The island is only a quarter of a mile in diameter, and on it are situated an admiralty coal-shed (where a few tons of coal have lain untouched for twenty years), the barracks for a handful of black labourers, a big store and warehouse with sheet-iron roofs, and a bungalow inhabited by the manager and his two clerks. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But no sounds issued forth, though the door was open and smoke curling upward from the sheet-iron stovepipe. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The sheet-iron Yukon Stove roared red-hot, yet, eight feet away, on the meat-shelf, placed low and beside the door, lay chunks of solidly frozen moose and bacon. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Night had come on by the time he had pitched his small tent, set up the sheet-iron stove, and chopped a supply of firewood. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I had never seen her with so little wind-surface, and the three narrow strips of canvas, bellied to the seemingness of sheet-iron with the pressure of the wind, drove her before the gale at astonishing speed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Messner set up his light sheet-iron stove and starred a fire. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Shorty set up the sheet-iron stove in the boat, and over this Stine and Sprague hung through the long, drifting hours. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He followed her glance and saw a sheet-iron stove and a coffee-pot, attended by a young squaw. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Two flags were stiffly undulating from the halyards like squares of flexible sheet-iron. ❋ Unknown (2010)
High in the tight folds of the mountains, among the stone houses with their patchwork wooden and sheet-iron roofs, we sat on logs drinking strong, sweet coffee courtesy of our guide's friends here. ❋ Sophie Cooke (2010)
The officers lived in a former cholera hospital with a concrete floor and a sheet-iron roof, which leaked until it was blown off in a sandstorm and never replaced. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Towards the close of 1815 a man, a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The hovel was completely illuminated, as it were, by the reflection from a rather large sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She had pulled an old sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap of iron. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Bales of hay were banked all around the foundations of the farmhouse, which was heated by two sheet-iron wood-burning stoves, one upstairs and one downstairs in the room next to my small bedroom. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nor was this all; a solid oak door had been put in by his orders, and the walls were lined with sheet-iron; he even replaced the dirty window sash by panes of ribbed glass, so that no one without could watch him at his work. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This ignominious conveyance, yellow-bodied, on high wheels, and lined with sheet-iron, is divided into two compartments. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The vehicle, lined with sheet-iron, is impervious to any tool. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Upon the steps, between two pillars which support the little sheet-iron veranda to which so many eyes have been upturned in longing or despair, Lousteau stopped and looked into ❋ Unknown (2007)
