"Smokestack" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... going monitors had arrived and were getting in their fine work. The Tennessee's smokestack was shot away, her stern port shutter was disabled, making the gun useless, while her steering chains were smashed. Like a stag beset by a pack of hounds, she was brought to her knees. The white flag was raised, and the ...
— Dewey and Other Naval Commanders • Edward S. Ellis
... but not long after 5 A. M. the Carpathia, far out of her path and making eighteen knots, instead of her wonted fifteen, showed her single red and black smokestack upon the horizon. In the joy of that moment, ...
— Sinking of the Titanic - and Great Sea Disasters • Various
... superstructure there was a sort of after-deck, nearly four feet of it. When my trunks and boxes had been piled up there, with the deck chair balancing precariously atop, and with Romoldo reclining luxuriously in it, his distraught pompadour was about on a level with the top of the smokestack. ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee
... is to heat the water before it passes into the boiler. The water on its way from the pump to the boiler is forced through a coil of pipes around which the exhaust steam passes on its way from the cylinder to the exhaust nozzle in the smokestack. ...
— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard
... as land 1,000 or more feet in height said that the factory smokestack was higher than the mountain because it "went straight up" and the mountain ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts
... if to-day should be removed from Christian civilization the school, the steam engine, the smokestack and the printing press, and leave but the Scriptures, the steeple and the parson. Would Elizabeth Cady Stantons, Mary A. Livermores and Frances E. Willards be the products of this strictly ...
— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
... ordered us again to the pumps. These were on deck between the logs, which were crashing about. We couldn't work the pumps, as there was seven feet of water in there on deck. The second mate spoke to the captain that it would be best to start the steam pump. The smokestack and the rest of the steam fittings were under the fo'c's'le head. It took a long time to get them out, and then the steam pump would not work. The water gained on us all the time now, and the captain ordered us to throw the deck-load overboard. We were nearly dead, we were so tired ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... threw open the door of his firebox to feed the furnace and a great glare of light, and a shower of sparks, spouted from the smokestack. The rumble of the wheels from across the ...
— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr
... of the wearied crew included a description of the submarine. She was camouflaged by a high bow and a rail all around, as well as by a canvas smokestack to make her look like ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson |
