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Sentences starting with steam

Steam rose from them. [2]
Steam is the devil himself let loose from the pit, and all labor-saving machinery is his own invention. [4]

Sentences ending with steam

A'n't it fun to hear him blow off his steam? [6]
I saw that these successive dwellers on the stream were busy in constructing and setting afloat vessels of various size and form and rig--arks, galleys, galleons, sloops, brigs, boats propelled by oars, by sails, by steam. [4]
It is a river of desolation; and instead of reminding you, like other beautiful rivers, of an angel which has descended for the benefit of man, you imagine it a devil, whose energies have been only overcome by the wonderful power of steam. [5]
He presently landed on top of the unexploded boilers, forty feet below the former pilot-house, accompanied by his wheel and a rain of other stuff, and enveloped in a cloud of scalding steam. [5]
You would not listen to me when I begged you to reduce your steam. [5]
Mr. Martin saw her coming, and gave word for all steam. [11]
This mill was a six-stamp affair, driven by steam. [5]

Sentences containing steam two or more times

There are days when the steam ship on the Atlantic glides calmly along under a full canvas, but its central fires must always be ready to make steam against head-winds and antagonistic waves. [4]
We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America. [5]
A pleasant ride over a rich rolling country, with an occasional strip of forest, brought us to Union in the evening, with no other adventure than the meeting of a steam threshing-machine in the road, with steam up, clattering along. [4]

