold, and everything was ready for the work which was to commence as soon as possible after ten o'clock that night. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection] Reference
Mean air pressure in stokehold 1.4 in. water. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
"There has been an accident in the stokehold. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
'No! .... stokehold .... only think! ....'. From Wordnik.com. [The Nigger of the Narcissus] Reference
Three feet were on the stokehold-floor -- just slappin 'to an' fro. From Wordnik.com. [McAndrew's Hymn] Reference
Daily they face the dangers of railroad, bridge, skyscraper, frieght train, stokehold, stockyard, lumber raft and min. From Wordnik.com. [Strike Against War] Reference
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