英语词汇“clinker”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

“No, nothing's ever lost. We have ways to shake down your clinkers for you.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clinker gives a short, martial note; the green slate a pure, clear, soft sound. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z

Have been an admirer of his work since Stop Making Sense....only clinker for me? Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The pencils are super-appealing — not a clinker in the set — and doggedly tenacious: they stay put till prodded. | Pencil This In 2011-03-02T20:30:43Z

"As a result, we have keys made out of Hornfels clinker," says Mitchell. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z

But the mere naming of a colour can fall like a piece of clinker in a sentence – it is only a signifier and cannot evoke sensuous beauty. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Gornall, a romantic, chooses the classic, ancient clinker design, about which the reader learns far more than we do about his wife and children. Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Another is that his voluminous output includes some clinkers and throwaways. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Though beloved by many die-hard fans, it's full of verbal clinkers and is repetitive in the extreme, melodically and lyrically. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z

Despite the refinement and élan in his playing, his recording of Chopin’s 24 études from the early 1930s is, by today’s standards, littered with clinkers. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

A few clinkers aside, most of the performances were more than competent, if somewhat studied. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

At Lava Beds National Monument, the floors come in three textures: ropy, cauliflower and clinker. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr Clinton said Brexit and the trading arrangement that followed had thrown a "clinker" into Northern Ireland's politics. Bill Clinton optimistic about Stormont restoration 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions. Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z

With cement, carbon emissions come not just from burning fossil fuels to provide power and heat but also from chemical processes that turn limestone into an ingredient known as clinker. Climate Law a ‘Game Changer’ for Highways and Bridges 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture. Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly double in 20 years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

Its key ingredient, clinker, comes from neighbouring Senegal, from which all but essential goods are blocked. Mali's workers feel the squeeze as sanctions take hold 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

Production of clinker, a key ingredient of cement, is bad for the climate and bad for biodiversity. 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

How it works: Roller mills or ball mills grind the clinker and gypsum into a fine gray powder known as Portland cement. Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z

The ships had overlapping oak planks - a style called Nordic clinker - with tar waterproofing. Norway excavates a Viking longship fit for a king 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

A sturdy pergola supported by clinker brick and boulder columns marks one of the home’s entryways. Vintage SoCal: Pasadena Craftsman set the stage for the Greenes’ style 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

The surfaces are also imbued with materials she scavenges, such as clinker bricks from Craftsman-era homes. Datebook: Jasmine Little etches the history of art into contemporary ceramics 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

And the process of turning limestone into clinker releases huge amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide—both from the energy required to heat it up, and from the carbon dioxide limestone releases in the process. 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

PPC plans to introduce mixed-cement products with lower levels of clinker, a stony residue from burned coal ground into cement, in order to reduce the level of dust emissions from their products. South Africa's PPC bows to environmental regulations 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

It is the process of making "clinker" - the key constituent of cement - that emits the largest amount of CO2 in cement-making. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

Some groups are working on chemical formulas that would reduce the amount of "clinker"—the substance that requires the heating of limestone—that goes into the cement. Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

If chunks of ash — known as clinkers — stick on the bottom, they may need some muscle. As Washington state looks for cleaner power, a Montana coal town faces an uncertain future 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

“There is also old debris from steamships, such as unburned coal and bits of clinker, which looks like melted rock, formed in the boilers.” Scientists scooped up some really weird fish in the deep sea off Australia 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

But there was also a major clinker in the basket and that was the governor’s call for a $100-per-child tax credit for the parents of every child living at home under the age of 18. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

In fact, low-carbon cements and "novel cements" might do away with the need for clinker altogether. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

White, the Princeton engineer, leads the university's Sustainable Cements Group, which is working on ways to eliminate the need for clinker altogether. Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

So will the clinkers - bits of black, tan and rust material. New uses for waste coal in Pennsylvania 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

In the post-Cosby era, however, such lines might hit clinker notes. Why Vanessa Hudgens and the other stars of Fox's 'Grease Live!' won't 'clean up' the show 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

“This is a very interesting geological phenomenon,” Bashara said of clinker beds. EarthCache trail teaches geology of Missouri River 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The result was a solid amalgam of the two materials known as "clinker". Calcium, building block for the world 2014-03-04T00:20:20Z

Others, such as Ceratech, a cement company in Alexandria, Virginia, are seeking solutions in alternatives to conventional clinker. Green cement: Concrete solutions 2013-02-20T18:21:08.470Z

They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z

Then pull forward a second portion of the fire, and spread it on the bars, removing the clinker as before. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

Where coke or ordinary hard coal are used, the removal of clinkers should be done systematically, and the fires stirred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z

Then the Canario let the bar fall clanging, and seized another, while the heat grew more intense when he raked out the ash and glowing clinker from the flaming tunnel. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z

While the door is open, the clinkers which have accumulated above the grate may be removed, as they are much more easily taken off the grate when they are hot. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z

They express themselves in the form of clinkered holes, excessive smoke, and irregularly fired or sulphured ware. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z

If the grate shakes in sections, more cleaning will be required to break up the clinker, while, if the bars do not shake, the cleaning assumes greater importance. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

When I tried for the freshman crew in America, I was put with seven other unfortunates into a huge clinker barge, in charge of the sophomore coxswain. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z

I have, in moments when, I am afraid, I was not quite myself, kicked the furnace with considerable force, but I never could see that it had any effect on the clinker. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z

The accumulation of ashes and clinkers at the bottom of the retort will shift this zone upward and impair the quality of gas. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z

The ship, with 27 crew from Algeria, Ukraine and the Philippines, was heading to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from Salalah with a cargo of clinker. Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Indian sailors from 2011-08-20T12:55:14Z

Before laying the fire the fire bars and ash pan should be cleared of ashes and clinkers, and the grate bars tried with the shaking levers to see that the grates will shake properly. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

The company said it plans to build a cement grinding and clinker production line in Indonesia, its first overseas production base. China Stocks: Anhui Conch, Jiangxi Wannianqing, Shuangma 2011-07-01T02:17:13Z

But, ordinarily, the shaker is the accepted agent for teaching the clinker its place. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z

These clinkers destroy the refractory lining, form rough projections interfering with the downward movement of the fuel, bring about the formation of arches, and reduce the effective area of the retort. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z

A clinker is a mass of incombustible matter fused together, as in the burning of coal ... also a hard brick used for paving. What to call CenturyLink Field? Here are some ideas 2011-06-22T02:30:05Z

In starting up a banked fire, the first thing to do is to clean it of ashes, clinker, etc., shaking up the bars to see that they will work properly. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

The assets include a 1.4 million tonnes a year cement plant, a 1.1 million tonnes a year clinker mill, a steel distribution chain and long steel mills. CSN buys Spain's Gallardo in $1.35 billion deal 2011-05-20T19:59:46Z

This is usually very effective in weakening the morale of the clinker, for it then realizes right at the start that it is pitted against a man who is not to be trifled with. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z

Then open the outlet flue and make sure that the grate of the generator is clear of ashes and clinkers. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z

A whirlwind of tempestuous fire mounted to the heavens and the museum emerged a clinker. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z

A safe method is to clean the fire, leaving the clinker and ashes covering the front half of the grate and the fire piled up on the back half. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

A mixture is made of the excavated soil and powdered fat lime, procured from clinkers and unburnt stone from the lime-kilns, which soon crumbles to fine dust when exposed to the air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z

This consisted of two simple cells, the primary feature of the design being 'the charging of the refuse into the back of the furnace, and drawing out the resulting clinker from the front'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z

The boat was of the clinker pattern, had no air-cushions, and was partly constructed of cork. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z

That used for the Lower Boy sculling is known as a "whiff," an open clinker boat with outriggers. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z

In cleaning a fire, first use the slice bar to loosen up the fire and let the ashes fall through, and also dislodge clinkers from the surface of the bars. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

Now the limestone, along with layers of large pebbles, gravel and a moisture-absorbing volcanic rock known as clinker, comprise the bulk of the playing surface. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z

Some portion may be utilized in crushing and screening the clinker, which is frequently used in making slab-paving, or ground fine and used as a substitute for sand in mortar. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z

No. There was the clinker kiln, where a whole burning of bricks was spoiled. A Double Knot

The club has a good boathouse, with the right class of boats for teaching and coaching, viz. steady, roomy, half-outrigged, clinker fours, with keels, convertible as fixed or sliders. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z

Next use the poker to clean out clinker from between the exposed part of the bars. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z

Daniel playing "tag" with a denful of half-starved lions becomes a historic cipher, and the Hebrew children, sitting on a rosy bed of red-hot clinkers in the fiery furnace, are almost forgotten. Cordwood

The material may be either slabs of grey stone as at Kew, or the more easily obtained “clinkers.” Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them

The material is then in a partially burnt and slightly sintered state, but it is not fully clinkered and would not make Portland cement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"

The boats used are full outrigged clinkers, with sliding seats. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z

But his head was humming like a pressure gauge, and his body was banked with unslaked clinkers, and he made his effort as best he could. Where the Pavement Ends

He examined this "clinker" after it cooled, and it interested him. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place

Mrs Morel is very Northern; she has, with the harshness of her latitude, its fine courage and its ambition; Paul Morel, the hero, is Mr Lawrence himself, the little blue flower on the clinker heap. A Novelist on Novels

The output will be about 30 tons of “clinker” ready to be ground into cement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"

On each projection of the coast, the bank of coral clinkers immediately above the beach has been levelled, and a pillar built, perhaps breast-high. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)

These, her mother explained, were partly good, unburned coal, and partly poor, hard bits, called clinkers. A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl Margaret's Saturday Mornings

The flues of each furnace are provided with dampers, which are closed during the process of clinkering in order to keep up the heat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

I’ve enough to set me up and buy a tidy sloop—Jack Lee’s; you know the boat, Captain; clinker built, not four years old, eighty tons burthen, steers like a child. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV

It is made by granulating blast furnace slag of suitable composition and finely grinding the product, either alone or with an admixture of about 10% of Portland cement clinker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"

Take your clinker hook and level it off. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike

The result is extemporaneous counterpoint, but without the clinkers we associate with jazz. Modus Vivendi

The wide clinkering doors are suspended by counterbalance weights and open vertically. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

Go you to your sloop, clinker built, eighty tons burthen—you see I remember. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV

The high temperature necessary to fuse cement clinker makes this process difficult to accomplish commercially, but it has many inherent merits and may be the process of the future, displacing the rotatory method. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"

It had bits of coal and clinker in the bottom of it. Opportunities

But as it is, gather your cut throats and name the day, and we’ll go scouring the land for heathen souls and yellow clinkers.” The Flute of the Gods

Patent locking fire-bars, to prevent lifting when clinkering, are used in the furnace and have a good life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

The amount of residue in the shape of clinker and fine ash varies from 22 to 37% of the bulk dealt with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter"

Oyster shells put one at a time in a stove that is "clinkered" will clean the bricks entirely. Culture and Cooking Art in the Kitchen

They not only shoveled coal into the flames, they had to spread it out as well and at intervals rake out the "clinkers" in fiery masses on the floor. The Harbor

Dominoes and clinkers are all very well, but they rattle about inside, and disturb the visitors; and with an apple you will the more plainly observe that corkscrew. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

This is, strictly speaking, a huge clinker not unlike what comes out of a grate—hard, glassy in spots, and scraggy all over. The Land of Thor

As far as possible a balance of pressure in the cells during clinkering should be maintained just sufficient to prevent an inrush of cold air through the flues. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter"

It’s just as if the giants of old had made a furnace at the top of the kopje, and had been pouring the red-hot clinkers down the side.” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War

Perim, which has been described as "a gigantic blistered clinker," was reached and passed on October 31st, and from the ship the Prince got his first view of Her Majesty's Indian troops. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V

The partiality of the struthians for eccentric refreshments—clinkers, nut-crackers, and the like—leads many to a superstition that these things are as nourishing as they are attractive. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly

Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War

Stettin cement is a Portland cement made by grinding a clinker which has been "impregnated" with substances which impart waterproofing properties to the ground product. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs

Southerly Buster was a clinker over the distance, holding the Australian record for a mile, a generous horse, always willing to do his best. The Rider in Khaki A Novel

They had opened up the fires, drawn the clinkers from the furnaces, and were now oiling the engine. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi

The stone fuses sufficiently to form a sort of clinker. Diggers in the Earth

All the Deal boats, the lifeboats of course excepted, are clinker built and of yellow colour, the natural elm being only varnished. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands

They, the clinker canoes, are easily tightened when they spring a leak through being rattled over stones in rapids. Woodcraft

You mix clinkers, wampum and spelf in equal quantities and condense the compound by hydraulic pressure. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916

It is said that clinkers fell, in your street, at about ten minutes past four o'clock, afternoon of July fifth. The Book of the Damned

Some of them, unequally expanded, strained and twisted; its grate-bars and fire-box had become choked with “clinkers,” and its tubes charged with coke. The Iron Horse

Up went the bottom of the pot higher still, and out came a little rush of glowing charcoal, and directly after a bit of heavy clinker, and that was all. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore

And I prefer the clinker, because it is the strongest, simplest, most enduring and most easily repaired in case of accident. Woodcraft

The Doctor paid him a certain rent for the right of the boys going down to this place, where a great dam had been built up of clay and clinkers. Burr Junior

But after all, ambiguous things they are, cinders or ashes or slag or clinkers, the high priest of the accursed that must speak aloud for us is—coal that has fallen from the sky. The Book of the Damned

One bright May morning found me busily turning over stones, clinkers, and old tree-roots in a fernery, which, having been long undisturbed, seemed a likely spot for the nest I wished to find. Wild Nature Won By Kindness

These protein ashes and clinkers are further acted upon—split up and sifted—by the liver, and are finally eliminated by the kidneys in the form of urea, uric acid, etc. The Mother and Her Child

I set the General breaking up boxes and had the Bishop rake out the clinkers, and very soon we had the furnace going and the boiler in operation. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

You will think, perhaps, that it was easy enough to get clay, and so it was, for a thick bed lay only a few yards from the stream; but what about the clinkers? Burr Junior

And38 six weeks later he'd carelessly rested a red hot clinker rake on his right foot and had seared off a couple of toes. Torchy As A Pa

Do not allow clinkers to form on side or bridge walls. Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing

Dutch clinkers are small, hard paving bricks burned at a high temperature and of a light yellow colour; they are 6 in. long, 3 in. wide, 1� in. thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

On the other side stretched a piece of waste land, where iron clinkers and slag lay in great heaps, and rubbish of all kinds was deposited. Dick Lionheart

This layer was in places a foot thick and frequently burned to a brick red or even to clinkers. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76

They bound o’er the fearful path of clinkers. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends

Put that together with the lump o' clinkers as flew out o' the fire last week and split in two in the middle of the kitchen, an' there ye 'ave it all writ plain. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches

Thoroughly burnt clay or ballast, old bricks, clinkers and cinders, ground to a uniform size and screened from dust, also make excellent substitutes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"

"Ain't he a little clinker?" said Monkey Brand in hushed voice. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs

In any event, provided the fire is free from clinkers, we have a standard remedy. If You're Going to Live in the Country

Possibly the grates would become clogged up with green coal—an excellent opportunity for forming clinkers. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

And then the peculiar nature of the jagged coral rock, like endless wastes of clinker, almost denuded of earth, would make the task the more arduous. Pieces of Eight

A man can fork Hades up from its bottom-most clinkers only once in so often. Destiny

It has a heavy percentage of human "clinkers," sometimes in the front pews, sometimes in the pulpit. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder

Nothing but vast beds of glistering lava, now rough like immense piles of scoriae and clinker, now smooth like crystal mirrors, and reflecting the Sun's rays with the same intolerable glare. All Around the Moon

A. The rake should be used on the fire very seldom, because raking the fire bed tends to form clinkers, especially when the rake is plunged down through the fire to the grate. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

The time occupied in loading, burning, and drawing a kiln of 30 tons of clinker averages about seven days. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887

A small clinker, thrown into the cloth, weighed its middle down, thereby straining all moisture into a calabash placed below. The Piazza Tales

In that case, they can simply be shoveled out into the extra coal-hod, all pieces of clinker picked out, and a little water sprinkled on them. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes

No fireman has to keep shoveling coal, there are no ashes to be dragged out from under the furnace grates, and there are no clinkers to clog up the bars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892

Q. How is the fire affected by and what causes clinkers? The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

The church, for instance, is built of fragments of clinker, gathered from stove and grate, and held firmly together by cement. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal

Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this day at the head of the clinkered valley. The Piazza Tales

The fire, broiler door, clinker door, and ash-pan door are all in front. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 10, October 1895. French Farmhouses.

He rode with Bijou, and reported to Mr. Heathcote that she was "a clinker at her fences, and went at them as straight as an English girl." Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885

A. A clinker shuts off area of grate surface according to its size, and thereby shutting off that much of the air supply and interfering with proper combustion. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

It ought to be a clinker; it was the best of the lot——" "I d'no did they draw for it yet. Mount Music

P.S.—Behind the clinkers, nigh the oven, you will find the old fowl. The Piazza Tales

The sloop was a pretty craft, clinker built, and about the fastest sailing boat within miles of Cardhaven. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper

I'd have used ashes; old clinkers I guess would be best. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

Carrying the fire too heavy in some places, causes clinkers to form. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

The brick were of several styles and colors, from the classic roman dry-press brick to the rough rock-face clinker which forms the base course of the structure. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

This precious document had been found pinned half-mildewed to the clinker wall of the sulphurous and deserted hut. The Piazza Tales

JIM takes clinker and turns it carefully over in his hand. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura

"Question number three: what is the object of mixing sand or coal ashes or clinkers with clay." The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

A. The grates may have become clogged with ashes or clinkers so that sufficient air could not pass through them to the fire. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

In some places about the approaches to the factory cartloads of clinker and cinders have been dumped, and some of it continues to burn like pyres, throwing off dark flames and darker curtains. Light

A penitential bird, indeed, fitly haunting the shores of the clinkered Encantadas, whereon tormented Job himself might have well sat down and scraped himself with potsherds. The Piazza Tales

Sometimes the clinkers accumulate and stop the draft, both in the human as well as the iron stove. Dorian

Then put in six inches of stone or clinker. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

A. For the purpose of breaking any clinkers that might form and to shake out all refuse from the grates. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

The coal had been used by a trapper there, and is a good burner and heater, leaving little ash or clinker. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899

Brooding among the ruins of his hut, and the desolate clinkers and extinct volcanoes of this outcast isle, the insulted misanthrope now meditates a signal revenge upon humanity, but conceals his purposes. The Piazza Tales

The unreserve of Ill was there, The clinkers in her last retreat; But, ere the eye could take it in, Or mind could comprehension win, It sunk!—and at our feet. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

On the other hand, Christina was undoubtedly a 'clinker' in her way, and Willie could do with more hospitality like hers. Wee Macgreegor Enlists

The labor connected with the feeding of furnaces with coke and cleaning fires from clinker is of a very arduous and heavy nature. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887

Besides this, the patent fuel does not clinker the tube ends—a matter of vital importance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887

He strained his ears for sounds of the living world—the spit of the fire, the fall of clinkers in the grate, the whisper of the wind stirring at the door. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

There are also small bricks called clinkers, chiefly used for stable paving. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

There may be some clinkers Now "creeping" to light, Tremendous deep thinkers Or high in their flight; There may be diffusers Of air that is hot; There may be a Bergson, Again there may not. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917

The red-hot rage of the afternoon and the white-hot rage of the evening had choked the furnace of brain and soul with clinkers so that he was thinking unevenly and disconnectedly. Cheerful—By Request

When you find that you have this kind of coal you will want to look after these clinkers. Rough and Tumble Engineering

