lime-kiln

Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.

The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

Moreover, after my dwelling in town, where I had felt like a horse on a lime-kiln, I could not for a length of time have enough of country life.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Passing the valley of Las Vacas, we slept at a house of a North American, who worked a lime-kiln on the Arroyo de las Vivoras.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Out he came from the big lime-kiln, and, lo! and behold you, there was a wood, and green fields, and a castle in a lawn, and a bright sky over all.

The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

The wind, reverberated by the glowing hills is like the blast of a lime-kiln.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

‘Why, that other Frenchman!’ retorted Martha, going to her place behind the bar, ‘Peter something; a low, black wretch, all beard, with no tongue, and a thirst like a lime-kiln.’

Madame Midas 2003

The shades of eve closed in upon them as they walked, and by the time they reached the lime-kiln, which it was necessary to pass to get to the village, it was quite dark.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

Passing the valley of Las Vacas, we slept at a house of a North American, who worked a lime-kiln on the Arroyo de las Vivoras.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

When the lime-kiln flared up in the night, which it often did, its fires lit up the front of these ramparts to a great majesty.

The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid 2003

Emma knew it from end to end; she knew that after a meadow there was a sign-post, next an elm, a barn, or the hut of a lime-kiln tender.

Madame Bovary 2003