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  • I really think in many ways the steam's kind of gone out of this issue for a lot of folks.

    Potpourri Andrew Beckner 2007

  • I really think in many ways the steam's kind of gone out of this issue for a lot of folks.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Andrew Beckner 2007

  • Rosy-cheeked old women emerge from the baths smiling, clapping strangers on the arm and saying, "The steam's great today!"

    What's Right With Russia 2008

  • Driven by the same kinematic properties of fluid dynamics that powered tornadoes, the steam's vertical transfer of energy was counterbalanced by an anticyclonic vorticity spiral that circled the shaft, carrying energy in the opposite direction.

    Deception Point Brown, Dan, 1964- 2001

  • "Moind thee toas, lad, steam's up, I mun jump a bit."

    Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow F. Jewell

  • Ther are times when we're all brimful o 'summat, th' steam's up, an 'if we connot find a safety valve we shall brust.

    Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

  • In the case of the geyser, superadded to the superheated steam's explosive power, there will be in addition that of the gases liberated by the decomposition of the carbonates, sulphates, and chlorides (under the combined influence of heat and water) in chamber (C), which I call for the nonce the chemical laboratory.

    A Girl's Ride in Iceland George Harley 1862

  • The carcasses of houses, and beginnings of new thoroughfares, had started off upon the line at steam's own speed, and shot away into the country in a monster train. '

    Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841

  • It is evident that the rolled towels did focus the steam's rise. but the seventeen-inch pan, below a twenty-inch baking stone created an asymmetric cooled surface on the stone, as is evidenced by the lesser ovenspring on the left and right sides of the left and right loaf respectively.

    The Fresh Loaf davidg618 2010

  • For instance, steam's light touch means it's perfect for zooming over crumbling pathways.

    Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2009

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