Complicated garnish of iron-work entwines itself over the flights of steps in this awful street, and from these petrified bowers, extinguishers for obsolete flambeaux gasp at the upstart gas.
You knew all the time that those fire-extinguishers were nothing but lung-testers.
I couldn't understand what it was all about, except that it was connected with those fire-extinguishers Miss Sally had.
Why couldn't you buy them fire-extinguishers like a man?
He would use the influence you have with the city council and the mayor to have an ordinance passed making YOU put fire-extinguishers in YOUR opera house, and compel YOU to buy them of HIM.
Not fire-extinguishers at all, but useless, no-account lung-testers!
There's just about as heavy a call for fire-extinguishers in Kilo as there is for lung-testers.
He had visited Skinner's Opera House and had examined the fire-extinguishers where they sat, each on its bracket.
He ain't much liking those fire-extinguishers to have.
It might be that fire-extinguishers ordinance," he said slowly.
These patents were known as the Graham patents, and both extinguishers were called the “break-bottle type” because the soda and acid were mixed when a glass bottle containing the latter was broken.
The Roman, Pliny, refers to fire extinguishers but gives no account of their construction.
All the extinguishers of this type use a liquid which has carbon tetrachloride as a base.
The extinguishers used in the early days of candles are known now as snuffer-extinguishers, to distinguish them from snuffers (the old name was doubters).
Extinguishers of iron were frequently erected near an outside door, or added to the iron railings outside the house.
Hard by the fatal ditch which engulfed Napoleon's cavalry I stationed a corps of able assistants provided with rapid-fire extinguishers ready to enfilade the famous sunken road.
My assistants with the extinguishers stood firm, and although almost unnerved by the sight, they summoned their courage, and directed simultaneous streams of formaldybrom into the struggling mass of fantoms.
There are extinguishers right in the vestibule, and we can break down the door.
The Desplaines is selling powder fire extinguishers along the river; and we are to stop wherever they think there is a chance for some business.
Desplaines had bon marche, selling 16 extinguishersand getting the promise of a dozen more.
Fortunately preparations had been made for this emergency, and a number of portable extinguishers were placed in various places on the walls of the cabin.
Standing in the entrance, Dick threw the contents of several extinguishers inside, as they were passed to him, and he had the satisfaction of seeing the flames gradually choked by the chemical fumes thus released.
Well, I have seen fire extinguishersaround at times.
Well, they were fire extinguishers like a man would put on his back, with a strap to it.
Did you notice any fire extinguishers in your dressing-room?
Did you notice any fire extinguishersof any kind on the stage?
Not the construction, but I would say in the management, and in the furnishing of fire extinguishers and appliances to extinguish fires.
They aren't really fire extinguishers in the real sense of the word," went on the other man behind the screen.
There are plenty of chemical fire extinguisherson the market, too, Tom.
Tom, and with a click of springs the fire extinguishers dropped from the bottom of the Lucifer into the very heart of the flames in the Landmark Building.
Keep in mind that vaporizing-liquid types of fire extinguishers can produce dangerous fumes when used in small enclosed spaces.
Carbon tetrachloride and other vaporizing-liquid type extinguishers are not recommended for use in small enclosed spaces, because of the danger of fumes.
In Petergate, Gillygate, and Duncombe Street extinguishers still hang by the side of doors.
The cellar areas were protected from the rough pavements by beautiful wrought-iron railings, whilst hammered scroll-work brackets supported torch extinguishers and the circle for the oil lamp.
Extinguishers arranged to throw a stream of carbon tetrachloride are also on the market.
And he fought his way back to the mast and stretched his hand to the chain that released the extinguishers upon the burners.
He had taken both of the chemical fire extinguishers from the wall--one had hung at one end of the room and the other at the other end--and was doing something to them.
She had seen the man, Jose, tampering with those same extinguishers some days before.
These men brought in extinguishers that had an effect upon the flames at once.
The chemical fire extinguishers proving of very little use, the fire got such a firm hold that the forebridge had to be abandoned, and the ship conned from aft, using the lower steering position.
But I came back to get the fire extinguishers that we carry on the auto.
Once, to show Bunny and Sue how easily the extinguishers put out a fire, Mr. Brown had started one in the back yard.
Sue and Bunny remembered about the extinguishers now.
These chemical fire extinguishersare filled with water saturated with soda or saleratus.
Was just about to lay hold of those fire extinguisherswhen your crowd forestalled me.
Frank, knowing that if their extinguishers gave out before the fire was fully under control it might spring up again into new life.
This harness, devised by Mr. Ford, was made of canvas in the form of a sling to hold the extinguishers in position on a Scout's back.
Those who excelled at the forges he assigned to the task of making brackets and metal clamps with which to fasten the extinguishers onto the motorcycles.
I'm dead sure my dad will let us borrow some fire extinguishersfrom the mill, and he has any amount of hose and other things to fit up a first-class brigade.
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