We occupied the same compartment car.

Possibly something had gone wrong with a hatch or iron compartment door inadvertently left open, or one of the ventilators may have got jammed and needed adjusting.

The response-compartment E of figure 17 was 14 feet 4 inches, by 8 feet, by 6 feet in depth.

Above the upper steam valve V, is a compartment communicating with the steam pipe

That is one of the weaknesses of our time, the water-tight compartment plan of high specialization, the cellular theory of efficiency.

It broke down what Lord Curzon calls "the water-tight compartment system of India.

For gathering the silver a compartment tray in which knives, forks, and spoons may be placed separately is important.

I placed one of my officers in the same compartment with him, the other in the compartment contiguée towards the engine, myself in that à derrière.

The car was a clean, second-class coach, of the usual European compartment kind, two men to a compartment, and at night they bunked on the long transverse seats comfortably enough.

Kent fought it as long as he could, making sure that the smoking-compartment liars' club would be in session; but when the demand became a nagging insistence, he found his pipe and tobacco and went to the men's room.