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  • The conversion sometimes requires repair, due to the flame jet beating directly on a fire-brick liner.

    Gray redux jhetley 2009

  • Guayra, owing to the radiation of that vast fire-brick of heated rock, is one of the hottest spots upon the face of the whole earth.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • Between a large new “block” of two-story brick shops on one side, and the fire-brick Overland garage on the other side, was a one-story cottage turned into a millinery shop.

    Main Street 2004

  • There were the same two - story brick groceries with lodge-signs above the awnings; the same one-story wooden millinery shop; the same fire-brick garages; the same prairie at the open end of the wide street; the same people wondering whether the levity of eating a hot - dog sandwich would break their taboos.

    Main Street 2004

  • They are built of fire-brick, and of the Hismá stone, which faces itself into a natural latex.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Motors groaned; the inner door, an. enormous lead-lined mass of steel and fire-brick, inched slowly aside.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • I have always maintained that every furnace should be lined with fire-brick, in order that it shall be so intensely hot when the air enters that the air shall instantly be heated to the same degree of tenuity as the hot gases themselves, and the two will then unite like a flash -- and that is heat.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

  • If fire-brick could be laid around a locomotive furnace, and the grate, of course, kept of the same area as before, it is my belief that a very important advantage would be at once apparent.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

  • Furnaces should have as few joints as possible, and the iron fire-pot is better lined with fire-brick.

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • Until the furnace and retorts become heated, the air and gas flutter through only partially united, and do little good; but as soon as the retorts and furnace become thoroughly hot, the same gas and air will melt a fire-brick.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

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