furnace-bricks

Updated: May 27, 2025

But the topmost layers, though inferior to the best, by no means presented the distorted look of the furnace-bricks. The furnace-bricks were haggard, with the immediate blistering of the fire the midmost ones were ruddy with a genial and tempered glow the summit ones were pale with the languor of too exclusive an exemption from the burden of the blaze.

Herman Melville - Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile