What is "stoves"

Usage examples of "stoves".

The fires were burning in camp stoves, in the stoves made of kerosene cans and of sheets of metal.

Anton was busy putting out the stoves, folding his blankets, adding his cape to his heavy gray suit.

But there was a smell of wood smoke in the sharp air, a reminder of warm stoves and supper tables and families safely gathered together.

Karl administered the shot of morphine, then lit two kerosene stoves, while Zauner made contact with the Seidl house where Bruno was waiting for his report.

At least the guild mothers had allowed the ancient guard to light a brazier at his post, and when they were finally ushered into the long room where the regents sat, he was glad to see another pair of stoves, as well as the massive fireplace.

All were lit, and he edged gratefully toward the nearest of the stoves, letting it warm him at least from the knees up.

Someone had brought the girl to one of the stoves, Rathe saw with approval, and found a patched shawl to throw over her shoulders for the return journey.

Kazbek, of pipes of all sizes, of water-towers, telegraph poles, stoves, blast furnaces and sky-scrapers.

I chanted it aloud as I filled both stoves with wood, pulled on a second shirt and pair of pants, added a sweater, zipped up the Snowmobile boots, put on the scarf and jacket and gloves and cap and stomped into the back hall like a space-suited astronaut entering the airlock, or a hardhat diver going into the decompression chamber.

Between the happy cries of the scorched and the clatter of utensils and the roar of eight conversations going on at once and the growling hiss of the stoves and the thunderous volley of farts that attends any gathering of vegetarians, we made the rafters of the old house ring.

A great number of people too, many, like me, with stores, also horses, some bullocks, several big cast-iron stoves, and the SF waterfront crowded, the hubbub of excitement swelling all the time, thrilling me through and through.

The assembly hall had grown noticeably warmer, thanks to the fires blazing all evening and all night in the old-fashioned stoves in the library bays of the hall.

Then he could escape from the hideous cold into the heavenly warmth of the heated cars with their glowing stoves, where he could crawl into a crowded kennel-like compartment, collapse on to a narrow cot, cover himself up and stretch out.

The general introduction of cooking stoves, and other stoves and apparatus for warming houses, within the last twenty years, which we acknowledge to be a great acquisition in comfort as well as in convenience and economy, has been carried to an extreme, not only in shutting up and shutting out the time-honored open fireplace and its broad hearthstone, with their hallowed associations, but also in prejudice to the health of those who so indiscriminately use them, regardless of other arrangements which ought to go with them.

Away out on the line the engines being warmed up were roaring, the warming stoves were shooting out flames, and the mechanics, who were starting the propellers, leapt away from them as if they were snakes.