asbestos-lagged

Updated: May 8, 2025

I heard him volunteer the fact that he had a brother an artificer in the Navy. "They couple very well, those two," said Pyecroft critically, while Hinchcliffe sniffed round the asbestos-lagged boiler and turned on gay jets of steam. "Now take me up the road," he said. My man, for form's sake, looked at me. "Yes, take him," I said. "He's all right."

Rudyard Kipling - Traffics and Discoveries