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...mixed with the sandy prairie soil. A half mile upriver would find the remnants of once-mighty Brickburn. In the 1920’s, Brickburn boasted a dozen kilns, and produced hundreds of thousands of red clay construction bricks, shipping them hundreds of miles to cities and towns across Western Canada. But in the 1930’s, it became a deserted depression relic, with its buildin...

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...ind, along the valley of the sparkling Trent? Don’t you recollect how many kilns you flew past, looking like the bowls of gigantic tobacco pipes, cut ... ...r (says the plate) how you alighted at Stoke—a picturesque heap of houses, kilns, smoke, wharfs, canals, and river, lying (as was most appropriate) in... ...usical? And as to the flint, don’t you recollect that it is first burnt in kilns, and is then laid under the four iron feet of a demon slave, subject ... ...neither legs nor arms worth mentioning. 179 Charles Dickens And as to the Kilns, in which the firing takes place, and in which some of the more preci... ...t edly, in various stages of their process towards completion,— as to the Kilns (says the plate, warming with the recollec tion), if you don’t remem... ...king, for ever and ever? T o be sure you did! And standing in one of those Kilns nearly full, and seeing a free crow shoot across the aperture a top, ...

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...e hill we went, with a full moon, the colour of a melon, swinging high above the wooded valley, and the white cliffs behind us faintly red- dened by t...

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... to show their faces to a man,” said my uncle, quite audibly—to the firing kilns and the glazing kilns, and so round the whole place to the railway si...

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... everything—to being present in the fields, at the threshing-floor, at the kilns, at the wharf, at the freighting of barges and rafts, and at their co... ... in ricks, and stores to be prepared for the win- ter, and storehouses and kilns and cattle-sheds to be cleaned for the same purpose, and the women to...

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... the little child, would he descry her there? On the waste where the brick kilns are burning with a pale blue flare, where the straw roofs of the wret... ...rough bricks, which stood on the mar gin of the piece of ground where the kilns were and where the long rows of bricks were drying. We lost no time i...

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...ere was a burning hot wind blowing that brought up a stench of stale brick-kilns with it; and through the half light and through the dust-devils, acro...

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...d it quieter than I had previously seen it, though quite as miserable. The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale blue g... .... Every possible inquiry was made, and every place was searched. The brick kilns were examined, the cottages were visited, the two women were particul... ... the little child, would he descry her there? On the waste where the brick kilns are burning with a pale blue flare, where the straw roofs of the wret... ...rough bricks, which stood on the mar gin of the piece of ground where the kilns were and where the long rows of bricks were drying. We lost no time i...

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...two pounds,” said I. “T wo,” said he. “Then there’s the lass Alison Hastie, in Lime Kilns,” said I. “Her that helped Alan and me across the Forth. I w...

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... Orth’ris here an’ me have been prowlin’ round wid throats as dry as lime- kilns, and nothin’ to smoke but Canteen plug. ’T was a dhirty thrick to pla...

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...hey shine again; the red bricks of the houses might be yet in the dry, hot kilns; and the roofs of those omnibuses look as though, if water were poure...

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...d it quieter than I had previously seen it, though quite as miserable. The kilns were burning, and a stifling vapour set towards us with a pale blue g... .... Every possible inquiry was made, and every place was searched. The brick kilns were examined, the cottages were visited, the two women were particul...

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...djacent fields and lanes, and under haystacks, or near the warmth of brick kilns, who had not their accustomed place of rest beneath the open sky. As ...

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...le Mountains were accustomed to show to pil grims. There are many such lime kilns in that tract of country, for the purpose of burning the white marb...

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...avidThoreau market for their wood, and when they had brought a load to the kilns, they could cart a load of bricks to the shore, and so make a profita... ...scarce. Yet if the traveller goes back a few miles from the river, the hop kilns will still excite his curiosity. There were few incidents in our voya...

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...nt that they were used to it from their cradles. It was past midnight, the kilns on both sides of the river were put out, but in the meadow below and ...

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... shameless and make false promises, then I call together the destroyers of kilns, Shatter and Smash and Charr and Crash and Crudebake who can work thi...

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...time already!’ Up jump the passengers— the two young men smoking like lime-kilns, and the old gentleman grumbling audibly. The thin young woman is got...

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...ses with blue roofs wore already a faintly citified air. They passed brick-kilns and clay-quarries, with reddish puddles of water in the bottom of the...

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...time already!’ Up jump the passengers— the two young men smoking like lime-kilns, and the old gentleman grumbling audibly. The thin young woman is got...

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... would then have deposited mud, contain- ing fragments of pottery from the kilns, more abun- dant at some spots than at others, and shells from the se...