More example sentences with the word steam in them

We must be worked up by steam, as it were. [5]
I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
The steam radiator was a decoration in itself, the fireplace set in the red and yellow tiles that made the hearth. [9]
No fire was visible any where, but gusts of sulphurous steam issued silently and invisibly from a thousand little cracks and fissures in the crater, and were wafted to our noses with every breeze. [5]
The Tribune modestly ventured the theory that Mr. Crewe had appeared to each of the twenty in a dream, with a flaming sword pointing to the steam of the dragon's breath. [9]
She has the usual Upper River quota of factories, newspapers, and institutions of learning; she has telephones, local telegraphs, an electric alarm, and an admirable paid fire department, consisting of six hook and ladder companies, four steam fire engines, and thirty churches. [5]
Sir Launcelot got up steam, he and I loaded up the kettle with unslaked lime and carbolic acid, with a touch of lactic acid added thereto, then filled the thing up with water and inserted the steam-spout under the canopy. [5]
A woman who triumphs over sea-sickness, whom steam from the boilers never affects, nor the propeller-screw disturbs, has little to fear from the words of a man who is neither adroit, eloquent, nor dramatic. [11]
The steam began to whistle through the gauge-cocks. [5]
Suppose we add to the steam some quicksilver in a vaporized condition, and turn the jet upon the ingot, will there be an instantaneous result? [5]
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. [5]
If you think this moisture is bad you ought to see a mill with the old vapour-pot system with the steam shooting out into the room. [9]
I don't believe there's steam heat or an elevator in the whole block. [8]
Cairo was still there--easily visible across the long, flat point upon whose further verge it stands; but we had to steam a long way around to get to it. [5]
The whistling of the steam was something frightful now--it almost drowned all other noises. [5]
Once safely on the pavement outside, she realized that the apartment was not only unfinished, but unfurnished, and had neither steam heat nor elevator. [8]
He really spent the greater part of the next day in hunting up the owner of an apartment that had neither steam heat nor an elevator, but was otherwise perfect, and trying to get him to take less than the agent asked. [8]
They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went. [5]
The motion of the engines had ceased, the puffing of the escaping steam was stilled, and the enveloping silence closed upon us, and such silence it was! [5]
The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing-machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. [5]
They beat the tattoo, called the roll, had supper, and settled down round the fires for the night--some repairing their footgear, some smoking pipes, and some stripping themselves naked to steam the lice out of their shirts. [2]
It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. [7]
The hot, white steam puffs up out of fissures in the earth like the jets that come from a steam-boat's 'scape pipes, and it makes a boiling, surging noise like a steam-boat, too-hence the name. [5]
This inhaling of steam is an excellent remedy for these severe catarrhs, and a venerable one besides; for in the oldest writings of Hermes we find it prescribed as an application in such cases. [10]
It's letting off steam for another. [11]
The escape-pipes belched snowy pillars of steam aloft, the boat ground and surged and trembled--and slid over into---- "M-a-r-k twain! [5]
Mrs. March got several flats on her list which promised neither steam heat nor elevators; she forgot herself so far as to include two or three as remote from the down-town region of her choice as Harlem. [8]
There ain't no sense in it; go for the steam ferry. [5]
What would you see if you looked into a steam boiler? [4]
The oak floor reflected its gleam, and that of the electric lights; the shades were drawn; a slight odour of steam heat pervaded the place. [9]
Except in the rapidity with which steam and electricity have enabled us to move to our object, and in the discoveries of science which enable us to relieve suffering and prolong human life, there is nothing new in our experiment. [4]
There was a radiator visible in the narrow hall, and Isabel tacitly compromised on steam heat without an elevator, as the flat was only one flight up. [8]
He had no printed books, no newspaper, no steam caravans, no forks, no soap, none of the thousand cheap conveniences which have become matters of necessity to our modern civilization. [6]
There was no one understood the ways of the wheel, and rod, and steam, save me. [11]
Instantly the fire-doors of the Boreas were thrown open and the men began dashing buckets of water into the furnaces--for it would have been death and destruction to stop the engines with such a head of steam on. [5]
From the windows nothing more was to be seen than is visible in a Russian steam bath. [4]
But the Amenhotep's nose was towards Cairo, and steam was full on, and she was going fast. [11]
The 'sine qua nons' are an elevator and steam heat, not above the third floor, to begin with. [8]
There could be no mistake now, for I saw the white steam of the signal against the smoke. [9]
The captain, a nervous, apprehensive man, kept still as long as he could, but finally broke down and shouted from the hurricane deck-- 'For gracious' sake, give her steam, Mr. Bixby! [5]
The wood being nearly all out of the flat now, Ealer rang to 'come ahead' full steam, and the next moment four of the eight boilers exploded with a thunderous crash, and the whole forward third of the boat was hoisted toward the sky! [5]
To that I must entirely change my point of view and study the laws of the movement of steam, of the bells, and of the wind. [2]
Soon after that Mr. Bascom started on a voyage around the world in a steam yacht--a long and leisurely trip, for he was making collections, in all lands, of birds, butterflies, and such things. [5]
These fissures extend more than a quarter of a mile, and the long line of steam columns looks very pretty. [5]
All of the many who breathed that steam, died; none escaped. [5]
There was a long silence, the steam from the many breaths rising about me like a fog. [5]
Third in the list of special pleasures is the tour of the harbor in a fine steam pleasure-launch. [5]
There is a lack of steam transportation here to meet the emergency. [5]
The engine bells jingled and the engines answered promptly, shooting white columns of steam far aloft out of the 'scape pipes, but it was too late. [5]
In places, picturesque jets of steam shot up out of crevices, giving evidence that although this ancient crater had gone out of active business, there was still some fire left in its furnaces. [5]
I explained that it would go by steam, and he began unscrewing the cap on the little boiler until he was distracted by the man-of-war, and with natural acquisitiveness started to take possession of that. [9]
Surely, we say, it is better to go by steam than to go afoot, because we reach our destination sooner--getting there quickly being a supreme object. [4]
Steam, telegraphs, and intelligence have brought these to be an advantageous combination for one united people. [7]
Yet something pleased in it all, and Mrs. March had gone far to adapt the different rooms to the members of her family, when she suddenly thought (and for her to think was to say), "Why, but there's no steam heat! [8]
They tried this in a great many places, but they never could get two flats of the kind on the same floor where there was steam heat and an elevator. [8]
As dawn broke I beheld the flat, gray waters of the Sound stretching away to the eastward, and there was the boat at the desolate wharf beside the warehouse, her steam rising white in the chill morning air. [9]
In these unfurnished houses, without steam or elevator, March followed his wife about with patient wonder. [8]
A large bath house is built over one of the springs, and we go in it and steam ourselves as long as we can stand it, and then come out and take a cold shower bath. [5]
It was in his nostrils when the hot steam rose from the clothes he was pressing, in the thick odour of the fulled cloth, in the melting snow outside the door. [11]
I could see his deep shining eyes, and the steam roll from his nose in long puffs. [11]
The Buttons brought him--a Yankee of browbeating presence in plain clothes--almost before they had time to exchange a frightened whisper in recognition of the fact that there could be no doubt of the steam heat and elevator in this case. [8]
Unsuspected depths--pockets that held the steam, which was increasing in pressure. [9]
But the Amaranth's head was almost abreast the Boreas's stern: "How's your steam, now, Harry? [5]
At Ibrahim's words he turned his head from the rank steam, and fingered his pistol in the loose folds of his Arab trousers. [11]
Now it be Hasha, or it be not Hasha, it be time for steam oop. [11]
But Mrs. Waterford had removed the stained-glass window-lights in the front door, deftly hidden the highly ornamental steam radiators, and made other eliminations and improvements, including the white bookshelves that still contained the lady's winter reading fifty or more yellow-and-green-backed French novels and plays. [9]
The same phenomenon had driven him into the Church, where the steam had found an outlet--until now. [9]
The public always had an idea that racing was dangerous; whereas the opposite was the case--that is, after the laws were passed which restricted each boat to just so many pounds of steam to the square inch. [5]
Yesterday our people got to quarrelling among themselves, and the captain turned a volume of hot steam upon a mass of them and scalded eighty or ninety of them more or less severely. [5]
Thus he had found out that fire was the life principle of a dragon; put out the dragon's fires and it could make steam no longer, and must die. [5]
The little train for Truro was standing under the sheds, the hissing steam from the locomotive rising perpendicular in the still air of the morning, and soon they were settled in one of the straight-backed seats. [9]
We flew along for a while, then slackened steam and went cautiously gliding toward the spark. [5]
His fair locks floated dishevelled around his head, the steam rising from the dripping steed hovered about him in the fresh winter air like a light cloud. [10]
The little steam ferryboat was about a mile below the village, drifting with the current. [5]
The Wagram, the Esmeralda, the Jacinth, advertised them for forty dollars and sixty dollars, "with steam heat and elevator," rent free till November. [8]
It had never entered the head of Henry to rob the man--his ingot had been subjected to clean steam only; but George's had been subjected to vaporized quicksilver. [5]
One steam fire engine was drawn by four white horses, with crape festoons on their heads. [5]
I saw you didn't see me, and so I clapped on all steam for fear I'd miss you entirely. [5]
It was Mr. Crewe's misfortune to draw number 415, in the extreme corner of the room, and next the steam radiator. [9]
The 'Pennsylvania' was creeping along, north of Ship Island, about sixty miles below Memphis on a half-head of steam, towing a wood-flat which was fast being emptied. [5]
Proclamations, constitutions, and creeds crumble before conditions; the Law of Dividends is the high law, and the Forum an open vent through which the white steam may rise heavenward and be resolved again into water. [9]
The best we could do would be to cover a vast acreage under glass and apply steam heat. [5]
Fires interested me considerably, because I was getting a good deal of an insurance business started, and was also training some horses and building some steam fire-engines, with an eye to a paid fire department by and by. [5]
Watt noticed that confined steam was strong enough to lift the lid of the teapot. [5]
He held his coat-lapels to his nose with one hand, to keep out the steam, and scrabbled around with the other till he found the joints of his flute, then he took measures to save himself alive, and was successful. [5]
A steam locomotive caught my eye, almost as elaborate. [9]
The big Louisiana, Captain Brent's boat, just in from New Orleans, was blowing off her steam as with slow steps they climbed the levee and the steep pitch of the street beyond it. [9]
Now you may believe it or not, but as sure as I am sitting here, he brought my boat a-tilting down through those awful snags at Chicot under a rattling head of steam, and the wind a-blowing like the very nation, at that! [5]
I was troubled because of the inconvenience and discomfort to which my host put himself, for New Orleans in the dog-days may be likened in climate to the under side of the lid of a steam kettle. [9]
I lit up at once, and by the time I had got a good head of reserved steam on, here they came. [5]
Faith and belief are two different things; faith is the emotion, the steam, if you like, that drives us on in our search for truth. [9]
Indeed it was--the application of steam by Robert Fulton. [5]
He was alone, apparently waiting for someone, leaning against a steam radiator in one of his awkward, angular poses, looking out of the court-house window. [9]
The telegraph, telephone, and the application of steam to navigation--these are great American events. [5]
And there was an elevator and steam heat. [8]
It was an American who applied that steam successfully. [5]
Now if you'll allow me to take a few days once in a while to let off steam, I'll make a counter proposal, in the nature of a compromise. [9]
One can't be all the time trying to do the best of one's best if a company works a steam fire-engine, the firemen needn't be straining themselves all day to squirt over the top of the flagstaff. [6]
It was merely a spacious house, with some innocent steam machinery in one end of it and some big porcelain pipes running here and there. [5]

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