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    1. The shared bath is an old, cast-iron monolith on lion claw feet, the sort that middle-class homemakers pay through the nose for


    2. To give herself time to think, Amaranthe opened the door to the cast-iron stove and shoveled in a heap of coal


    3. Meanwhile, coat a cast-iron skillet with cooking spray and cook the tortillas, 1 at a time, on both sides until crisp, about 2 minutes on each side


    4. In contrast to these possessions are some others he appears to value almost as much and which he keeps in his office: copies of the guidebooks he wrote for Duncan Hines; empty cake mix boxes with the Duncan Hines label; and some cast-iron toys his wife’s father made in his manufacturing business at the turn of the century


    5. She found him in the large kitchen with its open fireplace and huge cast-iron stove, chatting to Maggie as she was busy preparing the evening meal


    6. Blueblood and his comrades deflected a number of the arcane projectiles with their cast-iron shields


    7. They had hardly neared the cast-iron gate when an organized troop of goblins formed a semicircle before them


    8. Expecting MacFife to step out when it arrived, I had ready a cast-iron frying pan from the kitchen


    9. Preheat a cast-iron tawa over medium heat


    10. Sauté rice in oil or fat in a large cast-iron frying pan

    11. It was enough to turn even the cast-iron stomachs of trolls


    12. That we're not, is amply exposed and detailed throughout my work, as any reader with a cast-iron stomach and honest-to-the-point-of-pain character can attest to


    13. Wooden pillars supported a cast-iron balcony


    14. Humphrey examined the elegant roof and cast-iron pillars and felt certain he could make a positive identification


    15. I decided to check out the house and went through the open patio door to the kitchen, where I found a cast-iron frying pan lying on the ground and a few missing knives from the butcher block


    16. It had a basement as well, which in Victorian days was a storeroom, a pantry, a wine cellar and a coal depot connected directly to the street by a circular cast-iron trapdoor on the pavement


    17. There was a cast-iron stove


    18. And then, happening to look up at the wall, I saw in the light of the corner lamp, a white, cast-iron tablet fixed thereon, bearing an inscription in raised black letters, thus: "Line A


    19. A Municipality had stolen an invention of excellent fancy, and a fine jest had turned into a horrid piece of cast-iron


    20. Thus professionally spoke Don Pepe, the fighter, with pendent moustaches, a nut-brown, lean face, and a clean run of a cast-iron jaw, suggesting the type of a cattle-herd horseman from the great Llanos of the South

    21. A lot of nineteenth-century ironmasters back on Old Earth had experimented with ways of banding cast-iron artillery pieces to strengthen their breeches, but few of them had been truly satisfactory


    22. This hotel had already reached that stage, and the soldier in a filthy uniform smoking in the entry, supposed to stand for a hall-porter, and the cast-iron, slippery, dark, and disagreeable staircase, and the free and easy waiter in a filthy frock coat, and the common dining room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers adorning the table, and filth, dust, and disorder everywhere, and at the same time the sort of modern upto-date self-complacent railway uneasiness of this hotel, aroused a most painful feeling in Levin after their fresh young life, especially because the impression of falsity made by the hotel was so out of keeping with what awaited them


    23. She looked at the lower part of the carriages, at the screws and chains and the tall cast-iron wheel of the first


    24. Light from their windows and from the antique cast-iron streetlamps, each crowned with three frosted globes, radiated through the water


    25. She had not seen him alone since that too dreadful day when Scarlett had from his horse and toss the reins over the arm of the cast-iron negro boy who stood at been so ill and he had been so—well—so drunk


    26. He poked at the lock until he finally got the key into it, turned it, and opened the lower cabinet where he kept the old cast-iron safe


    27. The bailiff entered with a solemn expression, carrying the heavy cast-iron imprinting seal, which he placed at the right end of my father’s bench


    28. Says Swann, “Gold stocks are extremely volatile, so you have to have a cast-iron stomach for the volatility, and you MUST have patience


    29. Riders sat on cast-iron slats atop a belt moving at a speed of 22


    30. I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way fresh snow crunched under my black rubber boots, for the warmth of the cast-iron stove as the wind screeched through the yards, the streets

    31. But there were two things amid the garbage that I couldn't stop looking at: One was the blue kite resting against the wall, close to the cast-iron stove; the other was Hassan's brown corduroy pants thrown on a heap of eroded bricks


    32. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at full length, and who seemed to be ill


    33. For the men in the barricade had made themselves two small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at one end with tow and fire-clay


    34. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a stone construction on a concrete foundation, and the clayey strata, infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des Martyrs was by means of a cast-iron pipe


    35. The great cast-iron stove was in excellent condition and bid fair to outlast the Colosseum which it resembled


    36. And the cast-iron statuette


    37. [Note 75: The first line refers to the prevailing shape of the cast-iron handles which adorn the porte cocheres


    38. They were most obliging old things, ready to do anything for me, and at my request were as silent afterwards as two cast-iron posts


    39. The same is true of salt, of melted cast-iron, when it changes from a liquid into a solid


    40. Many competent persons were summoned to give their opinions; and through the contrariety of their testimony, the prevalent opinion appears to have been, that cast-iron boilers cannot be safe; that as many engines of high steam as of low are now used in England, but that the high are much the most economical in fuel and cost; that they are more safe, if properly constructed; it being argued by some, that boilers for steam of 100 pounds to the inch, are easily made of strength to sustain 500 pounds; this excess being much greater than in those constructed for low steam, makes them comparatively the safest, as the safety valves are less liable to be accidentally prevented from venting the steam

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