It was hot in the great boiler house, where the stoke holes were glowing with fiery heat, and the throb of the machinery went on, like giant's music, all the time.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
If only I'd got all the money that have gone out of my pocket that way, I shouldn't need to stoke for a living now.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
At Beer Head we have chalk; at Anstis Cove, Torbay, and Berry Head limestone; at Start Point and stoke Point slate.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith