7 examples of limekiln in sentences

Furnace N. furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor^, hypocaust^, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier^, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.

My throat's like any limekiln for dryness now; so do pray, Kit, fasten the door snug, and give me a mug of ale.

The light flamed high at one instantlike fireworksand at the next it died almost to a glow, as though a great bed of peat coals or a vast limekiln lay on the farthermost crest of the next chain of hills.

The British party was near enough to see the struggle at the limekiln, and came on rapidly in pursuit of our men.

The Honourable Mister Augustus Headerton died, in the forty-fifth year of his age, of inflammation, caught in an old limekiln, where he was concealed to avoid an arrest for the sum of 180 guineas, for black Nell, the famous filly, who won the cup on the Curragh of Kildarepurchased in his name, but without his knowledge, by his second son, the pride of the familycommonly called dashing Dick.

His food was brought to him every day, a mess of grain in the husk, in a trucka small railway truck, like one of the trucks he was perpetually filling with chalk, and this load he used to char in an old limekiln and then devour.

Master Whibble tells a tortuous story of finding it done up in a packet in a disused limekiln near the Downs.

7 examples of  limekiln  in sentences