It is a wonderfully sporting one; and last season these hounds never had a bad Saturday, and often a 'clinker' resulted. A Cotswold Village

Dutch clinkers, formerly imported largely from Holland, were small, rough bricks, laid on edge, and affording a good foothold for the horse. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

The nursery was dingy, because it was a basement room, and its windows looked out on a stone area with a rockery made of clinkers facing the windows. The Phoenix and the Carpet

Thus the quantity of good clinker obtainable was unfavorably affected. Edison, His Life and Inventions

Electricity or the sun's own rays, concentrated for heating purposes, will do the work without any digging in mines by men, or delving in ashes and clinkers by women. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers

Perhaps there will not be more than half a dozen "clinkers" in a season with a "two-day-a-week" pack. A Cotswold Village

Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887

Go you to your sloop, clinker built, eighty tons burthen - you see I remember, Skipper Kit! Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson

When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been "burned," and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Edison, His Life and Inventions

This lava bed resembled a tremendously magnified clinker. Desert Gold

Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end. The War of the Worlds

Outside, underneath their window, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps crushing into the clinkers by the side of the ties. The Octopus : A story of California

I've enough to set me up and buy a tidy sloop - Jack Lee's; you know the boat, Captain; clinker built, not four years old, eighty tons burthen, steers like a child. Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson

After cooling, the clinker is ground into very fine powder, which is the Portland cement of commerce. Edison, His Life and Inventions

They generally form during the burning of an extremely hot fire, but the usual temperature of a kitchen fire does not produce clinkers unless the coal is of a very poor quality. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads

Brigadier who had private instructions to knock clinkers out of 'em. Traffics and Discoveries

The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur. The Octopus : A story of California

Go ahead, you old clinker built villain," said he, "and show the gentleman how wonderful handSUM you can travel. The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

This combustion effects a chemical decomposition of the chalk, and causes it to assume a plastic consistency and to collect together in the form of small spherical balls, which are known as "clinker." Edison, His Life and Inventions

Mixed with poor coal are certain unburnable materials that melt and stick together as it burns and form what are known as clinkers. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads

Dempster, however, was not yet a clinker out of which all the life was burned, however much he looked like one. Stephen Archer and Other Tales

By means of these openings any clinker that may form and the ashes of the spent fuel can readily be withdrawn. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883

A supply of water is necessary, a good deal being required for cooling the clinkers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882

It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Edison, His Life and Inventions

Twice it climbed stealthily up the broken bricks and gas clinkers. The Far Horizon

It does exactly the same for a human being, burns him out and fills him with clinkers. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency

And there's no doubt she's a clinker; quiet, you know, and steady; looks right at you, far in; sees the lot at a glance. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution

Between the destructor and the chimney a multitubular boiler is placed, which makes steam enough for grinding into sand the clinkers which are the solid residue of the burnt refuse. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882

This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in "clinker." Edison, His Life and Inventions

But the pillar broke and the basin toppled over, pinning it, across the loins, down on to the clinkers under the edge of the stone lip. The Far Horizon

Lucretius & Peocalus, Dealers in choice family flour, cut feed and oatmeal with or without clinkers in it. Remarks

The clinkers and ashes left after the combustion of the coal, are precipitated into the ash-pit, where the chain turns down over the roller at the extremity of the furnace. A Catechism of the Steam Engine

A six-celled destructor kiln burns about 42 tons of refuse in twenty-four hours, leaving about one-fourth of its bulk of clinkers and ashes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882

The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application. Edison, His Life and Inventions

I should cut a fine figure, metaphorically, if not arithmetically speaking; whereas my farthing rush-light is now sputtering, clinkering, and guttering to waste, and all because I have not a pair of silver snuffers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859

And it came to pass when his time was up And hell's gates were opened wide That all hell rang, and the clinkered imps sang When the Devil passed Outside. Rhymes of a Roughneck

Oh, just for a ride; been trying the new horse: he's a clinker! At Love's Cost

The clinkered hills, quivering in the west, sank gradually into the heated blur above the plains. Dragon's blood

These coarse particles, or clinkers, absorb water very slowly, are practically inert, and have very feeble cementing properties. Edison, His Life and Inventions

Stars, forsooth!—and, pray, what paltry sun, what irresponsible comet, what pallid, clinkered satellite, might boast a purple splendor such as this? The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations

This area of tufa cones, dark and grey basalt, clinkers, scoriæ, fine ash, and ferruginous basalt, is something gigantic. The Hawaiian Archipelago

And Susan attacked the little kitchen stove with a vigor that would have brought terror to the clinkers of a furnace fire pot. Dawn

Go ahead, you old clinker built villain, said he, and show the gentleman how wonderful handSUM you can travel. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Edison, His Life and Inventions

A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly privileged from arrests; and inhabited by lawless vagabonds of every denomination, called, from the place of their residence, clinkers. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

It rose clear to the ceiling and threw off sparks and red clinkers. Europe Revised

The large, open fireplace is built of clinker brick, and its facings extend from the floor to the ceiling; it has a wooden shelf supported on corbeled brackets. Three Acres and Liberty

Outside the car window, slipping steadily by, were smoke-stained brick factories, and little canals and backwaters soiled with oil and soot, and heaps of slag and scrap iron and clinkers. Martie, the Unconquered

These kilns were usually made of boiler iron, riveted, and were about sixty feet long and six feet in diameter, and had a capacity of about two hundred barrels of cement clinker in twenty-four hours. Edison, His Life and Inventions

This layer was often a foot thick, and frequently burned to a brick-red or even to clinkers. The Problem of the Ohio Mounds

The garden walk was strewn with loose clinkers from the neighbouring foundry, which rolled under the pedestrian's foot and jolted his soul out of him before he reached the porchless door. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day

I could hear him swearing approval and admiration, saying to himself— 'Ain't he a clinker! Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks

This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker. She

The living pulses died on Joshua’s face, which grew arid as a clinker. Life's Little Ironies

For an hour the place was silent, except for the falling clinkers from the grate, the rustling of book-leaves, and the plumping of rain on the windows, when the wind shifted a point. Greyfriars Bobby

Berry goes gallantly in, and delivers a clinker on the gown-boy's jaw. Men's Wives

Coketown was nothing more than a ragged hillside dotted with a score of black dismal huts propped up against dreary mounds of slag and clinkers. Options

Lavas present a general resemblance to the slags and clinkers which are formed in our furnaces and brick-kilns, and consist, like them, of various stony substances which have been more or less perfectly fused. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire

Bless my flues and clinkers!" cried Mr. Damon, "you are not losing hope, Tom Swift? Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails

He was a cinder, a bit of a clinker of a man, a little animated clinker, not yet quite cold, that moved stiffly and by starts and jerks like an automaton. South Sea Tales

By George! how fond I am of a good horse—a real well-bred clinker. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields

She was in the sharpest contrast with the industrial world about her; she impressed me as a dainty blue flower might do, come upon suddenly on a clinker heap. The New Machiavelli

单词	clinker
例句	clinker “No, nothing's ever lost. We have ways to shake down your clinkers for you.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The clinker gives a short, martial note; the green slate a pure, clear, soft sound. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z Have been an admirer of his work since Stop Making Sense....only clinker for me? Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The pencils are super-appealing — not a clinker in the set — and doggedly tenacious: they stay put till prodded. \| Pencil This In 2011-03-02T20:30:43Z "As a result, we have keys made out of Hornfels clinker," says Mitchell. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z But the mere naming of a colour can fall like a piece of clinker in a sentence – it is only a signifier and cannot evoke sensuous beauty. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z Gornall, a romantic, chooses the classic, ancient clinker design, about which the reader learns far more than we do about his wife and children. Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Another is that his voluminous output includes some clinkers and throwaways. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Though beloved by many die-hard fans, it's full of verbal clinkers and is repetitive in the extreme, melodically and lyrically. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z Despite the refinement and élan in his playing, his recording of Chopin’s 24 études from the early 1930s is, by today’s standards, littered with clinkers. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z A few clinkers aside, most of the performances were more than competent, if somewhat studied. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z At Lava Beds National Monument, the floors come in three textures: ropy, cauliflower and clinker. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Mr Clinton said Brexit and the trading arrangement that followed had thrown a "clinker" into Northern Ireland's politics. Bill Clinton optimistic about Stormont restoration 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions. Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z With cement, carbon emissions come not just from burning fossil fuels to provide power and heat but also from chemical processes that turn limestone into an ingredient known as clinker. Climate Law a ‘Game Changer’ for Highways and Bridges 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture. Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly double in 20 years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Its key ingredient, clinker, comes from neighbouring Senegal, from which all but essential goods are blocked. Mali's workers feel the squeeze as sanctions take hold 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Production of clinker, a key ingredient of cement, is bad for the climate and bad for biodiversity. 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z How it works: Roller mills or ball mills grind the clinker and gypsum into a fine gray powder known as Portland cement. Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The ships had overlapping oak planks - a style called Nordic clinker - with tar waterproofing. Norway excavates a Viking longship fit for a king 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z A sturdy pergola supported by clinker brick and boulder columns marks one of the home’s entryways. Vintage SoCal: Pasadena Craftsman set the stage for the Greenes’ style 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The surfaces are also imbued with materials she scavenges, such as clinker bricks from Craftsman-era homes. Datebook: Jasmine Little etches the history of art into contemporary ceramics 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z And the process of turning limestone into clinker releases huge amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide—both from the energy required to heat it up, and from the carbon dioxide limestone releases in the process. 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z PPC plans to introduce mixed-cement products with lower levels of clinker, a stony residue from burned coal ground into cement, in order to reduce the level of dust emissions from their products. South Africa's PPC bows to environmental regulations 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z It is the process of making "clinker" - the key constituent of cement - that emits the largest amount of CO2 in cement-making. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Some groups are working on chemical formulas that would reduce the amount of "clinker"—the substance that requires the heating of limestone—that goes into the cement. Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z If chunks of ash — known as clinkers — stick on the bottom, they may need some muscle. As Washington state looks for cleaner power, a Montana coal town faces an uncertain future 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z “There is also old debris from steamships, such as unburned coal and bits of clinker, which looks like melted rock, formed in the boilers.” Scientists scooped up some really weird fish in the deep sea off Australia 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But there was also a major clinker in the basket and that was the governor’s call for a $100-per-child tax credit for the parents of every child living at home under the age of 18. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z In fact, low-carbon cements and "novel cements" might do away with the need for clinker altogether. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z White, the Princeton engineer, leads the university's Sustainable Cements Group, which is working on ways to eliminate the need for clinker altogether. Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z So will the clinkers - bits of black, tan and rust material. New uses for waste coal in Pennsylvania 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z In the post-Cosby era, however, such lines might hit clinker notes. Why Vanessa Hudgens and the other stars of Fox's 'Grease Live!' won't 'clean up' the show 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “This is a very interesting geological phenomenon,” Bashara said of clinker beds. EarthCache trail teaches geology of Missouri River 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z The result was a solid amalgam of the two materials known as "clinker". Calcium, building block for the world 2014-03-04T00:20:20Z Others, such as Ceratech, a cement company in Alexandria, Virginia, are seeking solutions in alternatives to conventional clinker. Green cement: Concrete solutions 2013-02-20T18:21:08.470Z They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z Then pull forward a second portion of the fire, and spread it on the bars, removing the clinker as before. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Where coke or ordinary hard coal are used, the removal of clinkers should be done systematically, and the fires stirred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Then the Canario let the bar fall clanging, and seized another, while the heat grew more intense when he raked out the ash and glowing clinker from the flaming tunnel. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z While the door is open, the clinkers which have accumulated above the grate may be removed, as they are much more easily taken off the grate when they are hot. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z They express themselves in the form of clinkered holes, excessive smoke, and irregularly fired or sulphured ware. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z If the grate shakes in sections, more cleaning will be required to break up the clinker, while, if the bars do not shake, the cleaning assumes greater importance. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z When I tried for the freshman crew in America, I was put with seven other unfortunates into a huge clinker barge, in charge of the sophomore coxswain. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z I have, in moments when, I am afraid, I was not quite myself, kicked the furnace with considerable force, but I never could see that it had any effect on the clinker. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z The accumulation of ashes and clinkers at the bottom of the retort will shift this zone upward and impair the quality of gas. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z The ship, with 27 crew from Algeria, Ukraine and the Philippines, was heading to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from Salalah with a cargo of clinker. Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Indian sailors from 2011-08-20T12:55:14Z Before laying the fire the fire bars and ash pan should be cleared of ashes and clinkers, and the grate bars tried with the shaking levers to see that the grates will shake properly. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The company said it plans to build a cement grinding and clinker production line in Indonesia, its first overseas production base. China Stocks: Anhui Conch, Jiangxi Wannianqing, Shuangma 2011-07-01T02:17:13Z But, ordinarily, the shaker is the accepted agent for teaching the clinker its place. