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  • Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
  • Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
  • An electric three-roll crusher reduces 95% of the clinker to less than 35 mm in size.
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  • The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
  • The combustion of a vastly increased bulk of pulverized coal and a greatly enlarged combustion zone, extending about forty feet longitudinally into the kiln -- thus providing an area within which the material might be maintained in a clinkering temperature for a sufficiently long period to insure its being thoroughly clinkered from periphery to centre. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
  • Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
  • Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
  • The sulfur emissibility during burning cement clinker with calcium sulfate, calcium sulfite gypsum and desulphurize slag that consist of CaSO3 separately were studied in laboratory electric stove.
  • These were clinker-built - that is, with timbers overlapping and not laid flush - with flat bottom, straight stem and stern posts, a stern rudder and a single sail.
  • The building can store as much as 400,000 tons of clinker.
  • The department originally issued the antidumping order on gray Portland cement and clinker from Mexico in 1990.
  • Here some type of a so-called clinker breaker removes the refuse. Steam, Its Generation and Use
  • In general, the spininess of the clinkers is inversely proportional to both the thickness of the clinker layer and of the flow itself.
  • He brought the car to a halt on a patch of clinker near the bank where the rear of a red Audi protruded from a shed. THE BOOK LADY
  • We learned there are many types of lava: pahoehoe and aa both terms being Hawaiian, naturally, and referring to highly sculpted lava and to lava with jagged clinker on the top you shout "ah ah!" as you walk along the clinker in bare feet. Americana
  • It has a heavy percentage of human "clinkers," sometimes in the front pews, sometimes in the pulpit. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
  • The permitted operating capacity of the plant is 800,000 tons of clinker per year.
  • Your own prior experience with a clinker marriage does count for something.
  • Suddenly, I hit an obvious clinker with my right hand - a wrong note that had never happened before and that sounded pretty stupid.
  • The preheater-kiln system consumes 5 to 5.4 GJ/t of clinker (4). 2. Energy efficiency in the production of high-energy content building materials
  • But not everyone who visits this exclusive little port considers it prudent to spend the equivalent of the cost of a clinker-built dinghy on a single night's accommodation.
  • Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
  • Remaindered brick packs - rough clinkers, chocolate browns, flash fired silvers - were placed randomly along the south elevation, to be laid as required.
  • If you could only see so far, just to one side of that same headland, across yon low dikey ground, you would catch sight of the isle of Narborough, the loftiest land of the cluster; no soil whatever; one seamed clinker from top to bottom; abounding in black caves like smithies; its metallic shore ringing under foot like plates of iron; its central volcanoes standing grouped like a gigantic chimney-stack. The Piazza Tales
  • The prow and stern-post of the boat were in good condition, and a few clinkered boards still hung together, which measured twenty-eight feet and six inches to where they were broken off at each end, showing it to have been a very large boat. Schwatka's Search
  • Perhaps the most interesting of these were the clench-nails, as these were used to fasten the overlapping long planks of a clinker-built vessel together.
  • Anyway Marron made it two with another clinker.
  • An enormous dome, made of concrete, holds the pelletize cement, called clinker, that GCC sells around the middle and western United States. News/local from www.chieftain.com
  • Some of them, unequally expanded, strained and twisted; its grate-bars and fire-box had become choked with "clinkers," and its tubes charged with coke. The Iron Horse
  • I use hardwood with coal to keep the temperature up in the firebox (more efficient), and because the coal is reduced completely to ash with no "clinkers" to deal with. VideoHelp.com Forum
  • So, updates will come a little quicker now, this was the clinker.
  • we clinkered the fire frequently
  • Nowadays, these wooden clinker-built dinghies are equipped with reliable outboard motors which means you no longer need forearms like Popeye to go afloat on Leven.
  • Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this day at the head of the clinkered valley. The Piazza Tales
  • The construction would be traditional clinker/lapstrake. [longboat] closed and set to take the north sea
  • The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
  • The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
  • In this paper, the industrial testing results of proportioning and sintering cement clinker with argillaceous shale instead of clay.
  • He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
  • These are long narrow clinker or carvel-built vessels which in a heavy sea have a rather peculiar motion.
  • The frames had been adzed to remove the sharp angle of a land, or notch, which originally housed the edge of the clinker plank.
  • One simply cannot ignore the "clinkers," whatever one makes of the overall performance. Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • The sintered material is cooled to form cement clinker.
  • Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their The Certain Hour
  • To the extent possible, the concrete mixture should incorporate Portland cement of one type, made with clinker from a single source, and manufactured at the same plant.
  • The expected decrease of duty on cement and clinker from Rs 400 per tonne to Rs 350 per tonne didn't happen.
