Foinet seemed in a pleasant mood; he did not say much to her, but with quick, determined strokes of her charcoal pointed out her errors.
He seized a piece of charcoal, and it broke as he applied it to the paper.
Take it off!--burn it up!--burn it up!" he screamed, tearing it off, and throwing it into the
charcoal. "What did you bring it to me for?"
Well, as it turned out, this charcoal burner was just the twin of the Southern "poor white" of the far future.
He turned as white as his layer of charcoal would let him, and stopped, trembling.
When the doctor had finished, he stood up erect in the car, and, taking the two pieces of charcoal, one in each hand, drew their points nearly together.
In a twinkling, an intense and dazzling light was produced, with an insupportable glow between the two pointed ends of charcoal, and a huge jet of electric radiance literally broke the darkness of the night.
It issued a rate of forty-two dollars a car on
charcoal. At the end of three months, Jones went over his figures, and found that he was
In his Columbiad charges Rodman employed a powder as large as chestnuts, made of willow
charcoal, simply dried in cast- iron pans.
The squares were filled with small wooden theaters, overflowing with boys from morning till night, and on the walls of the houses, written with
charcoal, were words like these: HURRAH FOR THE LAND OF TOYS!
That ash is nothing else than the
charcoal dust that covers the path along which you must pass through the forest, in order to get directly from Epinay to the Glandier.
On these occasions, in summer as in winter, a blazing fire was kindled for some days previously in the large grate, and the
charcoal was lighted in the tripod-pan, to keep the Banqueting-Hall as warm as circumstances would admit.
When Rowena perceived the Knight Templar's eyes bent on her with an ardour, that, compared with the dark caverns under which they moved, gave them the effect of lighted
charcoal, she drew with dignity the veil around her face, as an intimation that the determined freedom of his glance was disagreeable.
How would you have me manufacture gun powder on board, without either saltpetre, sulphur, or
charcoal?"
