You will pardon me if I go in front," he said, when this was done; and he preceded the poet upstairs into a large apartment, warmed with a pan of charcoal and lit by a great lamp hanging from the roof.
And just then, hearing the old man's tread returning along the corridor, he stole back to his chair, and began humbly toasting his wet legs before the charcoal pan.
Should not I have been warming my knees at this charcoal pan, and would not you have been groping for farthings in the snow?
Kotatsu, a charcoal fire in a brazier or small fireplace in the floor, over which a wooden frame is set, and the whole covered by a quilt, 33.
Kotatsu, a charcoalfire in a brazier or a small fireplace in the floor, over which a wooden frame is set and the whole covered by a quilt.
The charcoal used for heating the water is of a peculiar variety; and the room in which the tea is made and served is built for that special purpose, and kept sacred for that use.
They pick busily away at the green, tender leaves, which will soon be heated and rolled by strong men over the charcoal fire.
She sat before the littlecharcoal brazier and warmed her transparent, needle-pricked fingers, thinking meanwhile of the strange events of the day.
The floor had often been covered with charcoal outlines even before Christina was persuaded to impart the rules she had learnt from her uncle; and her carving-tools were soon seized upon.
Charcoal is better than a pencil for sketching on canvas, as it can be easily rubbed off with a clean cloth if the drawing is incorrect.
When the sketch is finished, dust off the charcoal lightly and go over the lines again with a camel’s-hair brush and India ink.
If Candiola had lived in Numantia, it would have been said that the Numantines were merchants of charcoal mixed with heroes.
It is true the burned buildings are worth little, perhaps less than the great mass of charcoal which will result.
You are the daughter of Señor Candiola," he said, drawing from his pocket a handful of money, and making a brief reckoning on the wall with a bit of charcoal which he picked up from the floor.
I've a pannikin on the charcoal fire, and there are some rashers.
Passing in front of them, she directed her steps toward the kitchen, and made way for them to pass into the smoky room, where a small servant was making coffee over a clear charcoal fire.
Reine, "come, Monsieur de Buxieres, you must see how we light a charcoal furnace.
On the spotless mats behind their paper shoji the curio-merchants sat on their gaudy wadded cushions, while, over the glowing fire-bowls of charcoal in the inner rooms, their wives cooked the rice for the early evening meal.
At intervals grills of savory waka-fuji (salted fry-cakes) sizzle overcharcoal braziers which throw a red glow on an intent row of children's faces.
He kindled the charcoal in a bronze hibachi, and set over it a copper pot which began to emit a thick, weedy odor.
He came primarily to burncharcoal for the rude adobe furnaces that had been erected by the Lesynzskys to smelt the free ores of the famous Longfellow mine in Chase Creek Canyon, a few miles above Clifton.
For charcoal Solomon found abundant material in an almost unbroken mesquite forest that stretched for many miles along the river.
Aspen wood makes but indifferent fuel, but charcoal prepared from it is light and friable, and has been employed in gunpowder manufacture.
Also a bowl containing a quantity of ash with fragments of half-burned charcoal and a few minute particles of charred opium.
On the mantelshelf in the bedroom I found a small glass-stoppered jar containing about an ounce of solid opium, and another, larger jar containing wood charcoal broken up into small fragments.
By the side of the bowl were a knife, a kind of awl or pricker and a very small pair of tongs, which I believe to have been used for carrying a piece of lighted charcoal to the pipe.
Some of them roasted meat or vegetables over metal bars placed across a charcoal fire.
Fortunately we possessed a cooking pot, given by the Tommies at Bosanti; and a ruffian who lived below us sold charcoal at the rate of ten piastres for a quantity just sufficient to burn for half an hour.
When charcoal fumes were added to the summer closeness the atmosphere became unbearable.
The Arsenic sublimed by this method is not white, but of a grey colour; owing to the inflammable matter of the wood and charcoal with which the ore is torrefied.
