The smokestack is probably one of the easiest things to produce.
A very suitable method of producing a smokestack is shown in Fig.
She was camouflaged by a high bow and a rail all around, as well as by a canvas smokestack to make her look like a tramp freighter.
Something like a smokestack with a curlycue on the end of it," was the reply.
Then the huge black hull and one smokestack could be distinguished.
Carpathia, far out of her path and making eighteen knots, instead of her wonted fifteen, showed her single red and black smokestack upon the horizon.
He felt he was standing on the eve of another life, and gazed after the Smokestackfrom the corners of his eyes.
Yakov Zarubin and Yevsey's chief, Kapiton Ivanovich, the man with the grey mustache, whom everybody called Smokestack behind his back, remained in the chancery with him for night work more frequently than the others.
Without waiting for a question Klimkov quietly told about the Smokestack and his hunchback friend.
They did not notice the Smokestack coming up to them.
He recalled everything the Smokestack had said about the poverty of the people and the wealth of the Czar, and was convinced that both sides acted in the manner they did from fear.
The Smokestack interrupted his talk with a wide sweep of his arm.
Yevsey saw that sometimes the Smokestack took a small black book from the pocket of his long grey jacket, brought it close to his face, and mumbled something through his mustache, which moved up and down.
The Smokestack began to drink his beer in silence.
His attraction for theSmokestack had grown stronger, and he thought: "It would be good for me to sit nearer to him.
The Smokestack was attentive and kind in his behavior toward Yevsey, but often a smile of derision gleamed in his eyes which somewhat disconcerted and awed the young fellow.
Related to this proposition is the problem of supporting a tall iron smokestack by wire stays.
Evidently three stays are needed, and they are preferably placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle, the smokestack being in the center.
No cab sheltered the engineer, no brake checked the speed, wood was the only fuel, and the tall smokestack belched forth smoke and red-hot cinders.
But the roof was always too low to allow the smokestack to go under.
I don’t know how tall the smokestack was, but I would say probably the equivalent of two or three stories high.
It didn’t occur to us that somebody could be up in that smokestack after all the preparatory naval gunfire and everything that had been fired into the area, but he was up there all right.
We didn’t know it at the time, but in a tall smokestack nearby was a Japanese forward observer.
Any doubt that this was the engine room was displaced by the black metal smokestack that rose up through the cabin roof.
Within a few minutes a black cloud of greasy smoke rolled out of the smokestack and was whipped away by the wind.
As I make her out, she looks something like the Ocklockonee and the Escambia, which we sent to New York, though they had but one smokestack each while this one has two.
Through the glass it could be seen that they were making an effort to restore the fallen smokestack to its position.
As the captain had instructed the engineer to do, he had caused the fires to be reduced and a change of fuel used so that the smokestack of the Bronx was just beginning to send up volumes of black smoke.
By this time the smokestack of the Bronx was vomiting forth dense clouds of black smoke.
The firing was done on both vessels with the heavy midship guns, and doubtless the calibre of the pieces was the same; but Flint was the more fortunate of the two, for his shot struck the smokestack of the enemy, or partly upset it.
Spark arrester, a contrivance to prevent the escape of sparks while it allows the passage of gas, -- chiefly used in the smokestack of a wood-burning locomotive.
The Novelty has been described as having the appearance of "a milk-can set in the rear end of a wagon, with a little smokestack in front looking like a high dashboard.
Then the steering-gear was broken; and, getting into the trough of the sea, she rolled until her smokestack broke its moorings and fell over.
He greeted the naval forces cheerily, and, rallying Porter on the amphibious service into which his gunboats had been forced, warned him that he would soon have not a smokestack standing, nor a boat left at the davits.
There was a huge black roof, with a smokestackemerging from it, creeping down towards Sewall's Point.
The steamer was loaded, and ready to sail in the morning; and the thin wreaths of smoke rising from her smokestack told that the fires were up.
From the crest of a wave he could see a black bark, long and low, without smokestack or mast, that was nosing slowly among the débris.
Of the Mare Nostrum there was no longer visible either the mouth of the smokestack nor the point of a mast; the abyss had swallowed it all.
From the rails to top ofsmokestack it stands fourteen feet five inches.
Now, I have always been under the impression, as I presume other gentlemen have, that in the region around Lake Superior it was cold enough for at least nine months in the year to freeze the smokestack off a locomotive.
In the vivid moonlight, a dim mass assumed form up the river, the sparks tumbling from its small smokestack helping to locate the craft, which constituted the navy of the little Tabascan republic.
From the single smokestack poured the murky vapor, sprinkled with crimson sparks which were tossed right and left high in air, to drop hissing into the water.
Her boats were gone, and her smokestack as full of holes as any colander, and the engines at the last gasp.
No one would have recognised the rakish Olive Branch in the clumsy looking craft with three bare pole-masts and a smokestack as high as a factory chimney which went lurching, with propellers awash, across the Gulf of Lyons.
Its squat, inconspicuoussmokestack helped to give it a somewhat nefarious air.
The smokestack at Geary and Buchanan streets must be built up to comply with the ordinance of the city before we can get a permit to build fires under the boilers.
The smokestack should be repaired by the end of this week, and cars will probably be run over the road then.
There was a flash of fire from where the mass of men stood, followed by a dozen more flashes, and the bullets rattled on the smokestack and upon the boiler of the engine.
Notably, the smokestack is not straight, but has an elbow at its upper end, and the belt-driven blower is located there rather than on the floor of the machine as in the replica and the other models.
The present smokestack is not original, and a headlight was not installed until recent years.
The bonnet-type smokestack had a deflecting cone in its center and a wire mesh on the top to prevent the escape of sparks.
The smokestack has obviously been altered, if not replaced entirely.
Cause Smokestack Bill's the boy to raise a mob of scouts for yer, and we're the boys to jine.
Smokestack Bill, seizing one of the murdered men's picks, began to dig, lustily and in silence, every now and again shaking his head ominously.
It may here be stated that he was alone among his red entertainers; Smokestack Bill, foreseeing how affairs were likely to drift, having returned to the log cabin among the mountains.
That's the sheriff," said Smokestack Bill, coolly, lowering his revolver.
And anyone who thinks Smokestack Bill the boy to go back on a pardner is makin' an almighty big error in the undertaking.
Mastering himself, he continued to read: Your old pard, Smokestack Bill, is rubbed out.
Smokestack Bill studied the plan thoughtfully for a few moments.
All that was left of our good ship now heeled over towards the inner side of the reef, the smokestack soon went by the board and the mainmast was made to follow it by simply cutting away the starboard or seaward shrouds.
It seemed at each fall as though her masts and smokestack would jump from their holdings and go by the board.
I notified the eager, inquiring crowd at the foot of the mast and still kept my glasses trained on the steamer until her smokestack came into view.
On the approach of an enemy's vessel the smokestack will be shipped and the aperture on top of the turret through which it passed will be quickly closed watertight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smokestack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chimney; flue; funnel; stack
