Raising Steam: (Discworld novel 40) (Discworld Novels)

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Something very difficult is proverbially compared to getting a donkey down from a minaret. This term previously appeared in Jingo, in which Lord Vetinari did exactly that.

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Maligned Mixed Marriage: Traditional dwarfs don't much like the idea of a human/dwarf marriage. Although the only traditional dwarf who actually lives in the community it takes place in is even more against extremist dwarfs killing people at a wedding. With the lights on shore power so we don’t have to use torches, the firemen are set to work in the required boiler rooms to lay fires in sufficient boilers to provide enough steam for the dynamos. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st GB edition, 1st printing. Boards are clean. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ has a tear.Both ships were triple screw White Star liners fitted with 5 single-ended and 24 double-ended boilers, operating at 215lb/in2. These boilers are 5 abreast in 6 boiler rooms, except in No.6 Boiler Room (the foremost one) where the fine lines of the ship only allow 4 abreast. The wizards of Unseen University go for a ride on Iron Girder, in part to declare her nonmagical. Rincewind is also mentioned, in a footnote. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Playing Drunk: A lot of landowners tried to get Moist drunk while he was negotiating a right-of-way for the railroad through their lands. Moist accepted the drinks, poured them down a rubber hose and bladder arrangement he had hidden under his coat and continued the negotiations perfectly sober, while acting drunk. After returning to Ankh-Morpork, he gave a crate full of hot water bottles filled to the brim with expensive liquors to Harry King to distribute among his workers.

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Trainstopping: Constable Bluejohn, a troll even bigger than Detritus, stops the train he's on by reaching out a hand and grabbing the cliffside. Jangle jangle! Slow Astern! You move the reversing engine lever to astern, the engine huffs away and moves the reversing gear into the full astern position with no “cut off”*. Opening the throttle – there is a pointer on it, which shows the approximate revs – you move this pointer to the Slow Ahead point and observe the revolutions on the rev counter, making alterations as necessary. The engine runs smoothly astern with a little vibration felt (propellers are not so efficient astern as they are ahead). Or better yet, you can mix the two: speaking it aloud (or listening to the audiobook recording by Stephen Briggs) you get a mix of English and French - "Eggs on/en pain" - eggs on bread, or, for those used to listening in two languages at once and adapting sense accordingly, eggs on toast. This fits in beautifully with the first introduction to the Marquis: he is married to a Morporkian woman and presents a banquet of fusion cuisine, literally wedding the Quirmian and Morporkian (French and English) into a shouldn't-work-but-it-does meal. Four stroke engines Some people still haven't adjusted to goblins being recognized in society. Moist himself included, but he makes an effort to get past this, in part because his wife allows a family of them to live on their roof. He's also helped along by his frequent interactions with Of The Twilight the Darkness, who's essentially a goblin version of himself.

First Edition, with coloured pictorial endpapers; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With striking dustwrapper artwork by Paul Kidby. The Dwarf Civil War that was averted in Thud! finally occurs, and the "Miracle of Koom Valley" that occurred in that book's climax is mentioned repeatedly. It is essentially a direct sequel.