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z These clinkers destroy the refractory lining, form rough projections interfering with the downward movement of the fuel, bring about the formation of arches, and reduce the effective area of the retort. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z A clinker is a mass of incombustible matter fused together, as in the burning of coal ... also a hard brick used for paving. What to call CenturyLink Field? Here are some ideas 2011-06-22T02:30:05Z In starting up a banked fire, the first thing to do is to clean it of ashes, clinker, etc., shaking up the bars to see that they will work properly. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The assets include a 1.4 million tonnes a year cement plant, a 1.1 million tonnes a year clinker mill, a steel distribution chain and long steel mills. CSN buys Spain's Gallardo in $1.35 billion deal 2011-05-20T19:59:46Z This is usually very effective in weakening the morale of the clinker, for it then realizes right at the start that it is pitted against a man who is not to be trifled with. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z Then open the outlet flue and make sure that the grate of the generator is clear of ashes and clinkers. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z A whirlwind of tempestuous fire mounted to the heavens and the museum emerged a clinker. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z A safe method is to clean the fire, leaving the clinker and ashes covering the front half of the grate and the fire piled up on the back half. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z A mixture is made of the excavated soil and powdered fat lime, procured from clinkers and unburnt stone from the lime-kilns, which soon crumbles to fine dust when exposed to the air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z This consisted of two simple cells, the primary feature of the design being 'the charging of the refuse into the back of the furnace, and drawing out the resulting clinker from the front'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The boat was of the clinker pattern, had no air-cushions, and was partly constructed of cork. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z That used for the Lower Boy sculling is known as a "whiff," an open clinker boat with outriggers. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z In cleaning a fire, first use the slice bar to loosen up the fire and let the ashes fall through, and also dislodge clinkers from the surface of the bars. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Now the limestone, along with layers of large pebbles, gravel and a moisture-absorbing volcanic rock known as clinker, comprise the bulk of the playing surface. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z Some portion may be utilized in crushing and screening the clinker, which is frequently used in making slab-paving, or ground fine and used as a substitute for sand in mortar. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z No. There was the clinker kiln, where a whole burning of bricks was spoiled. A Double Knot The club has a good boathouse, with the right class of boats for teaching and coaching, viz. steady, roomy, half-outrigged, clinker fours, with keels, convertible as fixed or sliders. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z Next use the poker to clean out clinker from between the exposed part of the bars. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Daniel playing "tag" with a denful of half-starved lions becomes a historic cipher, and the Hebrew children, sitting on a rosy bed of red-hot clinkers in the fiery furnace, are almost forgotten. Cordwood The material may be either slabs of grey stone as at Kew, or the more easily obtained “clinkers.” Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them The material is then in a partially burnt and slightly sintered state, but it is not fully clinkered and would not make Portland cement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The boats used are full outrigged clinkers, with sliding seats. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z But his head was humming like a pressure gauge, and his body was banked with unslaked clinkers, and he made his effort as best he could. Where the Pavement Ends He examined this "clinker" after it cooled, and it interested him. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Mrs Morel is very Northern; she has, with the harshness of her latitude, its fine courage and its ambition; Paul Morel, the hero, is Mr Lawrence himself, the little blue flower on the clinker heap. A Novelist on Novels The output will be about 30 tons of “clinker” ready to be ground into cement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" On each projection of the coast, the bank of coral clinkers immediately above the beach has been levelled, and a pillar built, perhaps breast-high. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) These, her mother explained, were partly good, unburned coal, and partly poor, hard bits, called clinkers. A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl Margaret's Saturday Mornings The flues of each furnace are provided with dampers, which are closed during the process of clinkering in order to keep up the heat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" I’ve enough to set me up and buy a tidy sloop—Jack Lee’s; you know the boat, Captain; clinker built, not four years old, eighty tons burthen, steers like a child. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV It is made by granulating blast furnace slag of suitable composition and finely grinding the product, either alone or with an admixture of about 10% of Portland cement clinker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Take your clinker hook and level it off. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike The result is extemporaneous counterpoint, but without the clinkers we associate with jazz. Modus Vivendi The wide clinkering doors are suspended by counterbalance weights and open vertically. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" Go you to your sloop, clinker built, eighty tons burthen—you see I remember. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV The high temperature necessary to fuse cement clinker makes this process difficult to accomplish commercially, but it has many inherent merits and may be the process of the future, displacing the rotatory method. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" It had bits of coal and clinker in the bottom of it. Opportunities But as it is, gather your cut throats and name the day, and we’ll go scouring the land for heathen souls and yellow clinkers.” The Flute of the Gods Patent locking fire-bars, to prevent lifting when clinkering, are used in the furnace and have a good life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The amount of residue in the shape of clinker and fine ash varies from 22 to 37% of the bulk dealt with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Oyster shells put one at a time in a stove that is "clinkered" will clean the bricks entirely. Culture and Cooking Art in the Kitchen They not only shoveled coal into the flames, they had to spread it out as well and at intervals rake out the "clinkers" in fiery masses on the floor. The Harbor Dominoes and clinkers are all very well, but they rattle about inside, and disturb the visitors; and with an apple you will the more plainly observe that corkscrew. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly This is, strictly speaking, a huge clinker not unlike what comes out of a grate—hard, glassy in spots, and scraggy all over. The Land of Thor As far as possible a balance of pressure in the cells during clinkering should be maintained just sufficient to prevent an inrush of cold air through the flues. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" It’s just as if the giants of old had made a furnace at the top of the kopje, and had been pouring the red-hot clinkers down the side.” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War Perim, which has been described as "a gigantic blistered clinker," was reached and passed on October 31st, and from the ship the Prince got his first view of Her Majesty's Indian troops. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V The partiality of the struthians for eccentric refreshments—clinkers, nut-crackers, and the like—leads many to a superstition that these things are as nourishing as they are attractive. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War Stettin cement is a Portland cement made by grinding a clinker which has been "impregnated" with substances which impart waterproofing properties to the ground product. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Southerly Buster was a clinker over the distance, holding the Australian record for a mile, a generous horse, always willing to do his best. The Rider in Khaki A Novel They had opened up the fires, drawn the clinkers from the furnaces, and were now oiling the engine. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi The stone fuses sufficiently to form a sort of clinker. Diggers in the Earth All the Deal boats, the lifeboats of course excepted, are clinker built and of yellow colour, the natural elm being only varnished. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands They, the clinker canoes, are easily tightened when they spring a leak through being rattled over stones in rapids. Woodcraft You mix clinkers, wampum and spelf in equal quantities and condense the compound by hydraulic pressure. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 It is said that clinkers fell, in your street, at about ten minutes past four o'clock, afternoon of July fifth. The Book of the Damned Some of them, unequally expanded, strained and twisted; its grate-bars and fire-box had become choked with “clinkers,” and its tubes charged with coke. The Iron Horse Up went the bottom of the pot higher still, and out came a little rush of glowing charcoal, and directly after a bit of heavy clinker, and that was all. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore And I prefer the clinker, because it is the strongest, simplest, most enduring and most easily repaired in case of accident. Woodcraft The Doctor paid him a certain rent for the right of the boys going down to this place, where a great dam had been built up of clay and clinkers. Burr Junior But after all, ambiguous things they are, cinders or ashes or slag or clinkers, the high priest of the accursed that must speak aloud for us is—coal that has fallen from the sky. The Book of the Damned One bright May morning found me busily turning over stones, clinkers, and old tree-roots in a fernery, which, having been long undisturbed, seemed a likely spot for the nest I wished to find. Wild Nature Won By Kindness These protein ashes and clinkers are further acted upon—split up and sifted—by the liver, and are finally eliminated by the kidneys in the form of urea, uric acid, etc. The Mother and Her Child I set the General breaking up boxes and had the Bishop rake out the clinkers, and very soon we had the furnace going and the boiler in operation. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels You will think, perhaps, that it was easy enough to get clay, and so it was, for a thick bed lay only a few yards from the stream; but what about the clinkers? Burr Junior And38 six weeks later he'd carelessly rested a red hot clinker rake on his right foot and had seared off a couple of toes. Torchy As A Pa Do not allow clinkers to form on side or bridge walls. Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing Dutch clinkers are small, hard paving bricks burned at a high temperature and of a light yellow colour; they are 6 in. long, 3 in. wide, 1� in. thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" On the other side stretched a piece of waste land, where iron clinkers and slag lay in great heaps, and rubbish of all kinds was deposited. Dick Lionheart This layer was in places a foot thick and frequently burned to a brick red or even to clinkers. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 They bound o’er the fearful path of clinkers. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends Put that together with the lump o' clinkers as flew out o' the fire last week and split in two in the middle of the kitchen, an' there ye 'ave it all writ plain. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Thoroughly burnt clay or ballast, old bricks, clinkers and cinders, ground to a uniform size and screened from dust, also make excellent substitutes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" "Ain't he a little clinker?" said Monkey Brand in hushed voice. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs In any event, provided the fire is free from clinkers, we have a standard remedy. If You're Going to Live in the Country Possibly the grates would become clogged up with green coal—an excellent opportunity for forming clinkers. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads And then the peculiar nature of the jagged coral rock, like endless wastes of clinker, almost denuded of earth, would make the task the more arduous. Pieces of Eight A man can fork Hades up from its bottom-most clinkers only once in so often. Destiny It has a heavy percentage of human "clinkers," sometimes in the front pews, sometimes in the pulpit. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder Nothing but vast beds of glistering lava, now rough like immense piles of scoriae and clinker, now smooth like crystal mirrors, and reflecting the Sun's rays with the same intolerable glare. All Around the Moon A. The rake should be used on the fire very seldom, because raking the fire bed tends to form clinkers, especially when the rake is plunged down through the fire to the grate. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads The time occupied in loading, burning, and drawing a kiln of 30 tons of clinker averages about seven days. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 A small clinker, thrown into the cloth, weighed its middle down, thereby straining all moisture into a calabash placed below. The Piazza Tales In that case, they can simply be shoveled out into the extra coal-hod, all pieces of clinker picked out, and a little water sprinkled on them. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes No fireman has to keep shoveling coal, there are no ashes to be dragged out from under the furnace grates, and there are no clinkers to clog up the bars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Q. How is the fire affected by and what causes clinkers? The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads The church, for instance, is built of fragments of clinker, gathered from stove and grate, and held firmly together by cement. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this day at the head of the clinkered valley. The Piazza Tales The fire, broiler door, clinker door, and ash-pan door are all in front. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 10, October 1895. French Farmhouses. He rode with Bijou, and reported to Mr. Heathcote that she was "a clinker at her fences, and went at them as straight as an English girl." Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 A. A clinker shuts off area of grate surface according to its size, and thereby shutting off that much of the air supply and interfering with proper combustion. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads It ought to be a clinker; it was the best of the lot——" "I d'no did they draw for it yet. Mount Music P.S.—Behind the clinkers, nigh the oven, you will find the old fowl. The Piazza Tales The sloop was a pretty craft, clinker built, and about the fastest sailing boat within miles of Cardhaven. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper I'd have used ashes; old clinkers I guess would be best. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Carrying the fire too heavy in some places, causes clinkers to form. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads The brick were of several styles and colors, from the classic roman dry-press brick to the rough rock-face clinker which forms the base course of the structure. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission This precious document had been found pinned half-mildewed to the clinker wall of the sulphurous and deserted hut. The Piazza Tales JIM takes clinker and turns it carefully over in his hand. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura "Question number three: what is the object of mixing sand or coal ashes or clinkers with clay." The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. A. The grates may have become clogged with ashes or clinkers so that sufficient air could not pass through them to the fire. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads In some places about the approaches to the factory cartloads of clinker and cinders have been dumped, and some of it continues to burn like pyres, throwing off dark flames and darker curtains. Light A penitential bird, indeed, fitly haunting the shores of the clinkered Encantadas, whereon tormented Job himself might have well sat down and scraped himself with potsherds. The Piazza Tales Sometimes the clinkers accumulate and stop the draft, both in the human as well as the iron stove. Dorian Then put in six inches of stone or clinker. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. A. For the purpose of breaking any clinkers that might form and to shake out all refuse from the grates. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads The coal had been used by a trapper there, and is a good burner and heater, leaving little ash or clinker. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 Brooding among the ruins of his hut, and the desolate clinkers and extinct volcanoes of this outcast isle, the insulted misanthrope now meditates a signal revenge upon humanity, but conceals his purposes. The Piazza Tales The unreserve of Ill was there, The clinkers in her last retreat; But, ere the eye could take it in, Or mind could comprehension win, It sunk!—and at our feet. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War On the other hand, Christina was undoubtedly a 'clinker' in her way, and Willie could do with more hospitality like hers. Wee Macgreegor Enlists The labor connected with the feeding of furnaces with coke and cleaning fires from clinker is of a very arduous and heavy nature. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 Besides this, the patent fuel does not clinker the tube ends—a matter of vital importance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 He strained his ears for sounds of the living world—the spit of the fire, the fall of clinkers in the grate, the whisper of the wind stirring at the door. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 There are also small bricks called clinkers, chiefly used for stable paving. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 There may be some clinkers Now "creeping" to light, Tremendous deep thinkers Or high in their flight; There may be diffusers Of air that is hot; There may be a Bergson, Again there may not. