dye-works

• “I'd upped the ante to "warm piss" before deciding that warm piss actually has some value, as fertilizer or in old-style dye-works.”

  jhetley: Appropriate

• “We all smiled indulgently; the thing was so plain that it was almost silly to mention it, but all the same -- the man was forgiven his silliness, and dye-works were established.”

  The South Pole~ The End of the Winter

• “He has become a liquid; a flowing stream of tendency; an impersonal element in the economics of the dye-works.”

  Oikos and Logos: Chesterton's Vision of Distributism

• “Half-way down this street, which is always damp, and where the gutter carries to the Seine the blackened waters from some dye-works, there is an old house, restored no doubt under Francis I., and built of bricks held together by a few courses of masonry.”

  The Commission in Lunacy

• “We all smiled indulgently; the thing was so plain that it was almost silly to mention it, but all the same — the man was forgiven his silliness, and dye-works were established.”

  The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912

• “In the thread-producing mills, i.e. in spinning mills and finishing mills such as twisted-yarn mills and dye-works, most of the lighting tasks are solved by a general lighting or by workshop-orientated lighting.”

  10. Mounting of Lighting Installations

• “His keys for the dye-works and the fulling sheds, too?”

  The Rose Rent

• “Or if the dye-works were on the banks of a running stream of clean water the dyed goods were simply hung in the stream to be washed in a very effectual manner.”

  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student

• “= -- This is in use in several continental dye-works.”

  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student

• “Space will not admit of a detailed account of every kind of machine, but only of those which are in constant use in dye-works.”

  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student

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