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  • “I saw Biff lying on the furnace-room floor,” Frank said quietly.

    The Hardy Boys Franklin W.Dixon 2001

  • But there was a small clean furnace-room off the kitchen; there were large yards and a vacant field on one side and woods on the other three.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • But there was a small clean furnace-room off the kitchen; there were large yards and a vacant field on one side and woods on the other three.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • The girl watched the engine for some time and then crept slowly along a steel bridge that looked like a spider's web, from which she could look into the furnace-room, with its roaring fires, scorching heat and constantly clanging iron doors.

    Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

  • The "Merrimac's" funnel was down, and the smoke from her furnace-room was pouring low over her casemate.

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • The steamer had started on the trip short of firemen and now a fireman who had fallen in the furnace-room, striking his head on the steel floor, was lying unconscious in his berth.

    Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

  • The house is to be divided into two compartments -- the furnace-room on one end, about eight feet long, and the propagating house, The furnace is below the ground, say four feet long, the flue to be made of brick, and to extend under the whole length of the bench.

    The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann

  • Sometimes, in those southern seas, the temperature of the furnace-room is something unthinkable, yet they endure it; though, as soon as their relief appears, they will fling their steaming, and almost naked, bodies into the scuppers, to let the rush of water wash them into coolness, once more.

    All Aboard A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • He went into the cellar and looked all about, peering into the furnace-room and coal-bin, but nowhere could he find the crafty object of his search.

    The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith

  • His depression was lifting at every step, and he advanced jauntily, restraining an absurd inclination to kick the pail as he passed into the semi-darkness of the furnace-room.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

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