Alternatively, you might be apologizing for unintentionally offending the delicate sensibilities of the Olympic organizers, who don't like being reminded that their capital city is a wheezing, soot-choked ash-pit. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Had she for one minute left this scraping sound of the small shovel in the ash-pit of the furnace? ❋ Unknown (2004)
Whereas previously he could barely hear the rattling of coals from the coal-scuttle, he was now able to catch the sound of an ash falling into the ash-pit. ❋ Unknown (2003)
‘She SHALL not look so much finer than us,’ they cried passionately to each other as soon as they were alone; and when night came they stole out of their rooms, and taking out the wedding-dress, they laid it in the ash-pit, and heaped ashes upon it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Rune propped the broom in a corner by the fireplace and emptied the ashes and clinkers into the ash-pit beneath the fireplace floor. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1992)
Use damper and not ash-pit doors | Because less excess air is to control draft. | admitted by so doing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The door has to be opened so frequently in this method, and in pushing the coals from the dead-plate to the bars a large amount of live fuel drops down into the ash-pit, and if this should be thrown into the furnace again, the fire is deadened immediately. ❋ W. J. Connor (N/A)
The chief point is to have a good set of firebars and well placed; if they are too long they will hump in the middle or they will bulge sideways; if they are too close together they become red-hot because there is not room enough for the air to pass between them to keep them moderately cool, and if they are too short they will drop down into the ash-pit. ❋ W. J. Connor (N/A)
There is daily a considerable amount of refuse found in every home, from the kitchen, from the fire-grate, from the sweeping of rooms, etc., and as a rule this is day after day deposited in the ash-pit, which but too often is placed close to the house, and left uncovered. ❋ Various (N/A)
If the burnt sacrifices were of doves, the priest was to nip off the head with the finger nail, squeeze out the blood on the edge of the altar, pluck off the feathers, and throw them with the crop into the ash-pit, divide down the wings, and then completely burn it. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Twelve stalls of the existing round-house were extended to accommodate the motive power; a large transfer table and pit were increased in size, and an additional ash-pit and engine storage tracks were constructed. ❋ E. B. Temple (N/A)
The rear wall of the church formed the north wall of the ash-pit, and the south wall and the ends were built of concrete. ❋ George C. Clarke (N/A)
The boilers were erected south of the church, an ash-pit being first built, the full width of it, with the floor on a level with the basement. ❋ George C. Clarke (N/A)
A good-natured engineer came out on the ash-pit track to welcome me to the West and the road, and incidentally to remark that it was a great relief to the gang that I had come as I did. ❋ John A. Hill (N/A)
_A_ is a current of air forced from the ash-pit directly upward through the fuel bed; _B_ and _B_ are streams of air forced above the fuel bed through numerous small openings at the furnace side of each hopper. ❋ Herbert M. Wilson (N/A)
She stepped out, radiant and coolly excited, and Campion, who had a proper respect for any woman who could end a twelve-hour summer journey in a Paris-Sud train looking as though she had stepped out of a bandbox rather than an ash-pit, admired her elegance. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1934)
Did you not die in the execution ash-pit rather than betray me? ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1931)
Outside, by an ash-pit, he found a bucket and half-buried shovel. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)