Every kind of charcoal is fit to be an ingredient in the composition of the cement employed to make Steel, provided it contain no Vitriolic Acid.
Mr. Margraaf was the first who, by mixing powdered charcoal with calamine in close vessels, obtained a perfect zinc from it, by the means of distillation or sublimation, as shall be shewn in our Practical Chymistry.
You must begin the operation with putting some unlighted charcoal in the ash-hole, and a little lightedcharcoal at the door thereof, in order to warm the retort very slowly.
Set this vessel over a weak charcoal fire, and increase the heat till you see the Antimony begin to smoke a little.
As the charcoal wastes, the detonation will abate, and cease entirely as soon as the coal is quite consumed.
He sets the retort in a sand-bath, and continues the distillation to dryness with a moderate charcoal fire.
In this connection and throwing in some incidents as above to illustrate our points, we think of the case of Sergeant Wilde, of Pincher Creek, who trailed a murderous Indian generally known as Charcoal into the foothills.
Charcoal was riding deliberately along with a rifle slung across in front of him in plain sight of Wilde, who, however, would not fire upon him, but pressed on to make the arrest and leave the disposal of him to the law of the land.
I expressed to your ear how his treatment was like hot charcoal thrown in my face.
Even the fumes of burnt charcoal curling upwards from the Thousand Lights Bazaar were pleasing to the riders, recalling the odour of furze fires on home moorlands.
I wonder if Mrs. Glanton has one of those delightful charcoal arrangements for drying clothes?
I quite took a liking to the scent of the charcoal fumes of the little native villages studded about the Madras roads," said Mark.
Big chattee charcoal done put under, it make werry warm Missus clothes.
The admixture ofcharcoal with the soil, is said to be a means of adding to its nutritive qualities.
We made the fireplace and chimney-stack out of old kerosene tins, which made a kind of brasier on which we burned charcoal obtained from the refuse heap at the Field Bakery.
The walls were covered with unbeveled and unpainted boards which were scribbled all over with names, dates jokes and caricatures, done in charcoal or rouge paint.
While in the charcoal fire, or when held in a burner to get a better idea of the degree of heat, the button glowed with great brilliancy.
The wire was next placed between two pieces of charcoal and a burner applied so as to produce an intense heat, sufficient to melt down the pumice stone into a small glass-like button.
Now, by filtration through charcoal everything that is soluble in hydrochloric acid passes away with the water; for instance, lime and magnesia, which before gave such great trouble.
Should copper be associated with the gold, the water, after running through the charcoal filter, is passed over scrap iron, upon which the copper is precipitated by a natural chemical action.
The discharge from the filter and the washings are run into a vat, and from this they are allowed to pass slowly through a tap into a charcoal filter.
A deposit of charcoal was found beneath a bed of peat twenty feet in thickness.
The use of charcoal and the crucible in melting them prepared the way for smelting iron ore.
On the streets of the capital city, one daily sees bands of pure Otomis in rags and filth, bringing their loads of charcoal and of corn to market.
In the evening, the men built a fire with charcoal in a tin-lined box in the end of the canoe, and toasted tortillas and made coffee.
Petrie tells us that “the fires were not large, as the ash is all white, and no charcoal of smothered fire remains.
According to the Mosaic Law, charcoal was used in early times at the Temple service as we gather from “a censer full of burning coals” (Lev.
A few puffs were taken to get the tobacco alight, then the pieces of charcoal were dropped into the fire again, and shaking off their slippers they took their seats on the cushions of the divan.
In the first was the water to be filtered, a foot off was the pot full of charcoal and white sand, and the filtered water was drawn off from the third.
In each urinal there were utensils coated with coal tar, and at every corner iron crates filled with wood-charcoal to absorb noxious vapours.
In the centre of the dormitory an earthenware brazier of burning charcoal was always maintained day and night, and occasionally crude fragrant gum Benjamin was thrown upon it.
