1 Time went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
2 These men stirred not, excepting now and then, under the direction of one who seemed their chief, to shift and replace the ready fuel.
3 And it was to be fed with a new fuel, that burnt in small quantities at a great heat, under peculiar conditions.
4 The idea of a new concentrated fuel that burnt with a hard slowness at a fierce heat was what first attracted Clifford.
5 There must be some sort of external stimulus of the burning of such fuel, not merely air supply.
6 Clifford's idea was, that his coal, even the poor sort, could be made into hard concentrated fuel that would burn at great heat if fed with certain damp, acidulated air at a fairly strong pressure.
7 The bonfire was by this time beginning to sink low, for the fuel had not been of that substantial sort which can support a blaze long.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 8 "And he would hardly afford good fuel like that," said the wide woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 9 This was a small human hand, in the act of lifting pieces of fuel into the fire, but for all that could be seen the hand, like that which troubled Belshazzar, was there alone.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 10 Surely 'tis somewhat childish of you to stay out playing at bonfires so long, and wasting such fuel.'
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 11 But this detracted little from its interest, which lay in the excellent fuel it provided for newly kindled fervour.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 12 When all the surrounding bonfires had burst into existence Charley kindled his, and arranged its fuel so that it should not require tending for some time.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 13 It was not till his stock of fuel had greatly diminished that he went to the back door and sent in to beg that Mrs. Yeobright would open the window-shutters and see the sight outside.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 14 His passion for her had occurred too far on in his manhood to leave fuel enough on hand for another fire of that sort, as may happen with more boyish loves.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 6: 1 The Inevitable Movement Onward 15 It was Saturday, and the neighbors' sons were getting up the winter fuel.