Din-tah, the great furnace, eating all in its path.
In some places were great furnaces, where gold dust was being melted into bricks.
The great stellar furnaces had not fallen quiet.
An instant later he saw that it was not so; the huge shape crouched against the stone was a great furnace.
And whether I shrieked aloud or merely thought, a great furnace gaped.
At over 2,200 degrees, the great furnaces were quickly turning the desert sands into glass.
Smoke was pouring down the road as from a great furnace.
For all the ancient builders' cleverness and skill, heat from the great furnaces in the basement never reached this high.
Fire spouts dotted the land, and the earth was a great round furnace with safety valves close to the surface.
Calm no longer, it started to boil, as if consumed by a great furnace.