Lead Works

Vaughn, at Marion, completely routing and pursuing him to Wytheville, capturing all his artillery, trains, and one hundred and ninety-eight prisoners; and destroyed Wytheville, with its stores and supplies, and the extensive lead-works near there. ❋ David Widger (N/A)

Iron-works, lead-works, manufactories, and every thing else that may conduce to the common welfare of the nation, are set on foot, and carried on. ❋ James Pringle Thomson (N/A)

The fumes of the lead-works at the back often took her own appetite away and depressed her spirits, but she never failed to rouse herself and welcome him with a smile. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

But the fumes of the lead-works affected _his_ appetite, too, and his spirits: and when these flag a man has an easy and specious remedy in brandy-and-water. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The soap-works with their smoke-vomiting chimneys were gone; the engineer's works gone; the lead-works gone; and no sound of riveting and hammering came down the west wind from Thorneycroft's. ❋ Unknown (1892)

On the 16th he struck the enemy, under Vaughn, at Marion, completely routing and pursuing him to Wytheville, capturing all his artillery, trains, and one hundred and ninety-eight prisoners; and destroyed Wytheville, with its stores and supplies, and the extensive lead-works near there. ❋ Unknown (1885)

According to Ure's Dictionary of Arts, see vol. ii., p. 832, an English miner has constructed flues five miles in length for the condensation of the smoke from his lead-works, and makes thereby an annual saving of metal to the value of ten thousand pounds sterling. ❋ Unknown (1874)

The soap - works with their smoke-vomiting chimneys were gone; the engineer's works gone; the lead-works gone; and no sound of rivetting and hammering came down the west wind from Thorneycroft's. ❋ William Morris (1865)

My portfolio makes King Midas 'palace look like a lead-works. well, I'm not too worried (not as worried as the middle-classes should be). ❋ Unknown (2009)

She had welcomed him in this dark little second-floor room -- dwelling-room and bedroom combined -- in which she was sitting alone; for her husband spent most of the day abroad on the business which had brought them to London, either superintending the alterations in the unfurnished premises he had hired in Frith Street for his shop and the lead-works by which he proposed to make his fortune, or in long discussions at Johnson's Court with Uncle ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Ohh man, we're [understaffed] today. That means the working leads are supposed help us. [Too bad] they're probably just going to stand around and [hover] over us while they do nothing as usual. ❋ Thetruthfulahole (2015)