boiler-shop

Far above, taut ropes beat against it so that it clanged like a boiler-shop.

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As it was, he never did know how he landed, except that he made a boiler-shop racket and brought up against the far wall of the corridor with a climactic clang.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

"It is as quiet as a boiler-shop," I replied, as I turned to go.

The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Far above, taut ropes beat against it so that it clanged like a boiler-shop.

Chapter 33 1914

"It is as quiet as a boiler-shop," I replied, as I turned to go.

The Circular Staircase 1908

Whether born on the anniversary of Cromwell's death or in the boiler-shop, no stories of the youthful precocity of Eugene Field survive to entertain us or to suggest that he gave early indication of the possession either of unusual talent or of that unique personality that were to distinguish him from the thousands born every day.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

When his father was married he took his bride home to a house on Collins Street, which, under Time's transmuting and ironical fingers, has since become a noisy boiler-shop.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

Although Eugene himself went with the photographer and pointed out the house, his brother Roswell strenuously maintains that Eugene was born before the family moved to the Walsh row, so-called, and that to the boiler-shop belongs the honor of having heard the first lullabies that greeted the ears of their greatest master.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

Far above, taut ropes beat against it so that it clanged like a boiler-shop.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

Men will work themselves into hysteria over the buzzing of a fly, and yet plan a battle-ship in a boiler-shop.

The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894