  • He was happiest at home, with his children, and later alone on his little old clinker-built boat, the Curlew, sailing the muddy waters of the Thames estuary. In the Frame
  • The singer hit a real clinker.
  • In addition, the plant has 11 air cannons installed on the clinker cooler.
  • Another is a rounded piece of clinker, a porous material that results from the burning of coal seams.
  • Thirdly, reduce the clinker content in cement, by intergrinding cementious material like slag, fly ash, or limestone.
  • The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
  • With additional analysis of shipping market development, the study also includes detailed appraisals of cement and clinker imports and exports.
  • Bed clinkering threaten startup of CFB boiler.
  • It seemed to me that she wasn't traumatized at the end with the clinker.
  • The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
  • If clinker is found on the ground, a coal seam is bound to be underneath. The Volokh Conspiracy » An Insufficiently Deferential D.C. Circuit?
  • The clinker-built whaler lay trapped between the twin worlds of darkling sea and shadow-limned night.
  • Tadeusz told her he'd bought it as a virtual wreck because he'd fallen in love with its sleek clinker-built lines. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
  • But the third are black with clinkered sin that cannot burn again: Verses 1889-1896
  • At its peak the mix reaches 1, 450C before exiting as a hard, gritty material called clinker.
  • The cutter was clinker-built and only cutters meant for foreign service were ever carvel-built.
  • As for Win Jenkins, she has undergone a perfect metamurphysis, and is become a new creeter from the ammunition of Humphry Clinker, our new footman, a pious young man, who has laboured exceedingly, that she may bring forth fruits of repentance. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
  • The clinker is that the chain decides which Canadian authors they will display and advertise from a list of authors that the six publishers submit. Independents Falling: Correction or Foreshadowing?
  • Every talented author is entitled to the occasional clinker.
  • They were framed from naturally curved oak and planked with very thin oak strakes, clinker-built above the waterline and carvel-built below to reduce drag and increase speed. Champlain's Dream
  • clinkers"; it is therefore called "caking" coal, and is not only well adapted for use as fuel and steam-making, but it is also a good smelting coal. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
  • The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
  • This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
  • Mixed with poor coal are certain unburnable materials that melt and stick together as it burns and form what are known as clinkers.
  • Moreover, the clinker, which is of excessively hard character, has to be reduced by means of a crusher to particles sufficiently small to be admitted by the millstones, where it is ground into a fine powder, and becomes the Portland cement of commerce. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
  • Manufacture of cement clinker in long rotary kilns by the addition of volatile fuels components directly into the calcining zone of the rotary kiln
  • Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end. The War of The Worlds
  • The singer hit a real clinker.
  • After testing her fitness by a demanding walk he decided that she would cope and took her to be equipped with clinkered boots and an alpenstock.
  • I was in the movie business, did some good movies, did a couple of clinkers.
  • It was Albert who made the boat, in 1962, from mahogany, four metres long and clinker-built. Archive 2005-06-19
  • He brought the car to a halt on a patch of clinker near the bank where the rear of a red Audi protruded from a shed. THE BOOK LADY
  • Excavations indicate it is the hull of a 12m single-mast clinker-built boat which was carrying a cargo - possibly salted fish - in wooden barrels when it sank. Archive 2007-02-01
  • The singer hit a clinker.
  • After so many hits, the law of averages demanded a clinker from the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, and got it with A Little Night Music.
  • Well preserved remains of Viking ships show they were clinker-built of overlapping planks and measured between about 17.5m and 36m in length.
  • It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
  • Cement and clinker imports declined 6.5 percent in 2002, according to a recent PCA report.
  • Thirdly, reduce the clinker content in cement, by intergrinding cementious material like slag, fly ash, or limestone.
  • The company imported 33,000 tonnes of clinker to support the company's own production in order to maximise cement production.
  • The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
  • Cement, Clinker, Slag, Gypsum, Limestone, Tsp Fertilizer and Soda ash Light Lime and Lime Products.
  • If that was the high point in the series, which Oregon leads 52-41-10, then the real clinker was the 1983 scoreless tie.
  • These small grayish black pellets are called clinker.
  • Workers unearthed part of an old clinker-built vessel but were told by the foreman to cover it over again to keep construction on course. 1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab
  • I propose to reduce the customs duty on cement and clinkers from 25% to 20%.
  • This material is variously termed ash, clinker, cinders or slag.
  • Crow roasted the earth to a clinker, he charged into space - Where is the Black Beast?
  • Luckily, the duo doesn't settle on such clinkers.
  • That impresario in his palmy days was once faced with a press complaining vociferously that too many of the new American plays he was energetically producing were clinkers.
