boiler-house

It was hot as a boiler-house, and Jack was dripping sweat.

Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

It was hot as a boiler-house, and Jack was dripping sweat.

Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

With regard to the heating of the various buildings in the winter, steam pipes only should be used, and should be brought from a boiler-house outside the danger area, and should be covered with kieselguhr or fossil meal and tarred canvas.

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

The whole apparatus should be fixed against the wall of the laboratory, and may be heated by bringing a small steam pipe from the boiler-house.

Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

Cheek by jowl with water is its neighbor fire, safe behind bars in the boiler-house of the big engine; and next branches out, over another acre and more, or forty-eight thousand square feet, the domain of shoes and leather under a roof of its own.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

The all-pervading smell of oil and grease reminded him of Paddy's boiler-house, and he resolved to spend his first evening in writing to him.

Dick Lionheart Mary Rowles Jarvis

There are two circular collecting tanks of brickwork, two pumping wells, engine-house, boiler-house, chimney stack, and engine-driver's dwelling-house, all inclosed by a wall.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various

Coal was delivered into a large bin, between the boiler-house and Ninth Avenue, its top being level with the street surface, and its base level with the boiler-room floor.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

Our school plant is worth at least $350,000, and our greatest needs to-day are a hospital building and an adequate boiler-house and industrial equipments.

A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913

Between thirty and forty females are now accommodated in one of our male buildings, and about twenty are accommodated in a room over our boiler-house.

Report of the State Hospital, at Goldsboro, N. C., from November 30, 1902, to November 30, 1904. 31 p. N.C. Goldsboro 1905