Chapter
1 III | Starr, “there is no fear of fire-damp explosions now!”~Harry was
2 IV | no fear of explosions of fire-damp in a pit quite empty of
3 V | unworked vein? who lights the fire-damp, and presides over the terrible
4 VI | And the proof?”~“Could fire-damp issue from the bowels of
5 VI | the engineer. “No coal, no fire-damp. No effects without a cause.”~“
6 VI | with our old enemy, the fire-damp!”~“But suppose it was another
7 VI | owing to the presence of fire-damp, and to me fire-damp means
8 VI | of fire-damp, and to me fire-damp means a vein of coal.”~“
9 VI | ascertain the presence of fire-damp. Do you remember how formerly
10 VI | purified in the way described.~Fire-damp, marsh-gas, or carburetted
11 VI | of common gas. Moreover, fire-damp, as well as the latter,
12 VI | sure that the escape of fire-damp took place at the very end
13 VI | According to Simon Ford, the fire-damp escaped incessantly, and
14 VI | rocks that you found out the fire-damp?” asked James Starr.~“Just
15 VI | the characteristic odor of fire-damp; for he exclaimed in an
16 VI | crackling peculiar to escaping fire-damp he heard nothing. There
17 VI | hurrah! Mr. Starr. The fire-damp burns! the vein is there!”~
18 VII | taken place, and if the fire-damp still escapes through the
19 VII | the Dochart pit; and the fire-damp, spreading through the atmosphere,
20 VIII | easily managed. As to the fire-damp which had lately filtered
21 XVII | produce partial explosions of fire-damp in the passages. He used
22 XVIII| produced by some jet of fire-damp gas which, issuing from
23 XVIII| this old man shouted, “The fire-damp is upon you! Woe—woe betide
24 XVIII| Jets and streams of the fire-damp now rose upward in the vaulted
25 XVIII| the mine!”~“Now for the fire-damp! Here comes the fire-damp!”
26 XVIII| fire-damp! Here comes the fire-damp!” yelled the old man, urging
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