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  • It blew the smoke straight back from the mouths of the smoke-stacks at a direct right angle to the perpendicular.

    THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN' 2010

  • Tall smoke-stacks belch unending streams of poisons from power plants -- diesel trucks spew polluting toxic smoke ribbons along the expressways -- cars by the millions emit tons of particulate into the air.

    Over-Population Exponentially Increases Air Pollution 2007

  • Tall smoke-stacks belch unending streams of poisons from power plants -- diesel trucks spew polluting toxic smoke ribbons along the expressways -- cars by the millions emit tons of particulate into the air.

    Air Pollution Nationwide: Part 19--Next Added 100 Million Americans 2007

  • The deep dark ocean with smoke-stacks jutting out from the floor.

    the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2004

  • My Telephone Number: #1! amongst burping and belching city dirt/smoke-stacks, down on the STREET with you and me and the "Volenteer Junkmen Hobo Brigade", there are 1,000 antique stores.

    the-forest Diary Entry the-forest 2004

  • Then the bells distilled metallic crashes that were like physical pain, the smoke-stacks volleyed in slow acceleration at the sky, and in a moment of noise and gray gaseous turbulence the line of faces ran by, moved off, became indistinct — until suddenly there was only the sun slanting east across the tracks and a volume of sound decreasing far off like a train made out of tin thunder.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • The stars seemed to rest on the top of the smoke-stacks which rose like vast shadows in the distance.

    The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

  • Suddenly, in the distance he saw the smoke-stacks of a ship, lighted by the rays of the declining sun.

    After Long Years and Other Stories Agnes M. [Translator] Dunne

  • But a nation cannot be forever built upon smoke-stacks and blue-books.

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • The riverside at Buenos Ayres is at all times of the year a perfect forest of masts and smoke-stacks belonging to the shipping that supplies this navigation.

    Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

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