  • These were clinker-built - that is, with timbers overlapping and not laid flush - with flat bottom, straight stem and stern posts, a stern rudder and a single sail.
  • And yet an inanimate universe brought forth life and all its variety, because that was a necessary step in the evolution from a great cloud of gas to the final clinkered vacuum. The Long Way Home
  • Whaley was recognized in June by The Tennessee Advisory Committee on Arson as the state's arson investigator of the year for work that centered on "clinkers" - hard, rock-like residue left behind after hay burns at high temperatures. Tennessean.com Dickson
  • The scrunch of tyres on the clinker brought Lowery out on deck. THE BOOK LADY
  • The tremendous velocity of the particle-laden dust stream coupled with high temperatures coming off the clinker cooler rapidly eroded the elbow and standard-issue duct system.
  • The felling of strakes used in its clinker-built hull has been dated by dendrochronology to the 880s.
  • For as far as the eye could see were bleak ash flats relieved by grotesque columns of clinkered limestone. The Dreamthief's Daughter
  • a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their The Certain Hour
  • Ten years ago all the bawleys were clinker-built -- that is, with the streaks overlapping each other, as in boats; but the new bawleys are now all carvel-built, the planks being placed edge to edge, so as to give a smooth surface, as in yachts and large vessels. A Chapter of Adventures
  • He conducted wedding services, and when some of the marriages hit clinkers, he was a patient, extraordinarily attentive family counselor.
  • Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
  • Cement and clinker imports play an important role in supplementing domestic capacity constraints.
  • They included keels, floor frames, futtocks and stem posts, representing parts of a clinker-built boat up to 8m long with a beam of some 2.5m, which was possibly used for coastal fishing.
  • He went down to the harbour and hired a boat, twelve feet of clinker-built dinghy with long, heavy paddles. THE MAIN CAGES
  • He brought the car to a halt on a patch of clinker near the bank where the rear of a red Audi protruded from a shed. THE BOOK LADY
  • · A rotary grate discharges the clinker, which is then interground with gypsum in a ball-mill. Chapter 4
  • The wreck is described as clinker built, a shipbuilding style which dates back to the Viking era, but used for centuries afterwards. Medieval boat wreck to be lifted out of Boyne in days
  • Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
  • We cool the clinker, add a bit of gypsum to control setting time, and crush the mixture into a fine powder.
  • British soldiers were not much better off than we were, for they were limited to bully-beef and "clinkers," though they frequently supplemented their larder by stores from Boer farms, such as fowls, pigs, &c., and had salt, sugar, and coffee in abundance. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
  • It will take about 1500 whole bricks, clinkers.
  • Analysis of heat-fused rock "clinkers" shows that coal fires are an ancient phenomenon. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
  • -- A kind of concrete made without cement is composed of 8 parts of sand, gravel and pebbles, 1 part of burnt and powdered common earth, 1 part of pulverized clinkers and cinders, and 1-1/2 parts of unslacked hydraulic lime. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • The mix which emerges as lumps at the end of the firing period is known as clinker; this clinker is then cooled and finely ground, and a small quantity of gypsum - which delays setting time - is added, to give Portland cement itself. Chapter 8
  • There are also small bricks called clinkers, chiefly used for stable paving. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
  • It's a 14 ft, wooden, clinker-built boat, upside down and in need of some varnish.
  • They were framed from naturally curved oak and planked with very thin oak strakes, clinker-built above the waterline and carvel-built below to reduce drag and increase speed. Champlain's Dream
  • He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • The effects of desulphurize ash containing more CaSO3 on the setting time of cement clinker with various content of C3A and C4AF were studied.
  • If he owed to Smollett's Humphrey Clinker the form of his Up the Rhine, he has equalled Smollett in the narrative, in the variety of character, and in the admirable cacography of Martha Penny. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
  • The roof here is constructed almost like a clinker-built boat, again reflecting Barry's other great love, sailing.
  • Another is a rounded piece of clinker, a porous material that results from the burning of coal seams.
  • In simple rotary kiln systems, some finely divided particles of raw mix, calcined kiln feed, clinker dust, and volatile constituents are entrained in the exiting gas stream.
  • The most popular was the clinker-built dinghy.
  • This area of tufa cones, dark and grey basalt, clinkers, scoriae, fine ash, and ferruginous basalt, is something gigantic. The Hawaiian Archipelago
  • The singer hit a real clinker.
  • When a musician performs a Bach Fugue or Beethoven Sonata, a wrong note is called a "clinker," and can be as jarring as a mixed-up before-and-after ad. Michael Sigman: Once Is A Mistake, Twice Is Jazz
  • Holcim also has placed an order with IKN to upgrade the two clinker coolers at the Dundee, Mich. plant.

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