The houses in Nantao were like little brick furnaces, dark, unventilated, with tiny windows.

Two sides sheltered by the earth, two with brick furnaces.

There were brick furnaces and a heap of charcoal plus enormous bellows to be operated by hand.

They went past the huge, cold brick furnaces which were but the vaguest of objects inside the building.

Here the blubber was rendered into oil using two or three try-pots set in a brick furnace called the tryworks.

It was dominated by a brick furnace.

The New Idria Mercury Mine was claimed in 1854, with the first brick furnace built in 1857.

There were also several brick furnaces, using the clay abundant in the Vatican and Gianicolo hills.

A slightly smaller crucible stood on the other side of the brick furnace; reaching into it, Chenille displayed an irregular scab of shining yellow metal.

There was a row of brick furnaces, shining white through every crack with the molten steel inside.