soap-works

Mr. Posttlethwaite, who had been home to his dinner, had gone back to the soap-works.

John Caldigate 2004

One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

There was only one little inn near by, frequented by longshoremen and employees from the soap-works and cement-factories -- a rough lot -- and there at daybreak they went as soon as the other customers had left for work.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

There was only one little inn near by, frequented by longshoremen and employees from the soap-works and cement-factories -- a rough lot -- and there at daybreak they went as soon as the other customers had left for work.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

I saw up to the bridge and a little beyond; say as far as the site of the soap-works.

News from Nowhere 1892

The soap-works with their smoke-vomiting chimneys were gone; the engineer's works gone; the lead-works gone; and no sound of riveting and hammering came down the west wind from Thorneycroft's.

News from Nowhere 1892

The soap-works with their smoke-vomiting chimneys were gone; the engineer's works gone; the lead-works gone; and no sound of riveting and hammering came down the west wind from Thorneycroft's.

News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

So I tried to look unconcerned, and to glance in a matter-of-course way at the banks of the river, though this is what I saw up to the bridge and a little beyond; say as far as the site of the soap-works.

News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

Mr. Liversedge generally smoked a cigar before returning for an hour or two to the soap-works.

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880