furnace-like

Updated: May 28, 2025

However, I shall expect you, at half-past three, when I will take you to the Medical Verification Office, where I hope I shall be able to show you some surprising things. Don't forget, at half-past three." Thereupon he sent him off, and remained on the bench alone. The heat had yet increased, and the distant hills were burning in the furnace-like glow of the sun.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete

Then turning, and with a mirthful and provoking gleam in her eyes, he remarked, "I should think this weather would be just to your taste." "Why so?" "Oh, you have become enough of a Yankee to guess." "Would you say that even this furnace-like air cannot quicken my blood?" "My friend, I do not believe that anything could quicken your pulse one beat."

Edward Payson Roe - The Earth Trembled

It is a singular fact that, although iron, copper, gold and silver abound in the mountains in Arizona, no tools, utensils or ornaments of these metals are found in the mounds or ruins. Yet furnace-like structures of ancient origin have been found, which appear to have been used for reducing ores, and in and around which can be found great quantities of an unknown kind of slag.

James Cox - My Native Land: The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People;: with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions,: Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the: Instruction of the Young

However, I shall expect you, at half-past three, when I will take you to the Medical Verification Office, where I hope I shall be able to show you some surprising things. Don't forget, at half-past three." Thereupon he sent him off, and remained on the bench alone. The heat had yet increased, and the distant hills were burning in the furnace-like glow of the sun.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

From Golden Gate Avenue north the fire crossed the wide street in but one place. That was at the Claus Spreckels place, on the corner of California Street. There the flames were writhing up the walls before the dynamiters could reach the spot. Yet they made their way to the foundations, carrying their explosives, despite the furnace-like heat.

Charles Morris - The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire

And under the sky, of the violet blue of a conflagration, the parched plain could be seen, stretching away in the distance, as if asleep or dead in the overpowering, furnace-like heat, while to the right, above the pink roofs, rose the belfry of St. Saturnin, a gilded tower with arises that, in the blinding light, looked like whitened bones.

Émile Zola - Doctor Pascal