The big fans were going, drawing from the large room the remnants of stale smoke which drifted about in pale strata underneath the ceiling.

The only evidence of occupation came from the chimney, which was belching out thick smoke.

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

An agreeable ease suffused Vernon and the passengers of the tallyho, from which there issued clouds of smoke.

A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.

He would order her to bring coffee, and would take from his vest pocket a thin black pipe which he would stuff -- he would not remove his gloves -- and light and smoke.

* Heavy smoke pours from USS Iowa ’ s # 2 Turret following an internal explosion

A wet scrubber is basically a reaction tower equipped with a fan that extracts hot smoke stack gases from a power plant into the tower.

seasonal smoke / haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia

Upon return the air in the area was still filled with toxic smoke from the World Trade Center fires that persisted until January 2002.

More than half of the area's residents moved away permanently from the community after the adjacent World Trade Center towers collapsed and spread toxic dust, debris, and smoke.

To ensure that in the smoke and confusion of a night battle his ships would not accidentally open fire on one another, Nelson ordered that each ship prepare four horizontal lights at the head of their mizenmast and also to hoist an illuminated White Ensign, which was different enough from the French tricolour that it would not be mistaken in poor visibility, reducing the risk that British ships might fire on one another in the darkness.

To the right of the line a number of ships with all sails set are grouped around the head of the line, as smoke rises from many of the ships on both sides.

Two battered ships drift in the foreground while smoke and flame boil from a third.

In the background smoke rises from a confused melee of battling ships.

There was a mighty hiss of compressed air from her tanks and the U-27 vanished from sight in a vortex of giant rumbling bubbles, leaving a pall of smoke over the spot where she had been.

Once the ballots are counted and bound together, they are burned in a special stove erected in the Sistine Chapel, with the smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter's Square.

) When a vote is successful, the ballots are burned alone, sending white smoke ( fumata bianca ) through the chimney and announcing to the world the election of a new pope.

The faithful can follow the results of the polls ( usually two in the morning and two in the evening, until election ) by a chimney-top, visible from St. Peter's Square: in a stove attached to the chimney are burnt the voting papers, and additives make the resulting smoke black ( fumata nera ) in case of no election, white ( fumata bianca ) when the new pope is finally elected.

In place of a chimney, these early buildings had a hole in the roof through which some of the smoke could escape.

These houses often had no chimney, but only a smoke hood above the fireplace, made of wood and covered with clay, used to smoke meat.

A hole left in the center of the covering served as a combined chimney / smoke hole and skylight.

It is produced in some quantities from the burning of wood and coal in blast furnaces and fireplaces ; commonly found inside chimney flues when the wood or coal burns incompletely, producing soot and tarry smoke, and is the compound responsible for the preservation and the flavor of meat in the process of smoking.

On the occasion of a conclave, a chimney is installed in the roof of the chapel, from which smoke arises as a signal.

There was a hole in the roof, instead of a chimney, to let cooking smoke out of the house.

The tunnel acted like a giant chimney, sucking oxygen in from the bottom and rapidly sent the poisonous smoke, heat and the fire itself billowing upwards.

The wick is turned down if smoke develops, and the lamp chimney lowered.

When Trenchard made the ridge he saw the Dwarsvlei farmhouse with smoke coming from the chimney.

Trimming this shape yields a door and the smoke flaps that allow the dwellers to control the chimney effect to expel smoke from their fires.

A draft rising between the cover and the lining adds to the chimney effect and helps carry the smoke up and out.

A chimney a structure for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside atmosphere.

A chimney cowl or wind directional cap is a helmet shaped chimney cap that rotates to align with the wind and prevent a backdraft of smoke and wind back down the chimney.

On 11 March 1944, Petiot's neighbors in Rue Le Sueur complained to police of a foul stench in the area and of large amounts of smoke billowing from a chimney of the house.

Whereas before, the chimney was a vent for the smoke now it was needed to draw the fire and this required narrower flues.

He threw green stuff on it, and a thin blue column of smoke rose.

Some time in the afternoon of May 25, a cloud of black smoke rose into the air and the ground began to rumble.

The smoke rose more or less freely, warming the upstairs rooms and protecting the woodwork from vermin.

The victims, when scarcely at the edge of the opening, disappeared like a drop of water on a red-hot plate, and white smoke rose amid the great scarlet colour.

Two more electric shocks were applied, and at conclusion eyewitnesses reported, Bob Considine among them, that smoke rose from her head in the chamber.

Heavy smoke rose from the two hospitals, the hangars of the lower and upper town, and the soldiers ' barracks.

* Capnomancy, divination by smoke ; light, thin smoke that rose straight up was a good omen ; otherwise, a bad one.

When burned moist, rose and grapevine trimmings produce a pungent, sweet-smelling smoke, and make very good charcoal.

Polybius wrote that Hannibal calculated that he could draw out Flaminius into battle and that " no sooner had he left the neighbourhood of Faesulae, and, advancing a short way beyond the Roman camp, made a raid upon the neighbouring country, then Flaminius became excited, and enraged at the idea that he was despised by the enemy: and as the devastation of the country went on, and he saw from the smoke that rose in every direction that the work of destruction was proceeding, he could not patiently endure the sight.

" He adds: " And what about the sentence, ' The winds were contrary the day columns of smoke rose over the Mouse Quarter of Malaz City '?

As the seat covers and the highly flammable polyurethane foam padding ignited, the temperature inside the bus rose to an estimated 2, 000 degrees and a thick cloud of noxious smoke enveloped the area from the ceiling down to seat level within a minute or two.

The smoke rose to 1, 500 metres and stretched to Feodosiya, 150 kilometres away.

: Someone in the laboratory was smoking a pipe, and the pipe smoke rose in a column above the superconducting disc.

" And " then there are the princes of drink, men high in the hierarchy of booze, popes of the tap-room ... they manage to live and live with style ; to smoke and drink and back horses without ever seeming to concern themselves about money ... savour the full richness of the working class who can live without work ... I have known such men rear big families on the dole, and strut up the street with a rose in their buttonhole.

Enraged, Morrissey beat McCann senseless as smoke from his burning flesh rose up from his back.

A huge, fan-shaped cloud of what looked like black smoke rose to a great height.

It was recorded by one witness: " A mushroom-shaped column of smoke rose approximately 200 meters above the harbor.

Flames and smoke rose high in the air.

After adding frankincense to it the bonfire was lit and the smoke rose high up to the sky and returned to the ground, exactly to the spot where the Cross had been buried.