sheet-iron

The island is only a quarter of a mile in diameter, and on it are situated an admiralty coal-shed (where a few tons of coal have lain untouched for twenty years), the barracks for a handful of black labourers, a big store and warehouse with sheet-iron roofs, and a bungalow inhabited by the manager and his two clerks.

A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010

Shorty set up the sheet-iron stove in the boat, and over this Stine and Sprague hung through the long, drifting hours.

THE MEAT 2010

But no sounds issued forth, though the door was open and smoke curling upward from the sheet-iron stovepipe.

LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

Night had come on by the time he had pitched his small tent, set up the sheet-iron stove, and chopped a supply of firewood.

FINIS 2010

I had never seen her with so little wind-surface, and the three narrow strips of canvas, bellied to the seemingness of sheet-iron with the pressure of the wind, drove her before the gale at astonishing speed.

CHAPTER XXX 2010

Messner set up his light sheet-iron stove and starred a fire.

A DAY'S LODGING 2010

The sheet-iron Yukon Stove roared red-hot, yet, eight feet away, on the meat-shelf, placed low and beside the door, lay chunks of solidly frozen moose and bacon.

THE END OF THE STORY 2010

He followed her glance and saw a sheet-iron stove and a coffee-pot, attended by a young squaw.

THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

Two flags were stiffly undulating from the halyards like squares of flexible sheet-iron.

Chapter 3 2010

High in the tight folds of the mountains, among the stone houses with their patchwork wooden and sheet-iron roofs, we sat on logs drinking strong, sweet coffee courtesy of our guide's friends here.

A new look at Bosnia Herzegovina Sophie Cooke 2010