"Engine room" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... buildings of the mine, including the boiler and engine room, were surrounded by a stout fence of one-inch planking, perhaps ten feet in height. Frequent strikes and minor outbreaks among the Mexican miners had persuaded Mr. Merrill to follow the example of most of his fellow American ...
— The Border Boys Across the Frontier • Fremont B. Deering
... twenty seconds. The ship at once began to heel to starboard. After ordering the men to provide themselves with wood, hammocks, &c., and to get into the boats on the booms and take off their clothes, I went, by Capt. Nicholson's direction, to ascertain the damage done in the engine room. The artificer engineer informed me that the water ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 • Various
... papa, who was an engineer in the big power house down town: "they were hatched on a shelf in the engine room." ...
— Dew Drops, Vol. 37. No. 16., April 19, 1914 • Various
... from the southward, and it was very light. The sea was comparatively smooth, and the Bronx continued on her course. At the last bi-hourly heaving of the log, she was making sixteen knots an hour. The captain went into the engine room, where he found Mr. Gawl, one of the chief's two assistants, on duty. This officer informed him that no effort had been made to increase the speed of the steamer, and that she was under no strain whatever. The engine had been thoroughly overhauled, ...
— On The Blockade - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray Afloat • Oliver Optic
... a chance," said he, "He'll want to eat peaches and go down in the engine room, and perhaps ...
— The Adventures of Bobby Orde • Stewart Edward White
... the nose of his ship neatly on the mud of the western bank, ordered his crew away, and blew up his ship by switches in the chart room. Four dull bumps were all that could be heard, and immediately afterward there arrived on deck the engineer, who had been in the engine room during the explosion, and reported that all was ...
— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood
... in odd moments he made life miserable for the crew. Up to shortly before, he had had to use much energy and all his wits to keep life in his starved little body; and even keeping an eye on the log and the Chief's hair, and slipping down into the engine room, where he had no manner of business, hardly used up his activities. However, he did not lie and he looked the Chief square in the eye, ...
— Love Stories • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... cry of fire is heard Borne on the midnight air, And those who listen soon are stirred To anxious ask "Where? Where?" Our Firemen brave, full bent to save, Rush to their engine room; And flushed with hope they grasp each rope, ...
— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd
... looked around. I showed him the machine that packed the wax into skins, and the cargo holds, and the electrolytic gills that extracted oxygen from sea water while we were submerged, and the ship's armament. Finally, we got to the engine room, forward. He whistled ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper |
