It had trundled a succession of little Montgomerys among the cinder piles; indeed, it was almost a feature of the landscape, for Joe's family was his chiefest contribution to the wealth of his country.
Langham turned to him quickly, but as he did so his foot struck the cinder ballast of the road-bed.
Then, as the surfaces come together, the air and any foreign substances will be forced out, whereas, were the surfaces hollow the air and any cinder or other foreign substances would be closed in the weld, impairing its soundness.
Viewed from a distance, the monument appears as a fairly level terrain, with a northeasterly slope interspersed with symmetrical cinder cones.
Geologically, the region is considered young, the age of the last lava flows and the last cinder cones being estimated at 500 years or slightly less.
The sun beat down on the squat, green depot and cinder platform, sending the quivering heat rays back to distort the outlines of objects.
Bag in hand, he strode across the cinder platform and entered the waiting automobile, without a single glance for the group that looked at him wonderingly.
Had you acted fairly, you would have been at this instant a black cinder or a handful of white ashes.
I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely, and have concluded not to get yourself scorched to a cinder in attempting to tame my brazen-lunged bulls.
The new depot was connected with the city by a cinder path, nor could the city compel the builders of the new depot to lay a sidewalk.
Every incoming locomotive deposited its ashes on the cinder path.
Takes fire under blowpipe flame, and burns with a smoky flame, depositing much soot and leaving a porous cinderwhich burns slowly and leaves a small ash.
Gives off much water and tar, and leaves a porous cinder retaining the form of the original fragment.
Immediately beyond this they turned towards the narrow cinder path which led through the marshes to Mrs. Jasher's cottage, and toiled on cautiously through the misty rain, which fell continuously.
I'm only floundering in a frying-pan that will cook me to a cinder in the end.
From what I know about your odd disposition, I'd expect one of two solitary things: I'd expect to see you keel over in a dead faint or stand stock-still in your tracks and burn to a cinder from internal fires.
Usually the bottoms of the bins are furnished with self-discharging hoppers of weak cinder or gravel concrete finished with cement mortar.
He was running powerfully, his legs rising and falling in exact rhythm, his spikes tearing into the cinder path.
More than one hundred craters and cinder cones have been counted, many of which have been active within the historical period of the island.
These radiating peninsulas are mountain ranges, here and there peaked with volcanocinder cones.
Peculiar “cauliflower cloud” or pino composed of steam and ash, rising above the cinder cone of Volcano during the waning phases of the explosive eruption of 1888 (after a photograph by B.
The recent eruption of the cinder cone known as Taal volcano is of interest, not only because so fresh in mind, but because two neighboring vents erupted simultaneously with explosions of nearly equal violence (Fig.
View of Leffingwell crater, a cinder cone in the Owens valley, California (after an unpublished photograph by W.
Inasmuch as this material is deposited far from the crater and in layers more or less horizontal, such material plays a small rôle in the formation of the cinder cone.
In most respects such cones stand in an intermediate position between lava domes and cinder cones.
A series of breached cinder cones where the place of eruption has migrated along the underlying fissure.
Should lava rise in a cinder cone without an explosion occurring, the cone is at once broken through upon one side by the outwelling of the lava near the base.
The shapes of cinder cones are notably different from those of lava mountains.
A certain proportion of this fluid lava is sufficiently cooled to consolidate while traveling in the air, and falling, it builds up a cinder cone which is left as a location monument for the place of discharge.
Refuse or cinder from the iron forges, Sir Mark," replied the baronet, with the air of a guide.
When he got back to the colonel, Bart found the latter sitting propped up against the cinder heap, his eyes open, and breathing heavily, but still in a helpless kind of a daze.
As he partially succeeded, he noticed that the colonel's face was pitted, and in one or two places scratched and bleeding from contact with the cinder particles.
Some manufacturers, taking advantage of so powerful an agent, have used improper materials, such as cinder heaps and impure ores, and by unduly hastening the process, have produced an inferior kind of iron.
A fragment of the wall of the east side of this gate still exists, attached to the west of the ‘Cinder Ovens’ public house at the south end of King Street, and also on the opposite side of the street.
He was still unsuccessful, and the station-master, standing by, beckoned me toward him and offered to take the cinder out, which he did very skilfully.
During the ride I got a cinder in my eye, which my companion could not find.
The man who drove the engine threw a cinder at him as he passed, to awake him; but, instead of hitting him, the cinder broke his lamp glass.
It must have happened just about where we are now," he said, rubbing a cinder down into the inner corner of his eye and out on the bridge of his nose in approved fashion.
I sought the fo'c'sle deck for a breath of fresh air after that, and pushed my head out of the after superstructure just as a hulking cinder came winging aft before the snoring north-east gale.
I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely and have concluded not to get yourself scorched to a cinder in attempting to tame my brazen-lunged bulls.
The grip of the cinderand slag was getting tighter and tighter as the stuff was packed about him.
Because an untruthful pit boss accused us of blowing up a cinder pit, either through carelessness or with design," answered Rush truthfully.
He limped a little as he walked toward the cinder pit, for his legs pained him and there were blisters on his feet where the hot cinders and slag had burned through the shoes.
He knew that Steve was in an adjoining one, because from where he was shoveling he had seen Rush go down into the cinder hole a little while before the explosion occurred.
You know thecinder pits are located in the open-hearth furnace building.
Because, in the first place, they disobeyed orders and blew up the cinder pit after having been warned not to put water on it while the cinders were still hot.
Neither of them knew that it was dangerous to sprinkle a cinder pit.
Having bathed himself to his satisfaction Jarvis began playing the hose on the cinder pile.
THE IRON BOYS IN THE STEEL MILLS; Or, Beginning Anew in the Cinder Pits.
He handed them to the boys, giving the lads a shove toward the cinder pit.
The drop was not more than two or three feet to the cinder bed, which was some fifteen feet broad at its top, tapering slightly toward the bottom.
The Iron Boys in the Steel Mills OR Beginning Anew in the Cinder Pits By JAMES R.
You will receive the munificent sum of a dollar a day, and your job will be in the cinder pits.
This was a distinct relief after the experience of the lads in the cinder pits under two bosses who had lost no opportunity to do them harm.
The only directions he had received regarding what was to be done with the Iron Boys was the injunction of the assistant superintendent's messenger, to "make them work till they can't tell a cinder pit from a hole in the ground.
There lay before me a long straight road for miles at the base of high hills; then, far off, this road seemed to end at the foot of a mountain called, I believe, Ash Mount or Cinder Hill.
She stood in the cinder pathway in absolute consternation.
There was complete stillness in the room; the ticking of the clock suddenly hammered in Robert Ferguson's ears; a cinder fell softly from the grate.
At the end of the cinder path, the vast pile of the foundry rose black against the fading sky; on the left the open arches of the cast-house of the furnace glowed with molten iron that was running into pigs on the wide stretch of sand.
