The lieutenant was engaged in carefully stoking his cigar.
He glanced from the sergeant, standing rigidly by the table, to the lieutenant engaged in stoking his cigar to a nicety.
Bill Brown pondered this a long time, perhaps four seconds; then he fell to stoking in coal, and he screwed her up another notch, and he eased her running parts with the oiler.
Great depth from front to back is also attended with practical inconvenience, as it renders firing tools of considerable length, and a corresponding extent of stoking room necessary.
Under prevailing conditions coolies will, in spite of instructions, heap up a pile of logs in order to save themselves the trouble of stoking the fire in small quantity and at regular intervals.
He's been stoking away for a couple of hours now, and hasn't got up steam yet.
Seeing his intention, his companions rushed forward to stop him, but Al had snatched up a stoking iron from the floor beside him and swung it back over his shoulder.
Stoking a large freight engine or a high speed passenger locomotive is strenuous work.
Naturally a single-cylinder motor cannot be slowed down very much without stalling, and it will not start of itself because it needs outside help in stoking its furnace before it acquires the power to do this job alone.
Few people realise that there is a distinct art in stoking a furnace.
All this was due to the circumstance that, although he had mastered the stoking of an engine, he had never learned to feed himself properly.
By a recent arrangement he received sixpence a week for stoking the furnace.
And while they were talking about Charlie and about Janet, who was now living with her brother at Ealing, the sounds of George stoking the furnace below came dully up through the floor-boards.
Stoking down in that pit in that terrific heat must be fearful!
It is well known that murderers and criminals of every description take to stoking when they wish to lie low.
Shovelling snow is said to be the finest exercise in the world, and you can do it at odd moments when you are not stoking the kitchen fire.
And all those groans over the stove-stoking we were going to do were words, idle words!
Then one of the salts borrowed the stoking shovel from Johnnie, and in less than a minute the native boat had disappeared beneath the water.
Jack gripped him by the hand, while Johnnie started from his stoking well, and came a pace nearer.
Suddenly he remembered the iron bar used for stoking the fire, and as he shouted for it he prepared to place it in position.
But we've a fire, and a stoking bar, and that 'ud make a fine drill.
We left the stockade; we paid the men off; we fitted the stoking bar as a tiller; we steered the launch over the war boat; and we shot the man with the gun when things began to look nasty.
He led Eves into the basement, where a young man in shirt-sleeves was stoking the fire.
I intended coming to the meeting, but there'll be nothing very interesting until half time, and the stoking will be finished by then.
Either the stoking and the air supply must both be regular and continuous, or the air supply be made intermittent to suit the stoking.
That in stoking a fire, a small amount should be added at a time because of the heat required to warm and distill the fresh coal.
He stopped though, with red spots coming and going in the cheeks as though under the stoking of a blowpipe, and he breathed in sharp puffs that pulled his nostrils almost shut.
He was industriously stokingat a home-made corncob pipe.
Automatic regulation of stoking is no new thing in warships, and was even in use on the latest of the Atlantic liners running before the war.
The order for a certain speed is sent from the bridge to the engine-room, and the engineer sets his "Kilroy" so that the stoking shall proceed at a rate calculated to produce the necessary steam.
This plan gives perhaps the most perfect control of stoking possible without mechanical handling of the coal, and that is hardly practicable on shipboard.
The number of shovelfuls of coal to be thrown in at each stoking is determined by consulting first the telegraph from the bridge (which registers in both the engine-room and stokehold) and a table which each stoker knows by heart.
It was easy to see that stoking the furnaces of a ship with a 25 to 30 degree roll is no job for a novice.
The table referred to gives the number of shovels to be thrown on at each stoking to fulfil the direction on the telegraph.
The cost of labour in stoking and clinkering is about 6d.
The boys were stoking up for the occasion with raw apples, and the girls were occupied, when not pursuing their restless father, in preparing a puggaree for his hat.
She has perhaps the better speed, but her stoking is irregular.
Laurance growled, reaching for more wood and stoking up after the old-timer's fashion.
You're well out of it, son," Laurance observed, after another vigorous stoking of the stove.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
