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Example sentences for "gasworks"

Lexicographically close words:
gastronomy; gastropod; gastropods; gastrula; gastrulation; gat; gata; gate; gateau; gated
  1. When his usual time came, Layard kissed his little son and his sister, and went off to his business at the great gasworks with no fear or misgiving in his heart.

  2. Leeham had, no doubt, some mysterious internal resources, but its chief external dependence was on the enormous gasworks and the railway hard by.

  3. The gasworks are busy, and glowing and flaming and throbbing all through the hours of gloom and darkness, but people cannot get near them.

  4. Father and mother face their plight More hopeful for the treat, And bless the God who made a world Beyond Great Gasworks Street.

  5. The sunbeams through the green leaves play, The air is sweet with new-mown hay-- But I am bound at home to stay Here in Great Gasworks Street.

  6. A Tramway or a Gasworks consists of two things: the actual plant, and the nominal capital which represents its value.

  7. We take over his "enterprise," his gasworks and waterworks, his docks and trams, his railways and mines.

  8. They were reluctantly constrained to admit that the attempt to undermine the Gasworks was a melancholy failure, and that the Mugsborough Electric Light and Installation Coy.

  9. That meeting was held two years ago, and since that time the Electric Light Works had been built and the war against the gasworks carried on vigorously.

  10. To Agatha, whose grandfather had amassed wealth as a proprietor of gasworks (novelties in his time), she had never offered her intimacy.

  11. But the gasworks were never forgotten, and when Lady Brandon mentioned, as a piece of delightful news, that she had found out their old school companion, and had asked her to join them, Gertrude was not quite pleased.

  12. The picture of the explosion at the Glasgow Gasworks was taken in the interior of a holder, and shows the perforations of the plates by projected débris on the side of the holder opposite to that on which the explosion occurred (Fig.

  13. The first was at Tradeston Gasworks on the 20th, the remainder at Possil Bridge and at Buchanan Street Station on the 21st.

  14. And if the manager of the gasworks had not already committed murder, it was because the manager of the gasworks had a right sense of what was due to his position as vicar's churchwarden at St Peter's Church.

  15. A balloon ascent was made from Lynn Gasworks by Mr. Gypson, accompanied by Mr. Thomas Oxley and Mr. D.

  16. And then hard on the gasworks had come the railway and cheap coal; there was a wild outbreak of brickfields upon the claylands to the east, and the Great Growth had begun in earnest.

  17. The gasworks came in 1834, and about that date my father's three houses must have been built convenient for the London Road.

  18. Some of the citizens are makers of gas, or workmen; most of the citizens are users of gas, or consumers; and all of the citizens are owners and managers of the gasworks and of the gas supply.

  19. And will it then console him that he is the "owner and manager of the gasworks and of the gas supply"?

  20. And will you take the gasworks at sixty thousand?

  21. I bought these gasworks and I own them, and I am satisfied to go on owning them.

  22. A stock company of exceedingly conservative business men had owned the gasworks prior to the advent of Henry Betts, and the general manager of the plant had been Cassius Poindexter, a fellow townsman.

  23. It was not such a big lump sum, because the gasworks had been built right after the war and had thereafter remained untouched by the stimulating hand of improvement.

  24. What would I do with those gasworks if I bought 'em?

  25. So I would suggest that all of you--or some of you--go and call upon Mr. Betts and endeavor to buy the gasworks from him outright.

  26. As I said before, these gasworks are not for sale.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gasworks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.