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 The red-hot rage of the afternoon and the white-hot rage of the evening had choked the furnace of brain and soul with clinkers so that he was thinking unevenly and disconnectedly. Cheerful—By Request When you find that you have this kind of coal you will want to look after these clinkers. Rough and Tumble Engineering It is a wonderfully sporting one; and last season these hounds never had a bad Saturday, and often a 'clinker' resulted. A Cotswold Village Dutch clinkers, formerly imported largely from Holland, were small, rough bricks, laid on edge, and affording a good foothold for the horse. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 The nursery was dingy, because it was a basement room, and its windows looked out on a stone area with a rockery made of clinkers facing the windows. The Phoenix and the Carpet Thus the quantity of good clinker obtainable was unfavorably affected. Edison, His Life and Inventions Electricity or the sun's own rays, concentrated for heating purposes, will do the work without any digging in mines by men, or delving in ashes and clinkers by women. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers Perhaps there will not be more than half a dozen "clinkers" in a season with a "two-day-a-week" pack. A Cotswold Village Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 Go you to your sloop, clinker built, eighty tons burthen - you see I remember, Skipper Kit! Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been "burned," and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Edison, His Life and Inventions This lava bed resembled a tremendously magnified clinker. Desert Gold Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end. The War of the Worlds Outside, underneath their window, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps crushing into the clinkers by the side of the ties. The Octopus : A story of California I've enough to set me up and buy a tidy sloop - Jack Lee's; you know the boat, Captain; clinker built, not four years old, eighty tons burthen, steers like a child. Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson After cooling, the clinker is ground into very fine powder, which is the Portland cement of commerce. Edison, His Life and Inventions They generally form during the burning of an extremely hot fire, but the usual temperature of a kitchen fire does not produce clinkers unless the coal is of a very poor quality. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads Brigadier who had private instructions to knock clinkers out of 'em. Traffics and Discoveries The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur. The Octopus : A story of California Go ahead, you old clinker built villain," said he, "and show the gentleman how wonderful handSUM you can travel. The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville This combustion effects a chemical decomposition of the chalk, and causes it to assume a plastic consistency and to collect together in the form of small spherical balls, which are known as "clinker." Edison, His Life and Inventions Mixed with poor coal are certain unburnable materials that melt and stick together as it burns and form what are known as clinkers. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads Dempster, however, was not yet a clinker out of which all the life was burned, however much he looked like one. Stephen Archer and Other Tales By means of these openings any clinker that may form and the ashes of the spent fuel can readily be withdrawn. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 A supply of water is necessary, a good deal being required for cooling the clinkers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Edison, His Life and Inventions Twice it climbed stealthily up the broken bricks and gas clinkers. The Far Horizon It does exactly the same for a human being, burns him out and fills him with clinkers. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency And there's no doubt she's a clinker; quiet, you know, and steady; looks right at you, far in; sees the lot at a glance. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Between the destructor and the chimney a multitubular boiler is placed, which makes steam enough for grinding into sand the clinkers which are the solid residue of the burnt refuse. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in "clinker." Edison, His Life and Inventions But the pillar broke and the basin toppled over, pinning it, across the loins, down on to the clinkers under the edge of the stone lip. The Far Horizon Lucretius & Peocalus, Dealers in choice family flour, cut feed and oatmeal with or without clinkers in it. Remarks The clinkers and ashes left after the combustion of the coal, are precipitated into the ash-pit, where the chain turns down over the roller at the extremity of the furnace. A Catechism of the Steam Engine A six-celled destructor kiln burns about 42 tons of refuse in twenty-four hours, leaving about one-fourth of its bulk of clinkers and ashes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application. Edison, His Life and Inventions I should cut a fine figure, metaphorically, if not arithmetically speaking; whereas my farthing rush-light is now sputtering, clinkering, and guttering to waste, and all because I have not a pair of silver snuffers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 And it came to pass when his time was up And hell's gates were opened wide That all hell rang, and the clinkered imps sang When the Devil passed Outside. Rhymes of a Roughneck Oh, just for a ride; been trying the new horse: he's a clinker! At Love's Cost The clinkered hills, quivering in the west, sank gradually into the heated blur above the plains. Dragon's blood These coarse particles, or clinkers, absorb water very slowly, are practically inert, and have very feeble cementing properties. Edison, His Life and Inventions Stars, forsooth!—and, pray, what paltry sun, what irresponsible comet, what pallid, clinkered satellite, might boast a purple splendor such as this? The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations This area of tufa cones, dark and grey basalt, clinkers, scoriæ, fine ash, and ferruginous basalt, is something gigantic. The Hawaiian Archipelago And Susan attacked the little kitchen stove with a vigor that would have brought terror to the clinkers of a furnace fire pot. Dawn Go ahead, you old clinker built villain, said he, and show the gentleman how wonderful handSUM you can travel. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Edison, His Life and Inventions A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly privileged from arrests; and inhabited by lawless vagabonds of every denomination, called, from the place of their residence, clinkers. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue It rose clear to the ceiling and threw off sparks and red clinkers. Europe Revised The large, open fireplace is built of clinker brick, and its facings extend from the floor to the ceiling; it has a wooden shelf supported on corbeled brackets. Three Acres and Liberty Outside the car window, slipping steadily by, were smoke-stained brick factories, and little canals and backwaters soiled with oil and soot, and heaps of slag and scrap iron and clinkers. Martie, the Unconquered These kilns were usually made of boiler iron, riveted, and were about sixty feet long and six feet in diameter, and had a capacity of about two hundred barrels of cement clinker in twenty-four hours. Edison, His Life and Inventions This layer was often a foot thick, and frequently burned to a brick-red or even to clinkers. The Problem of the Ohio Mounds The garden walk was strewn with loose clinkers from the neighbouring foundry, which rolled under the pedestrian's foot and jolted his soul out of him before he reached the porchless door. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day I could hear him swearing approval and admiration, saying to himself— 'Ain't he a clinker! Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker. She The living pulses died on Joshua’s face, which grew arid as a clinker. Life's Little Ironies For an hour the place was silent, except for the falling clinkers from the grate, the rustling of book-leaves, and the plumping of rain on the windows, when the wind shifted a point. Greyfriars Bobby Berry goes gallantly in, and delivers a clinker on the gown-boy's jaw. Men's Wives Coketown was nothing more than a ragged hillside dotted with a score of black dismal huts propped up against dreary mounds of slag and clinkers. Options Lavas present a general resemblance to the slags and clinkers which are formed in our furnaces and brick-kilns, and consist, like them, of various stony substances which have been more or less perfectly fused. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Bless my flues and clinkers!" cried Mr. Damon, "you are not losing hope, Tom Swift? Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails He was a cinder, a bit of a clinker of a man, a little animated clinker, not yet quite cold, that moved stiffly and by starts and jerks like an automaton. South Sea Tales By George! how fond I am of a good horse—a real well-bred clinker. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields She was in the sharpest contrast with the industrial world about her; she impressed me as a dainty blue flower might do, come upon suddenly on a clinker heap. The New Machiavelli
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