For full five minutes the air was filled with the most powerful words in at least four different languages, during which entertainment Satan unconcernedly ate the piece of damper which Ted had handed to him.
George, lifting a nicely browned damper from the ashes; "ye has set the black fellows' ghosts off again.
I have elsewhere noticed) are either wholly absent from the damper ranges of Dorjiling, or found there several thousand feet higher up.
At the eastern extremity again, towards Silhet, the atmosphere is much damper than at Calcutta, and the barometer should therefore have stood lower, indicating a higher level of the waters than is the case.
The water is clay-coloured and turbid, always cooler than the air, which again was 4 degrees or 5 degrees below that of Calcutta, with a damper atmosphere.
I gathered ten at the same elevation, in the damper Zemu valley (see chapter xix, note).
A cold wind descended from Donkia; yet, though more elevated than Yeumtso, the climate of Cholamoo, from being damper and misty, was milder.
When the fire is burning freely, the damperat C is closed, and ventilation is secured through the stove, the damper at B being open.
It will be easily possible, of course, to carry away all the heat from the stove in this method, and the damper in the flue of the casing must be carefully regulated to carry away only the desired amount of foul air.
The stovepipe in this case furnishes the necessary outlet for the impure air, and the following suggestion has been made in order to utilize this outlet, even when the fire is not burning freely or when the damper in the stovepipe is closed.
Billings), the lower part of the T may be carried to within a foot of the floor with a damper at the points B and C.
Too many cellars are damper than need be, are musty and close, full of odors of decaying vegetables and rotting wood, entirely from lack of ventilation.
By regulating the damper in this pipe the supply of fresh warmed air entering the room can be regulated.
When thedamper at B is closed and the fire checked, then the damper at C may be opened and the impure air drawn up the chimney from the level of the floor.
We had brought plenty of damper too, a preparation of flour that, I dare say, I need not stop to describe, as every one now must know that in Australia it takes the place of ordinary bread.
We all wanted something to eat, and eagerly set to work, but soaking damper was not a very sumptuous repast; still we feasted as eagerly as if it had been the most delicious food, and all the time the water kept going down.
It is advantageous to possess a variety of soils; and if the garden be on a slope it will often be practicable to render the upper part light and dry, while the lower remains of a heavier and damper nature.
Draught is regulated in the ashpit by opening or closing the bottom door of the furnace and by the damperon the smoke shaft.
This was rather a damper on Mr. Wise, but he resolutely insisted on Mr. Calhoun's appointment, and finally the President yielded.
A small damper was maturing under the handful of fire, and a quart pot of tea was slowly collecting a scum of dirt which made it nothing the worse to a man of my nurture.
But the poor fellow had a painfully outspoken scruple against eating the damper of idleness; so, as soon as he was able to get his boots on without supplication for Divine support, he started to help me with my work.
You're not worth your damper at this work; for no man's ability is comprehensive enough to cover musical proficiency such as yours, and leave the narrowest flap available for anything else.
This grin was the damper of their stove, and this was where the maid had kindled the fire which had been roasting them alive, and was still joyously chuckling to itself.
Mrs. March ran and opened the window, while her husband carefully examined the stove at every point, and explored the pipe for the damper in vain.
The prolonged absence of Beaumont and his party acted as a damper upon our spirits, for we could not hide from ourselves the fact that their journey across the strait must be a hazardous one.
This check was a great damper to our hopes, especially as no bays, or protection of any description for the ship from the pack, could be found in our immediate vicinity.
Mr. Greenslet reached out for the damper of the stove ostensibly to shake down the ashes, but really to pull himself up out of the soundless spaces of thought.
The shaking of the damper seemed to loosen the springs of speech in him.
He will always be identified there in the oak, an excellent influence; just as I think of him when I save the wood in the open fireplace, because of the perfect damper he made for the stone chimney.
Liverpool is not so foggy a place as London, but it has a damper and less pleasant climate, without those varied attractions and substantial enjoyments which make London one of the most pleasant residences and most interesting of cities.
Breakfast was not sumptuous; all my energies were reserved for dinner, and Dick had to make out as best he might on damper left from the night before, and the cold remains of a nondescript joint of mutton.
The table was laid at last, and a piece of smoking salt beef and a great rounddamper brought in from outside and put on it.
The young man put his feet upon the damper of the stove, and tilted his chair back in the free and easy manner which had charmed Glenoro.
And the presence of this unpopular fellow, older than any of the others in Upper Sixth, was a damper to their enjoyment.
Then the sudden appearance of the Headmaster put a damper for the moment on their enthusiasm.
The size of thedamper of course depends on the numerical strength of the party for which it is about being prepared.
Hungry men not unfrequently satisfy their hunger by making dough nuts, or "beggars on the coals" as they are called, whilst the damper is cooking.
If, however, we tread down exactly with the finger-stroke we simply inhibit this stopping, because the damper in question is lifted again before it has had time to fall down.
Sidenote: The Use of the Pedal for Colouring] What is the use of the damper pedal?
Sidenote: Using the Two Pedals at Once] May the damper pedal and the soft pedal be used simultaneously, or would this be detrimental to the piano?
The coal consumption averaged one hundred pounds a day, approximately, this being reduced at a later date to seventy-five pounds by employing a special damper for the chimney.
The damper designed for ordinary climates allowed too much draught to be sucked through during the high winds which prevailed continually.
The fireflies, which were now just beginning to illuminate the night, flashed and twinkled here and there in clusters out over the damper places.
The damperparticles stuck to his hands and clothes, and he brushed them off.
The shepherd's wife kindly gave us the invariable mutton-chop and damper and some post-and-rail tea.
Instead of damper we occasionally made what is colonially known as `devils on the coals.
It is also useful to make your damperor `Johnny-cake,' which serves you in place of yeast bread.
Damper is the name of a kind of bread made of wheat flour and water.
Damper is not kept for months, but is generally made fresh for each meal.
Then she made fresh damper and cut strips of the yopolo meat, drying it in the sun and smoke under Kadok's directions.
She smoothed up her hair and came forth refreshed and rested to find Kadok had made fresh damper and toasted some bits of meat, gathering also some of the sassafras leaves, making a kind of tea which was very good.
There was nothing to eat but damper and some roots Kadok had found, and the delay and the scanty meal did not make Jean feel any more cheerful.
Kadok then roasted in the ashes some scrub turkey eggs he had found, and these too tasted good, and there was damper and cool water.
He then brought water from the trough, and made damper and forced bits of it between the child's teeth and gave her a drink of water.
Regulate the fire by the damper alone, never opening the firebox door even if the fire gets too hot.
