"Front end" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... inverted, funnel-like cap on the top of the dry pipe is to prevent priming, as drops of water may travel up the sides of the pipe and then to the cylinders, with the possibility of great damage. After the steam enters the throttle valve it passes through the front end of the valve, through the top of the boiler via the dry pipe (fig. 18), through the front tube sheet, and then to the cylinders via the petticoat pipes. The throttle lever is a simple arrangement readily understood ...
— The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 • John H. White
... heed to this persiflage, but prowled the front end of the cellar, looking upward in curious agitation. He ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley
... Hut Point yesterday at the front end of a blizzard. Half an hour after his arrival it was as thick as a hedge. He reports another loss—Deek, one of the best pulling dogs, developed the same symptoms which have so unaccountably robbed us before, spent a night in pain, and died in the morning. Wilson thinks the cause is a worm which ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... After we'd gone the complete 'round of the Intre Moral Railway and ortemobile we got out agin on the Plaza not fur from where we embarked, and at my request we took a boat. Josiah chose one of the handsomest ones with the front end kinder bowin' up and a bright-colored awnin' over it; they called it ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley
... of the eyes and over the ears, which name is taken from the temporal bone, that contains the apparatus of hearing, forming the middle of the basis of the skull, and the sphenoid bone, which lies just back of the sockets of the eyes, supporting the front end of the lower portion of ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 - Volume 1, Number 3 • Various
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