24 Verbs to Use for the Word charcoal

Fahey, being convalescent, was employed as cook; Mr. H. Gregory, Mr. Flood, Bowman, and Melville, shoeing horses; Dean making charcoal for the forge; in the afternoon there was a heavy thundershower; the flies are very troublesome and annoy the horses so much that they will not stand quiet to be shod, and some of the horses are nearly blind in consequence of the flies crawling into their eyes.

Preparing maps, sifting flour, packing specimens, burning charcoal for the forge, preparing horse-shoes.

Only charcoal we haven't got, but we can easily send for some.

I laid down my charcoal and said, "I will never draw or paint again."

" "It means," said Mary, "that you mustn't carry charcoal, on Sunday, nor let your donkey carry it.

He was no sooner gone than the boy took the charcoal from the stove and threw it into the street; and when Adelaide came to undress, there was no fire.

And this tall, still woman beside himalmost as tall as he, of rarest texture, and with a voice sensuously soft, having that quality of softness which distinguishes a charcoal from a graphite linethis woman seemed identified in some remoteness of mind with long-ago rainy days, of which there had been none too many....

I went into the back room, which we were now using as a kitchen, and finding some charcoal I tried that.

It furnishes charcoal and timber for the mines, and, with the juniper, supplies the ranches with fuel and rough fencing.

"I lit the charcoal in the stove, and, while it was burning up, carried the stovepipe and the box of fuel upstairs.

They pack their charcoal, rice, or other commodities, in long narrow baskets, which they sling on a pole carried on their shoulders, as we see the Chinese doing in the well known pictures on tea-chests.

We find men who were running almost monopolistic enterprises, such as preparing charcoal for iron production and producing iron and steel at the same time; some of these men had several factories, operating under hired and qualified managers with more than 500 labourers.

They were to pass the night at Nuremburg; and, as soon as they arrived, Karl was sent out to procure the charcoal; but, after remaining away a long time, he came back saying the shops were all shut, and he could not get any; and as the inn at Nuremburg was not a fit place for any other kind of attack, Adelaide was respited for another four-and-twenty hours.

We commonly regard charcoal as a brittle, readily combustible substance, but we have before us specimens in which these qualities are conspicuously absent.

I now worked awhile again with Mr. Henry and we sold our wood to Bill Park, a collier, who made and sold charcoal to the smelters of lead ore.

As soon as you have discovered the disease, stop wetting the legs, as that only aggravates it, and use ointment made from the following substances: Powdered charcoal, two ounces; lard or tallow, four ounces; sulphur, two ounces.

Portia perished by swallowing red-hot charcoal.

His wife Portia, the daughter of Cato, refused all comfort; and being too closely watched to be able to slay herself by ordinary means, she suffocated herself by thrusting burning charcoal into her mouth.

I know the place; it is too busy a house for a coup de main; we must try the charcoal again; but this time we must be sure of our game.' Karl hoped there might be no stoves in the bed-chamber; but it was a well-furnished house, and there were.

"The true coal," says Dr. Dawson, "consists principally of the flattened bark of Sigillarioid and other trees, intermixed with leaves of Ferns and Cordaites, and other herbaceous débris, and with fragments of decayed wood, constituting 'mineral charcoal,' all these materials having manifestly alike grown and accumulated where we find them.

On the mantelshelf in the bedroom I found a small glass-stoppered jar containing about an ounce of solid opium, and another, larger jar containing wood charcoal broken up into small fragments.

Sufficient filtration would convert charcoal into diamonds; and we shall everywhere find that the purest, most precious substances are the result of a refining, sorting, condensing process.

It is I who have passed three days and two nights in cramming charcoal under your boiler.

"I bought me a schooner wid dat money an' carried charcoal to N'awlins.

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  charcoal