Instead of insisting that giant growers reduce risky practices, the USDA invoked a rule that requires the gassing or steam-heating of California raw almonds in a way that many consumers have found unacceptable. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You will be tempted to think of books as objects, not to be read, but to be possessed for show, and when that happens, you are easy prey to those booksellers who deal in harlot volumes, tricked out in pretty skins (which will not last becasue the leather is not well prepared) and bedizened with gold paint that used to be daubed on steam-heating coils. ❋ Unknown (2005)
But the houses were glazed all along their fronts with the sun-traps which we had noted in the Basque country, and which do not wait for a certain date in the almanac to do the work of steam-heating. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The mere sight of their warmth did something to supply the defect of steam in the steam-heating apparatus, but when one got beyond their radius there was nothing for the shivering traveler except to wrap himself in the down quilt of his bed and spread his steamer-rug over his knees till it was time to creep under both of them between the glacial sheets. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The landlord pointed out that it was completely equipped with steam-heating apparatus, but when I made him observe that there was no steam in the shining radiators, he owned with a shrug that there was truth in what I said. ❋ Unknown (2004)
There was not only steam-heating, but the steam was on! ❋ Unknown (2004)
Of course, in such an isolated dwelling, electric-lighting, steam-heating, fireproof stairs, and other luxuries of the "flat," would hardly be expected. ❋ Various (N/A)
Just what was in the cab -- the water and oil tanks, the steam-heating boiler to supply heat and hot water to the train the monster was to draw, the motors and the many other mechanical contrivances -- was hidden from the spectators. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
They were working at everything at once, from the new installation of electric light and the steam-heating apparatus, in the basement, to the emergency exits and the main lobby. ❋ J. Andr�� Castaigne (N/A)
The steam-heating of the building is supplied by four one hundred horse-power boilers. ❋ Agnes Rush Burr (N/A)
Corresponding savings are evidently possible in every other department of housekeeping, including steam-heating, ventilating, laundry-work, lighting and elevator-work. ❋ Various (N/A)
During the winter of 1908-09 a steam-heating plant was installed at a cost of $700, so that both of the new buildings are steam-heated and electric-lighted. ❋ Charles Henry (1925)
The steam-heating plant did not work very well, and the new janitor, seeing fewer and fewer people come to the reading-room, spent less and less time in struggling with the boilers, or in keeping the long path up the hill shoveled clear of snow. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
It is all right for them to murmur, but if you so much as scrooge your feet, or utter a low, despairing moan or anything, they all turn and glare at you reproachfully and go "Sh!" like a collection of steam-heating fixtures. ❋ Peter Newell (1910)
They will not even give us coal for steam-heating -- I arrived here. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
When the new Jacobi Memorial Building is completed and an adequate steam-heating plant and laundry added, the present plant, including the Home for Aged Odd Fellows, will be valued at about $125,000. ❋ North Carolina Board Of Public Charities (1909)
Attempts to imitate this natural sweating process by steam-heating the coffees that reached ❋ Unknown (1909)
The systems of steam-heating, hot-water heating, or hot-air heating have each their merits, depending on the location of the house and the climate of the region. ❋ Marion Mills Miller (1906)
That morning the Countess and I, with five furniture vans, had transported the five great incubators to the platform of the lecture-hall, and had engaged an army of plumbers and gas-fitters to make the steam-heating connections necessary to maintain in the incubators a temperature of 100° Fahrenheit. ❋ Unknown (1899)
This $16,000 was spent chiefly to meet bills and notes for completing the power-house, smoke-stack, and setting the boilers; providing the laundry and laundry machinery; completion of the new kitchen; installing the steam-heating system in the main dormitory, and the warm air fan system in the main college building, and transferring the hot water heating plant to the wooden dormitory building. ❋ Charles Harden (1896)
