"Engine room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... do," agreed the engineer, "whenever there is a chance. It makes you feel like a human being after the grease and grime of the engine room." ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... women glanced over the sea the truck lights died responsively. Then the green and red starboard and port lamps and lights in wardroom and galley went out and men hurried along the deck placing tarpaulins over the engine room gratings. Only the binnacle lights remained and these were muffled with just a crack for the helmsman ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... of fire is heard Borne on the midnight air, And those who listen soon are stirred To anxious ask "Where? Where?" Our Firemen brave, full bent to save, Rush to their engine room; And flushed with hope they grasp each rope, And ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd
... them—and the way they both felt, it seemed natural for Joe to be helping Sally very carefully through the corridors of the Platform—the two of them came to the engine room. This wasn't the place where the drive of the Platform was centered. It was where the service motors and the air-circulation system and the fluid pumps were powered. Off the engine room the main gyros were already installed. They ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... bank one of the men in the skiff broke an oar and fell overboard, which obliged us to back the steamer nearly half a mile down the river to pick him up. The unlucky individual was arrayed in the only suit of clothes he possessed, and was hung up to dry in the engine room. ...
— Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life • Thomas Wallace Knox
... the crypt, the tower, and the vaulting. All the organs and the chimes are connected by electric wires, about twenty-six miles of which are employed, supplied with electricity by a motor in the tower engine room. Sublime and grand are the only terms which can suggest the effect of the volume of harmony produced by these instruments in united action. They were made by Hilborne L. Roosevelt, of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various |
