sugar-refinery

In the Island of Roda there is a sugar-refinery of considerable extent, founded in 1859, and principally managed by Englishmen.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

The building turns out to be a sugar-refinery, or some equally depressing place, and the unhappy children are initiated into its mysteries.

The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

Denzil's uncle -- Samuel Quarrier -- busied in establishing a sugar-refinery in his native town, received the young man with amiable welcome, and entertained him for half a year.

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

There's a huge sugar-refinery, and a place where they make jams.

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880

He entered upon this position without zeal, but six months 'investigation had taught him that to earn money without surrendering his independence was no very easy thing; he probably might wait a long time before an opening would present itself more attractive than this at the sugar-refinery.

Will Warburton George Gissing 1880

At the end of the two months he sent his resignation in to the Chamber and opened a sugar-refinery at Briche.

Renée Mauperin Edmond de Goncourt 1859

His residence, his sugar-plantations, were but a heap of ruins and rubbish, and as a gift of Providence he looked upon the one refuge left him in his sugar-refinery, which was miraculously spared by the hurricane.

Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843

They, too, had the sugar-refinery close at hand, whereas the poor free negro was not permitted to refine his product, _nor is he so even now_, although it is claimed that sugar might still be grown with advantage, were he permitted to exercise even that small amount of control over his labour and its products.

The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836

Rajabu, 45, who formerly taught the children of sugar-refinery workers, survived two civil wars in his country.

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Hills sought out the slim spire of Polterham parish church amid a tract of woodland, mead and tillage; now the site of the thriving little borough was but too distinctly marked by trails of smoke from several gaunt chimneys -- that of Messrs. Dimes & Nevison's blanket-factory, that of Quarrier & Son's sugar-refinery, and, higher still (said, indeed, to be one of the tallest chimneys in

Denzil Quarrier George Gissing 1880