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"Galvanized iron" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Parlay was a big two-story frame affair, built of California lumber, with a galvanized iron roof. So disproportionate was it to the slender ring of the atoll that it showed out upon the sand-strip and above it like some monstrous excrescence. They of the Malahini paid the courtesy visit ashore immediately after anchoring. Other captains and buyers were in the ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... room. No closet! Her own clothes gone! On the chair beside the bed a fast-house parlor dress of pink cotton silk, and a kind of abbreviated chemise. The stockings on her legs were not her own, but were of pink cotton, silk finished. A pair of pink satin slippers stood on the floor beside the two galvanized iron wash basins. ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... being taken to keep the carbon free from paint. The last step towards completing the apparatus is to fasten the carbons in their beds. The simplest way of doing this is by stretching over each carbon a piece of muslin, folded double, and tacking this down around the edges. Zinc or galvanized iron tacks are best. Copper tacks should be avoided on account of their ...

— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig

... from the roof may be treated in the same manner, but if you must get new leaders for your house by no means replace the old ones with galvanized-steel tubes. You can tell the difference between galvanized steel and galvanized iron by its appearance. The steel is brighter and more silvery than the iron, but my experience is that the steel will last only two or three years; sometimes one season puts steel pipes out of commission, whereas galvanized iron will last indefinitely. After having ...

— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard

Words linked to "Galvanized iron" : corrugated iron, atomic number 26, Fe, iron