asbestos cloth

Reaching into his asbestos cloth sack, Joe got out a quarter.

The helmet was a metal framework, covered with asbestos cloth.

The dress worn is of asbestos cloth with a hood that completely covers the head and neck.

The Salamander's suit was of asbestos cloth, much oversized.

Finally he cut small pieces of asbestos cloth from an ironing-board cover and rolled them into little pills that would fit in his ears.

They were close fitting, save for a flowing cape, and made of some grey material, not unlike a coarse homespun or even asbestos cloth.

Road leading to Healey Dell, asbestos cloth."

The original and highly ineffective insulating layer implemented between the copper sheathing and the iron bars, was an asbestos cloth soaked in shellac.

With a sharp clap, the compeer slammed the lid and thrust the heated box to Fortissimus, who received it in the folds of an asbestos cloth.

In 1879 it became the first business in the United Kingdom to weave asbestos cloth with power-driven machinery, and the company changed its name to Turner Brothers Asbestos Company.

In the latter days of steam, "mattresses" of stitched asbestos cloth were fixed stuffed with asbestos fibre (but on separators so as not quite to touch the boiler); however in most countries, asbestos is nowadays banned for health reasons.

By the first century AD, Greeks and Romans are claimed to have observed that slaves involved in the weaving of asbestos cloth were afflicted with a sickness of the lungs, although this is not confirmed by examination of primary sources.

Further Roman luxury items which were greatly esteemed by the Chinese were gold-embroidered rugs and gold-coloured cloth, asbestos cloth and sea silk, a cloth made from the silk-like hairs of certain Mediterranean shell-fish, the Pinna nobilis.

A fireman having his hand within a double asbestos glove, and its palm protected by a piece of asbestos cloth, seized with impunity a large piece of red hot iron, carried it deliberately to the distance of 150 feet, inflamed straw with it, and brought it back again to the furnace.