gas-works

He could tell you of the vanished estate of Sir Peter Bone, long since cut up for building, and how that magnate ruled the country-side when it was country-side, of shooting and hunting, and of caches along the high road, of how “where the gas-works is” was a cricket-field, and of the coming of the Crystal Palace.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

They were by sheer preoccupation with that a peaceful people, more particularly after Wilkes, the house agent, driven by some obsolete dream of acquisition, had been drowned in the pool by the ruined gas-works for making inquiries into title and displaying a litigious turn of mind.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The Asiatic air-fleet is at present scattered all over the Eastern States, seeking out and destroying gas-works and whatever seems conducive to the building of airships or the transport of troops.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

He as sitting on the fence at the end of his garden and surveying the great Bun Hill gas-works with an eye that neither praised nor blamed.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

But his gardening made him attentive to the heavens, and the proximity of the Bun Hill gas-works and the Crystal Palace, from which ascents were continually being made, and presently the descent of ballast upon his potatoes, conspired to bear in upon his unwilling mind the fact that the Goddess of Change was turning her disturbing attention to the sky.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Distribution Company set up transformers and a generating station close beside the old gas-works — but, also a junction on the suburban mono-rail system.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The men from the gas-works, the masons, and blacksmiths, were to be marched in by Luke Samways.

Wylder's Hand 2003

It was that analogy, perhaps, quite as much as the feeling that he would be unwelcome in the Long Dragon, that drove him out after supper into the lane beyond the gas-works, to rehearse a few miracles in private.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles Herbert George 2003

The ammoniacal liquor of the gas-works is very variable in quality, but contains generally from 4 to

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

The great gasometer of the South Side gas-works had exploded.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various