"Smokestack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... four inches filled in with concrete, and the gun deck was supported by heavy steel pillars, as the space between the lower deck and the gun deck was twelve feet. A fireproof platform four feet wide with a railing four feet high of netting, encircled the smokestack about twenty feet above the gun and connected with it by a rope ladder. It was the lookout station and the Captain's post in battle from where ...
— Eurasia • Christopher Evans
... last night. Nothing happened except that early this morning a French cruiser joined us, and I got covered with smuts from the smokestack. ...
— "Crumps", The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went • Louis Keene
... all see the smokestack of the powerful tug, and for fear lest it should pass by and not do them any good ...
— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy
... skylight, which was covered by a tarpaulin. Below, to star-board, on the bridge deck, the pilot saw the crushed mess-room door, roughly bulkheaded against the pounding seas. Abreast of it, on the smokestack guys, and being taken down by the bos'n and a sailor, hung the huge square of rope netting which had failed to break those seas of ...
— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London
... sorts of coal and find some way to use it so that there wouldn't be so much waste. The locomotive, for instance, only converts about thirty per cent. of the coal into power. The other seventy per cent. goes up the smokestack. Same thing with an ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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