The hill no doubt owed its designation to the coke ovens at work upon it, and which had been in operation there for some six or seven years before Goethe's visit, i.
To meet these demands a large quantity of coal is converted into coke by being burnt in ovens with an insufficient supply of air for complete combustion, or in suitably constructed close furnaces.
It is probably Stauf's ovens which are described by the French metallurgist, De Gensanne, in his Traite de la fonte des Mines par le feu du Charbon de Terre, published in Paris in 1770.
For here was the nation assembled, and there were the ovens anigh, And out of a thousand singers nine were numbered to die.
And the old men leered at the ovens and licked their lips for the food; And the women stared at the lads, and laughed and looked to the wood.
We didn't have stoves plentiful then: just ovenswe set in the fireplace.
Of course, you know we had no stoves in those days and the cooking was done in open fireplaces, in ovens and pots.
Heavy iron skillets with thick lids were much used for baking, and they had ovens of various sizes.
Pots wuz hung on iron cranes to bile and big pones of light bread wuz cooked in ovens on de hearth.
Dey cooked in a big fireplace, but us had big ovens to cook de meat, biscuits and lightbread in.
De night before dey sot it in de ovens to rise and by mawnin' it had done riz most to de top of de deep old pans.
Dey piled red coals all 'round de ovens and when dat bread got done it wuz good 'nough for anybody.
It had racks acrost to hang de pots on and big ovens and little ovens and big, thick, iron fryin' pans wid long handles and hefty iron lids.
Bowman, on the Ovens River, do hereby publicly proclaim George Faithful, settler on the King River, to be a malicious liar and a coward.
You will find a copy of the above posted at every public-house between the Ovens and Melbourne, and at the corner of every street in the town.
I worked for seven months in various parts of the Ovens district until I had acquired the value in gold of my vanished twenty-dollar pieces; that was all my luck.
About one hundred electric cooking sets were manufactured, consisting of ovensand crude round stoves.
From the varnishing department the shoes are taken to the vulcanizers, which are large ovensheated by innumerable steam pipes.
The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period.
From her coke ovens she indeed could derive some nitrogen, but this actually furnished only about one-fifth of her total requirements.
Many cooking operations which are performed in ordinary ovens with the burners on, can be prepared in this particular style of oven by using stored heat for the last half of the operation.
The loss of weight in coking in the ordinaryovens is usually reckoned at 25 per cent.
Such is often attached to the bakers' ovens in Germany, and other flax-growing countries.
The floors of bakers' ovens are advantageously laid with slabs of serpentine.
It was found necessary at the front to put all the clothing of the soldiers into the sterilizing ovens every night to remove all traces of mustard.
The steel cylinders standing in the background are packed with the carbide and then put into the ovens sunk in the floor.
But within the last ten years the by-product ovens have come into use and now nearly half our coke is made in them.
The coke is being pushed out of one of the ovens into the waiting car.
When coal is heated in retorts or ovens for making coke or gas a lot of ammonia comes off with the other products of decomposition and is caught in the sulfuric acid used to wash the gas as ammonium sulfate.
But in our palace in India the Glorious the ovens of my lady mother, which are under her own care, are made of hard glazed tiles, while her oven brooms are of silk dipped in honey dew.
Master Workman Powderly visiting the place early one morning, said of it: At one of the ovens I saw a woman half naked drawing the coke from one of the chambers.
This is the less surprising as the Vendidad speaks of palaces and pillars and various works of art, and mentions smelting-ovens and even ovens for making glass.
The sulphur is also burnt in stationary ovens which consist of flat shallow closed trays.
Now, if you want to cook on top of the stove, and want all the heat up there, of course you do not need the ovens heated, so you shut them away.
The dampers into the ovens must be shut, too, so the fire will have nothing to distract its attention; if we left them open it would think it had not only to burn, but to get the ovens hot, too.
When I bake I make the ovens hot by pushing in the dampers, and opening the slide at the bottom and shutting it at the top.
When I want to make something on top, I pull out the dampers to get the ovens cool, and I open the one at the bottom and shut the one at the top.
In general, with ordinary kitchen ovens properly heated, 30 minutes' baking is sufficient for one-pound loaves and cakes; and 15 minutes in addition for every pound after the first for larger ones.
They were old and overgrown with bushes, but they proved that this lake had once contained mussels and the balyan or bulrush, a root eaten by the natives and cooked in such ovens as these.
Most ovens require heating an hour and a half for bread.
The town was cleared, and all the ovens and cooking utensils found in the houses were destroyed.
From Smithfield a four days' trek brought the convoy to Bethulie, after destroying by the way a Boer supply depot, with ovens for the baking of bread, at Gryskop.
Baker and Pat Coventry, who overnight had been detailed for cooks, raced off' to construct earth ovens and light fires.
Calling the two cooks to accompany him, Mr Trematon walked over to the spot where the temporary ovens had been erected.
I wish we had some ovens to bake this mud," said Obed, with a grim smile at his joke.
The public ovens are very numerous, and do not differ greatly from the Moorish, except in being more open to the street.
Their ovens are domes about three feet or less in height outside; they are heated by a fire inside, then emptied, and the bread put in.
Similar ovensare employed in camp to bake for the Court.
The smoke of the young engineer's coke ovens lay far below us and the Blight had never seen a coke-plant before.
In these ovens (steam-cracks) she boils tea, coffee and eggs; or cooks omelets and meats.
She keeps a great many ovens heated for the use of her guests, and no two at the same temperature, so that you may select one of any heat you wish.
Boy Scouts and campers frequently improvise Dutch ovens by packing damp sandy clay, 8 to 12 inches thick, around a wooden barrel, a tin wash boiler, or slabs of rock to form a vault.
For ovens of ordinary size an 8½- by 8½-inch flue is ample.
An ash drop of standard cast-iron unit type is provided for modern ovens and may lead either to the side of the fireplace or to an ash-pit in the chimney base.
The bread that the Mexicans bake in these ovens is the sweetest and whitest that can be found.
The town enjoyed in the old days quite a reputation for good living, and many were the notable feasts cooked over the great fireplaces and in the huge brick ovens before the days of stoves and ranges.
Moreover, there be certain ovens built, in number ten, of which six be very large, the other four being but half so big.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ovens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
