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The pile, after being covered with earth, is then lighted from the base, and if there are no inlets for the air except the limited proportion required for the smouldering fire at the base, the whole of the timber will be gradually carbonised to charcoal of good quality, which is available for the waterless power plant.
"Which we will be only too glad to do. We only wanted to get Bluff back." There was a sudden brilliant flash, and a shout of alarm from the boys about the front of the charcoal burners' cabin. "Got it all right, and I bet it's a dandy!" exclaimed Will.
Various opinions were given, and at last it was settled that a small division, guarded by a few soldiers, should be sent out every day to supply only the daily need for charcoal. It was suggested that the most dangerous of the convicts should be fettered together in pairs to perform their duties.
It was too rough for wheels, but filled with the heavy hoof-marks of donkeys, which were used largely for carrying wood, charcoal, and sea-coal to the mine; and as I stood up by the spot where years before Bob Chowne, Bigley, and I had blown up the big stone and set it rolling down into the valley, it was wonderful what a change had taken place.
Because there is a Chinese word daidai signifying 'from generation unto generation. Wherefore the fruit called daidai has become a fruit of good omen. It signifies 'prosperous changelessness. Here the idea is decidedly curious. Even as the colour of charcoal cannot be changed, so may the fortunes of those we love remain for ever unchanged In all that gives happiness!
He was the grandson of a famous artist, and there were those who prophesied that some day Mark would follow in the footsteps of his illustrious ancestor; for he would draw off-hand charcoal sketches of his chums, mostly in a humorous vein, that excited roars of laughter. Mark was also something of a musician, and had in the beginning been elected to fill the position of bugler to the troop.
In their rear were the serfs and artisans, some with axes, scythes, or ploughshares, a few with cross-bows, and Jobst and his sons with the long blackened poles used for stirring their charcoal fires.
So to her, and found her in great pain...... So by and by to my office again, and then abroad to look out a cradle to burn charcoal in at my office, and I found one to my mind in Newgate Market, and so meeting Hoby's man in the street, I spoke to him to serve it in to the office for the King.
"We must see about that," said the doctor. "We will try to manufacture a still to turn salt water into fresh." "But the charcoal will go but a little way for that purpose," remarked his young companion. "Nil desperandum," answered the doctor. "We will try what can be done." "Here's a case which looks like a tea-chest," remarked one of the men who was helping them. "It is somewhat wet though."
Monsieur d'Etchegorry had dismissed the servant and engaged a char-woman, whom he intended to pay, merely by small sums on account, and he used to go to market with a basket on his arm. He locked up every morsel of food, used to count the lumps of sugar and charcoal, and bolted himself in all day long in a room that was larger than the rest, and which for a long time had served as a drawing-room.
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