gas-pipes

In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.

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These guns are not the “gas-pipes” I have seen up north; but decent rifles which have had the rifling filed out and the locks replaced by flint locks and converted into muzzle loaders, and many of them have beautiful barrels.

Travels in West Africa 2003

"Something happened to the gas-pipes, and there was an awful smell of gas, and all sorts of workmen walking around the building, so we were sent home," answered the tallest of the three girls.

Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick

They control our hard coal and much of the soft, and stoves, furnaces, and steam and hot-water heaters; the governors on steam-boilers and the boilers; gas and gas-fixtures; natural gas and gas-pipes; electric lighting, and all the appurtenances.

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

In the main street at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

"Something happened to the gas-pipes, and there was an awful smell of gas, and all sorts of workmen walking around the building, so we were sent home," answered the tallest of the three girls.

Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick

One source of foul air cannot be too much guarded against, -- we mean imperfect gas-pipes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

"Something happened to the gas-pipes, and there was an awful smell of gas, and all sorts of workmen walking around the building, so we were sent home," answered the tallest of the three girls.

Glenloch Girls Grace M. Remick

In the cities it is customary to connect the rod with the water-or gas-pipes in the street, which makes the conduction perfect.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Nine half-broken horses and mules, in a furious state of excitement, were harnessed to our unwieldy machine; the helpers let go, and off they went, kicking, plunging, rearing, biting, and screaming, into ruts and watercourses that were like the trenches they make for gas-pipes in

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor