| 单词 | limekiln |
| 例句 | I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn’t have come to life again. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Nearby hiking trails to the limekilns and a waterfall. In California, these minivans-turned-RVs take car camping to the next level 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z As the water heated up, I padded over to a bridge and hiking trail that led to two limekilns that operated in the 1800s. In California, these minivans-turned-RVs take car camping to the next level 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z He bought the parcel, on which he found a well-preserved old limekiln. Josh Jensen, California Pinot Noir Pioneer, Is Dead at 78 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z He stepped back and watched as the monks wandered from the boiler houses to the limekiln to the pulp mill, chanting, burning candles and gently tapping a gong. A Maine Paper Mill’s Unexpected Savior: China 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The 228-acre property straddles the river, with a manufacturing complex on the Maryland riverbank and a limekiln and a million-gallon storage tank on the West Virginia side. Maryland environmental officials investigate leak in Upper Potomac River near shuttered paper mill 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z They passed the narrow gorge where the mouth of the quarries lay and where the limekilns cast a weird gloom upon the night. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z We were here on a calcareous soil, and many limekilns were burning in the neighbourhood. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z The foundation of the island is in many places almost pure carbonate of lime, and there are numerous small limekilns. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z The recovery boiler, the limekiln, boiler No. 5, boiler No. 6, the digester room. A Maine Paper Mill’s Unexpected Savior: China 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z "Then that is done," he replied, "and now, signore, have you anything to drink--my throat is like a limekiln?" The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z The more headlong rush and louder roar of the river mark the place where the former stood; and some limekilns contribute the smoke of the latter without its noise. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z I rushed into the arch of a neighbouring limekiln, and once in, was kept there two hours by the roaring storm. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z I am going to see Inchegora after breakfast; a very important mission, touching a limekiln in dispute there. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z I knew there were many old disused quarries, and limekilns, about. Fast as the Wind A Novel 2011-03-22T02:00:19.407Z Ah, yes! my throat’s like a limekiln;” and, following Lord Henry into the dining-room, the butler placed fresh glasses, and the financier gulped down a couple as quickly as he could. A Double Knot The house stood almost at the edge of a disused chalk quarry; far below stretched a flat plain, dotted here and there with limekilns and smoky, tall chimneys. Man and Maid Then the slope, with its gardens, elders, and flowers, merges into a craggy cliff, near which an old limekiln comes in with remarkably picturesque effect. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z I ache as if I had been beaten to a jelly, and I am as thirsty as a—as a limekiln. Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War I was awfully baked, my throat is like a limekiln yet. Tom Brown at Oxford Our bones ached, our throats were limekilns, composts of sores were our ragged feet. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 I’m as dry as a limekiln inside; my tongue’s beginnin’ to rattle again’ my teeth, an’—” “The more reason why you should keep it quiet, Chips,” I retorted sharply. Turned Adrift The limekiln closes down and there is no passenger left but Katy, so Tim breaks into the treasure holes in the wall to buy oats and bread. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The second day Lily did not come to the limekiln. The Indian On The Trail From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 In 1547 Bishop Vesey alienated 'the manor, town, palace, and limekiln,' and rather more than a hundred years later it came into the possession of Lord Clifford. Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts At Utica, a most terrible tragedy was exhibited: 300 christians were, by the orders of the proconsul, placed round a burning limekiln. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs I have a faint recollection that a limekiln was built near the old landing and lime burnt before the walls and plastering could be done. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Then up in the morning in jolly good time to get the limekiln workers on the job by seven. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The fact is so remarkable for an age in which statues were sought, not as models, but as material for the limekiln, that I beg leave to describe it. Pagan and Christian Rome You may bark at them right and left; go they will, though they break their legs down a limekiln. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida I feel like a—a—boiled owl; my head is aching as though it would split, and my mouth is as dry as a limekiln. The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa So I could not think of that, till other human means failed; and I determined, in the first place, to hire Tammie Dobbie’s cart, and try a smell of the fresh air about the limekilns. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself The great white face of the quarry rose up pale in the moonlight; the dusky red fires of the limekilns glowed at the base, sending up a blood-red dust of sullen smoke. Romance Rogers—seized a point known as the limekiln, where it was proposed to plant a battery. General Scott The gases from a large limekiln supply the dilute carbonic acid gas, which contains 25 per cent. to 30 per cent. of pure gas, the principal diluting gas being, of course, nitrogen. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 The hot, choking smoke from the limekiln was blowing across the works; and the dusty pit-bank was covered with busy men and boys and girls, shouting, laughing, singing, and swearing, when Martha arrived at Botfield. Fern's Hollow It has actually been found necessary to forbid the construction of limekilns nearer than two miles from any ancient ruins, in order to remove the temptation for the filching of stones. Vanishing England Some chilly evening, as the shadows thicken, he shambles out of the town, and seeks the limekiln in the ploughed field, where, the substratum being limestone, the farmer burns it. The Amateur Poacher I really feel as if my heart had been in a limekiln. Marriage Master Whibble tells a tortuous story of finding it done up in a packet in a disused limekiln near the Downs. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories He ran swiftly over the pit-banks, and stole along by the limekilns and the blacksmith's shop, for under the heavy door he could see a little fringe of light. Fern's Hollow The British party was near enough to see the struggle at the limekiln, and came on rapidly in pursuit of our men. The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 It had run as dry as a limekiln; nothing remained of the pretty fall which had fed it but a miserable trickle of drops from the cascade above. Gulliver of Mars Also three boys confessed afterwards to throwing stones at a funny tramp, knocking about all wet and muddy, and, it seemed, very drunk, in the narrow deep lane by the limekilns. Amy Foster I ached all ower, and my mouth were like a limekiln. Indian Tales But to ask me to believe, after what had happened at the limekiln, that he was still living, was to ask me to take Ambrose Meadowcroft's statement for granted as a true statement of facts. The Dead Alive The scene is laid at a limekiln in a dark and gloomy wood, where a lime- burner, far from human habitations, is watching his fires at night. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne And look, too, how the grey pebble beach is already dancing and quivering in the mirage which steams up, like the hot breath of a limekiln, from the drying stones. Prose Idylls, New and Old The fellow was greedy, and was getting a rather dangerous control; he had already a lease of the limekilns and Allerby mill. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" And, indeed, the uncle and the niece having met by chance, ended by consorting together, their favorite refuge, it was thought, being the limekilns in the direction of Les Moulineaux. Fruitfulness In reply to my inquiries, I was informed that the bones, the knife, the buttons and the stick had all been found together in a limekiln then in use on the farm. The Dead Alive The limekilns, coal-wharfs, and shabby lava houses had for a background volcanic rocks, bare cinder slopes and tossing dust. Lister's Great Adventure After building our hospital, we had made limekilns for disinfecting the frigate, we had been wood-cutters, and charcoal burners, and carpenters. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville If Israel deserves at Thy hands punishment by fire for their sin, remember the fire of the limekiln into which Abraham let himself be cast for the glory of Thy name. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. Great Expectations He seemed to be almost as eager to tell, as Naomi was to hear, the true story of what had happened at the limekiln. The Dead Alive But the vapor of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapor at last that I saw two men looking at me. Great Expectations If you are not afraid to come to the old marshes to-night or tomorrow night at nine, and to come to the little sluice-house by the limekiln, you had better come. Great Expectations I left her for dead, and if there had been a limekiln as nigh her as there is now nigh you, she shouldn't have come to life again. Great Expectations |
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